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THE HONGKONG

Government Gazette.

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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 19TH AUGUST, 1882.

No. 35.

VOL. XXVIII.

號五十三第

日六初月七年午壬 日九十月八年二十八百八千一 簿八十二第

1879.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 330.

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

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 19th August, 1882.

FREDERICK STewart,

Acting Colonial Secretary.

REGULATIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 25 OF ORDINANCE 8 OF 1879.

CHOLERA AT KIUNG CHOW.

Whereas by Section 25 of Ordinance 8 of 1879, it is provided that whenever the Governor in Council has reasonable cause for believing that any country or place is infected with any notions or contagious disease, he may make such regulations concerning vessels arriving from 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 Kiung Chow is a place now infected with an infectious disease, viz.: cholera, it is hereby ordered by the Governor in Council as follows:-

1. No boat, except that of the Health Officer of the Port, is to approach within twenty yards

of any vessel that is flying the quarantine flag or has been placed in quarantine.

2. No person shall leave any vessel that is in quarantine without permission of the Health Officer of the Port: neither shall any letters be sent or received except through the Guard Boat employed in the quarantine service.

3. Vessels arriving from Kiung Chow shall immediately on entering the waters of this Colony fly

the Quarantine Flag.

4. No such vessels shall be admitted to pratique until 10 clear days have elapsed since the vessel

left the said place.

5. If there has been any case of cholera on board of such vessel the vessel shall not be admitted to pratique until 10 clear days have elapsed since any person suffering from such disease was last on board such vessel.

ARATHOON SETH,

Clerk of Councils.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 18th August, 1882.