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shall direct the Commander to take the vessel to the quarantine
anchorage at Mateeabrooj or elsewhere duly appointed by the Port
Officer, there to remain for a period of eight days from the date of
arrival in harbour. The Health Officer shall also direct the Commander
to prohibit, during the period for which the vessel remains at the
quarantine anchorage as aforesaid, all communication, except such as
is hereinafter provided for, between such vessel and the shore or other
vessels or boats in the harbour.
IX.—If the Health Officer, as the result of the enquiry made under
paragraph V above, shall have reason to believe, at the time when the
vessel arrives in the harbour, that any person on board is suffering from
plague, or if during tne time the ship is in quarantine at Mateeabrooj
under Rule VIII, any case of the disease breaks out, he shall direct the
Commander to take the vessel to the quarantine anchorage at Diamond
Harbour or elsewhere duly appointed by the Port Officer, there to
remain for a period of fifteen days from the day of arrival in the
harbour ; and shall further direct that during such fifteen days, in-
tercourse between the vessel detained under this Rule, or Rule III, and
the shore or other vessels or boats in the harbour, shall be prohibited
as provided in Rule II.
X.—If during the period a vessel is at the quarantine anchorage
aforesaid, any case or cases of plague should occur on board, the said
vessel shall remain in quarantine for a period of fifteen days from the
date of the last case occurring, and be subject to all the prohibitions
provided for in Rule IX.
XI.—When any vessel has been placed in quarantine as aforesaid,
the Health Officer may direct the removal of so many of the passen-
gers and crew as may not be suffering from illness, and whose services
may not be required on board the vessel, to such particular spots as
may from time to time be selected by the Port Officer as places of
quarantine, there to remain for a period of eight days if under Rule
VIII, or if the vessel has been placed in quarantine for fifteen days,
for a period of fifteen days. If a case of plague occurs among such
passengers and crew during any such period, they shall remain in a
place of quarantine for a period of fifteen days from the date of the
occurrence of the last case of such illness,
XII.—It will be the duty of the Port Officer to facilitate the convey-
ance to all vessels in quarantine of such supplies of provisions, stores
and other articles as may be required by those on board. Such sup-
plies will be placed on the boats of the vessels in quarantine, to be
subsequently removed by members of their crews.
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spread of infection by sea.
No. 49. Notification of the Government of India, in the Home Department, No. 28, dated
the 14th January 1897.
Rules at
Rangoon against
Karachi.
The following rules for quarantine against plague which have been
made by the Chief Commissioner of Burma in exercise of the power
conferred by section 1, Act 1 of 1870, with the previous sanction of
the Governor General in Council, are published for general inform-
ation.
The rules have effect from the Ist January 1897 as a temporary
measure at the port of Rangoon :—
I.—The commander of every vessel, including junks or other
native craft, arriving from Karachi, shall, on arrival at
the pilot brig, hoist a yellow flag and indicate by signal
the port from which she has come.
II.—Such commander shall not, except as hereinafter provided,
allow any communication either with the shore or with
any other vessel or boat except with the boat supplying
a pilot from the pilot brig, and in that case communi-
cation shall be limited to receiving on board the pilot,
his servant, if any, and baggage.
III.—The pilot shall not take such vessel higher than Elephant
Point, but shall anchor it there until the Health Officer
of the Port has visited it and ascertained by inquiry
from the commander whether any person on board is
suffering, or has during the voyage suffered, from
plague. If the Health Officer is satisfied by such
enquiry that no person on board is suffering, or during
the voyage has suffered, from plague, the Health Officer
may, by writing under his hand to be delivered to the
commander, permit such vessel to haul down the yellow
flag and proceed upwards in the port and hold free
communication with the shore and with vessels and
boats in port. Provided that, if the vessel has under-
gone since leaving Karachi a quarantine, which is pro-
perly proved, for not less than eight days at Colombo,
or some other British port, the Health Officer shall
grant such permission as aforesaid.
If the vessel has not undergone eight days' quarantine at Colombo
or some other British port since leaving Karachi, the Health Officer
may direct the commander to take the vessel to the quaran-
tine anchorage and there to remain for a period of eight days from
the date of arrival in the harbour. In such case the Health Officer
shall also direct the commander to prohibit, during the period for
which the vessel remains at the quarantine anchorage as aforesaid,
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all communication, except such as is hereinafter provided for between
such vessel and the shore, or other vessels and boats in the har-
bour.
IV.—If the Health Officer shall have reason to believe at the
time when the vessel arrives in the harbour that any
person on board is suffering, or during the voyage has
suffered, from plague, he shall direct the commander to
take the vessel to the quarantine anchorage as afore-
said, and there to remain for a period of fifteen days
from the day of arrival in the harbour; and shall further
direct that during such fifteen days intercourse between
the said vessel and the shore or other vessels and boats
in the harbour shall be prohibited as provided in Rule
ill.
V.—If during the period a vessel is at the quarantine anchorage
aforesaid any case or cases of plague should occur on
board, the said vessel shall remain in quarantine for a
period of fifteen days from the date of the last case
occurring, and be subject to all the prohibitions pro-
vided for in Rules III and IV.
VI.—When any vessel has been placed in quarantine as afore-
said, the Health Officer may direct the removal of so
many of the passengers and crew as may not be suffer-
ing from illness, and whose services may not be required
on board the vessel, to such particular spots as may
from time to time be selected by the Chief Commis-
sioner as places of quarantine, there to remain for a
period of eight days, or if the vessel has been placed in
quarantine for fifteen days, for a period of fifteen days.
If a case of plague occurs among such passengers and
crew during any such period, they shall remain in a
place of quarantine for a period of fifteen days from the
date of the occurrence of the last case of such illness.
VII.—Any mails or cargo which may be brought by any vessel so
arriving shall be landed under such precautions as the
Health Officer may deem necessary to prevent the
spread of the disease.
VIII.—It will be the duty of the Conservator of the Port to facili-
tate the conveyance to all vessels in quarantine or such
supplies of provisions, stores, and other articles as may
be required by those on board. Such supplies will be
placed on the boats of the vessels in quarantine to be
subsequently romoved by members of their crews.
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IX.—All vessels arriving at Rangoon, which may have commu-
nicated with any vessel coming from Karachi, shall be
subjected to the same quarantine as vessels arriving at
Rangoon from Karachi unless the communication was
held after the vessel from Karachi was released from
quarantine.
QUARANTINE AT BOMBAY AND AT MINOR PORTS IN THE
BOMBAY PRESIDENCY.
No. 50. Resolution of the Government of Bombay, No. 1975—1446-P., dated the 12th April
1897.
His Excellency the Governor in Council is pleased to make the
following rules under Act III of 1897, and to publish them for general
information :—
The Bombay Plague Committee is hereby authorized to appoint
persons as plague authorities.
2. Such plague authorities are hereby empowered to medically
inspect persons coming to Bombay Island by sea, by vessels, includ-
ing native craft, which have touched at any port in India between
Bhatkal and a line ten miles north of Karachi, and to detain or send
for detention to such hospitals or other places as may be appointed by
the Bombay Plague Committee for the purpose any persons whom
they find or suspect to be suffering from plague.
3. The Master of every vessel, including buggalows and every
kind of native craft arriving at the Port of Bombay from or having
had communication with any place on the West Coast of India
between Bhatkal and a line ten miles north of Karachi, on board of
which there is, or has been during the voyage from which she is
arriving or has last arrived, either among the passengers or crew, any
case or suspicious case of bubonic plague, or if one or more deaths
from any cause whatever shall have occurred on board on the said
voyage, shall report the same at the earliest possible moment by
signal to the Health Officer of the Port or through the Pilot or Water
Police.
4. If the vessel is coming into port, the Master shall report such
cases to the Pilot or other boarding officers at the earliest possible
opportunity, or if she be not boarded, or is already at anchor within
port limits, shall hoist a signal, which shall be, during the day, the
flag R of the Commercial Code at the main, and during the night, at
the same place, 3 lights, namely, red, white and red, and shall also
verbally by an officer, or in writing, inform the officer in charge of the
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Harbour Police. It shall be the duty of the Pilot or other officers to
whom such report under Rule I is made to communicate the same
without delay to the Health Officer of the Port.
5. Pending the arrival of the Health Officer of the Port, the
Master shall anchor in the stream, and shall not permit the departure
or landing of any of his crew or passengers until permitted to do so
by the Health Officer of the Port.
6. The Masters of vessels to which rule 3 is applicable and the
Masters of all vessels arriving from the ports or places inside the
limits prescribed in rule 3 shall only permit the disembarkation of
their crews and passengers between the hours of 6 A.M. and 6 P.M.
and at such bandars or places as may be directed by the Health
Officer of the Port.
No. 51.
Resolution of the Government of Bombay, No. 1211—710-P., dated the 6th March
1897.
RESOLUTION.—Under Act III of 1897 the Governor in Council
is pleased to prescribe the following rules and to authorise the
Commissioners of Divisions to apply them, as a temporary measure,
to any ports in the Bombay Presidency, reporting to Government from
time to time the ports to which he has applied them :—
(1) Any vessel, except ferry boats (to which the rules of Govern-
ment Resolution No. 883—351-P., dated 17th February 1897, apply)
arriving at a port, shall anchor at a place fixed for such purpose,
and the passengers and crew shall be examined before she is granted
entry inwards and is allowed to land passengers or cargo.
(2) If any of the passengers or crew are found by the plague
authority to be plague-stricken, the patient or patients shall be
removed to the nearest segregated hospital, and the vessel shall be
made to proceed to the place set apart for the anchorage of such
vessel. Such vessels shall not communicate with the shore or land
or receive cargo for the period of eight days. Provisions, etc., shall
be sent to her under directions from the Port Officer or other officer
appointed for the purpose by the Commissioner of the Division and
shall be passed up the side in receptacles which shall not be received
back.
(3) If no further plague case occurs on board during such period
of eight days, she may receive pratique. If other cases occur, the
course directed in Rule (2) shall be followed for a further period of
eight days respectively. The vessel shall not receive pratique, or
communicate with the shore or receive cargo or receive provisions
otherwise than as directed in Rule (2) until after the lapse of eight
days from the occurrence of the last case.
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(4) If a vessel arrives with a case of simple fever on board, the
above rules-shall apply to her, but the detention shall be for a period
of four days, subsequent to which, if no plague cases develope, she
may be granted entry inwards.
(5) If a place on shore suitable for the segregated accommodation
of passengers is available, the passengers from vessels treated as
above may be removed to the same and placed there under observa-
tion instead of being detained on board.
(6) Cargo unloaded from vessels which have been quarantined on
account of ascertained or suspected plague on board shall be removed
by the consignee to a place set apart for the purpose and exposed to
the sun for a period of three days, or in the case of cargo which may
have become damp until such further period as may be necessary to
thoroughly dry it, after which it may be taken possession of by the
consignee.
(7) Bedding, rags, etc., may not be landed from vessels aforesaid
and if landed shall be destroyed.
(8) Piece-goods and other articles liable to carry infection brought
by vessels aforesaid shall be fumigated or otherwise disinfected before
' being carried away by the consignee.
(9) Any grain brought to the port and landed from any vessel and
found by a Magistrate to be unfit for human consumption shall be
destroyed.
(10) Any port may be declared to be an infected port by the
District Magistrate. Vessels arriving from such ports, even if no case
of plague has occurred on board, shall not be granted entry inwards
unless or until eight clear days have elapsed from the date of her
departure from the aforesaid port. If the vessel arrives before the
expiry of such eight days, she shall remain at the anchorage fixed for
such vessels until such eight days have elapsed, subject to the condi-
tions laid down in Rules 2, 5, and 6, after which, if no plague case is
discovered on board, she shall obtain pratique. If plague is developed
or has been developed before her arrival, all the above quarantine
rules shall apply to her, her crew, passengers and cargo.
MODIFICATION OF THE ADEN QUARANTINE RULES.
No. 52.
Telegram, dated Bombay, the 31st January 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Depart-
ment,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
Resident, Aden, represents inadequacy of quarantine measure for
Aden as voyages from Bombay and Karachi are short, and recommends
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quarantine for at least ten days on all arrivals from these two ports.
Government propose quarantine for the period by which the number
of days spent on voyage falls short of ten days.
No. 53.
Telegram No. 287, dated Calcutta, the 2nd February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department.
Your telegram dated 31st. Quarantine at Aden. Governor
General in Council sanctions under section 1, Act 1, 1870, quarantine
against arrivals from Bombay and Karachi for the period by which
the number of days spent on the voyage falls short of ten days.
Please issue notifications modifying existing rules and inform Govern-
ment of India of date on which notifications issue and send copies for
publication in Gazette of India.
No. 54.
Telegram No. 379, dated Calcutta, the 7th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department.
Your letter 515, dated 3oth January. Quarantine Rules, Aden.
Please wire if Government of Bombay consider that an altera-
tion of rule 3 to require medical inspection of all vessels irrespective
of time of arrival and deputation of another medical officer to Aden
to assist Port Surgeon will meet circumstances of case. If so, Gov-
ernment of India will arrange to send officer.
No. 55.
Telegram, dated Bombay, the 8th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Depart-
ment,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
Your telegram 379. Aden Quarantine Rules. Rule should be
altered to make inspection of all ships necessary irrespectively of
time of arrival, but it is not thought necessary either to appoint
another Port Surgeon or to compel the present one to inspect at
night. Except in case of mail steamers, vessels from Bombay and
Karachi should be compelled to wait till morning for their inspec-
tion.
No. 56.
Telegram, No. 412, dated the 10th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department.
Your telegram of 8th. Aden Quarantine Rules. Government
of India apprehensive lest prohibition at Aden of medical inspection by
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night except in the case of mail steamers may cause inconvenience to
mercantile community. They would therefore be obliged if it could
be ascertained from Chamber of Commerce whether it would be incon-
venient or not and are disposed to think that if inconvenience would
result, it would be desirable to prevent it by appointing second
medical officer.
No. 57.
Telegram, dated Bombay, the 18th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Depart-
ment,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
Your telegram 412. Chamber of Commerce consider prohibition
of Aden medical inspecting by night inconvenient and that it is
desirable to prevent such inconvenience by appointing second medi-
cal officer.
No. 58.
Telegram No. 639, dated Calcutta, the 20th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department.
Your telegram dated 18th. Please issue modifications rule 3 of
quarantine rules requiring medical inspection of all vessels irrespec-
tive of time of arrival and depute medical officer to assist Port
Surgeon, Aden. Please telegraph date of issue of modified rule and
send copy for publication in Gazette of India.
No. 59.
Telegram, dated 23rd February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department,
To—Home, Calcutta.
Your telegram No. 639 of 20th. Notification modifying rule III
issued to-day.
No. 60.
No. 1055, dated Bombay Castle, the 26th February 1897.
From—J. DEC. ATKINS, Esq., I.C.S., Secretary to the Government of
Bombay, General Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
In continuation of my telegram of the 23rd instant, I am directed
to forward herewith copy of the notification issued by this Government
modifying rule III of the rules for quarantine at Aden against arrivals
from Bombay and Karachi.
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No. 61
Notification No. 823, dated Calcutta, the 5th March 1897.
No. 300, dated the I2th October
1896.
No. 7, dated the 6th January 1897.
In modification of the rules for quarantine against plague, which
were published in Home Department
notifications marginally noted, the
Government of Bombay have with
the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, altered the
first paragraph of rule III of the rules published therein as follows :—
" III.—On such arrivals being signalled the Heath Officer of the
Port or Port Surgeon or other officer appointed for the
purpose shall, as soon as possible, go alongside the vessel
and ascertain by enquiry from the Commander whether
any person is suffering, or has during the voyage suffered
from plague ; and if the ship carries a duly qualified medi-
cal officer, and if the Port Surgeon or Health Officer of
the Port or other officer appointed for the purpose is satis-
fied after a medical inspection that no person on board is
suffering, or during the voyage has suffered, from plague,
quarantine shall be dispensed with and pratique granted."
No. 62.
Telegram, dated Bombay, the 10th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
It is doubtful how the published Aden quarantine rules should be
formally amended in order to give effect to the provision in our
notification* 583 of 3rd instant. A letter on the subject will shortly
issue in meantime ; do India require any change beyond that in our
notification of third instant?
No. 63.
Telegram No. 440, dated Calcutta, the I2th February 1897.
From—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of Bombay, General Department.
Your telegram dated 10th. Quarantine, Regulations Aden. Or-
ders issued in Bombay Government Notification 583, of third, will
suffice pending consideration of letter referred to in your telegram.
No 64.
No. 441, dated Calcutta, the 12th February 1897.
NOTIFICATION .—-By the Government of India, Home Department.
It is notified for general information that the Government of
Bombay have with the previous sanction of the Governor General in
Council declared that quarantine will be imposed on persons landing
at Aden up to ten days from date of leaving Bombay or Karachi.
* The substance of this notification is contained in Government of India Notification
No. 441, dated the 12th February 1897, printed on this page.
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spread of infection by sea.
No. 65.
No. 777, dated Bombay Castle, the 12th February 1897.
From—J. DEC. ATKINS, Esq., Secretary to the Government of Bombay,
General Department,
To—The Secretary to the Government of India, Home Department.
I. Standard quarantine rules,
2
Standard quarantine rules with
modifications of rule III (in ink).
3. Report by the Remembrancer
of Legal Affairs.
4. Report by the Advocate
General.
I am directed to forward herewith copies of the papers mentioned
in the margin and to solicit instruc-
tions as to whether any, and if so.
what, changes should be made in the
standard quarantine rules as sanction-
ed for Aden, with a view to providing
for the change introduced by Notifi-
cation No, 583, dated 3rd February 1897.
2. On the one hand it is desirable to make quarantine rigorous
with a view to preventing the importation of plague into Aden, and
also to preventing quarantine against Aden being imposed by foreign
countries. On the other hand it is difficult and perhaps undesirable
to interfere with ships using Aden as a port of call unless they land
or tranship passengers at Aden or desire to have any intercourse with
the shore.
3. If in Rule III, paragraph (i), of the standard rules the words
"quarantine shall be dispensed with and pratique granted " are
retained, certain difficulties arise. In the first place the new rule,
which must be introduced to provide against the landing of passengers,
is pro tanto a contradiction of this rule. In the next place it is not
intended that quarantine of any kind shall be dispensed with or that
any kind of pratique shall be granted, except in the event of a vessel
having left Bombay ten days previously : and hence the retention of
these words, notwithstanding the modification proposed by the
Remembrancer of Legal Affairs, might in practice give rise to miscon-
ception and lead foreign countries to think that the quarantine
arrangements at Aden were less rigorous than is intended and than
is actually the case.
4. If on the other hand rule III, paragraph (i), is, modified as
shown in ink in draft 2, special provision. must be made for ships
using Aden as a mere port of call. It is not intended to detain these
ships against the wishes of their Commanders, but it is desirable to
provide, until ten days have elapsed since their departure from Bom-
bay, that they shall have no intercourse with- the shore and no inter-
course with other ships except at places appointed for, the purpose
and subject to regulations for placing those ships in quarantine.
5. Rule IV appears to require modification for- the purpose of
providing for the cases of ships using Aden as merely a port of call
* Not printed.