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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1897.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 471. The following Circular Despatch with its enclosure is published.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th November, 1897.

CIRCULAR,

SIR,

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

DOWNING STREET,

951'

9th September, 1897.

With reference to my Circular despatch of 29th January last, I have the honour to forward, for the information of your Government, copies of an Order issued by the Local Government Board prescribing Regulations with regard to the Port of Manchester and ships bound to that Port, and coming or being within the Port of Liverpool with a view to the treatment of persons affected with cholera, yellow fever or plague, and for the prevention of the spread of such diseases..

The Officer Administering the Government of

I have the honour to be,

HONGKONG.

Sir,

Your most obedient, humble Servant,

J. CHAMBERLAIN.

(30th August, 1897.)

Regulations as to Cholera, YELLOW FEVER, AND PLAGUE.

PORT OF MANCHESTER.

LIVERPOOL

AND

MANCHESTER)

PORT SANITARY AUTHORITIES.

To the MANCHESTER PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY ;-

To the LIVERPOOL Port SANITARY AUTHORITY ;---

To the Officers of Customs of the Ports of Manchester and Liverpool ;-

To the Medical Officers of Health of the said Port Sanitary Authorities; --

To all Masters of Ships;

To all Pilots ;-

And to all others whom it may concern.

WHEREAS by an Order dated the 4th day of September, 1896, which came into operation on the 1st day of December, 1896, We, the Local Government Board, constituted until the 31st day of March, 1899, unless before that date We otherwise prescribe, a Joint Board as the Port Sanitary Authority for the whole of the said Port of Manchester, such Joint Board to be termed "the Man- chester Port Sanitary Authority":

And whereas by Section 1 of the Public Health Act, 1896, it is enacted that Regulations of the Local Government Board made in pursuance of Section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875, or in pursuance of that Section, as extended to London by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, may provide for such Regulations being enforced and executed by the Officers of Customs and the officers and men employed in the Coastguard as well as by other Authorities and Officers, and without pre- judice to the generality of the powers conferred by those Sections may provide for-

(a) the signals to be hoisted by vessels having any case of epidemic, endemic, or infectious

disease on board; and

(b) the questions to be answered by masters, pilots, and other persons on board any vessels as to

cases of such disease on board during the voyage or on the arrival of the vessel; and

(c) the detention of vessels and of persons on board vessels; and

(d) the duties to be performed in cases of such disease by masters, pilots, and other persons on

board vessels: Provided that the regulations shall be subject to the consent,-

(a) so far as they apply to the officers of Customs, of the Commissioners of Her

Majesty's Customs; and

(b) so far as they apply to officers or men employed in the Coastguard, of the

Admiralty; and

(c) so far as they apply to signals, of the Board of Tradę.