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NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. S. 21.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place of Port.

Dairen.

Bangkok.

Nature of Measures.

Quarantine restrictions against all ships arriving at Dairen or Port Arthur from or by way of Canton and all other South-China ports.

Hongkong declared a suspected port on account of small-pox. All vessels leaving Hongkong for Bangkok after 13th December, 1916, should call at Kohphra to be examined.

Date.

Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication.

31st August, 1916. No. S. 194.

13th December, 1916.

No. S. 302.

No. S. 22.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.

Disease.

Port or Place.

Authority.

Cholera.

Restrictions in Force.

Manila.

Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-

tion of the Health Officer.

Notification No. 385 of 1st September, 1916.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

26th January, 1917.

No. S. 23.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.

STRICTEST quarantine has been adopted by the Government of Siam against Hong- kong on account of Small-pox.

Vessels must complete fourteen days from Hongkong and compulsory vaccination will be applied to those who cannot produce proof of recent vaccination.

HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,

HONGKONG, 25th January, 1917.

C. W. BECKWITH, Commander, R.N.,

Harbour Master, &c.

THE following notification has been received from the Government of Indo-China :-

By a recent order of the Governor-General of Indo-China, passengers proceed- ing from Hongkong bound for Indo-China are not permitted to land unless they produce a certificate of vaccination duly certified by the Consul for France at Hongkong, dating less than a year after having submitted to re-vaccination against small-pox.

The same order prohibits the importation into Indo-China of clothing, used

bedding, second-hand furniture, light dress materials and drill cloths.

C. W. BECKWITH, Commander, R.N.,

HARBOUR DEPARTMENT,

HONGKONG, 26th January, 1917.

Harbour Master, &c.