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Ordinance No. 5 of 1910.

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clearance may, on the certificate of such Health Officer, withhold a port clearance from such vessel until such Health Officer's directions have been complied with.

(5) At the discretion of a Health Officer any offensive articles mentioned in this section may be discharged, and the vessel may, at the owner's or agent's expense, be disinfected under the supervision of a Health Officer.

(6) All expenses incurred by a Health Officer in carrying out this section shall be recoverable from the owner or agents of the vessel under the Crown Suits Ordinance, 1910.

Vessels with filthy passengers or in an

overcrowded state to go

to quaran. tine anchorage.

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66. Where a vessel has passengers on board who are in a filthy or otherwise unwholesome condition, or is over- crowded with passengers, emigrants or otherwise, Health Officer may, if in his opinion it is desirable with a view to checking the introduction of any infectious or contagious disease, and on his certifying to that effect, order the vessel to the quarantine anchorage or to such place as he may direct, and although the vessel is not infected or suspected such Health Officer may order the cleansing and disinfection of the vessel in such manner as he may deem necessary.

Part III.

THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Notification

forms to be

furnished by

(a) Notification.

67. The Secretary to the Medical Department shall upon application furnish every medical practitioner, every medical Secretary to officer in charge of a Chinese Public Dispensary and every officer in charge of a Police Station with the printed forms to be used in the notification of infectious disease.

Medical

Depart- ment.

Notification

no false

68. No notification which contains any false information must contain shall be deemed a notification as required by this Ordinance information. or by any regulation made thereunder unless the person notifying proves that he believed and had reasonable grounds for believing such information to be true.

Attending practitioner to notify.

69. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from or has died from plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chicken-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, enteric, puerperal fever or rabies, and if such inmate be under the care of a medical practitioner, the said practitioner shall forthwith furnish a Health Officer with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such inmate and the situation of such premises.

Such medical practitioner if not a Government Officer shall be entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary to the Medical Department, the sum of one dollar for each and every such notification, provided that he applies for payment within one month after the notification to which it relates; but not more than one fee shall be paid in respect of each case.