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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH AUGUST, 1899.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 472,

The following Letter, with its enclosures, is published.

By Command,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

SIR,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 24th August, 1899.

From the Secretary to the Government of Burma, to the Colonial Secretary, Hongkong.

Dated RangooN, THE 31st July, 1899.

I am directed to forward for the information of the Government of Hongkong a copy each of the Government of Burma, notifications cited in the margin issued by this Government prescribing rules for fications Nos. 128 and 129 quarantine against plague and for the medical inspection, isolation, observation and surveillance of persons suffering from, or suspected of being infected with, plague at the ports of Tavoy and Mergui.

General Department noti-

dated 20th July, 1899.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient Servant,

G. FELL,

for Secretary.

GENERAL DEPARTMENT.

NOTIFICATION.

Dated Rangoon, the 20th July, 1899.

No. 128. In exercise of the power conferred by section 2 of the Epidemic Diseases Act, 1897, and by the notification of the Government of India, in the Home Department, No. 302, dated the 4th February, 1897, the Lieutenant-Governor of Burma is pleased to prescribe, as a temporary measure, the following rules for quarantine against plague and for the medical inspection, isolation, observation and surveillance of persons suffering from, or suspected of being infected with, plague.

These rules shall take effect from the 20th July, 1899, in the port of Tavoy.

I.--- Definitions.

1. Health Officer.-In these rules "Health Officer' means the Health Officer of the Port of Tavoy, and includes any person appointed by name or in virtue of his office to perform the duties of Health Officer.

2. Infected ship.—Any ship with plague on board or on which one or more cases have taken place within 12 days before her arrival will be considered infected.

3. Suspected ship.-Any ship on board which there has been a case of plague at the time of departure, or during the voyage, but on which no fresh ease has occurred for 12 days before her arrival, will be considered suspected.

4. Healthy ship.-Any ship, even though coming from an infected port, which has had no death or case of plague on board, either before departure, during the voyage, or on arrival will be considered healthy.

5. Observation. -The term "observation means that the persons subjected to it will be segregated in a lazaretto or isolation camp till they have obtained free pratique.

6. Surveillance.---The term "surveillance means that the persons subjected to it will not be isolated: they will at once obtain free pratique, but on arriving at their destination they will be kept under medical supervision.

7. Infected pori-Means any port which the Government of Burma may declare infected.