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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1879.
Keepers of licensed board- Ing-houses for seamen to fur- nish Harbour Master with weekly lists of the seamen resident in
their houses, and report their state of health. Disensed seamen to be removed to a Hospital. (Ordinance
10 of 1867, sec. 63.)
Penalty for offering any obstruction to removal to Hospital [Ibid, sec. 64.]
Masters of ships before shipping
seamen may require them to undergo medical
inspe ction. [Ibid, sec. 65.]
Application of section.
Ships to carry medicines, medical stores, &c. in accordance with scale issued by Board of Trade.
See M. S. A., 1857, sec. 4.)
CHAPTER VII.
HEALTH OF SEAMEN.
XVIII. Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the list of seamen resident in his house, which he is required to furnish to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every seaman who may be reported, or may be otherwise discovered, to be affected with a contagious disease, shall be removed by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he be, by the Visiting Surgeon thereof, discharged as cured, and shall have obtained from such Visiting Surgeon a certificate of his having been so dis- charged, which certificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master when required so to do; and the expenses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such scaman in such hospital, shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such seaman; or, in case of the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman shall have resided before his removal to hos- pital not having reported, or having made a false report as to the state of health of such seaman, then such expenses shall be paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it shall appear to, and be certified by, the Visiting Surgeon of the hospital to which such seaman may be removed, that the disease with which he may be affected is of such a nature as that the keeper of the boarding-house could, with ordi- nary and reasonable observation, have ascertained its exist- ence; and in all cases, such expenses shall, in case of non- payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
2. If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and reported so to be by the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman may be residing, shall refuse or offer any hindrance or obstruction to his removal to a hospital; or having been removed to a hospital, shall attempt to leave the same before he shall be properly discharged cured; or having been discharged cured, shall refuse to produce his certificate of discharge when required by the Harbour Master; or being affected with a contagious disease, shall neglect or refuse to inform the keeper of the boarding-house in which he may be residing, then, and in every such case, such seaman so offending shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding one month. 3. The master of any merchant ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon, by notice in writing to that effect, addressed to the Harbour Master or a Visiting Surgeon appointed in pursuance of this section, and the Colonial Surgeon or such Visiting Surgeon upon such inspection shall give a certificate under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which certificate such seaman shall produce and show to the master of the ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every certificate, there shall be paid the fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the master or agent of the ship in case such seaman should prove to be in sound health, and by the seaman himself, or the boarding-house keeper with whom he shall be residing, in case he shall prove to be affected with any contagious disease.
CHAPTER VIII.
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL STORES.
XIX. This chapter applies to all British or Colonial ships other than those already provided with medicines and medi- cal stores under the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1867," or of any legislative enactment or regulations in force in any British possession, or holding special exemp- tion under the hand of the Governor.
2. The owners, agents, or master of every such ship navigating between this Colony and any place out of the same, shall cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines and medical stores in accordance with the scale appropriate to such ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores issued by the Board of Trade, and also a copy of the book or books issued by the said Board containing instructions for dispensing the same pursuant to paragraph 1 of section 4 of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1867.”
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