Quarantine Regulations 1917 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1918. No. 116.

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REGULATION UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-1915.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in, and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the QuarantineAct 1908-1915, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this eighth day of May, 1918.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

J. A. JENSEN

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

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Amendment of Quarantine Regulations 1917.

Regulation 56 (Statutory Rules No. 112 of 1917) of the Quarantine Regulations is hereby repealed, and the following regulation is made in lieu thereof:—

Notification of Cases of Disease by Master.

56. The Master of any vessel in any port in Australia shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Quarantine Officer of that port of every case which he believes or suspects to be a case of any of the diseases mentioned hereunder or of any illness attended with glandular swelling which is on his vessel when she arrives in the port or which may arise on his vessel while she remains in the port.

Small-pox.	Typhoid Fever.
Plague.	Diphtheria.
Cholera.	Malarial Fever.
Yellow Fever.	Gonorrhœa.
Typhus Fever.	Syphilis,
Leprosy.	Soft Chancre.
Anterior Poliomyelitis.	Venereal Bubo.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.	Dysentery, including Amœbic Dysentery and Bacillary Dysentery.
Malta Fever.
Scarlet Fever.
Chicken-pox.	Tuberculosis.
Measles.	Pneumonia.
Whooping Cough.	Septicæmia.
Gastro-enteritis.

  

The notice shall be in the following form:—

I, master of the vessel hereby give notice to the Quarantine Officer of the port of that thepersons named hereunder are suffering or are suspected to be suffering from (here mention the name of the disease or suspected disease).

Name of Patient. Age. Rating. Date of Onset of Disease.

Date. (Signed)

Master.

    

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