THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 7TH OCTOBER, 1871.
CHOLERA.
Mr. Gray to the Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL GARDENS, 8th August, 1871.
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SI-I am directed by the Board of Trade to transmit to you the enclosed copy of a printed rcular with Order in Council appended, which has just been issued from this Department to the perintendents of all Mercantile Marine Offices in the United Kingdom, to the British Consuls, and
the Officers in the British Possessions abroad.
The urgency of the subject, as will be perceived on reference to these documents, precluded this ard from flowing their otherwise invariable practice of previously consulting the Secretary of ite; but the Board hope that if further instructions are thought by his Lordship to be necessary in amniter, he will not find it too late now to have them sent out,-I have, &c.
The Bader Secretary of State, Colonial Office.
Circular We. 480.
BOARD OF TRADE,
7th August 1871.
(Signed)
THOMAS GRAY.
CHOLERA.
Appended boreto is the copy of an Order in Council directing that ships, on board of which any person has been attacked choler during the voyage, shall not enter any port or place in the United Kingdom until the clothes and bedding of such son shall have been destroyed.
Care should be taken that shipmasters understand this obligation, and the further obligation of disinfecting the berths of dera potients and all things besides clothes and bedding likely to carry infection.
All cases of cholera should be entered in the official log, and a list of all articles destroyed.
In the case of scammen dying of cholera at a foreign port, the Consul will give directions for the destruction of the clothing, of the deceased, which should never be sent to the United Kingdom.
THOMAS GRAY.
At the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The 5th day of August, 1871.
By the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.
PRESENT:
Lord President.
Mr. Göschen.
Mr. Forster.
Whereas parsians to an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His late Majesty King George the Fourth, chapter enty-eit, and of "The Sanitary Act, 1868," and of "The Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1867," and of every other rer in the rested, the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council did, on the twenty-ninth day of July now past, and on the third of this instant August, make and publish certain Orders: And whereas it has seemed expedient to ir Landsbipe, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by the said Acts or otherwise in them vested, to make a further Order ching the disease in the said recited Orders mentioned:
Now, therebre, the Lords of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council do, by virtue of the aforesaid powers, order, Lit is herby ortured, as follows:-
1. master of any ship in which, during the voyage and before the arrival thereof at any port of the United Kingdom, person has been attacked with or died of cholera shall bring his ship into any such port until he has destroyed the ting and bedding of all persons who shall so have died or had an attack of cholera ou board such vessel during such voyage.
2. In this Order the term "ship" includes vessel or boat:
The teria "master" includes the officer or person for the time being in charge or command of a ship:
The tra
"cholera" includes choleraic diarrhea.
6. The oras "clothing and bedding" mean and include all clothing and bedding in actual use and worn or used by the 200 attu. Trod as aforesaid at the time of and during such attack.
4. Every person offending against this Order shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty
sade.
5. The Lords Commissioners of fier Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
EDMUND HARRISON.
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