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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1907.

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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 426. Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.

Place or Port.

Nature of Measmes

Date.

Reference 10 Goveru- ment Noti-

fication.

Siam.

Medical Inspection at Kohphra against arrivals from Hong-

kong.

14th Sept., 1905.

No. 576.

Do.

Vessels from Hongkong 'to complete 10 days before arrival at

a Siamese port.

1st March, 1907.

No. 140.

Madras,

Arrivals from Ilongkong subject to Regulations under the

Venice Convention at uninfected ports.

4th April, 1907.

No. 229,

Netherlands- India.

10th May, 1907.

No. 333.

Shughai.

All American ports incind- ing Philip- pine Islands.

Arrivals from Hongkong, or vessels having called there, are subject to five days' quarantine from date of departure or of last plague case on board. Importation is temporarily prohibited of animal refuse, claws and hoofs, animal or human hair and bristles, untanned hides and hides salted or cured with arsenic, raw wool and rags, bags or sacks which have already been used, coming from or tran- shipped at Hongkong; also tapestry and used em- broideries unless they are transported as personal baggage or in consequence of change of residence.

Hongkong declared an infected port.

1. Before sailing from Hongkong.

(a.) Fumigation of vessel, after drydocking, to kill rats

and insects.

(b.) Disinfection of luggage of steerage passengers and

forecastle crews.

(c.) Certification of shipping orders at American Con- sulate, for following cargo: Household goods: personal effects; used bedding, gar- meuts, gunnies, bags, sacks, matting, and embroideries; Rags; wool; furs: Fresh fruits, vegetables, milk and butter; Potted i flowers and plants; Dogs; Cats; Poultry; and other small animals; Feathers; Hair; Bristles; Hides; Horns: Hoofs: Claws; Bone; Manure; Earth; Corpses.

(d)} Ship's supplies:--

Water-To be taken from the Colony's

filtered supply.

Ballast:--Only hard rock, clean sea beach

sand, or sea water allowed.

Vegetables, milk, butter, etc. :-Sources not

restricted unless

present.

(e.) Medical Inspection before sailing.

2. At Ports of Arrival,

Cholera is

(a.) Medical Inspection, but no detention of vessel unless quarantinable disease is found aboard,

22nd June, 1907.

27th June, 1967.

No. 423.

No. 424

Panama.

or has occurred en route.

Same as at all American ports and the Philippine Islands.

27th June, 1907. No. 425.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

28th June, 1907.