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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH AUGUST, 1899.

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II.-Hoisting of yellow flag.-The commander of every vessel, including buggalows or other native craft-(a) arriving from an infected port or from any port in India, or (b) having plague on board, or (c) on board of which one or more cases of plague have occurred within 12 days of her arrival, shall, on arrival at Sinbyubin, hoist a yellow flag, or, if the vessel arrives at night, show three lights (red, white, and red) at the main, and indicate by signal the port from which she has come and shall keep up such flag by day or lights by night and signal until permitted in writing by the Health Officer to haul them down.

III.-Prohibition of communication.-The commander shall not, without first having obtained permission as hereinafter provided, allow any but oral communication with the shore or with any other vessel or boat.

IV-Report by Customs House officer on arrivals of vessels.—All vessels and native craft arriving from any infected port shall be stopped by the Customs House officer at Sinbyubin, and the latter will report at once by wire from Thayetchaung to the Health Officer at Tavoy on the arrival of the steamer or native craft.

V.-Inspection by Health Officer. -The Health Officer on receiving information of the stoppage of the vessel at Sinbyubin shall visit it and ascertain, by enquiry from the commander or the medical officer on board, or other sources of information, whether any person on board is suffering or has suffered from plague. For this purpose he may demand a declaration, on oath, from the doctor of the ship, or failing him from the captain, that there has been no case of plague on the ship since her departure.

VI.-Rules relating to infected ships.

1. If a ship is held to be infected by the Health Officer, he shall direct the commander to disem- bark the sick at the point directed by the Health Officer.

2. The Health Officer shall superintend the transport of the sick to the sanitary station outside Sinbyubin.

3. The other persons, if they wish it, should be allowed to disembark, but if so, shall remain at Sinbyubin, under observation for a period varying, in the discretion of the Health Officer, according to the sanitary condition of the ship and the date of the last case. Such period shall not exceed ten days from the date of the last case, whether that occurred on board ship or during the period of observation on shore. The Health Officer may at his discretion allow such persons to proceed to their destination on their giving a written undertaking, in the form of Appendix I, of the rules for quarantine in the Port of Moulmein, published in General Department Notification No. 208, dated the 7th October 1897, to submit themselves to surveillance by a inedical officer appointed for the purpose at their destination for a period of ten days from the date of the arrival of the ship. The undertaking shall be executed in duplicate, and one copy shall be sent by the Health Officer to the medical officer concerned.

4. The soiled linen and personal effects of the crew and passengers, which in the opinion of the Health Officer may be considered as infected, shall be disinfected by the Health Officer in accordance with the rules contained in Appendix II of the rules for quarantine in the Port of Moulmein, published in General Department Notification No. 208, dated the 7th October 1897.

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5. The bilge water shall be pumped out by the commander after disinfection by the Health Officer, and good drinking water shall be substituted by the commander for the water stored on board.

6. All parts of the ship which have been inhabited by plague patients shall be disinfected by the Health Officer, and the other parts of the ship may also be disinfected at the discretion of the Health Officer.

7. When these rules have been fully complied with, the Health Officer shall by an order in writing under his hand, to be delivered to the Commander, permit the yellow flag to be hauled down.

VII.-Rules relating to suspected ships.

1. If on inspection the Health Officer holds the ship to be a suspected ship, as defined in Rule I, he shall deal with it under the following rules.

2. The passengers and crew shall be medically inspected by the Health Officer.

3. The soiled linen and personal effects of the passengers and crew, which in the opinion of the Health Officer may be considered as infected, shall be disinfected by the Health Officer in accordance with the rules contained in Appendix II of the Rules for quarantine in the Port of Moulmein, published in General Department Notification No. 208, dated the 7th October 1897, as amended by General Department Notification No. 163, dated the 17th August 1898.

4. The bilge water shall be pumped out by the commander after disinfection by the Health Officer and good drinking water shall be substituted by the commander for the water stored on board.