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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH MAY, 1892.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 202.

The following Order in Council is published.

By Command,

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th May, 1892.

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS

Made the 3rd day of May, 1892 by the Governor in Council, under Section 25 of “The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordi- nance, 1891,” in lieu of the Regulations in Table L.

of the Schedule to the said Ordinance,

The following Quarantine Regulations shall take effect from the 1st day of June, 1892, in lieu of those in Table L. of The Merchant Shipping Consolidation Ordinance, 1891:-

Interpreta- tion.

Quarantine Flag.

What vessels

to fly it, &c.

Quarantine

QUARANTINE REGULATIONS

Under Section 25 of Ordinance No. 26 of 1891.

1. In these Regulations the term Health Officer means the Health Officer of the Port or any other Medical Officer duly authorized to act for, or assist him or in charge of any place set apart for the detention and seclusion of persons actually suffering from disease; the term Vessels includes Steamers, Sailing Vessels, Junks, and Lorchas, and British and Foreign Ships of War, as well as Merchant Vessels of all kinds; the term port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed means a port or place proclaimed to be such by order of the Governor in Council published in the Gazette from the date of such proclamation. The words infectious or contagious disease shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, mean Cholera, Choleraic Diarrhoea, Small-pox, Typhus Fever, Yellow Fever, and such other Epidemic disease as the Health Officer may consider to imperil the safety of the passengers

or crew.

the

2. Every vessel arriving in the waters of this Colony

(a) After a voyage of less than 3 days from any port or place at which any infectious or contagious disease prevailed at the time of such vessel's departure therefrom; or

(b) Having at the time of arrival, or having had, during the voyage, any case of

any infectious or contagious disease on board,

shall immediately on entering the waters of the Colony fly the Quarantine Flag, and shall keep the same flying, and shall be deemed to be in quarantine until released therefrom by express written order of the Health Officer who shall, in every case, board and examine all passengers and crew of such vessel. But with the written consent of the Health Officer any such ship which is on a voyage to any other place may be allowed to proceed on such voyage or to tranship her passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage; Provided that no communication has been held with the shore except as permitted by these Regulations. The Quarantine Flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter Q in International Code of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.

No such vessel shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 A.M. or after 7 P.M.

3. Every vessel in quarantine shall proceed to the Quarantine Anchorage, and shall anchorage. not remove therefrom, except from stress of weather, until released from quarantine by order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the Quarantine Anchorage from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore, or with any ship, and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Anchorage immediately such stress of weather has subsided. Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual danger to the vessel, the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be in quarantine, and subject to all other regulations applicable to such vessels.

Boundaries thereof.

4. The Quarantine Anchorage shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Anchorage as and when required by the Harbour Master :-

Western Boundary.-A line drawn from the West side of Stone Cutters' Island to West side of Green Island (on Admiralty Chart marked as Harbour boundary). Southern Boundary.--That part of a line having the Naval Coal Sheds at Kaulung bearing E. by S., commencing where it meets the Eastern Boundary, and terminating where it meets the Western boundary.

Eastern Boundary.--A South line drawn from a white mark on South side of Stone

Cutters' Island until it reaches the Southern boundary. Northern Boundary.-Five fathom line of soundings.