QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE ORDINANCE

QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 141.
THE QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE
ORDINANCE.

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.

Sections

PART I.-GENERAL.
Short title................... ... ...

Interpretation............................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2-7

Power to make regulations............ . ... ... ... ... ... 8

Offences and penalties .................... ... ... ... ... ... ... 9-15

PART II-THE PREVENTION OF THE INTRODUCTION
OF DISEASE.

General .................................... ... ... ... ... ... ... 16-46

Plague precautionary measures ................. ... ... ... ... 47-52
Cholera precautionary measures ............. ... ... ... ... 53-57

Smallpox precautionary measures................ ... ... ... ... 58-59

Typhus precautionary measures ................. ... ... ... ... 60

Yellow fever precautionary measures......... ... ... ... ... ... 61-63

Other infectious diseases, precautionary measures ... ... ... ... 64

Insanitary and overcrowded vessels ......... ... ... ... ... ... 65-66

PART III-THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF
INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Notification .................................. ... ... ... ... ... 67-74

Power of entry for search, examination and detention ... ... 75

Restrictions against the exposure or transport of infected persons

or infected articles ........................ ... ... ... ... ... 76-80

Isolation of infected person in his own premises ... ... ... ... 81

Removal of infectious cases to hospital ....... ... ... ... ... 82

Isolation of contacts and closure of infected buildings ... ... ... 83-84

Quarantine station ......................... ... ... ... ... ... ... 85-88

Disposal of infected dead bodies ........... ... ... ... ... ... 89-91

Disinfection and cleansing ................. ... ... ... ... ... ... 92-105

Limitation of liability ....................... ... ... ... ... 106

SCHEDULE.





CHAPTER 141.
QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
To ainend and consolidate the law relating to quarantine
and the prevention of disease antong huinan beings.

[1st February, 1937.]

1. This Ordinance inav be cited as the Quarantine

and Prevention of Disease Ordinance

PART I

GENERAL

interpretation.

2. (1) In this Ordinance

'aerodrome' means a place set set apart for the arrival and

departure of aircraft and
includes a place for the alighting of hydroplanes (and similar craft)
on water. Whatever relates in this Ordinance to aerodromes is to
be understood to apply mutatis mutandis to places for the
alighting of hydroplanes (and similar craft) on water;

'aircraft' includes any machine which can derive support in the
atmosphere from the reactions of the air and is intended for aerial
navigation;

'authorized aerodrome' means any aerodrome declared by the
Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to be an
authorized aerodrome on which aircraft may make their first
landing on entering the Colony and which they may make their
place of departure on leaving the Colony;

'building' includes anv house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether
needed for the purpose of human habitation or otherwise, and
also any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, boarding, slip, dock,
wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage or bridge;

'circumscribed case' means either a case of infectious. disease
originating in a quarantine station or an imported case which has
been immediately isolated in a quarantine station or a case
occurring in a new arrival during the period of his observation or
surveillance:





'contact' means any person who has been or is likely to have
been exposed to the risk of contracting an infectious
disease;

'Council' means the Urban Council, unless some other Council
is indicated;

'crew' includes any person who is on board any vessel or
aircraft not for the mere purpose of being carried from one
place to another, but who is employed in some way in the
service of the vessel or aircraft or of persons on board or of
the cargo;

'day' means an interval of twenty-four hours;

'delouse' means to render free from lice;

'deratise' means to render free from rats;

'disinfect' means to destroy or remove the germs of disease;

'disinsectise' means to render free from insects;

'health officer' includes the Director of Medical and Health
Services, any medical officer appointed by the Governor as
a health officer or port licalth officer, aiid any officer for the
time being performing the duties of a health officer or port
health officer;

immigrant includes-

(a)any person arriving in the waters of the Colony as a
deck, steerage or third class passenger on board a
steamship or motor ship or as a passenger on board aily
other vessel with the intention of landing in the Colony;

(b)a third class passenger who enters the Colony by train ;

'infected' means infected with the germs of infectious disease;

'infected area' means any area which has been declared by the
Governor in Council by notification in the Gazette to be an
infected area from the date of such declaration until the
date of withdrawal of such declaration in the Gazette;

'infected place' or 'infected port' means any place or port
which has been declared by the Governor in Council to be
an infected place or port from the date of such declaration
until the date of withdrawal of such declaration ;

'infectious disease' means any of the foflowing diseases,
namely, plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever,





typhus, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, chickenpox,
diphtheria, puerperal fever, scarlet fever, rabies, enteric,
dysentery, tuberculosis, relapsing fever, whooping
cough, acute poliomyelitis (Infantile paralysis) and
malaria, and any other disease which the Governor in
Council shall by notification in the Gazette declare to
be included within the said expression;

'observation' means the compulsory detention in isolation for the
purpose of and under the provisions of this Ordinance and the
regulations inade thereunder of any vessel, person, animal or
thing, so that it or they shall have no communication with any
other vessel, person, animal or thing or with any other place
except in accordance with the said Ordinance and regulations;

'port' includes sea-port, river-port aiid air-port;

'porthealth officer' includes the Senior Port Health Officer, the
Second Port Health Officer and any other health officer or medical
officer for the time being performing the duties of a port health
officer;

'premises' includes any land, building, structure of any kind, footway,
yard, alley, court, garden, stream, nullah, pond, pool, field, marsh,
drain, ditch or place open, covered or enclosed, or cesspool or
foreshore, and also any vessel lying within the waters of the
Colony;

'quarantine anchorage' means that area of the harbour which has been
appointed for the time being for the detention in isolation of
vessels undergoing observation and which has been declared a
quarantine anchorage by Ordinance or by the Governor in
Council;

'quarantine station' means any place where observation is carried out
and includes an infectious diseases hospital aiid any place
declared by the Governor in Council to be a quarantine station or
a sanitary station;

'sanitary aerodrome' means an authorized aerodrome declared by the
Governor in Council to be a sanitary aerodrome after being
satisfied that it will at all times have at its disposal

(a) an organized medical service with one medical
officer at least and one or more health inspectors,
it being understood that this staff will not neces-
sarily be in permanent attendance at the aerodrome;
(b) a place for medical inspection;





(c)equipment for taking and despatching suspected
material for examination in a laboratory;

(d)facilities in the case of necessity for isolation, transport
and care of the sick, for the isolation of contacts
separately from the sick and for carrying out other
prophylactic measures in suitable premises either within
the aerodrome or in proximity to it;

(e)apparatus necessary for carrying out disinfection,
disinsectisation and deratisation if required, as well as
any other measures laid down in the International
Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation, signed at the
Hague on the 12th day of April, 1933;

(f) a sufficient supply of wholesome drinking water;

(g)a proper and safe system for the disposal of excreta
and refuse, and for the removal of waste water; and

(h) protection, as far as possible, from rats;

'surveillance' means that persons subject thereto are not isolated,
and that they may move about freely on condition that they,
sign a bond pledging them-selves to submit to medical
examination daily or as often as may be required by the
health authorities of the several places whither they are
bound, such authorities being notified by the health officer of
the advent of Ilic persons in question and of the conditions
under which they have been given their freedom;

'vessel' includes any ship, boat or other description of vessel
used in navigation.

(2) A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as

'infected'(a) in respect of plague

(i) if it has a case of plague on board;

(ii) if a case of plague broke out on board more than
six days after embarkation of the person affected ; or

(iii) if plague-infected rats are found on board
(b) in respect of cholera-

(i) if there is a case of cholera on board; or

(ii) if there has been a case on board during the. five
days previous to the arrival of the vessel

(c) in respect of yellow fever-





(i) if there is a case of yellow fever on board; or

(ii) if there was a case on board at the time of
departure or during the voyage.

(3) A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as 'suspected'

(a) in respect of plague-

(i) if a case of plague broke out on board in the
first six days after embarkation of the person affected ;
or

(ii) if there has been an unusual mortality oil board
among rats the cause of which has not been
determined;

(b)in respect of cholera, if there has been a case of
cholera on board at the time of departure or during the
voyage, but no fresh case during the five days Previous
to arrival;

(c) in respect of yellow fever-

(i) if having had no case of yellow fever on board it
arrives after a voyage of less than six days from an
infected port or from a port in close relation with any
endemic centre of yellow fever; or

(ii) if having had no case of yellow fever on board it
arrives after a voyage of more than six days and there
is reason to believe that it may carry winged stegomyia
(Aedes Egypti) from any such port.

3. The period of incubation for the purposes of this
Ordinance shall be five days in the case of cholera, six days in
the case of plague or yellow fever, twelve days in the case of
typhus and fourteen days in the case of smallpox.

4. (1) Any person liable to be subjected to surveillance shall,
as a condition of being exempted from observation, give a
written undertaking to a health officer to attend and submit to
daily examination at such place and at such time as such health
officer shall appoint.

(2) The undertaking shall be in the form in the Schedule, or in
its equivalent in Chinese characters.





(3) Every failure to comply with the terms of any such
undertaking shall be deemed an offence.

(4) A health officer at his discretion may require the

person giving the undertaking to furnish security in a sum
not exceeding two hundred dollars for the due execution of
the undertaking.

5. (1) A health officer may require that any contact liable to be
detained under observation shall, as a condition of being released
therefrom for the period for which he is so liable, give a written
undertaking-

(a)to attend aiid submit daily to examination at such place and
at such, time as such health officer may appoint; and

(b)to submit to surveillance at a private residence under such
conditions as such health officer may impose.

(2) The undertaking shall be in the forni in the Schedule, or in its
equivalent in Chinese characters.

(3) Every failure to comply with the terms of any such undertaking
shall be deemed an offence.

(4) A health officer at his discretion may require the person giving
the undertaking to furnish security for the due execution of the
undertaking

(a)by a cash deposit in a sum not exceeding four hundred
dollars; or

(b)by the provision of a guarantor who shall sign a bond
conditioned for the payment of a similar sum to the Treasury
in the event of a breach of such undertaking. Such bond
shall be iii a standard form approved by the Director of
Medical and Health Services and such guarantor shall he so
approved, shall be a resident of the Colony, and may be a
justice of the peace, a member of a consulate staff, a principal
of a firm which is a member of 'The Hong Kong General
Chamber of Commerce' or 'The Chinese General Chamber of
Commerce a permanent Governnient servant, or a member of a
profession to which registration is applied in the Colony.





6. In all cases where this Ordinance refers to 'surveillance' a
health officer may substitute observation when the persons in question
do not offer sufficient security that they will faithfully observe all the
conditions of the undertaking which those who are granted
surveillance are required to give Such observation may be carried out
on board ship or in a quarantine station according to the exigencies of
the case.

7. (1) Any person who is authorized to be detained under this
Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder may in case of escape be
arrested by

(a)any officer or servant of the hospital, reception place,
isolated house or quarantine station from which the escape
was made;

(b) any officer appointed under this Ordinance; or

(c) any police officer; and may be again conveyed to and detained
in the place from which the escape was made or any other place
authorized by a health officer.

(2) Any person who being subiect to surveillance
under this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder
fails to present himself for examination or to observe any
term of his undertaking may be similary arrested and
detained to the satisfaction of a health officer.

(3) Any person who having been authorized to be detained
escapes or attempts to escape shall be guilty of an offence.

Power to Make Regulations.

8. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the
purpose of preventing the introduction into, the spread in and the
transmission from, the Colony of any disease.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of
subsection (i) such regulations may prescribe and provide for

(a) appointment of health officers, inspectors and

officers to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance
or of any regulations or by laws made thereunder, and for
regulating their duties and





conduct and for investing them with all powers necessary for
the due execution of their duties;

(b)reporting to Government by medical practitioners or others
of cases of disease;

(c)the form and mode of service of delivery of notices and other
documents;

(d) fees to be paid under this Ordinance;

(e)placing under observation vessels and aircraft arriving or
being at any port or place within the Colony or the waters of
the Colony, and their management while under observation,
and granting certificates of the condition of vessels and
aircraft or of the Colony or any part thereof in respect of
disease;

(f) deratisation of vessels or aircraft;

(g)disinfection and disinsectisation of vessels, aircraft,
persons, animals and things;

(h)prohibiting either absolutely or conditionally, or for
regulating, the importation, exportation or removal in the
Colony of dead bodies;

(i) prohibiting or regulating-

(i) the admission of persons into or their movements
within the Colony or their departure therefrom either
absolutely or conditionally;

(ii) importation of merchandise, food and drink
(j) establishing and maintaining quarantine stations for persons
and for regulating the management of the same

(k)detention and seclusion in a quarantine station or on board
of persons, whether actually suffering frorn disease or not,
arriving on vessels or aircraft subject to observation, and for
the payment to Governnient of any costs and expenses
charged or incurred for the medical attendance and
maintenance of any such persons;

(l)measures to be taken for the prevention cif the conveyance
of infection by means of any vessel or otherwise from any area
or port of the Colony, including

(i) measures that shall be applied to vessels or aircraft
before departure;

(ii) measures that shall be taken to prevent the departure
of persons infected with or suspected of





being infected with plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus or
smallpox, and of persons in such relation with the sick as to
be rendered liable to transmit the infection of these diseases;

(iii) measures that shall be applied with respect to
merchandise, articles or clothing infected or suspected of
being infected;

(iv) prohibition either absolutely or conditionally of the
export of merchandise, or of articles of clothing infected or
suspected of being infected;

(v) precautions with regard to drinking water and
foodstuffs taken on board vessels, aircraft or trains and the
water taken in as ballast by vessels;

(vi) measures for the prevention of access of mosquitoes
to vessels or air-craft in the case of the prevalence of yellow
fever.

(vii) measures for delousing typhus suspects before
embarkation; and

(viii) measures for the disinfection of clothes and rags
before packing where smallpox is prevalent;

(m)appointing, establishing and maintaining places for the
sanitary control of aerial navigation and for prescribing the
sanitary measures to be taken in respect thereof;

(n)the liability of any person to defray the expenses connected
with the enforcement of this Ordinance or any regulation
made under this Ordinance, and for regulating questions of
compensation in connexion therewith ; and

(o)the fine with which the contravention of any regulation made
under this Ordinance shall be punishable, but so that no
such fine shall exceed five hundred dollars.

(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of
subsection (i) and for the prevention of any epidemic, endemic,
contagious or communicable disease, such regulations may also
provide for

(a) compulsory reporting of infectious disease;

(b)entering and searching houses, buildings, rooms and other
places in which the presence of diseased persons or persons
dead of disease or contacts may





be suspected and for the examination of the occupants;

(c)prohibiting or regulating the movements of diseased persons
or of persons suspected of being diseased or of contacts;

(d)removal of diseased persons or persons suspected of being
diseased to hospital or other places for medical treatment,
and for their detention until they can be discharged with
safety to the public, and for the temporary occupation of
places required for the treatment of diseased persons or for
the segregation of diseased persons or contacts ;

(e)prohibiting or regulating the removal of bedding, clothing,
furniture or other articles which have been in the presence of
a diseased person and which are reasonably suspected of
being infected, and for the disinfection or destruction of the
same ;

(f) ordering the vaccination of, and ordering or executing the
cleansing and disinfection of, houses, buildings, rooms and
other places which have been occupied by any diseased
person, or which are suspected of being infected with
disease, or which are overcrowded or otherwise in an
insanitary condition;

(g)house to house visitation, cleansing and disinfection ;

(h)the better prevention of the danger of the spreading of
infection by rats by destroying them or minimizing their
numbers, and for the prevention of the passing of rats from
the shore to vessels aiid aircraft and vice versa;

(i)the disinfection aiid purification of infected vehicles;

(j) the examination of the bodies of dead persons and the
certification of the cause of death in cases where the cause
cause has not been certified by a qualified medical
practitioner or where there is reason to suspect that the
diagnosis made is not correct;

(k) the speedy and safe disposal of the dead; and

(l)such other matters as may appear to the Governor in Council
advisable for the prevention or mitigation of disease.





Offences and Penalties.

9. If any person without lawful authority or excuse does or omits
to do anything which, under the provisions of this Ordinance or any
regulation made thereunder, lie ought not to do or omit, or if he
obstructs or impedes, or assists in obstructing or impeding, any health
officer or other officer appointed under this Ordinance or any police
officer in the execution of his duty or disobeys any lawful order of any
such officer as aforesaid, he shall be guilty of an offence against this
Ordinance.

10. If any person is guilty of an offence against this Ordinance or
any regulation made thereunder for which no other penalty is provided,
he shall be liable on summary conviction to a line oF five hundred
dollars, and, if such offence be of a continuing nature, to a further fine
of fifty dollars for every day during which such offence shall continue.

11. A person convicted of any offence against this Ordinance or
any regulation made thereunder who is within a period of twelve
months from the date of such conviction convicted of a second or
subsequent like offence against this Ordinance or any regulation
made thereunder shall be liable to imprisonment for two months either
in addition to or in lieu of the fine authorized by section io.

12. (1) When a person is seen or found committing or is reasonably
suspected of being engaged in committing an offence against this
Ordinance or any regulation made theretinder, any health officer or
police officer may, without warrant, stop and detain him, and if his name
and address are not known may arrest him.

(2) If any person obstructs or impedes a health officer or other
officer appointed under this Ordinance or any police officer in the
execution of his duty under this Ordinance or any regulation made
thereunder, or assists in any such obstruction or impeding, he may be
arrested by such. health officer or other officer or police officer without
warrant.

(3) Notliing in this section shall take away or abridge any power or
authority that a police officer would have had if this section had not
been enacted.





13. If any person lands or attempts to land or otherwise brings
into the Colony any anirnal or thing in contravention of this Ordinance
or of any regulation made thereunder, such animal or thing shall be
liable to be forfeited : Provided that this section shall not apply to
landing or bringing into a quarantine station any animal or thing under
the instructions of a health officer.

14. When any occupant of a house in which a case of

disease occurs, or any person in charge of a diseased person,
is charged with an offence against this Ordinance or any
regulation made thereunder, relative to such disease, he shall
be presumed to have known of the existence of such disease
in such person unless and until he shows to the magistrate
before whom he is charged that he had not such knowledge
and could not with reasonable diligence have obtained such
knowledge.

15. The execution of the measures prescribed by this

Ordinance and the regulations made thereunder shall be
carried out under the general direction of the Director Of
Medical and Health Services.

PART II.

THE PREVENTION OF THF INTRODUCTION OF DISEASE.

General.

16. No person shall knowingly import into the Colony any living
noxious insect, or any living pest, or any, living germ or microbe of
disease, or any bacterial culture, without the written consent of the
Director of Medical and Health Services.

17. Every master of any vessel or aircraft who brings into the
Colony any person Suffering from leprosy or
infectious or contagious disease, or who removes any such person
from one, part of the Colony to the other, except on the order of a
health officer, shall be deemed guilty of an offence unless such master
can show to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he had no
reasonable means of knowing that such person was so suffering.





18. Whenever information is received that plague, cholera, yellow
fever, typhus or smallpox has broken out, or exists, or is reasonably
suspected to exist, at any place or port without the Colony it shall be
lawful for the, Governor to declare by notification in the Gazette that
such place or port is an infected place or infected port.

19. (1) All persons coming froni an infected place or port otherwise
than by sea or air may be medically inspected or examined by a health
officer.

(2) The inspection or examination shall be conducted at such place
as the Director of Medical and Health Services shall approve.

(3) In the case of persons arriving by rail the railway authorities
shall allow suffifficient time and make due arrangements for the
examination to take place.

20. (1) Any vessel or aircraft arriving in the Colony may be visited
by a health officer, who may exercise all or any of the powers vested in
him by section 31, and shall deal with the vessel or aircraft in the
manner prescribed by or under this Ordinance.

(2) Every master of such vessel or aircraft shall allow and assist on
board without delay a health officer as soon as he comes alongside.

(3) The master or any other person having the control of any
vessel or aircraft shall give to a health officer, officer in charge of
aerodrome or boarding officer such information about the vessel or
aircraft and the voyage and the health of the crew and passengers and
otherwise as the officer may require and shall answer truly and fully all
the questions put to him by any, such officer.

(4) Any vessel refusing to submit to the measures prescribed by
or under this Ordinance shall be at liberty to put to sea. She may
however be permitted by a health officer to land goods if she is isolated
and if the goods ore subjected to the measures laid down in paragraph
(d) in each case of sections 47, 53, 58 and 60. She may also be
authorized by him to disembark passengers at their request on
condition that they submit to the measures prescribed by





or under this Ordinance. The vessel may also take on fuel, foodstuffs
and water.

(5) Subject to the provisions of section 61, any aircraft which does
not wish to submit to the measures prescribed by or under this
Ordinance is at liberty to continue its voyage. It may not however land
in any other aerodrome in the Colony except for the purpose of taking
in supplies. It may be permitted by a health officer to land goods on
condition that it is isolated and that the goods are subjected, if
necessary, to the measures prescribed by or under this Ordinance. It
may also take in fuel, replacements, food and water while remaining in
isolation.

21. No infected or suspected vessel, no vessel which has come
from an infected port, and no vessel which has, or has had during the
voyage, a case of smallpox or typhus on board, and which has not been
granted free pratique in Hong Kong, shall enter the harbour limits
before 6 a.m. or after 6 p.m. without the permission of a health officer.

22. (1) Every vessel referred to in section 21 on enter-
ing the waters of the Colony shall show the appropriate
quarantine signal as prescribed by section 35, and shall not
communicate with the shore until granted pratique by the
express written order of a health officer : Provided never-
theless that any such vessel, which is on a voyage to any
other place and which has held no unauthorized com-
munication with the shore, may with the written consent of a
health officer proceed on such voyage or tranship the
passengers for the purpose of completing such voyage.
(2) The aforesaid quarantine signal shall not be lowered
until a health officer has given free pratique.
23. Every vessel upon which a health officer shall find,
in the course of his examination, any case of infectious
disease, and every vessel referred to in section 21 Shall,
unless previously granted pratique, proceed at once to the
quarantine anchorage and shall not remove therefrom, except
from stress of weather, until released by order of a health
officer. No vessel which is compelled to leave the
quarantine anchorage from stress of weather shall com-
municate except by signals with the shore or with any other





vessel, and such vessel shall return to the quarantine anchorage
immediately such stress of weather has subsided

Provided that in case of stress of weather involving probable actual
danger to the vessel the vessel may remove for a time, but shall be
deemed nevertheless for all purposes to be subject to all other
regulations applicable to such vessels.

24. The master of every vessel shall remove his vessel to any part
of the quarantine anchorage as and when required by the Director of
Marine.

25. Subject to the provisions of section 26, no person other than a
health officer, or persons in his boat, shall approach within thirty yards
of any vessel referred to in section 21, or hold any communication
except by signals with such vessel or with any person on board
thereof, or receive or take any person or thing whatsoever, directly or
indirectly, from the vessel or from any person on board thereof without
having first received the express written permission of such health
officer, and without observing such precautions as he may require.

26. The pilot may board a vessel showing the quarantine signal for
the purpose of taking it to the quarantine anchorage. In no case shall
any member of his crew or other person board the vessel unless
authorized by a health officer.

27. No master of any vessel referred to in section 21 bringing
passengers into the Colony shall land or permit to land or to be landed
from his vessel any such passengers until they have been inspected
and passed by a health officer, and the master shall afford all
reasonable facilities for enabling such inspection to be duly carried out.
No master shall land or permit to land or be landed from his vessel at
any place within the Colony any infected person except with the
permission of a health officer, and any master from whose vessel any
infected person is landed without permission shall, on demand from a
health officer, forthwith remove such person from the Colony.

28. (1) The guard of any train on which a case of plague, cholera,
yellow fever, typhus or smallpox is present shall on arrival at the first
station report the facts to the





station master, who shall telephone or telegraph them to a health
officer.

(2) The station master shall detain the carriage in which the sick
person is and all other occupants thereof for examination by a health
officer, and shall detach the carriage from the rest of the train and keep
it at the station until the examination has been made, or send the
carriage to mother station at which the examination can be more
expeditiously carried out and from which the sick person and other
persons may be more easily conveyed to a hospital or place of
isolation.

(3) Any person suffering or suspected to be suffering from any
such disease shall be removed to a hospital or place of observation
and remain there until discharged by the officer in charge thereof.,

29. No infected or suspected aircraft, and no aircraft which has
come from an infected port and which has not been granted free
pratique in Hong Kong shall land at any, place in the Colony other
than a sanitary aerodrome, and no such aircraft shall leave such
sanitary aerodrome until released by order of a health officer.

30. No person other than a health officer or persons authorized,
either generally or specially, by him shall enter or depart from a sanitary
aerodrome.

31. On the arrival of any vessel referred to in secction 21 at the
quarantine anchorage, a health officer shall go on board and put to the
master and surgeon, if any, or to any other person on board such
questions as he deems necessary in order to ascertain the state of
health of persons on board, the sanitary condition of the ship and
cargo and the sanitary conditions of the port of departure or of
intermediate Ports touched at, and may require the presence for
inspection and examination of all persons on board, and may inspect
every part of the ship and demand to see the journal or log book and all
ship's papers.

32. (1) When required by a health officer, the master and surgeon
of every vessel shall make and sign a true declaration as to the number
of the crew and passengers,





the presence or prevalence of infectious disease on board or during
the voyage, the number of deaths, and such other particulars as rnay
be required by such health officer.

(2) Any such declaration purporting to be signed by the master
and surgeon shall be deemed to have been so signed, and any
information therein contained, which shall subsequently be found to
be untrue, shall render such master or surgeon liable on summary
conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars each and to imprisonment
for six months.

(3) Any master or surgeon who fails to make and sign a
declaration as herein required, shall be liable on summary conviction to
a fine of two thousand dollars.

33. A health officer, after making such an inquiry, inspection or
examination, shall deal with such vessel as aforesaid and tile persons
and things on board in the manner provided by this Ordinance or by
the regulations made thereunder.

34. Any master of a vessel or other person on board who

(a)prevents or attempts to prevent a health officer from going
on board such vessels;

(b)conceals frorn a health officer the true state of the health of
the crew or passengers or other persons on board such
vessel ;

(c)refuses to answer or gives an untrue answer to any inquiry
made by a health officer under this Ordinance;

(d)fails to produce the journal or log and ship's papers of such
vessel or any of them on demand of a health officer;

(e)fails to present the crew and passengers for inspection when
required to do so by a health officer;

(f) prevents or attempts to prevent a health officer from
inspecting any part of the vessel,

shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five hundred dollars.

35. Every infected and every suspected vessel, and every vessel
which has come from an infected port and which has not been granted
free pratique in Hong Kong, shall show





whichever of the undermentioned signals is appropriate until a health
officer has given free pratique

(a) by day-

(i) the Flag Signal Q : meaning my ship is healthy and I
request free pratique ;

(ii) the Two Flag Signal QQ : meaning 'my ship is suspect,
that is to say I have had a case or cases of infectious disease
more than five days ago, or there is an unusial mortality
among rats on board or

(iii) the Two Flag Signal QL : meaning my ship is infected,
that is to say I have had a case or cases of infectious
disease less than five days ago.'

The day signal shall be shown at the vessel's masthead or where
it can best be seen ;

(b)by night, during the whole of the time between sunset and
sunrise, but only when the vessel is within the waters of the
Colony, a signal comprising a red light over a white light, the
lights being not more than six feet apart, and meaning 'I have
not free pratique'.

The night signal shall be shown at the vessel's peak or other
conspicuous place where it can best be seen.

36. The Commissioner of Police and any officer whom he may
appoint for the purpose may order any person leaving any vessel
referred to in section 35, or taking or sending any person or thing
whatsoever from such vessel, to remain in, or return to, such vessel
and may, with such necessary force as the case requires, compel any
person neglecting or refusing to observe such order to obey the same.

37. Whenever a health officer shall so require, all passengers on
board any vessel under observation or so many as he may direct shall
be taken to a quarantine station and there kept and attended to for
such a time as he may deem proper before allowing them to return on
board the vessel or to be transferred to any other vessel or to land in
the Colony. The period of detention shall in no case be greater than is
permitted by this Ordinance or any regulation made thereunder.





38. A health officer may detain in a quarantine station, until such
time as the disease is no longer communicable to others, any person
desirous of landing in the Colony who on arrival is found to be
suffering from an infectious disease.

39. In the case of a vessel or aircraft in the waters of the Colony
having oil board the body of any person who has died from an
infectious disease, the body shall be disposed of in such manner as
may be ordered by a health officer; and the master of the vessel shall
carry out such orders as such health officer may give hirn in relation to
the disposal of the body.

40. Any person entering or landing on a quarantine station
without permission may be detained and kept under observation at his
own expense for such period not exceeding fourteen days as a health
officer may deem proper.

41. Any reasonable costs and expenses charged or incurred by the
Governnient for the vaccination, inoculation, removal, medical
attendance and maintenance of any person, whether on the ship's
articles or not who under this Ordinance or the regulations inade
thereunder is removed to any hospital or place from any vessel or
aircraft for medical treatment or surveillance, or for the burial of any
person who may die on any vessel or aircraft, or who dies after removal
to hospital, or for the burial of any dead body found on board any
vessel or aircraft, or for the cleansing and disinfection of the vessel or
aircraft, or of the merchandise oil board any vessel or aircraft, or of any
part of the vessel or aircraft or of the merchandise, including the hire of
the necessary labour, boats, junks and disinfecting appliances, shall be
paid to the Government by the owners or agents of the vessel.

42. The Commissioner of Police shall furnish such police
assistance as any health officer may require for the purpose of enabling
him to exercise the powers vested in him by this Ordinance or the
regulations made thereunder aiid to deal with vessels and aircraft and
persons and things on board thereof in the manner prescribed by this
Ordinance.





43. Nothing in this Ordinance or the regulations, made thereunder
shall render liable to detention, disinfection or destruction any articles
being part of any mails conveyed under the authority of the postal
administration of any country, except in the case of such importation as
is prohibited under section 16.

44. (1) Should the surgeon of, or any medical practitioner visiting,
any vessel or aircraft within the limits of the Colony find on board any
infectious disease, it shall be the duty of such surgeon or, medical
practitioner to inform the master of the nature of the disease aiid notify
the same in writing to a health officer. All further action as regards the
patient, the members of the crew, the passengers or the vessel or
aircraft shall be tinder the direction of a health officer.

(2) Should such infectious disease bc believed or suspected to be
plague, cholera, smallpox, typhus or yellow fever, such vessel or aircraft
shall at once be considered as an infected vessel or aircraft under this
Ordinance. The master of such vessel or aircraft shall at once take such
steps as are necessary to inform a health officer of the facts of the case
and shall display the appropriate signal referred to in section 35, and
shall not permit any further communication with the shore, but shall
wait for instructions from a health officer.

45. In case. any vessel in the waters of the Colony which carries
no surgeon has on board any sickness, the nature of which the master
is unable to deterniine, he shall at once hoist the call flag for medical
assistance (letter M in the International Code of Signals over the code
pennant), and shall take such measures as may be necessary to inform
a health officer and shall await his directions.

46. This Ordinance aiid the regulations made thereunder shall not
in any way interfere with the internal managemnt of any of His
Majesty's or of foreign vessels or aircraft of war, or with their freedom
to proceed whenever the officer in command may deem such course
requisite.





Plague Precautionary Measures.

47. Plague infected vessels and aircraft shall be subjected to the
following measures

(a) medical inspection

(b)the sick shall be immediately disernbarked and isolated;

(c)all persons who have been in contact with the sick aiid those
whom a health officer has reason to consider suspect shall
be disembarked if possible. They may be subjected to
observation, or to surveillance, or to observation followed
by surveillance : Provided that the total duration of these
measures does not exceed six days from the arrival of the
vessel

(d)bedding, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles
which, in the opinion of a health officer, are infected shall be
disinsectised and if necessary disinfected;

(e) the parts of the vessel which have been occupied
by persons suffering froni plague or which in the
opinion of a health officcr are infected shall be
disinfected and if necessary disinsectised

48. (1) A health officer may require deratisation by fumigation
before or during the unloading of cargo, if he is of opinion, having
regard to the nature of the cargo and the way it is loaded, that it is
possible so to effect a total destruction of rats. In this case a vessel
shall not be subjected to a further deratisation Unless during or after
the unloading live rats are still found, in which event a second
fumigation may, be required by a health officer, but the cost of such
second fumigation shall not be charged to the owners or agents of the
vessel tinder section 41. In other cases the complete destruction of the
rats shall be effected on board when the holds are empty. In the case of
ships in ballast this process shall be carried out as soon as possible
before taking cargo.

(2) If the vessel is to unload a part of its cargo only and if a health
officer considers that it is impossible to carry out complete deratisation,
the said vessel may remain in port for the time required to unload that
part of its cargo, provided that all precautions, including isolation, are





taken to the satisfaction of a health officer to prevent rats from passing
from the vessel to the shore, either during unloading or otherwise.

(3) The unloading of cargo shall be carried out under the control
of a health officer, who shall take ail measures necessary to prevent the
persons employed on this duty from becoming infected. Such persons
shall be subjected to observation or surveillance for a period not
exceeding six days from the time when they have ceased to work at the
unloading of the vessel.

49. Plague suspected vessels and aircraft shall undergo the
measures specified in paragraphs (a), (d) and (e) of section 47 and in
section 48. In addition the passengers and crew may be subjected to
surveillance which shall not exceed six days reckoned from the date of
arrival.

50. A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as uninfected or healthy,
notwithstanding its coming from an infected port, if there has been no
human or rat plague on board either at the time of departure or during
the voyage or on arrival, and if the investigations regarding rats have
not shown the existence of any unusual mortality.

51. An uninfected or healthy vessel or aircraft shall be given
pratique immediately with the reservation that a health officer may
prescribe the following measures in connexion therewith

(a)medical inspection to determine whether the condition of the
ship corresponds to the detmition of an uninfected ship;

(b)in exceptional cases and for wellfounded reasons which shall
be communicated in writing to the captain of the vessel
destruction of rats on board under the conditions specified
in subsection (1) of section 48;

(c)subjection of the passengers and crew to surveillance for a
period not exceeding six days frorn the date on which the
vessel left the infected port. The crew may be prevented
during the same period from leaving the vessel except on
duty of which a health officer has been notified.





52. (1) All vessels liable to harbour rats shall be periodically
deratised, or be permanently so maintained that any rat population is
kept down to the minimum. In the first case they shall receive
deratisation certificates, and in the second deratisation exemption
certificates froni a health officer. Every such certificate shall be valid for
six months, but this period may be extended by one month in the case
of a vessel proceeding to its home port.

(2) If no valid certificate is produced, a health officer may after
inquiry and inspection-

(a)himself carry out deratisation of the vessel, or cause such
operations to be carried out under his direction and control.
On completion of these operations to his satisfaction lie shall
issue a dated deratisation certificate. He shall decide in each
case the technique which should be employed to secure the
practical extermination of rats on board, but details of the
deratising process applied and of the number of rats
destroyed shall be entered on the certificate. Destruction of
rats shall be carried out so as to avoid as far as possible
damage to the vessel and cargo (if any). The operation must
riot last longer than twenty-four hours. In the case of vessels
in ballast the process shall be carried out before taking
cargo. Any charges made in respect of these operations shall
be determined in accordance with section 41 ; or

(b)issue a deratisation exemption certificate if he is satisfied that
the vessel is maintained in such a Condition that the rat
population is reduced to a minimum. The reasons justifying
Ihe issue of such a certificate shall be set out in the
certificate.

Cholera Precautionary Measures.

53. Cholera-infected vessels and aircraft shall be subjected to the
following measures

(a) medical inspection ;

(b)the sick shall be immediately disembarked and isolated ;

(c)the passengers and crew may be kept under observation or
subjected to surveillance during a





Period not exceeding five days reckoned from the

date of arrival;

(d)bedding, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles,
including foodstuffs, which, in the opinion of a health officer,
have been recently infected, shall be disinfected;

(e)the parts of the vessel or aircraft which have been occupied
by the patients or which are considered by such health
officer as infected shall be disinfected ;

(f) unloading of cargo shall be carried out under the supervision
of such health officer, who will take all measures necessary
to prevent the infection of the persons engaged in
unloading. They shall be subjected to observation or to
surveillance which shall not exceed five days from the time
they cease unloading

(g)when the drinking water on board is suspected it shall be
turned off and emptied out after being disinfected and shall
be replaced, after disinfection of the tanks, by a supply of
water of good quality;

(h)such health officer may prohibit the emptying of water
ballast which has been taken in at an infected port, unless
such water ballast has first been disinfected ;

(i)such health officer may prohibit the emptying or discharge
of human dejecta and of waste waters of the ship into the
waters of the port unless such dejecta or waste waters have
first been disinfected.

54. Vessels or aircraft suspected of cholera shall be subjected to
the measures prescribed under paragraphs (a), (d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) of
the preceding section. The passengers and crew may be subjected to
surveillance for a period riot exceeding five clays froni ihe clate of
arrival.

55. If any vessel or aircraft has been declared infected or
suspected only because of cases on board presenting the clinical
features of cholera and if two bacteriological examination; made with
an interval of not less than twenty-four hours between them have not
revealed the presence of cholera or any other suspicious vibrios, it
shall be classed as uninfected.





56. A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as uninfected if, although
arriving from an infected port or having on board persons proceeding
from an infected area, there Las been no case of cholera either at the
time of departure from such infected port, during the voyage, or on
arrival. Such vessel or aircraft may be subjected to the measures
provided under paragraphs (a), (g), (h) and (i) of section 53. In addition
the passengers and crew may be subjected to surveillance during a
period which shall not exceed five days from the date of arrival. The
crew may be prevented during the same period from leaving the ship or
sanitary aerodrome except on duty of which a health officer has been
notified.

57. (1) Cases presenting the clinical symptoms of cholera in which
no cholera vibrios have been found or in which vibrios not strictly
conforming to the character of cholera vibrios have been found shall be
subjected to

measures required in the case of cholera.

(2) Gerni carriers discovered on the arrival of a vessel or aircraft
may be treated in the same way as cases of disease.

Smallpox Precautionary Measures.

58. Vessels or aircraft which have, or have had during the
voyage, a case of smallpox on board shall be subjected to the
following measures

(a) medical inspection ;

(b)the sick shall be immediately disembarked and isolated ;

(c)other persons reasonably suspected to have been exposed
to infection on board, who, in the opinion of a health officer,
are not sufficiently protected by recent vaccination or by a
previous attack of smallpox, may be subjected to vaccination
or to vaccination followed by observation or surveillance.,
the period of observation or surveillance being specified
according to the circumstances, but in any case not
exceeding fourteen days reckoned from the date of arrival of
the vessel or aircraft;

(d)bedding, soiled linen, wearing apparel and other articles
which such health officer considers to have been recently
infected shall be disinfected;





(e)those parts of the vessel or aircraft which have been
occupied by persons ill with smallpox and which such health
officer regards as infected shall be disinfected.

59. Vessels and aircraft which are not infected with smallpox but
which come from a port declared to be infected with the disease shall
be subjected to the following measures

(a) medical inspection

(b)any passenger or member of the crew who is not protected
by vaccination or by a previous attack of smallpox, and who
has left a local area where smallpox is epidemic within the
previous fourteen days before landing in the Colony, may be
subjected to vaccination followed by surveillance:

Provided that nothing in this section or in section 58 shall
derogate frorn the powers in respect of vaccination or detention
conferred by sections 17 and 18 of the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923.

Typhus Precautionary Measures.

60. Vessels or aircraft which have, or have had during the voyage,
a case of typhus on board shall be subjected to the following measures

(a) medical. inspection;

(b)the sick shall be immediately disembarked, isolated, and
deloused;

(c)other persons reasonably suspected to harbour lice, or to
have been exposed to infection, shall be deloused and may
be subjected to surveillance during a period which shall not
exceed twelve days from the date of the delousing;

(d)bedding, linen, wearing apparel aiid other articles which a
health officer considers to be infected shall be disinfected ;

(e)the parts of the vessel or aircraft which been occupied by
persons ill with typhus and which such health officer regards
as infected shall be disinfected and disinsectised.





Yellow Fever Precautionary Measures.

61. Vessels or aircraft infected with yellow fever shall be
subjected to the following measures

(a) medical inspection;

(b)the sick shall be disembarked, and those of them whose
illness has not lasted more than five days shall be isolated in
such a manner as a health officer may direct to prevent the
infection of mosquitoes;

(c)other persons who disembark shall be kept under
observation or surveillance during a period which shall not
exceed six days reckoned from the time of disembarkation ;

(d)a ship shall be moored at least two hundred and twenty
yards from the inhabited shore and at such a distance from
other vessels as will render the access of mosquitoes
improbable;

(e)the destruction of mosquitoes in all phases of growth shall
be carried out on board, as far as possible before unloading
of cargo. If the unloading is carried out before the
destruction of mosquitoes, the persons employed shall be
subjected to observation or surveillance for a period not
exceeding six days from the time when they ceased
unloading.

62. Vessels or aircraft suspected of yellow fever may be subjected
to the measures specified in paragraphs (a), (c), (d) and (e) of section
61.

63. A vessel or aircraft shall be regarded as uninfected,
notwithstanding its having come from a yellow fever infected port, if
on arriving after a voyage of more than six days it has no case of
yellow fever on board and either there is no reason to believe that it
carries adult stegomyia or a health officer is satisfied

(a)that the vessel or aircraft during its stay in the port of
departure was moored at a distance of at least two hundred
and twenty yards from an inhabited shore and at such a
distance from other vessels as to make the access of
stegomyia improbable; or

(b)that the vessel or aircraft at the time of departure was
effectually fumigated in order to destroy mosquitoes.





Other Infectious Diseases, Precautionary Measures

64. (1) Any person who, on arrival in the Colony by any vessel or
aircraft, is found to be Suffering from chickenpox, diphtheria, enteric,
dysentery, scarlet fever, influenza, cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles
or other such infectious disease, may be removed to a hospital if a
health officer is of opinion that he cannot be isolated or treated on
board.

(2) Any bedding, linen, wearing apparel or offienarticles which
Such health officer considers to be infected shall be disinfected as he
may direct.

(3) Any part of the vessel or aircraft which such health officer
considers to have been infected shall be. disinfected as he may direct.

Insanitary and Overcrowded Vessels.

65. (1) If a health officer on inspection of any vessel finds any
decaying animal or vegetable niatter, rubbish, dirt, filth or other niatter,
which in his opinion is likely to be injurious to health or to create a
nuisance, he may serve a written notice on the master, agent or
owner of the vessel to abate the said nuisance within twelve hours.

(2) If such nuisance is not abated within such time the master,
agent or owner shall be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars
and to a further fine of fifty dollars for every day of continuing default.

(3) If a health officer on inspection of any vessel finds any crew's
quarters, living spaces,
water tanks, food-
lockers, paintlockers, decks, lavatories, latrines or bilges
to be in a dirty or insanitary state, he may call upon the.
master of such vessel to carry out to his satisfaction such
cleansing, disinfection, white-washing or painting as lie
may direct.

(4) Any master of a vessel who neglects to comply with such
orders within such time as a health officer directs shall be liable to a
fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and to a further fine of fifty dollars
for every day of continuing default, and the person whose duty it is to
grant a port clearance may, on the certificate of such health officer
withhold a port clearance from such vessel until such health officer's
directions have been complied with.





(5) At the discretion of a health officer any offensive articles
mentioned in this section may be discharged, and the vessel may, at
the owner's or agent's expense, be disinfected Under the supervision
of a health officer.

(6) All expenses incurred by a health officer in carrying out this
section shall be recoverable from the owner or agents of the vessel by
civil action in the naine of the Attorney General.

66. Where a vessel has passengers on board who are in a filthy or
otherwise unwholesome condition, or is overcrowded with passengers,
emigrants or otherwise, a health officer may, if in his opinion it is
desirable with a view to checking the introduction of any infectious or
contagious disease, aiid on his certifying to that effect, order the
vessel to the quarantine anchorage or to such place as he may, direct,
aiid although the vessel is not infected or suspected such health
officer may, order the cleansing and disinfection of the vessel in such
nianner as he may deem necessary

PART III

THE PREVENTION OF THE SPREAD OF

INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Notification.

67. The Secretary to the Medical Department shall upon
application furnish everv medical practitioner, every medical officer in
charge of a Chinese Public Dispensary an and every- officer in charge
of a police station with the printed forms to be used in the notification
of infectious disease.

68. No notification which contains any false information shall be
deemed a notification as required by this Ordinance or by any
regulation made thereunder unless the person notifying proves that lie
believed and had reasonable grounds for believing such information to
be true

69. If any inmate of any premises be sufflering from or has died
from any infectious disease and if such inmate be under the care of a
medical practioner, the said practitioner shall forthwith furnish a health
officer with a notification thereof in writing stating the name of such
inmate and the situation of such premises.





Such medical practitioner if not a Government officer shall be
entitled to receive, on application to the Secretary to the Medical
Department, the sum of one dollar for each and every such notification,
provided that he applies for payment within one month after the
notification to which it relates; but not more than one fee shall be paid
in respect of each case.

70. If any inmate of any premises be suffering from or has died
frorn any infectious disease, and if such inmate be not under the care
of a medical practitioner, the occupier or keeper of such premises or, in
default of such occupier or keeper, the nearest male adult relative living
on such premises, or, in default of such relative, occupier or keeper,
any person in charge of or in attendance on the sick person or dead
body shall, on the nature of the disease becoming known to hirn or on
the suspicion of the existence in such inmate of such disease, forthwith
notify the same to any Government medical officer or the medical
officer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public Dispensary, or any
officer on duty at the nearest police station or any health inspector,
who shall immediately on receipt thereof transmit the information to a
health officer.

71. All persons knowing or having reason to believe that any
person lias been attacked by, or is suffering from, or has died from, any
infectious disease shall notify the same without delay to any officer on
duty at the nearest police station, or to any Government medical officer
or to the medical officer in charge of the nearest Chinese Public
Dispensary or any health inspector, and any such officer receiving
such information whether verbal or written or discovering any such
case, shall notify the same with the least possible delay to a health
officer, and may detain such person or remove him to hospital until he
can be examined by a Government medical officer or a health officer.

72. If any person in any hotel, boarding house or common lodging-
house becomes ill froni any infectious disease the keeper of such
institution shall forthwith give notice thereof to a health officer or to
the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who shall immediately transmit such
information to a health officer.





73. (1) Any person required under this Ordinance or any regulation
made thereunder to give information of any infectious disease, or of
any death from infectious disease, who neglects without reasonable
excuse to give such information
with the least practicable delay, shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Any person who knowingly omits or refuses to give any
information which he is required to give, or who furnishes as true
information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false, shall
be guilty of an offence.

(3) When any person is charged with neglecting to give
information of any infectious disease or any death from an infectious
disease he shall be presumed to have known of the existence of such
disease, unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court before which
he is charged that he had no such knowledge and could not with
reasonable diligence have obtained such knowledge.

74. When any medical practitioner in attendance on any person
suffering from infectious disease is satisfied that such person lias so
far recovered as, in the opinion of such medical practitioner, to be no
longer a source of infection to others, such medical practitioner shall
notify a health officer in writing to that effect.

Power of Entry for Search, Examination and Detention.

75. (1) A health officer may enter and search, or direct a health
inspector to enter and search, any building or enclosure for the
purpose of ascertaining whether there is any person suffering from
infectious disease or contacts therein and may cause any persons
found therein to be examined in order to acertain whether any of them
are infected or have recently been infected.

(2) A health officer may further cause any person to be detained
for medical examination and may segregate in such place as he may
appoint for the purpose any person found to be or suspected to be
infected.

(3) A health officer or any officer duly authorized by him, may at
any time enter any premises for the purpose of examining, and may
examine, any dead body where he has reason to believe that the cause
of death has not been





certified by a duly qualified medical practitioner or has doubt as to the
diagnosis made, and he may if he thinks fit order the removal of such
body to any place if such removal is in his opinion necessary for the
further examination of the body.

(4) (a) If admission to premises for any of the purposes specified
in this section is refused, any magistrate on complaint thereof on oath -
by any officer authorized by this section to enter and inspect premises
(made after reasonable notice in writing of the intention to make the
same has been given to the person having custody of the premises, if
such
person there be) may, by order tinder his hand, require the person
having the Custody of the premises to admit any officer entitled under
this section to inspect the same into the premises, and, if no such
person can be found, the magistrate shall, on oath before him of that
fact, by order under his hand authorize any such officer to enter the
premises.

(b) After such order of a magistrate has been obtained, any officer
authorized to inspect premises tinder this section may if necessary,
break into the premises named in the order.

(c) Any order made by a magistrate under this section shall
Continue in force until the work for which the entry was necessary has
been done.

Restrictions Against the Exposure or Transport of

Against

Infected Persons or Infected Articles.

76. Except with the permission of a health officer no infected
person shall depart from the house or place in which the disease
manifested itself to any other house or place nor shall any person
assist in such departure.

77. (1) No person while suffering from an infectious disease shall
expose himself in any place to which the public has access or in any
other place used in common by persons other than the members of the
family or household to which such infected person belongs, nor shall
any person assist in such exposure.

(2) The transport of infected persons to any hospital or other
place approved by the health officer if carried out with proper
precautions shall not be deerned an offence against this section.





78. No person shall knowingly give, lend, sell, pawn, transmit,
remove or expose any bedding, clothing or other articles which have
been exposed to the risk of infection. Removal with proper precautions
by a health officer shall not be deemed an offence against this section.

79. Except on the requisition of a health officer or police officer no
owner, driver or person in charge of a public conveyance shall permit
any person suffering froni an infectious disease to enter such
conveyance, nor shall any infected person enter a public conveyance
except with the permission of a health officer.

80. A health officer may, for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Ordinance, temporarily impress motor cars, carts, or
other vehicles ordinarily let for hire with the beasts (if any) necessary
to draw them and may engage the services of drivers, labourers or
coolies. The owner of any vehicle so impressed shall not be entitled to
claim more than a reasonable sum for the use thereof. All such
vehicles shall be disinfected before being returned to their owners.

Isolation of Injected Person in his own Premises.

81. (1) If in the opinion of a health officer any person suffering
from an infectious disease can be properly attended in his own home
without danger to others, the health officer may order that such person
shall be detained and treated there and the premises isolated.

(2) Every such order shall be in writing and signed by the health
officer.

(3) A copy of such order in English and Chinese shall forthwith be
posted up in a conspicuous position on or near the patient's house,
and a copy shall also be sent to the nearest police station.

(4) After the posting tip of any such order and so long as the same
remains in force no person, except the health officer or any person
authorized by the health officer in that behalf, shall enter or leave the
isolated house or remove any furniture, bedding, clothing or articles
therefrom.





(5) Any person may approach the isolated house for the purpose
of delivering food or medicine to the persons confined in the house or
of removing their excreta but may not enter such house.

(6) The health officer may in his discretion disinfect any person,
furniture, bedding, clothing or other articles in the isolated house and
may thereupon permit such person or thing to leave or be removed
from the house.

(7) When satisfied that the need for isolation no longer exists the
health officer shall remove the order posted tip as aforesaid and
thereupon such order shall be deemed to be cancelled.

(8) Notice of such cancellation shall be sent to the nearest police
station by the health officer.

(9) Upon receipt of the order mentioned in subsection (3) the
officer in charge of the police station shall send as many police officers
as are necessary to the isolated house and such police officers shall
enforce the isolation of the house and repel any attempt by the
persons confined in the house to break out therefrom or by any others
to enter therein.

(10) Upon receipt at the police station of the notice mentioned in
subsection (8) the police officers shall be removed from the house.

Removal of Infectious Cases to Hospital.

82. (1) A health officer may direct the removal to a hospital or other
suitable building of any person suffering from an infectious disease,
the treatment for which is provided in such hospital or building, if such
person is, in his opinion, without proper lodging or accommodation or
is living under conditions which are likely to cause the spread of the
disease to other persons, or where there is no proper means of
attending to the patient without danger to others: Provided that, if any
such person refuses to be so removed, it shall be lawful for a
magistrate, on the application of the health officer, to order the removal
of such person to such hospital or other Suitable building.

(2) A patient so removed to a hospital or other suitable building
shall there remain until discharged by the medical officer in charge
thereof.





Isolation of Contacts and Closure of Infected Buildings.

83. If in the opinion of a health officer it is necessary
in the interests of the public health, the persons residing
in a building or part of a building which is infected shall
be detained therein or shall be removed to such other
building or buildings as the Director of Medical and
Health Services may direct and there be isolated and kept
tinder supervision until such time as they may, in the
opinion of the health officer, be safely released.

It shall not be lawful for any person to reoccupy any such
building or part of a building until it has been thoroughly cleansed and
disinfected.

84. (1) If the opinion of the Director of Medical and Health Services
it is necessary that all or any of the inmates, not themselves sick, of
any house or building or part thereof, in which a case of infectious
disease exists or has recently existed, should be isolated or put under
medical surveillance or that any such house or building or part thereof
should be temporarily closed, a health officer may direct that-

(a)such house or building or part thereof shall be temporarily
closed for such time as is necessary to secure its thorough
disinfection aiid the disinfection or destruction of all infected
articles contained therein ;

(b)all or any of the inmates, not being themselves sick, shall be
isolated to the satisfaction of the health officer or removed to
a quarantine station and detained there for such period as is
necessary to ensure that such inmates are themselves free
from disease.

(2) All or any such inmates, who enter into a written undertaking
according to the form in the Schedule, or in its equivalent in Chinese
characters, to present themselves daily for examination and who
deposit, if required to do so, such sum of money, not exceeding two
hundred dollars, as is fixed by the health officer, shall present
themselves daily to the health officer, or to a medical practitioner
approved by the health officer, for examination for such period and at
such place and time as the health officer appoints.





Quarantine Station.

85. Whenever any persons are detained under observation at a
quarantine station a yellow flag shall be hoisted by day at a
conspicuous place on the station and by night a red light over a green
light, at a distance one above the other of not more than six or less
than four feet.

86. No person, except a health officer or persons. authorized, either
generally or specially, by him, shall enter a quarantine station.

87. No person detained under observation at a quarantine station
shall leave such station without the permission of a health
officer.

88. Any building or place which is in the opinion of a health officer
suitable and required for the purpose of isolation and treatment of
persons suffering from infectious disease or suspected to be suffering
from infectious disease or who are contacts, and for their detention
until they are free from disease, may with the written approval of the
Governor be entered upon and occupied, if untenanted, without any
notice whatsoever, and, if tenanted, after twenty-four hours notice in
writing conspicuously posted on such building or such place. The
owner or person entitled to the occupation of such building or place
shall not be entitled to claim anything beyond a reasonable rent for the
pc period during which such building is occupied under the provisions
of this section.

Disposal of Infected Dead Bodies.

89. (1) In the event of the death of any person from infectious
disease the friends of the deceased shall be permitted to dispose of the
corpse by cremation or burial in accordance with their religions
customs at the burning ground or burial ground set apart for persons
dying from infectious disease or at such other places as a health officer
may permit and shall obey the directions of the health officer in all
matters relating to the disinfection or to the time, route and method of
removing the corpse to the cremation or burial place.





(2) In the event of failure or refusal of the friends of the deceased
to dispose of the corpse the health officer shall see to the proper
disposal of it.

90. (1) If a health officer lias reasonable grounds for suspecting
that any death may have been due to infectious disease he may order
the removal of the body to a mortuary or other suitable place for the
purpose of a post-mortem examintion

(2) Any person obstructing the removal of the body for such
purposes shall be liable to a fine of one hundred dollars.

91. Any person who deposits or causes to be deposited in any
public or private place, other than a grave in which it may be lawfully
buried, the corpse of any person who has died while suffering from an
infectious disease, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

Disinfection and Cleansing.

92. (1) The clothing, bedding and personal effects of all persons
detained or segregated or removed to a hospital or other suitable
building or place under the provisions of this Ordinance or the
regulations made thereunder, which are infected or suspected to be
infected, shall be thoroughly disinfected or may be destroyed at the
discretion of a health officer, and no person shall be entitled as of right
to recover any compensation by way of damages or otherwise for the
disinfection or destruction of such articles.

(2) The Director of Medical and Health Services may with the
sanction of the Governor give compensation for the articles destroyed.

93. (1) A health officer may disinfect or destroy anv rags, clothing,
bedding or other articles infected or suspected to be infected and no
person shall be entitled as of right to recover any compensation by
way of damages or otherwise for the disinfection or destruction of
such articles.

(2) The Director of Medical and Health Services may with the
sanction of the Governor give compensation for the articles destroyed.





94. A health officer may require any person liable to observation
to be disinfected before being released.

95. (1) Whenever it appears to a health officer that any railway
carriage has been infected by a person suffering from plague, cholera,
srnallpox or yellow fever, he may order the carriage to be detained at
the nearest station for such tirne as may be necessary for the purpose
of disinfecting it, or may order such carriage to be sent to another
station at which disinfection may be more expeditiously carried out.

(2) Any clothing, bedding or other articles in the carriage may be
disinfected or destroyed at the discretion of the health officer aiid no
person shall be entitled as of right to any compensation by way of
damages or otherwise for the destruction of any such articles.

(3) The Director of Medical and Health Services may with the
sanction of the Governor give compensation for the articles destroyed.

96. Whenever it appears to a health officer that any vehicle has
been infected he may detain such vehicle for such time as may be
necessary for the purpose of disinfecting it.

97. All such carts and other vehicles as a health officer shall use
for the transport of infected persons or of things likely to spread
infectious disease shall be thoroughly disinfected by the health officer
before being returned to their owners.

98. When any building or place which has been entered on and
occupied under the provisions of section 88 is vacated the health
officer concerned shall be bound at the cost of Government to cleanse
and disinfect the said building or place, and if a building and if he is so
required to do, to whitewash it both internally and externally
immediately after vacating it.





99. In any case where a health officer shall certify in writing that it
is necessary as a precaution against the introduction of disease in any
place that any well should be filled up, cleansed or disinfected, he may
by written order require the owner or occupier of the house or land
wherein such well is situated to fill up, cleanse or disinfect such well
within a reasonable time to be specified in the order, and such owner or
occupier shall fill up, cleanse or disinfect such well accordingly.

100. (1) If in the opinion of a health officer it is necessary in the
interests of the public health that the persons residing in a building or
part of a building which is infected shall be removed, he may direct that
such building or part thereof shall be temporarily closed for such time
as is necessary to secure its thorough disinfection and the disinfection
or destruction of all infected articles contained therein, and it shall not
be lawful for any person to reoccupy such building or part thereof until
it has been thoroughly cleansed and disinfected as aforesaid.

(2) SUCh cleansing and disinfection may with the approval of such
health officer, be done in whole or in part by the inmates or by persons
engaged by them ; and further if in the opinion of such health officer it
is necessary for the thorough purification and disinfection of such
premises to take down any lath and plaster or other hollow partition
wall or any partition, screen, panelling, wainscotting, skirting
stairlining, ceiling, or other similar structure or any fittings or any
portion of such wall, structure or fitting, the health officer shall
forthwith have the same taken down, and, if he considers their removal
froni the premises or the destruction thereof or both to be necessary in
the interests of the public health, lie shall forthwith cause the same to
be removed from the premises or destroyed or both.

(3) Such destruction shall be carried out with such precautions
and in such manner as such health officer may deem proper, and
compensation for such removal or destruction shall be given by the
Governor unless it is proved that





the wall, structure or fitting removed or destroyed had been unlawfully
erected or maintained.

(4) Such compensation shall be calculated so as to cover the cost
of making good the portions of the building damaged by such removal,
including the limewashing of any exposed surface and the rebuilding of
any necessary wall in materials approved by the Governor, but no
compensation shall be payable for any loss of rent or deterioration in
the value of the property occasioned or alleged to be occasioned by
the operation of these provisions.

(5) The Governor shall decide in each case whether the
compensation, if any, is to be paid to the owner or occupier, and
payment in accordance with the decision of the Governor shall bar any
further claim to compensation by owner or occupier : Provided that
nothing in this section shall affect the rights of the owners or
occupiers inter se as to the ultimate apportionment of any
compensation awarded.

101. If a health officer is of opinion that the cleansing or
disinfection of a building or part of a building or of any article therein
likely to retain infection would tend to prevent or check the spread of
any infectious disease, leprosy or tuberculosis, lie may by notice in
writing require the owner or occupier to cleanse or disinfect the same in
the manner therein specified.

102. When in the opinion of a health officer the owner or occupier
is from Poverty or otherwise unable effectually to carry out the said
requirements, the health officer may cleanse or disinfect or cause to be
cleansed or disinfected the building or buildings or part of the same
and any articles therein at the expense of the Government.

103. (1) After the removal of any person suffering from an infectious
disease from any house a health officer shall cause the room which
such person occupied, and any, other portion of the house which such
health officer deenis to be infected, to be thoroughly disinfected, and
the house may be closed for such period as he may direct.





(2) No person except a health officer or persons authorized by him
shall enter such room or house during such period.

104. In the event of the death of any person frorn infectious disease
a health officer shall take the necessary action to prevent the spread of
infection from the corpse. The clothing, bedding and all personal
effects of the deceased, which are liable, in the opinion of the health
officer, to carry infection, shall be disinfected or, if the health officer so
orders, be destroyed by fire, and no person shall be entitled to claim
compensation as of right for the destruction of any such article.

105. Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing
sections, the Council shall have power by officers of the Sanitary
Department to enter and to cleanse and to disinfect any premises where
any person suffering froni plague, cholera or smallpox or any other
contagious or infectious disease, is or has been, or is reasonably
suspected to have been, recently located, and the Council may recover
the cost of such disinfection and cleansing from the house holder; but
compensation may be given to such house holder for any bedding,
clothing or other articles which have been destroyed during such
cleansing or disinfection : Provided that where the case of infection has
been duly reported no charge shall be made for the cost of such
cleansing and disinfection, and reasonable compensation for property
destroyed or damaged shall in such case be given.

Limitation of Liability.

106. No matter or thing done by the Council or by any member of
the Council, or by any health officer or health inspector or other person
whomsoever acting under the direction of the Council or a health
officer, shall, if it was done bona fide for the purpose of executing this
Ordinance, subject them or any of them personally to any action,
liability, claim or demand whatsoever: Provided that nothing herein
contained shall exempt any person frorn any proceeding by way of
mandamus, injunction, prohibition or other order unless it is expressly
so enacted.





CAP 141] QUARANTINE AND PREVENTION OF DISEASE.




To be printed at the back.

INSTRUCTIONS.

Health Officer of the area containing the address of the person
giving the undertaking. The slip is to be handed to the
said person.

person, initial the space below.

7 of 1936. 54 of 1936. 2 of 1947. 22 of 1950. 24 of 1950. Short title Interpretation. [s. 2 cont.] 54 of 1936, s. 2. G.N. 76 OF 1937. G.N. 59 of 1939. [s. 2 cont.] G.N. 93 of 1946. G.N. 824 of 1947. G.N.A. 199 of 1948. G.N.A. 132 of 1950. [s. 2 cont.] Vessels or aircraft when regarded as infected. Vessels or aircraft when regarded as suspected. Duration of period of incubation. Conditions of release from observation of persons liable to be subjected to serveillance. Schedule. [s. 4 cont.] Conditions of release from observation of contacts. Schedule. 24 of 1950, Schedule. Substitution of observation for surveillance. Escape or evasion. Power of Governor in Council to make regulations. [s. 8 cont.] [s. 8 cont.] [s. 8 cont.] Offences and generally. Penalty. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Increased penalty for second or subsequent offence. Arrest. Forfeitures. Presumption of knowledge. Measures under general direction of Director of Medical and Health Services. Import of noxious insects and pests. Import of diseased persons. Declaration of infected port. 2 of 1947, s. 2. Medical inspection or examination of arrivals from infected places or ports otherwise than by sea. Any vessel or aircraft may be visited by health officer. Duties of master. Master of furnish information to health officer or boarding officer. Vessels refusing to submit to measures prescribed. [s. 20 cont.] Aircraft not wishing to submit to measures prescribed. Time limits in certain cases. 54 of 1936, s.3. Vessel which are to show quarantine signal. Vessels which are required to proceed to quarantine anchorage. 54 of 1936, s.4. Quarantine anchorage determined by Director of Marine. No communication allowed with certain vessels. Pilot may board vessel showing quarantine signal. Prohibition of landing passengers from certain vessels before inspection. Duty of guard of train to report cases of infection. [s. 28 cont.] Duty of station master with regard to infected case and carriage. Restriction on landing or departure of certain aircraft. Sanitary aerodrome restrictions. Health officer to inspect certain vessels. Declaration by master and surgeon. 54 of 1936, s. 5. Penalty for untrue declaration. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Penalty for failure to make declaration. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Vessel to be dealt with according to provisions of this Ordinance. Penalties for preventing health officer inspecting vessel. Signals to be shown by certain vessels. [s. 35 cont.] Power of police to restrict movements of persons or things to and from certain vessels. Power of health officer as to passenger on board vessels under observation. Power of detention of infected persons desirous of landing. Power of health officer with regard to disposal of infectious corpse. Trespasser on quarantine station may be detained. Costs incurred by Government may be recovered from owners or agents. Police to furnish assistance. Exemption of postal matter. Duty of medical practitioner and master when a case of infectious disease discovered on board vessel or aircraft. Duty of master in case of sickness where no surgeon is carried. Internal management of vessels or aircraft of war not to be interfered with. Plague precautionary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft. Provisions relating to discharge of cargo. [s. 48 cont.] Plague precautionary measures in case of suspected vessels or aircraft. Uninfected or healthy vessels or aircraft coming from an infected port. Pratique. Periodical deratisation of vessels. Cholera precautionary measures in case of infected vessels and aircraft. [s. 53 cont.] Cholera precautionary measures in case of suspected vessels and aircraft. Effect of bacteriological examinations. Lesser precautionary measures in case of certain vessels and aircraft. Cases clinically cholera to be classed as cholera. Smallpox precautionary measures in the case of infected vessels or aircraft. 54 of 1936, s. 6. [s. 58 cont.] Smallpox precautionary measures in the case of contact vessels or aircraft. (12 of 1923.) Typhus precautionary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft. 54 of 1936, s. 7. Yellow fever precautionary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft. In case of suspected vessels or aircraft. Vessels or aircraft. regarded uninfected, in certain cases. Precautionary measures with regard to vessels or aircraft infected with certain diseases. Measures with regard to nuisances and insanitary conditions on board vessel or aircraft. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Vessels with filthy passengers or in an overcrowded state to go to quarantine anchorage. Notification forms to be furnished by Secretary to Medical Department. Notification must contain no false information. Attending practitioner to notify. 54 of 1936, s. 8. [s. 69 cont.] Notification where no practitioner has attended. 54 of 1936, s. 9. Notification by persons having knowledge of the existence of disease. 54 of 1936, s. 10. Notification by keepers of hotels, boarding houses or common lodging houses, 54 of 1936, s. 11. Delay in notification, Failing to notify or giving false information. Notice of recovery to be furnished to health officer. Power of entry for search and examination. [s. 75 cont.] Power of magistrate to authorize officer to enter and inspect premises. Movement of infectious cases restricted. Exposure of infected persons and transfer of infectious cases except under proper precautions prohibited. Transfer or exposure of infected articles prohibited. Diseased persons not to be carried in public conveyances. Impressment of vehicles and beasts. Conditions under which infectious cases can be isolated in their own houses. [s. 81 cont.] Power to remove infectious cases to hospital. Detention of persons occupying infected houses. Power to close and disinfect buildings and to isolate, detain, or subject to surveillance the contacts found therein. Schedule. Distinguishing signals to be shown on a quarantine station when occupied. Trespass on quarantine station prohibited. Departure without permission prohibited. Buildings may be requisitioned for isolation purposes. Disposal of infectious corpses. Post-mortem examination where infectious disease is suspected. Penalty for obstruction. Penalty for dumping infectious corpses. Disinfection of bedding, clothing and personal effects of cases and contacts. Disinfection or destruction of infected or suspected articles. Disinfection of persons prior to release. Disinfection of infected railway carriage and articles contained therein. Detention of vehicles for disinfection. Disinfection of infected vehicles. Disinfection of houses requisitioned for hospitals. Disinfection or closing of dangerous wells. Temporary closure of buildings after removal of case. [s. 100 cont.] Cleansing and disinfection of buildings as a check to the spread of disease. Power of health officer to cleanse and disinfect buildings and their contents. Disinfection of premises with or without closure after removal of cases. Action with regard to infectious corpses. Recovery of cost of disinfection and payment of compensation for damage. Limitation of liability. [Sched. cont.]

7 of 1936. 54 of 1936. 2 of 1947. 22 of 1950. 24 of 1950. Short title Interpretation. [s. 2 cont.] 54 of 1936, s. 2. G.N. 76 OF 1937. G.N. 59 of 1939. [s. 2 cont.] G.N. 93 of 1946. G.N. 824 of 1947. G.N.A. 199 of 1948. G.N.A. 132 of 1950. [s. 2 cont.] Vessels or aircraft when regarded as infected. Vessels or aircraft when regarded as suspected. Duration of period of incubation. Conditions of release from observation of persons liable to be subjected to serveillance. Schedule. [s. 4 cont.] Conditions of release from observation of contacts. Schedule. 24 of 1950, Schedule. Substitution of observation for surveillance. Escape or evasion. Power of Governor in Council to make regulations. [s. 8 cont.] [s. 8 cont.] [s. 8 cont.] Offences and generally. Penalty. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Increased penalty for second or subsequent offence. Arrest. Forfeitures. Presumption of knowledge. Measures under general direction of Director of Medical and Health Services. Import of noxious insects and pests. Import of diseased persons. Declaration of infected port. 2 of 1947, s. 2. Medical inspection or examination of arrivals from infected places or ports otherwise than by sea. Any vessel or aircraft may be visited by health officer. Duties of master. Master of furnish information to health officer or boarding officer. Vessels refusing to submit to measures prescribed. [s. 20 cont.] Aircraft not wishing to submit to measures prescribed. Time limits in certain cases. 54 of 1936, s.3. Vessel which are to show quarantine signal. Vessels which are required to proceed to quarantine anchorage. 54 of 1936, s.4. Quarantine anchorage determined by Director of Marine. No communication allowed with certain vessels. Pilot may board vessel showing quarantine signal. Prohibition of landing passengers from certain vessels before inspection. Duty of guard of train to report cases of infection. [s. 28 cont.] Duty of station master with regard to infected case and carriage. Restriction on landing or departure of certain aircraft. Sanitary aerodrome restrictions. Health officer to inspect certain vessels. Declaration by master and surgeon. 54 of 1936, s. 5. Penalty for untrue declaration. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Penalty for failure to make declaration. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Vessel to be dealt with according to provisions of this Ordinance. Penalties for preventing health officer inspecting vessel. Signals to be shown by certain vessels. [s. 35 cont.] Power of police to restrict movements of persons or things to and from certain vessels. Power of health officer as to passenger on board vessels under observation. Power of detention of infected persons desirous of landing. Power of health officer with regard to disposal of infectious corpse. Trespasser on quarantine station may be detained. Costs incurred by Government may be recovered from owners or agents. Police to furnish assistance. Exemption of postal matter. Duty of medical practitioner and master when a case of infectious disease discovered on board vessel or aircraft. Duty of master in case of sickness where no surgeon is carried. Internal management of vessels or aircraft of war not to be interfered with. Plague precautionary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft. Provisions relating to discharge of cargo. [s. 48 cont.] Plague precautionary measures in case of suspected vessels or aircraft. Uninfected or healthy vessels or aircraft coming from an infected port. Pratique. Periodical deratisation of vessels. Cholera precautionary measures in case of infected vessels and aircraft. [s. 53 cont.] Cholera precautionary measures in case of suspected vessels and aircraft. Effect of bacteriological examinations. Lesser precautionary measures in case of certain vessels and aircraft. Cases clinically cholera to be classed as cholera. Smallpox precautionary measures in the case of infected vessels or aircraft. 54 of 1936, s. 6. [s. 58 cont.] Smallpox precautionary measures in the case of contact vessels or aircraft. (12 of 1923.) Typhus precautionary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft. 54 of 1936, s. 7. Yellow fever precautionary measures in case of infected vessels or aircraft. In case of suspected vessels or aircraft. Vessels or aircraft. regarded uninfected, in certain cases. Precautionary measures with regard to vessels or aircraft infected with certain diseases. Measures with regard to nuisances and insanitary conditions on board vessel or aircraft. 22 of 1950, Schedule. Vessels with filthy passengers or in an overcrowded state to go to quarantine anchorage. Notification forms to be furnished by Secretary to Medical Department. Notification must contain no false information. Attending practitioner to notify. 54 of 1936, s. 8. [s. 69 cont.] Notification where no practitioner has attended. 54 of 1936, s. 9. Notification by persons having knowledge of the existence of disease. 54 of 1936, s. 10. Notification by keepers of hotels, boarding houses or common lodging houses, 54 of 1936, s. 11. Delay in notification, Failing to notify or giving false information. Notice of recovery to be furnished to health officer. Power of entry for search and examination. [s. 75 cont.] Power of magistrate to authorize officer to enter and inspect premises. Movement of infectious cases restricted. Exposure of infected persons and transfer of infectious cases except under proper precautions prohibited. Transfer or exposure of infected articles prohibited. Diseased persons not to be carried in public conveyances. Impressment of vehicles and beasts. Conditions under which infectious cases can be isolated in their own houses. [s. 81 cont.] Power to remove infectious cases to hospital. Detention of persons occupying infected houses. Power to close and disinfect buildings and to isolate, detain, or subject to surveillance the contacts found therein. Schedule. Distinguishing signals to be shown on a quarantine station when occupied. Trespass on quarantine station prohibited. Departure without permission prohibited. Buildings may be requisitioned for isolation purposes. Disposal of infectious corpses. Post-mortem examination where infectious disease is suspected. Penalty for obstruction. Penalty for dumping infectious corpses. Disinfection of bedding, clothing and personal effects of cases and contacts. Disinfection or destruction of infected or suspected articles. Disinfection of persons prior to release. Disinfection of infected railway carriage and articles contained therein. Detention of vehicles for disinfection. Disinfection of infected vehicles. Disinfection of houses requisitioned for hospitals. Disinfection or closing of dangerous wells. Temporary closure of buildings after removal of case. [s. 100 cont.] Cleansing and disinfection of buildings as a check to the spread of disease. Power of health officer to cleanse and disinfect buildings and their contents. Disinfection of premises with or without closure after removal of cases. Action with regard to infectious corpses. Recovery of cost of disinfection and payment of compensation for damage. Limitation of liability. [Sched. cont.]

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