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Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong,--Continued.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measures.

Date.

Reference to Govern-

ment Noti-

fication.

Bengal.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.

18th June, 1918.

Rangoon.

Singapore.

Do.

Do.

18th July, 1918.

19th July, 1918.

No. S. 140.

No. S. 175.

No. S. 181.

Bengal.

Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea enforced in the ports of Orissa against vessels arriving from Hongkong.

24th June, 1918.

No. S. 192.

Netherlands India.

Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 1st January, 1919. No. S. 1.

following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited:-(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, and used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal; (2) rags. (Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of newspaper, are not considered as rags.)

Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul- General at Hongkong.

Shanghai.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.

6th May, 1919.

No. S. 122.

Bangkok.

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague. All ships leaving Hongkong after 16th May, 1919, to call at Koh Phra to be examined.

16th May, 1919.

No. S. 133.

Tientsin.

No. S. 150,

Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague. 24th May, 1919.

All vessels arriving therefrom are to abide, and be governed, by the Sanitary Regulations for the ports of Tientsin and Chinwangtao.

No. S. 153.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted by Hongkong.

Disease.

Port or Place.

Restrictions in Force.

Small-pox.

Cholera.

Philippine Islands.

Saigon.

Medical examination; quarantine at the discre-

tion of the Health Officer.

Do.

Cholera.

Bangkok.

Do.

Authority.

Notification No. 168 of 9th May, 1918.

Notification No. 61 of 5th February, 1919.

Notification No. 194 of 26th April, 1919.

13th June, 1919.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary.

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