637426-1897-Circular-Despatch-Manchester-Port-Sanitary-Regulations — Page 4

954 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1897.

ARTICLE V.If the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, having visited and examined any ship under Article III., find the ship to be infected, and if such ship be not moored in or at any of the basins, docks, quays, or wharves within the jurisdiction of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, he shall give a certificate similar to that prescribed by Article IV., and inform the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority of the case by the speediest method available, and shall then remain on board such ship until the same has been moored or anchored at the Liverpool Mooring Station, or until the arrival on board of the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port- Sanitary Authority. He shall also give to Us information as to the arrival of the ship, and such other parti- culars as We may require.

ARTICLE VI.--The Master of any ship certified in accordance with the provisions of Article V. by the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority to be infected shall carry out the directions of the said Medical Officer of Health (not relating to matters of seamanship) as to the removal of the ship to and its mooring or anchoring at the Liverpool Mooring Station, and any other directions which such Medical Officer of Health may deem necessary to be given for the carrying into effect the provisions of Article V.

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ARTICLE VII--The following provisions shall apply to all ships certified as aforesaid by the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, or by the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, to be infected :--

(1.) The Master of any ship so certified to be infected shall thereupon moor or anchor such ship. at the Liverpool Mooring Station, and such ship shall remain there until the requirements of this Order have been duly fulfilled.

(2.) No person (other than an Officer of Customs or a person acting in the execution of this Order) shall leave any such ship until the examination herein-after mentioned shall have

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(3.) The Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority shall, as soon as possible after any such ship has been certified to be infected, examine every person ou board the same, and in the case of any person suffering from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, or from any illness which the Medical Officer suspects may prove to be Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, shall certify accordingly.

(4.) Every person certified by the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority to be suffering from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague shall be removed, if his condition admit of it, to some hospital or other suitable place appointed for that purpose by the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority; and no person so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the Medical Officer of Health shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease.

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If any person so certified to be suffering from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject, for the purposes of this Order, to the control of the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority; and such person shall not be removed from or leave the ship, except with the consent in writing of such Medical Officer of Health.

(5.) Any person certified by the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority to be suffering from any illness which such Officer suspects may prove to be Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, may either be detained on board the ship for any period not exceeding two days, or be taken to some hospital or other suitable place appointed for that purpose by the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, and detained there, for a like period, in order that it may be ascertained whether the illness is or is not Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague.

If any such person, while so detained, shall be certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be suffering from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, the provisions of sub- division (4) of this Article shall apply.

(6.) No person on board such a ship as is mentioned in subdivision (3) of this Article who has not been certified as required by that subdivision shall be permitted to land unless he satisfy the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority as to his name, intended place of destination, and intended address at such place.

Such name, intended place of destination, and address shall forthwith be given by such Medical Officer of Health to the Clerk of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, and such Clerk shall thereupon transinit the same to the Local Authority of the District in which such intended place of destination is situate.

Every such person who, within forty-eight hours after landing, shall arrive at any place of destination or address other than such place or address as aforesaid, shall forth- with upon such arrival notify in writing his place of destination and address to the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, or to the Local Authority of the District in which such place is situate.