637426-1897-Circular-Despatch-Manchester-Port-Sanitary-Regulations — Page 5

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1897.

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(7.) The Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority shall, in the case of every ship certified to be infected, give directions, and take such steps as may appear to him to be necessary, for preventing the spread of infection, and the Master of the said ship shall forthwith carry. into execution such directions as shall be so given to him.

(8.) In the event of any death from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague taking place on board such ship while detained under subdivision (1) of this Article, the Master shall, as directed by the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority or the Medical Officer of Health of the Liver pool Port Sanitary Authority, either cause the dead body to be taken out to sea, and committed to the deep, properly loaded to prevent its rising, or shall deliver it into the charge of the said Authority, who shall thereupon cause the same to be otherwise lawfully and properly disposed of.

(9.) The Master shall cause the clothing and bedding and other articles of personal use likely to retain infection which have been used by any person who may have suffered from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague on board such ship, or who, having left such ship, shall have suffered from Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague during the stay of such ship in any Port, to be disinfected or destroyed; and if the Master shall have neglected to do so before the ship arrives in port, he shall forthwith, upon the direction of the Liverpool Port Sanitary. Authority or the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, cause the same to be disinfected or destroyed, as the case may require; and if the said Master neglect to comply with such direction within a reasonable time, the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority shall cause the same to be carried into execution.

(10.) The Master shall cause the ship to be disinfected, and every article therein, other than those last described, which may probably be infected, to be disinfected or destroyed, according to the directions of the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority.

ARTICLE VIII--Where a ship bound to the Port of Manchester is not ascertained, or certified to be infected, but has passengers on board who are in a filthy or otherwise unwholesome condition, or has come from a place infected with Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, if the ship be within the Port of Liverpool, or the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, if the ship be within the Port of Man- chester, may, if in his opinion it is desirable with a view to checking the introduction or spread of Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, give a certificate in duplicate in the following form, or to the like effect, and shall deliver one to the Master, and retain the other or transmit it to the Port Sanitary Authority whose officer he is.

CERTIFICATE,

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PORT SANITARY AUTHORITY.

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I hereby certify that I have examined the ship now in the port of

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and that such ship has passengers on board in a filthy or otherwise unwholesome condition [or has come from an infected place], and that, in my opinion, it is desirable with a view to checking the introduction or spread of Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague, that the persons on board such ship should not be allowed to land unless they satisfy me as to their names, places of destination, and addresses at such places.

Signed

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Medical Officer of Health (or Medical Practitioner appointed or employed by the Port Sanitary Authority).

ARTICLE IX.--When such certificate has been given, no person on board the ship shall leave or be allowed to leave the same unless he satisfy the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, or of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, as the case may be, as to his name, intended place of destination, and intended address at such place; and such name, intended place of destination, and address shall forthwith be given by the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, or of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, as the case may be, to the Clerk to the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, or to the Clerk to the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, as the case may be, and such Clerk shall thereupon transmit 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, forthwith 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 of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, as the case may be, or to the Local Authority of the District in which such place is situate.