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Chapter B Ships which have been in infected areas

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(4)

The medical officer may—

(a)

place under surveillance any suspect who disembarks; the period of surveillance being reckoned from the date of the departure of the ship from the infected area;

(b)

regard as suspect any person not isolated for six days before departure from an area with an epidemic of pulmonary plague;

(c)

require, in exceptional circumstances and for well founded reasons, the destruction of rodents on the ship and disinsecting, but he shall give the master notice in writing of the reasons for the requirement.