637426-1897-Circular-Despatch-Manchester-Port-Sanitary-Regulations — Page 7

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1897. 957

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(2.) If on making such examination the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority shall be of opinion that the ship is infected, he shall forthwith give a certificate as required by Article V., and shall give to Us information as to the case; and subdivi- sions (2) to (10), both inclusive, of Article VII. shall apply to such ship, and to the Master and the persons on board thereof, and to the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority and the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority, as if in such subdivisions the words "Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority were substituted for the words "Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority," and the words Manchester Port Sanitary Authority" for the words "Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority."

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(3.) The Manchester Port Sanitary Authority shall provide a proper supply of water for drink- ing and cooking purposes for persons on board any ship so certified, whereupon the Master of such ship shall cause all casks or tanks on board the ship containing water for the use of such persons to be emptied and cleansed.

(4.) The Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority may, in the case of any ship certified as aforesaid, which shall not have commenced to discharge its cargo, give directions for its removal and towage to and its mooring or anchoring at the Liverpool Mooring Station, and after he shall have given such directions, he shall inform the Liver- pool Port Sanitary Authority of the case by the speediest method available, and shall 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 particulars as We may require.

The Master of any ship certified as aforesaid shall carry out the directions of the said Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority (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 purpose of carrying into effect the pro- visions of this Article, and in other respects, the Articles of this Order relating to ships not moored in or at any of the basins, docks, quays, or wharves within the jurisdiction of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority shall apply to any ship certified as aforesaid under this Article.

ARTICLE XVIII.-The Master of every ship bound to the Port of Manchester and infected with Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague shall, when within three miles of the coast of any part of England or Wales, cause to be hoisted at the masthead, or where best seen, a large flag of yellow and black, borne quarterly, and shall keep the same displayed during the whole of the time between sunrise and sunset, and no person (other than an Officer of Customs or a person acting in the execution of this Order) shall leave such ship until after such visit of the Officer of Customs as is mentioned in Article II., or until after the visit of the Medical Officer of Health of the Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority or of the Medical Officer of Health of the Manchester Port Sanitary Authority in pursuance of Article

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ARTICLE XIX.--Nothing in this Order shall render liable to detention, disinfection, or destruc- tion any article forming part of any mail (other than a parcel mail) conveyed under the authority of the Postmaster General, or of the postal administration of any Foreign Government, or shall pre- judicially affect the delivery in due course of any such mail (other than a parcel mail) to the Post Office in accordance with the provisions of the Post Office Acts.

Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Thirtieth day of August,

in the year One thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven.

S. B. PROVIS,

Assistant Secretary.

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M. W. RIDLEY,

One of the Ex-officio Members of the Local Government Board.