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11. The master of any vessel certified by the Port Health
Officer to be 'infected' or 'suspected' shall thereupon
moor or anchor her, if he has not already done so, at the
place fixed for that purpose under regulation 7 where she
shall remain until the requirements of these regulations
have been duly fulfilled, and from which she shall not depart
without the written or, where communication with the vessel
is impracticable owing to stress of weather, the signalled
permission of the Port Health Officer.
12. No person shall leave any such vessel until the
examination hereinafter prescribed shall have been made.
13. In the case of a vessel certified to be 'infected'
the following rules shall be observed:-
(i) The Port Health Officer shall examine every person
on board.
(ii) If any person on board such vessel is found to be
suffering from plague or from any illness which the Port
Health Officer suspects may prove to be plague, the Port
Health Officer shall certify accordingly. Every person who
shall be so certified by him shall, if possible, be disembarked
and shall be detained for treatment in a suitable hospital or
isolation camp or other place.
(iii) Every person who shall not be so certified by him
and whose destination is the port at which the vessel is lying
shall be permitted to land immediately on giving to the
sanitary authority or the Port Health Officer his name and
place of destination, stating his address at such place, and on
accepting a passport in accordance with regulation 1 of the
Madras Plague Regulations in force outside the Presidency
Town or the Regulations for the City of Madras as the case
may be. Provided that every person who has been in contact
with a case of pneumonic plague shall be disembarked and
detained under observation in an isolation camp or other place,
and that any other person on board whom the sanitary
authority or the Port Health Officer considers in any way likely
to carry the infection of plague shall also be disembarked
and shall have his clothing and personal effects disinfected.
Provided also that passengers arriving at the port of
Madras who have their clothing and other personal effects
disinfected by means of the steam disinfector at that port
shall not be required to take out passports as aforesaid.
(iv) All other persons remaining on board the vessel
(except those referred to in regulation 32 who shall be sub-
ject to the restrictions therein specified) shall be placed under