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surveillance during the time the vessel is in port and shall not
be allowed to land without the written permission of the Port
Health Officer.
(v) Persons remaining on board shall be kept apart
from the crews and other occupants of boats going to and
from the vessel.
(vi) The rules laid down in regulations 25 to 30 shall
he observed in carrying out measures of disinfection and
rat destruction.
(vii) The maximum period of detention of persons,
arriving by an 'infected' vessel, kept under observation
outside a camp, shall be seven days from the date of leaving
the vessel; or in the case of persons placed in a camp seven
days from the date of tbe occurrence of the last case of plague
in such camp, or, if no such case occurs, seven days from the
date of leaving the ship.
14. In the case of a vessel certified to be 'suspected'
the following rules shall be observed:—
(i) The medical examination prescribed m clause (i)
of the last preceding rule shall be carried out, provided that
the said examination shall not be required in the case of
coasting vessels arriving from ports in India.
(ii) All persons disembarking from any such vessel
shall be served with passports as prescribed in the last pre-
ceding rule subject to the exceptions therein mentioned.
Provided that they shall be under surveillance for only five
days from the date of the arrival of the vessel in port, the
date being entered on the passports issued under this rule.
(iii) The crew and the passengers on board whose
destination is not the port at which the vessel is lying shall
be placed under surveillance for a period not exceeding five
days from the date of the arrival of the vessel. The crew
shall during this period be prohibited from leaving the vessel
except on duty.
(iv) No communication shall be allowed during the
said period of five days between the crews of boats going to
and from the vessel and the persons remaining on board such
vessel.
(v) The rules laid down in regulations 25 to 30 shall
be observed in carrying out the measures of disinfection and
rat destruction.
15.'Healthy' vessels other than those referred to in
regulation 16 shall be subject to the same measures as are
prescribed for 'suspected' vessels in regulation 14. But (i)
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the period of surveillance (five days) shall be reckoned from
the date on which the vessel left the infected port last visited,
and (ii) such members of the crew and passengers as are in good
health may be permitted to disembark before the expiry of the
above period, provided that their clothing and personal effects
are first disinfected to the satisfaction of the Port Health
Officer, and they are subjected to surveillance while they
remain on shore.
16. Vessels on which rats are found by bacteriological
examination to be infected with plague or on which there is
unusual mortality among rats shall be subject to the following
measures:—
(i) Medical inspection of passengers shall be carried
out as in the case of 'infected' vessels.
(ii) The rules laid down in clauses (i) to (iv) of regu-
lation 13 shall apply to the crew and passengers in these
vessels, provided that in exceptional circumstances the Port
Health Officer may extend the period of surveillance to seven
days.
(iii) The rules laid down in regulations 25 to 30 shall
be observed in carrying out measures of disinfection and rat
destruction.
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17. If on the medical examination prescribed in rules
14 to 16 there appears to be a case of plague or of illness
in respect of which reasonable grounds exist for believing it
to be a case of plague on board a vessel certified to be
'suspected'
'infected'
18. In the case of vessels other than those referred to in
the foregoing regulations, which are found to have on board
any persons who have been within an infected area during
the preceding seven days, the Port Health Officer shall, when
the destination of the passenger or the port of visit of the
crew is within the Madras Presidency, issue a passport to each,
individual concerned, if one be not already in his possession,
and advise the fact to the next Port Health Officer by the
quickest safe method.
19. No persons other than intending passengers shall go
on board vessels arriving from infected foreign countries or
from infected ports in India, provided that coolies and represen-
tatives of shippers may be permitted to do so for the working
of cargo in accordance with the rules in Appendix H. No
persons other than such coolies and representatives shall quit
such vessels after embarking thereon.
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20. No person detained for treatment or placed under
observation shall leave the hospital, camp, place or vessel in
which he is detained under treatment or observation before
the expiry of seven days from the date of the occurrence
of the last case of plague in such hospital, camp, place or
vessel, or if no such case occurs, from the date of his leaving:
the 'infected' vessel, provided that the sick shall be detained
till they recover or for such period not exceeding seven days
as may be necessary for ascertaining whether the illness is or
is not plague.
21. Body-linen, soiled clothing, used bedding (except
when carried as the personal baggage of travellers), rags and
waste-paper shall not be imported into any port in the Madras
Presidency from any infected foreign country or from any
infected area in India, provided that this prohibition shall not
be enforced if the Health Officer of the port of arrival is
satisfied that the articles in question were packed in an
uninfected country or area and could not have come into
contact with contaminated articles on the way, or that the
articles were despatched not less than five days before the
outbreak of plague. The articles, the importation of which is
prohibited under this regulation, are liable to be destroyed
without compensation on arrival at the ports of this
Presidency.
22. Articles of merchandise landed at any port in this
Presidency which are in the opinion of the Port Health Officer
infected shall be disinfected, provided that letters and cor-
respondence, printed matter, books, newspapers, business
documents, etc. (not including parcels conveyed by post)
shall not be subject to disinfection or to any restriction
whatsoever. If the articles of merchandise, whose disinfec-
tion is considered quite necessary, cannot be disinfected they
shall be stored during a period not exceeding two weeks,
provided that there is sufficient storage accommodation in
the port concerned. The Port Health Officer shall, if so
desired by the owner of the articles of merchandise subjected
to the measures prescribed in this regulation, grant a certifi-
cate stating the action taken.
23. Cargo shall be landed only after the medical inspec-
tion and the measures of disinfection and rat destruction
have been carried out in so far as they are required by these
regulations in respect of vessels arriving at the ports of this
Presidency. The rules in Appendix H shall be observed in
the landing of cargo.
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24. The Port Health Officer may, at Ms discretion, permit
the landing of mails arriving from infected foreign countries
or from infected ports in India as soon as the preliminary
inspection provided for in regulation 8 is over. The landing
of mails shall not be delayed till the other measures prescribed
in these regulations are carried out unless such a course
is rendered necessary by exceptional circumstances.
25. The destraction of rats on vessels arriving at the
ports of this Presidency shall be carried out in the case of—
(i) 'infected' vessels;
(ii) vessels on. which rats have been shown by bacterio-
logical examination to have plague; and
(iii) 'healthy' vessels on which unusual mortality
among rats has been observed, if the measure is considered
by the Port Health Officer to be necessary.
The rats shall be destroyed either before or after dis-
charge of cargo as quickly as possible and, in any case, with-
in a maximum time of forty-eight hours, and in such a
manner as to avoid damage to merchandise and to the ship's
plating and engines.
The instructions given in Appendix G shall be observed
in carrying out the destruction of rats.
26. In. the case of vessels lying in infected ports or arriving
in harbour from infected ports precautions shall be taken to
prevent rats obtaining access from the shore to the ship and
vice versâ. Between the hours of sunset and sunrise no
such vessels shall, except while actually loading or unloading,
lie within three feet of the shore or of anything attached to the
shore, or be connected therewith by a gangway, rope or
other means of communication.
27. If a 'healthy' vessel from an infected port has been
subjected to measures of rat destruction in the course of her
voyage, these shall not be repeated unless sick or dead rats
are found on board.
28. The Port Health Officer shall, whenever requested,
furnish the master of a vessel on which measures of rat
destruction have been carried out with a certificate to that
effect duly signed and sealed by him.
29. The following rules shall be observed in carrying out
disinfection in the ports of this Presidency:—
(i) In the case of 'infected' and 'suspected' vessels—
(a) such soiled linen, wearing apparel and articles
belonging to the crew and passengers as are in the opinion of
the Port Health Officer infected shall be disinfected on shore;
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(b) such parts of the vessel as have been occupied by
persons ill with plague, or are in the opinion of the Port
Health Officer infected, shall be disinfected,
(ii) In the case of 'healthy' vessels—
(a) such soiled linen, wearing apparel and other arti-
cles belonging to the crew and passengers as the Port Health
Officer has special reasons for regarding as infected shall be
disinfected on shore; and
(b) such parts of the vessel and such articles as the
Port Health Officer regards as infected shall be disinfected in
case there is plague or plague is suspected among rats on
board.
In carrying out disinfection under these regulations, the
instructions given in Appendix G shall be observed. The
master of the vessel shall execute all orders given by the
Port Health Officer for purposes of disinfection. If the
master neglects to comply with any such orders within a
reasonable time, the sanitary authority or the Port Health
Officer shall cause the same to be carried into execution at
the expense of the said
vessel.
30. Vessels from an infected port in respect of which
disinfection has already been carried out and which have
undergone adequate sanitary measures shall not, on their
arrival in another port, be again subjected to these measures,
if they have not called at an infected port and no case of
plague has occurred on board since the disinfection was
performed. A vessel which has merely disembarked passen-
gers and their baggage or mails at a port without admitting
on board any person or article shall not be regarded for the
purpose of this regulation as having called at the port.
31. (i) As soon as the master of an 'infected' vessel
has complied with the requirements and directions of the
Port Health Officer as provided in these regulations, the Port
Health Officer shall grant him. a certificate in the form
prescribed in Appendix B and thereupon the vessel shall have
all the privileges of a 'healthy' vessel in the port concerned.
(ii) Provided that if a case of plague, or of illness
suspected to be plague, occurs on board subsequent to the
grant of the above certificate, the certificate shall become
invalid and the vessel again become subject to the requirements
of the regulations regarding 'infected' vessels.
32. If any person suffering from plague or from any
illness which the Port Health Officer suspects may prove to be
plague cannot be disembarked under regulation 13, he mav
be detained on board the vessel, which shall remain subject,
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for the purpose of this regulation, to the control of the Port
Health Officer. Such person shall not be removed from or
Leave the vessel, except with the consent, in writing, of the
Port Health Officer, and if the illness from which such person
suffered is, or proves to be plague, the vessel shall be treated
as an 'infected' vessel.
33. In the event of any death from plague on board
Such vessel, the master shall, as directed by the sanitary
authority or the Port Health Officer, either cause the dead
body to be taken out to sea and committed to the deep pro-
perly loaded to prevent its rising, or shall deliver it into the
charge of the sanitary authority for disposal, if the former
procedure be not in accordance with caste or race customs.
34. It will be the duty of the Port Officer to facilitate
the conveyance, to all vessels with plague on board, of such,
supplies of provisions, stores or other articles as may be re-
quired by those on board. Such supplies will be placed on
the boats of the vessel, to be subsequently removed by the
crew.
35. No vessel bound for Aden, Perim or any port out of
India shall commence her voyage from any port in the
Madras Presidency until she has been inspected by the
Health Officer of the port and the master or person in charge
of such vessel has obtained from such officer a bill of health
or certificate in the form prescribed in Appendix C.
Such bill of health or certificate shall not be given unless
the officers and crew of, and also the passengers if any by,
such vessel have been examined by the Port Health Officer
before sailing and have been found to be free from plague or
illness in respect of which reasonable grounds exist for
believing it to be a case of plague, and unless the bedding
and personal effects of such members of the crew as have
embarked in the vessel at the port and of all the passengers
below the second class have been disinfected, before being put
on board, to the satisfaction of the Port Health Officer.
Provided that the medical examination prescribed in this
regulation shall, in the case of the officers, passengers and
crew of the vessel who have been continuously on board during
the stay of the vessel at the port and have not newîy em-
barked in the vessel, be carried out on board and not on
shore.
Provided also that the disinfection prescribed in this
regulation shall not be necessary in the case of passengers
proceeding to any port in Ceylon, except such as have come
from an infected area.
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Provided further that, if any port in the Madras Presi-
dency becomes infected wich plague, a certificate in the form
prescribed in Appendix F, in addition to the Bill of Health
prescribed in Appendix C, shall be granted to vessels bound
for Aden, Perim or for any port out of India.
36. In the case of a vessel bound for Aden, Perim or
any port out of Tndia that has called at any port in the
Madras Presidency in the course of her voyage, the inspection
with reference to such vessel by the Port Health Officer shall
be limited to the medical examination * on shore, prior to
embarkation, of such members of the crew or passengers as
intend to embark in such vessel at the said port, coupled
with the disinfection, as aforesaid, of the bedding and per-
sonal effects of the same persons below the second class, and
the bill of health under this, regulation shall be in the
form prescribed in Appendix D.
Provided (1) that, if any port in the Madras Presidency
becomes infected with plague, any vessel calling thereat, and
bound for Aden, Perim or any porb out of India, shall have
no communication with such infected port except under
such precautions as the Government may prescribe or the
Port Health Officer think necessary.
Provided (2) that all vessels shall be inspected by the Port
Health Officer at the last port of call in this Presidency prior
to proceeding to Aden, Perim or any port out of India.
37. In the case of any vessel bound, from any port in
the Madras Presidency uninfectecl with plague, to any port in;
India excluding Aden and Perim, the medical examination of
the vessel, crew and passengers and the disinfection of their
bedding and personal effects above prescribed shall not be
carried out.†
Provided that, if any port in the Madras Presidency
becomes infected with plague, the same rules with regard to
medical inspection and disinfection as are above prescribed for
vessels proceeding to ports out of India shall be enforced in
the case of vessels proceeding to ports in India.
38. In the case of vessels of the Royal Navy and foreign
vessels of war, the inspection, prescribed in the preceding
regulations, of all officers, men, crew and of the persons on
* A certificate in the form prescribed in Appendix E by a commissioned medical
officer appointed for this purpose, and dated not more than 12 hours before the departure
of the vessel, shall be accepted in lieu of examination of passougers of the first and
second classes by the Port Health Officer at an uninfected port. Such certificate shall be
annexed to, and form part of. the bill of health.
† This rule does not apply to vessels bound out of India which call at one or more
Indian ports in. the course of their voyage.
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board, if any, may be made just before the vessels start by the
Naval Medical Officer on board, in the presence of the Health
Officer of the port, who shall countersign the Naval Medical
Officer's certificate, if he is able to do so.
39. All vessels belonging to the Ceylon Government
which may leave ports in the Madras Presidency with emi-
grants for Ceylon shall be exempted from medical inspection
and disinfection of bedding, etc.
40. No person shall be allowed to embark on board a
boat or vessel leaving—
(a) any port on the east coast of India south of
Madras, or
(b) Mangalore, or any port south of Mangalore, on the
west coast of India,
for any place on the coast of the Northern Province of Ceylon
or any island adjacent thereto, or for any place on the west
coast of Ceylon, between Colombo and the southern limit of
the Northern Province, or any island adjacent to such west
coast.
41. No Asiatic or African passenger shall be permitted
to embark on board a boat or vessel bound for a port in
Ceylon at any port in the Madras Presidency where an officer
of the Ceylon Government is stationed for the purpose of
regulating emigration, unless he holds a permit to land in
Ceylon granted by the said officer of the Ceylon Government.
42. (a) Should the Health Officer of the port consider
that any passenger examined in accordance with these
regulations is suffering from plague or suspected plague, or
is not free from the infection of plague, he shall prevent such
person as well as those who, he has reason to think, have
been in dangerous communication with the said passenger
from embarking, and their baggage and personal effects shall
not be allowed on the vessel and, if already placed on board,
shall be removed as early as possible and shall be disinfected
to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.
(b) Should the Health Officer of the port consider that
any member of the crew or passengers already on board of the
vessel is suffering from plague or suspected plague, or is not
free from the infection of plague, he shall prevent such
person from sailing on such vessel and shall refuse to give the
bill of health, unless and until the baggage and personal
effects of such person have been removed from the vessel and
disinfected to the satisfaction of the Health Officer and such
parts of the vessel as have been occupied or frequented by
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such person shall have been disinfected to the satisfaction of
the Health Officer, and all such procedure and precautions
taken as regards the disinfection of the vessel shall be
noted in the bill of health. The baggage and personal effects
also of such persons as were in dangerous communication
with such infected case shall, according to the discretion and
under the supervision of the Health Officer, be disinfected,
and the names of those persons shall be given to the vessel's
surgeon or the master or person in charge of vessel.
(c) All persons so removed or prevented from sailing
shall, at the discretion of the Port Health Officer, in accordance
with the requirements of individual cases, be detained in a
hospital or isolation camp or other place, cr be placed under
surveillance ; and such persons as are detained in a hospital
or isolation camp or other place shall not leave it until the
chief medical officer present at the spot shall have certified
that they are free from the infection of plague.
(d) All contaminated or suspected articles shall be
thoroughly disinfected on shore under the supervision and
to the satisfaction ot the Port Health Officer.
48. After the master or person in charge of the vessel
has obtained a bill of health under the provisions oí these
rules, no person or cargo * or goods of any kind shall be
embarked or disembarked before the vessel leaves the port
unless such vessel is again inspected by the Port Health Officer
and another bill of health obtained from such officer by the
master or person) in charge of the vessel.
44. Vessels not leaving port before 6 A.M. of the day
following the medical inspection may not leave without
reinspection and the grant of a fresh bill of health. Such
reinspection may be conducted on board.
45. The Port Health Officer shall intimate by express
telegram the departure of any ' infected ' or ' suspected '
vessel or any vessel on which there has been plague or un-
usual mortality among rats to the Health Officer of the next
port at which the vessel is expected to call.
46. If there are on board a vessel which is not ' infected ',
' suspected ' or ' healthy ' passengers or crew who have within
the preceding seven days been in an infected area, the Port
Health Officer shall, when the destination of the passenger or
the port of visit of the crew is within the Madras Presidency,
issue a passport of the kind prescribed in the Madras Mufassal
* Mail bags are included in ' cargo ' under this regulation. .
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or City Plague Regulations to each individual concerned, if
one "be not already in his possession, advise the fact to the
next Port Health Officer by the quickest safe method and also
note it on the bill of health.
47. No port clearance shall be delivered to any vessel
"bound from any port in the Madras Presidency to Aden,
Perim or any port out of India until the master or person in
charge of the vessel shall produce a bill of health or certi-
ficate granted under these Regulations, provided that the
Customs Officer may entrust the port clearance to the Port
Health Officer for delivery by him to the master or person
in charge together with the bill of health.*
48. The rules in these regulations with regard to the
importation and disinfection of articles of merchandise, etc.,
shall apply, as far as may be practicable, to the exportation of
such articles in vessels sailing for foreign ports and coasting
vessels leaving for Indian ports if the ports at which the said
articles are shipped are infected.
49. Any person disobeying or contravening any of the
foregoing regulations shall be deemed to have committed an
offence punishable under section 188 of the Indian Penal
Code and shall be liable on conviction to be punished with
imprisonment of either description for a term which may
extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one
thousand rupees, or with both.
* If any port in the Madras Presidency becomes infected with plague, this rule
applies also to vessels leaving such port for any port in India.
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APPENDIX A.
Health Officer's Certificate,
[See regulation 10.]
I hereby certify that I have examined the vessel
, of
, now lying in the port of
, and that I find
that she is
(a) ' infected ' with plague
(b) ' suspected '
(c) ' healthy '
(d) that plague (suspicion of plague, or unusual and suspicious
mortality) was observed among the rats on board
(e) that she has on board
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persons (passengers and crew)
who have been in an infected area within
the last seven days.
Date
Port Health Officer.
APPENDIX B.
Health Officer's Certificate.
[See regulation 31.]
I hereby certify that the master of the vessel
, which is
classed under the Madras Marine Plague regulations as ' infected,' has
complied with the requirements of these regulations to my satisfaction
and the vessel
may therefore, within the limits of this
port, be permitted the privileges of a ' healthy ' vessel.
Date
Port Health Officer.