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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 9, 1913.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 137.

Regulations made by the Governor-in-Council under Section 23 (1) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, (Ordinance No. 10 of 1899), this 8th day of May, 1913.

The Quarantine Regulations in Table L of the Schedule to the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, as amended by Government Notification No. 330 of the 20th October, 1910, and as added to by Government Notification No. 196 of the 4th June, 1912, are hereby amended as follows:-

1.-(a.) By inserting the words "in the case of small-pox" after the words

"twelve days", deleting the word “ except and substituting the word "or", and by inserting the words "yellow fever and plague" after the word "cholera", in the definition of "infected vessel" con- tained in Regulation No. 1.

(.) By inserting the words "in the case of small-pox" after the words "twelve days", and the words "yellow fever and plague" after the word "cholera", in the definition of "suspected vessel contained in Regulation No. 1.

(c.) By adding the following definitions in Regulation 1 :-

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"Observation means isolation of travellers or crew either on board a ship or in a sanitary station before they obtain free pratique "Surveillance" means that travellers are not isolated; they receive free pratique immediately, but the authorities of the several places whither they are bound are informed of their coming and they are subject to medical examination daily with a view to ascertaining their state of health. Such passengers shall give their names and addresses to the Health Officer of the Port for transmission to the Medical Officer of Health before who such passengers as remain in the Colony appear for examination by arrangement.

2-(a.) By inserting the words "in the case of small-pox" after the words "ten

days" in Regulation No. 6 (a).

(b.) By inserting the words "and plague" after the word "cholera

Regulation No. 6 («);

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(c.) By inserting the words "and six days in the case of yellow fever" after

the words "five days" in Regulation No. 6 (a).

(d.) By adding to Regulation No. 6 (a) the following:-

"Further in case of small-pox, the whole of the passengers and crew shall be vaccinated, before the vessel is granted pratique, unless such passengers or crew can produce evidence of success- ful vaccination to the satisfaction of the Health Officer of the Port."

3. By inserting the words "in the case of small-pox five days in the case of cholera and plague and six days in the case of yellow fever" after the words "ten days" in Regulation No. 6 (b) and by deleting the words

or in the case of cholera five days", in the same Regulation.

4. By inserting the words "in the case of small-pox five days in the case of cholera and plague and six days in the case of yellow fever" after the words "ten days" in Regulation No. 6 (c).

5. By re-numbering the first section of Regulation No. 7 "7 (a)".

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

8th May, 1913.

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils.