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572 THE HONGKONG GOVT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, 6TH JULY, 1883.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 234.

The following Regulations are published under the provisions of Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879.

By Command.

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 6th July, 1883.

W. H. MarsH,

('olonial Secretary -

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Provisions of Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879.

CHOLERA.

Whereas by Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, as amended by Ordinance 16 of 1882, it is provided that whenever the Governor in Council has reasonable cause for believing that any country or place is infected with any infectious or contagious disease, he may make such regulations concerning vessels arriving from such country or place, or from any port or place in China or Japan or Cochin China which appears likely to be in communication with any such country or place as he thinks necessary for preserving the public health of the Colony.

And whereas the Governor in Council has reasonable cause for believing that

SWATOW

is a place now infected with an infectious disease, viz.: cholera, it is hereby ordered by the Governor in Council as follows:-

1. Vessels, which term throughout these Regulations shall include Steamers, Sailing Vessels, Junks and Lorchas, arriving either directly or after touching at any intermediate port from Swatow (hereinafter referred to as the infected place) 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 from quarantine by express written order of the Health Officer.

2. The Quarantine Flag shall be a flag of yellow colour (letter Q in International Code of Signals) hoisted at the highest mast-head forward.

3. No vessel arriving from the infected place shall enter the waters of the Colony before 6 a.m., or after 7 P.M.

4. Every vessel arriving from the infected place shall proceed to the Quarantine Ground, and shall not remove therefrom except for stress of weather until released from quarantine by order of the Health Officer. No vessel having to leave the Quarantine Ground from stress of weather shall communicate with the shore or with any ship and such vessel shall return to the Quarantine Ground 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 regula-. tions applicable to such vessels.

5. The Quarantine Ground shall be within the following boundaries, and the Master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part of the Quarantine Ground 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.

The place hereafter described, as follows, is hereby set apart to be a Quarantine Station, namely:-

That part of the West end of Stone Cutters' Island which lies West of a line to be determined by the Health Officer and to be indicated by a line of Yellow Flags to be fixed by the Health Officer from shore to shore.

6. The master or other person having the control of any vessel arriving from the infected place 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 re- quire, and shall answer truly and fully all questions put to him by the Health Officer or Boarding Officer.

7. The Health Officer may order the removal of such persons as he thinks fit from any vessel in quarantine to the Quarantine Station, 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.