[Public health enactments, 1903-1926].

  • Federated Malay States
Date:
1903-1926
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Credit: [Public health enactments, 1903-1926]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    14 The Master of auy vessel arriving in the waters of the State on Provision us to board of which there shall have been any disease before the departure of such vessel from the original port of clearance, or dm-ing the voyage, or ou which there shall be any diseased person shall deliver the Post Office packets and mails to'the Health Officer, who, after subjecting the same to such disinfection as he may deem necessary, shall forward the same to the Post Office of the district. 15. All letters or parcels for persons in quarantine shall be sent to Provision ns to the Post Office, and shall be forwarded at the earliest opportunity through the Health Officer. 16. No article shall, without the v/ritten permission of the Health Dismfrctioii nf Officer, be conveyed out of any place or vessel in quarantine or outside '^^ the limits of any quarantine anchorage or quarantine station, and every article which is conveyed thereout shall, before being forwarded to its destination, be disinfected in such manner as the Health Officer shall direct. 17. No vessel touching at any port shall take supplies of fuel, g'^^f;';^^,,;^, j, water or provisions, or laud cargo, except under such precautions, if as to vessel any, as the Heath Officer may prescribe to prevent infection or t^J^.^I^''^' contagion. 18. AVhenever the Health Officer shall so require, all the persons ^o;^,^;^^,^^^^. on board auy vessel in quarantine, or so many of them as he may as to persons on direct, shall be ttxken to a quarantine station and there be kept and vessel, attended to for such time as he may deem proper, before allowing them to return on board the ship, or to be transferred to any other ship, or to communicate with the shore. 19. Persons landed at a quarantine station shall ordinarily Q'urantine imdergo quarantine for the periods stated below:— pemcis. For cholera or bu- ( For a period not exceeding five days from the , . ■ bonic plague ... ( death or perfect recovery of the last case, • i' For a period not exceeding fifteen days from For small-pox ... ^^^^j^ perfect recovery of the last case. 20. The Master of a vessel in quarantine shall, if required by the Dnty of Master Health Officer, furnish the necessary boats, crews and appliances for the landing of the passengers and crew at the quarantine station. 21. Whenever it is found necessary to ^slace in quarantine the ^|;i^™'{,*^*„] passengers of a vessel arriving or being in the waters of the State, or to officer/ detain a vessel for inspection, and whenever any vessel is released from c[uarantine, the Health Officer shall forthwith report the facts to the Eesiclent, and shall notify the Distri(;t Officer and the Conservator of the Port. 22. Whenever auy persons are detained in quarantine at the Quarantine quarantine station a yellow flag shall be kept hoisted by day at a in- conspicuous place on the station, and by night the lights required by Eule 8 in the case of vessels shall be displayed. • 23. No person, except the Health Officer or persons authorised by isolation of him in writing shall laud at or enter the quarantine station when the st'S™.^' yellow flag is flying or the prescribed Hghts are shown. 2<t. No person detained in quarantine at the quarantine station No person to shall, on auy lu'eteiicc whatsoever, leave such station without the '-^'^ station, written penuissiou of the lleallh Officer.