1890_VENEREAL__DISEASES_ORDINANCE — Page 5

ORDINANCE No. 12 of 1857.

Venereal Diseases.

Colonial Surgeon, or such other medical officer as aforesaid, and in payment of the expenses of renting and maintaining such premises as aforesaid, shall go and be applied to the formation of a fund for the purpose of building, fitting up, and maintaining such hospital, and enlarging the same from time to time as may be required; and all fees directed to be levied and paid by section 13, in case of non-payment, shall be sued for and recovered by the Registrar General, who shall pay the same into the Colonial **Treasury.

17. Every keeper of a licensed boarding house for seamen shall furnish to the Harbour Master, once in every week, a list of seamen then resident in his house, and shall report in such list as to the state of health of each seamen 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 venereal disease, unless then under medical treatment, 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 medical attendants thereof, discharged as cured, and shall have obtained from such medical attendants a certificate of his having been so discharged, 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 seaman 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 hospital 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 Colonial Surgeon or his deputy, or the medical attendants, of the hospital to which such seaman may be removed, that the disease with which he with may be affected is of such a nature as that the keeper of the boarding house could, ordinary and reasonable observation, have ascertained its existence; 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.

18. If any seaman affected with a venereal 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 hospital; or, having been removed to 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 his deputy authorized to demand the same; or being affected with a venereal 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 current dollars, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any time not exceeding one month. 19. The master of any merchant ship, before shipping any seaman, may require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Colonial Surgeon or other medical officer who may be appointed for such purpose in connection with the Harbour Master's Department, and who is hereby required to attend at stated hours in the forenoon and

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Keepers of licensed boarding house to furnish the Harbour Master with weekly lists of the seamen resident in their

houses.

Diseased seameir to be removed to hospital.

Penalty for

offering any obstruction to removal to

hospital, &c.

Masters of ships before shipping seamen may

require that they be inspected.

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