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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST OCTOBER, 1899.

NOTICE.

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Whereas Bubonic Plague has now ceased to be epidemic in Swatow and Hongkong, but whereas the disease is endemic in Hongkong and several Chinese Ports;

The undersigned, Her Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, under and by virtue of the powers in that behalf conferred upon him by Section 84 of Her Majesty's Order in Council, 1889, has ordained that the Quarantine Regulation of May 31, 1899, shall be repealed. and has made in its place the following Regulation for the peace, order, and good government of Her Majesty's subjects being with- in the dominions of the King of Siam:-

REGULATION:

1. For the purpose of this Regulation the Inspection Station shall be in the river Menam Chow Phya, opposite the Custom House at Paknam.

2. Any vessel, which having cleared from Hongkong or any Chinese port, arrives in Siamese waters, on or after the date of the present Regulation, shall drop anchor at the said Inspection Station, and shall stay there until such a time as the Medical Officer shall have boarded her and have given pratique.

3. No person other than the Health Officer, or one of his Assistants, shall communicate from any ship coming from Hongkong, or any Chinese port, with the land, or from the land with such ship, or from such ship with other ships, before she has received pratique.

4. The Master, or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine, shall give the Health Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage, and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer may require, and shall answer fully and truly questions put to him by the Health Officer, and shall if required by the Health Officer furnish the necessary boats and appliances for the landing of passengers or crew at the Quarantine Station, and shall, in a general way, give the Health Officer all necessary assistance to enable him to grant pratique to the vessel.

5. The Health Officer may board any vessel arriving in Siamese waters and inspect every person in the vessel. He may, if he thinks necessary, call for inspection of the ship's bills of health, emigra- tion papers or other documents which he may require to enable him to grant pratique, and he shall use every lawful means which to him may seem expedient for ascertaining the sanitary condition of the vessel and persons therein.

6. Any vessel which shall be so loaded as to be unable to pass over the bar at the entrance of the river Menam Chow Phya, shall, in order to obtain permission to lighten or load at the outside anchorage of Koh si-chang or of Anghin:-

(a.) Give, through the ship's Agent in Bangkok, to the Health Officer of the Local Govern- ment Board previous written notice of the ship's expected arrival at such outside anchorage;

(b.) Deliver to the Customs Officer stationed at such outside anchorage a written declaration stating that no death from or case of bubonic plague had occurred on board from port of departure.

7. The Health Officer shall be, and is hereby empowered to deal with all infected vessels and persons as he may think proper to prevent the spreading of the disease.

8. Any and all persons committing a breach of the present Regulation or assisting in any way in the commission of such breach, and the Master, Captain or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach, shall be severally liable to a fine not exceeding £100 or to imprisonment not exceeding three months, or to both such punishments.

10. Any cost incurred by the Siamese Government, in the maintenance of the person removed to the Quarantine Station at Koh Phai, shall be repaid by the Agents of the vessel.

Given under my hand and seal

this 29th day of September, 1899.

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H.B.M. Consul-General,

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 575.

The following Returns of Deaths are published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 21st October, 1899.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.