THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 23RD APRIL, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.---No. 190.
The following Regulations made by the Sanitary Board on the 21st instant, are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1898.
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T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
CONDITIONS SUBJECT TO WHICH PERSONS SUFFERING FROM BUBONIC PLAGUE WILL BE PERMITTED TO LEAVE THE COLONY.
Any person suffering from bubonic plague who wishes to leave the Colony may embark between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. at a wharf to be erected off the new Reclamation in front of Bonham Strand West subject to the following conditions:-
(1) The patient or his friend shall notify the patient's name and address or addresses at which he has been residing during the last ten days to an Officer of the Sanitary Board on duty at the wharf.
(2) The destination to which the patient is to be removed shall be notified to the Officer on
duty at the wharf.
(3) The patient or his friends must provide a licensed junk, or licensed boat (the latter to be towed by a launch) in which the patient is to be removed, and must furnish the Officer on duty with the number of such junk or boat and the name of such steam-launch. (4) No removals will be permitted to places within a radius of 40 miles of the Colony. (5) The junk or boat used for the conveyance of the patient must on its return to the Colony at once proceed to the Water Police Station at Tsim Sha Tsui for disinfection.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 191.
The following are published.
By Command,
Colonia! Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1898.
Government of Ceylon.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
CEYLON, SOUTH COAST.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Notice is hereby given that th· Bell Buoy, marking the Calla Rocks at the eastern entrance to Galle Harbour, will, on April 15th next, be shifted due south of its present position as chartel, a distance of one and half cables, and moored Command- in 12 fathoms, distant 233 fathoms by measurement from the outer Cadla Rock in a south half cast direction, ers of Steamers approaching the Port are requested to note this and keop a position clear of the buoy until the Pilot shows If under stil, the canoe is dis- his flag (white, red and white) horizontal, when it is safe to steer for the Pilot's canoe. tinguishable by the letter P on it, with the Pilot flag displayed above; should the buoy be our of position, the usual signals from the flag staff will be hoisted to that effect.
Master Attendant's Office, Galle, 12th February, 1898.
Government of China.
SWATOW DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS, No. 30.
J. P. TRUSCOTT,
Master Attendant.
Mud Flat Buoy discontinued.
Notice is hereby given that the Mud Flat Buoy, No. 2 in the published List of 1898, will be removed on or about the 30th April, 1898, as it is no longer required.
Mooring Dolphins, &c. (5) for a Kerosenc-bulk-oil-steamer, are now being erected 70 fect outside the buoy; each erection will bear a red light from sunset to sunrise.
C. P. DAWSON, Harbour Master.
Approved:
W. B. RUSSELL, Commissioner of Customs,
CUSTOM HOUSE, SWATOW, 13th April, 1898.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.—No. 192.
The following Returns of Deaths are published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 23rd April, 1898.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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