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NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 260.-It is hereby notified, with reference to Notification No. S. 56 of the 15th March, 1918, that information has been received from H. B. M.'s Consul at Chefoo to the effect that the sanitary measures imposed against arrivals from Hongkong on account of cerebro-spinal meningitis have been withdrawn.
No. S. 261.-It is hereby notified, with reference to Notification No. S. 150 of the 6th June, 1919, that information has been received from the Superintendent of Customs and the Treaty Power Consuls at Tientsin and Chinwangtao to the effect that the sanitary measures imposed against arrivals from Hongkong on account of plague have been withdrawn.
No. S. 262.-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti- fication.
Philippine Islands.
Saigon,
All passengers from Hongkong to produce special certificate.
All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be inspected. Per- sons suspected of infection will be isolated and in such event the vessel will be disinfected. If any cases of cerebro-spinal meningitis are discovered the vessel and al passengers to Indo-China will be put in quarantine for six days and disinfected. No restrictions as regards load- ing and disembarking cargo.
Newchwang. All vessels arriving from Hongkong will be treated as
Suspected Vessels.
Ningpo. Quarantine imposed on all arrivals from Hongkong.
Singapore.
Eengal.
India.
Hongkong declared an infected port on account of plague.
Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of plague by sea enforced in the ports of Orissa against vessels arriving from Hongkong.
7th March, 1918. No. S. 49,
17th March, 1918. | No. S. 63.
27th May, 1919.
No. S. 86.
11th April, 1918.
19th July,
1918.
24th June, 1918.
No. S. 88.
No. S. 181.
No. S. 192.
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Netherlands- Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the 1st January, 1919. No. S. I.
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.
Tsingtau.
All ships arriving from Hongkong must fumigate before
entering Tsingtau.
7th July, 1919.
No. S. 122.
No. S. 183.
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