THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST AUGUST, 1891.
5. The master or other person having the control of any vessel in quarantine shall give the Health Officer or Boarding Officer such information about the vessel and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and otherwise as the Health Officer or Boarding Officer may require, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.
6. The Health Officer may order the removal of such persons as he thinks fit from any vessel in quarantine to the Lazaretto, and the master of any vessel from which such persons are ordered to be removed shall conduct their removal according to the orders of the Health Officer.
7. No vessel in quarantine shall be released from quarantine except by the express written order of the Health Officer, nor until such precautions, by way of burning clothing, or fumigating, or otherwise, as may be ordered by the Health Officer, have been carried
out.
If the vessel arrives from a port or place where Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea prevailed at the time of its departure, or if there has been any case of any such disease on board the vessel, or any death therefrom, the vessel shall not be released from quarantine until clear days have elapsed since the date of the vessel's departure from such part or place, or since any person was suffering from or lied from any such disease on board such vessel, as the case may be. 8. If any vessel in the waters of this Colony is known to have any case of any infectious or contagious disease on board, or is a vessel which in the opinion of the Health Officer ought according to these regulations to be in quarantine, the Health Officer may order such vessel into quarantine, and the master or person in charge of such vessel shall thercupon hoist the Quarantine Flag upon such vessel and remove the vessel to the Quarantine Anchorage, and all the regulations applicable in relation to vessels in quarantine shall apply to such vessel.
9. In case of a death happening on board any vessel in quarantine, or ordered into quarantine, or in the Lazaretto, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as may be ordered by the Health Officer; and the Master of the vessel shali carry out such orders as the Health Officer may give him in relation to the disposal of the body.
10. When any quarantined vessel is in the waters of the Colony. no person shall leave the vessel, or held communication from the vessel with the shore, or with any other vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the vessel, until the express written permission of the Health Officer has been communicated to the master or other person having the control of the vessel, and such precautions as the Health Officer may require have been observed.
11. When any vessel is in quarantine, no person other than the Health Officer or persons in his boat shall approach within 30 yards of such vessel, or hold any communication with such vessel or with any person on board of it, or receive, or take any person or thing whatever directly or indirectly from the vessel or from any person on board of it, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
12. No person placed in the Lazaretto shall leave the same or hold communication with any vessel or boat, or take or send any person or thing whatever out of the Lazaretto, without having first received the express written permission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
13. No person other than the Health Officer, or persons expressly deputed by him, shall enter the Lazaretto or approach within 30 yards of the boundaries thereof, or hold communication with the Lazaretto or with any person in it, or receive or take anything whatever directly or indirectly from the Lazaretto or from any person in it without having first received the express written per- mission of the Health Officer, and observing such precautions as the Health Officer may require.
14. The Captain Superintendent of Police, and any officers that he nay appoint for the purpose of enforcing quarantine, may order any person leaving or coming from any vessel that is in quarantine or from the Lazaretto, or taking or sending any person or thing whatever from any such vessel or Lazaretto to remain in or return to and to return such persons or things to such vessel or Lazaretto, and may by such necessary force as the case requires compel any person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same. 15. The above regulations shall not in any way interfere with the internal management of any of Her Majesty's Ships, or of Foreign Ships of War, or with their freedom to proceed to sea, whenever the Officer in command may deem such course requisite. 16. Where any breach of any of the above regulations is commit- ted, all the persons assisting in any way in the commission of such breach and the master or other person having the control of any vessel or boat on board of which such breach has been committed, or which has been in any way engaged in the commission of such breach shall be severally answerable for such breach, and shall be deemed guilty of the same.
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Regulations made under the provisions of Section
27 s.s. 4.
1.-FAIRWAYS.
1. There shall be three Fairways through the Harbour, for the passage of vessels of over 50 tons burlen, and such Fairways shall be named as follows:--
The Southern, the Central, and the Northern Fairways.
2. The Western end of the Southern Fairway commences off the Gas Works, and is bounded on its South side by the North shore of the Island of Hongkong, and terminates 400 feet West of the Canton Steam-boat Wharf, where it connects with the Central Fairway. The North side of the Southern Fairway is occupied by Junks, except at a place opposite the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's Coal Godowns, where there is a break connecting with the Central Fairway.
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