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444 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1859.


Chinese Passenger Ships .


view to the better securing the health of passengers therein : Be it enacted and
ordained, by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legis
lative Council thereof, as follows :

Hospital accom 1. In every Chinese passenger ship there shall be a sufficient space properly
modation to be
provided divided off to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, to be
used exclusively as a hospital or sick bay for the passengers ; this space shall be either
under the poop, or in the round - house, or in any deck-house which shall be properly
built and secured to the satisfaction of such Emigration Officer, or on the upper pas
senger deck, and not elsewhere, and shall in no case be of less dimensions than eigh
teen clear superficial feet for every fifty passengers which the ship shall carry. Such
and properly hospitals shall be fitted with bed places, and supplied with proper beds, bedding, and
fitted up.
utensils, to the satisfaction of the Emigration Officer at the port of clearance, and
shall throughout the voyage be kept so fitted and supplied .

Space for hos 2. In the measurement of the passenger decks, for the purpose of determining
pital to be inclu
ded in measure
ment of capa the number of passengers to be carried in any Chinese passenger ship, the space for
city for passen the hospital shall be included .
gers.

Passengers and 3. No Chinese passenger ship shall clear out or proceed to sea on any voyage of
crew to be exa
inined before
sailing, by some more than seven days ' duration , until some medical practitioner shall have certified to
medical practi
tioner. the Emigration Officer, and the said Emigration Officer shall be satisfied , that none of
the passengers or crew appear, by reason of any bodily or mental disease, unfit to
proceed or likely to endanger the health or safety of other persons about to proceed
in such vessel ; and a medical inspection of the passengers for the purposes of giving
such certificate shall take place either on board the vessel, or, at the discretion of the
said Emigration Officer, at such convenient place on shore, before embarkation, as he
may appoint ; and the master, owner, or charterer of the ship, shall pay to such medi
cal practitioner a sum at the rate of twenty-five current dollars, for every hundred
persons so examined : Provided, that in case the Emigration Officer on any particular
occasion shall be unable to obtain such certificate as aforesaid , or the attendance of a
medical practitioner within a reasonable time, or without payment of an inspection
fee at a higher rate than that hereby ordained, then it shall be lawful for the said
Emigration Officer to dispense with such medical inspection as aforesaid, and to sa
tisfy himself by his own personal examination , (for which he shall receive the fee
hereinbefore ordained to be paid, ) of the fit sanitary state of the crew and passengers :
Provided also, that all fees received under this section by the Emigration Officer, or
Colonial Surgeon of Hongkong, shall be, within three days after the receipt thereof,
paid over by the officer receiving them into the Treasury, to the use of the Crown.

Certificate not 4. No Emigration Officer shall give the certificate required by the " Chinese Pas
to be granted
unless the pro sengers ' Act, 1855, " in respect of any Chinese passenger ship, unless he be satisfied as
visions hereof
shall have been
complied with. aforesaid with the hospital accommodation in such ship provided, and with the sanitary
state of the crew and passengers thereto belonging.