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Date of Regulation.
March
9th,
1897.
March
22nd,
1897.
April 5th, 1897.
December 6th,
1896.
February 11th,
1897.
August
3rd,
1897.
October 16th,
1896.
February 12th,
1897.
March
5th,
,1897.
July 8th, 1897.
February 2nd,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
Ships from India prohibited from passing the
Dardanelles unless previously detained for fifteen
days in an Ottoman or other quarantine station.
Susceptible goods, including jute sacking, from
Indian ports to be disinfected, unless already ad-
mitted to free pratique at a port of transhipment.
Restrictions regarding the passage of the Dar-
danelles withdrawn.
ASIA.
(20) TURKISH ARABIA.
Twenty-one days' quarantine imposed at Bussorah
on arrival from Bombay.
Quarantine against arrivals from India raised from
ten to fifteen days. If a case of plague occurs
during the detention in the lazaret, the same mea-
sures prescribed as in the case of Turkish ports.
Quarantine against arrivals from India reduced to
ten days.
(21) PERSIA.
Quarantine imposed against arrivals from Bombay.
Infected or suspected vessels absolutely excluded,
but allowed to land mails. Five days' quarantine
for passengers and cargo imposed at Bushire, and
seven days at ports nearer India, All dangerous
cargo on healthy ships prohibited.
Rezáis, mattresses, blankets, skins, rags, cotton
waste and secondhand clothing classed as suspicious.
Quarantine reduced to three days.
(22) MUSCAT.
Quarantine imposed against arrivals from Bombay
and Karachi.
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enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation.
March
3rd,
1897.
Orders issued
during the
early period
of the epide-
mic,
but
exact date
unknown.
February 19th,
1897.
July 23rd, 1897.
Purport of Regulation.
Regulations imposed at Muscat. All arrivals
from Indian ports placed in quarantine and medically
inspected. Healthy vessels granted pratique and
allowed to land cargo. Cargo to be discharged into
lighters by the ship's crew. Landing of rags and
cotton waste and other articles considered suscepti-
ble, prohibited. Vessels on which a case of plague
has occurred not permitted to communicate with
the shore except for the purpose of landing mails.
In the event of pratique being given, passengers for
Muscat landed under supervision and detained for
nine days from the date of departure from the last
infected port, or from the last case occurring
in the lazaretto. Baggage of passengers disinfected
on landing.
(23) CEYLON.
Fifteen days' quarantine imposed on arrivals from
Western Indian ports, during which period dis-
charge of passengers and cargo prohibited. Entry
of dangerous articles forbidden.
Landing from vessels coming directly or indirectly
from Karachi, Bombay and Goa of the following
articles prohibited : Rags, used apparel, bedding,
waste paper, and used gunny bags.
Entry and transhipment prohibited of all goods
classed as susceptible by the Venice Convention com-
ing directly or indirectly from ports in the West Coast
of India. Customs-officer to cause the destruction
of interdicted goods imported from ports on the
West Coast of India.
Arrivals from ports on the West Coast of India to
be subjected to quarantine for a period not exceed-
ing ten days from the date of departure. Persons
and goods not to be landed during the quarantine
period.
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Date of Regulation.
April
28th,
1897.
October 17th,
1896.
February 15th,
1897.
February 3rd,
1897.
April 21st, 1897.
May 6th. 1897.
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October 12th,
1896.
Purport of Regulation.
Doctor of the Colonial Government appointed to
Tuticorin for the examination of emigrants and other
persons desiring to sail from Tuticorin for Ceylon.
(24) GOA.
Five days' quarantine imposed against arrivals
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from Bombay or the south.
(25) SIAM.
Vessels from Bombay inspected at Paknam by
Siamese authorities before proceeding to Bangkok.
(26) NETHERLANDS INDIA.
Ten days' quarantine imposed against arrivals
from Bombay and Karachi.
Whole West Coast of India declared infected.
Nine days' quarantine imposed against arrivals
from Bombay and Karachi since the date of depar-
ture or the last case on board. Entry of butter,
victuals, rags, raw wool, hair, hides, furriery from
Bombay and Karachi temporarily forbidden.
AFRICA.
(27) EGYPT.
The plague regulations of 1894 put into force by
the Sanitary Board, with a modification with respect
to healthy vessels. The 1894 Regulations follow the
Venice Sanitary Convention of 1892, but are more
stringent in the treatment of infected ships.
The regulations deal with (a) vessels passing
through the Suez Canal and (b) vessels bound for
Egyptian ports. They are based on the threefold
classification of ships into healthy, suspected and
infected.
Healthy vessels are those which have left an in-
fected port for seven days or more and have had no
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enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation.
February 3rd,
1697.
Purport of Regulation.
case of plague on hoard ; suspected vessels are
those on which, though cases of plague have occur-
red, no fresh case has occurred within nine days ;
and infected vessels are those on which plague has
been present within nine days of arrival.
With regard to the passage of the Canal. Healthy
vessels are allowed to pass through the Canal.
Suspected vessels carrying a doctor and a disinfect-
ing stove are allowed to pass through the Canal in
quarantine. Suspected vessels without a doctor and
disinfecting stove are detained at Moses' Wells for
the period required for disinfection and for ascer-
taining the condition of the ship's health. Unlike
the Venice Convention the regulations dealing
with infected vessels make no distinction between
vessels which do and which do not carry a doctor
and a disinfecting stove. The vessel is detained at
the sanitary station. The sick are landed and de-
tained in hospital. The healthy are landed and
detained under observation for a period not exceed-
ing seven days from the last case. The baggage,
the vessel and susceptible articles in the cargo are
disinfected.
With regard to vessels bound for Egyptian ports.
Free pratique is granted to healthy vessels after
satisfactory medical inspection, disinfection of dirty
linen, etc., and change of water. Suspected vessels
on which a case has occurred within fourteen days
are detained forty-eight hours at the sanitary station,
and the ship, baggage and susceptible articles in the
cargo are disinfected. Free pratique is then grant-
ed. Before free pratique is granted to the pas-
sengers they are also detained forty-eight hours on
shore and their personal belongings are disinfected.
Importation of the articles named in the subjoined
list prohibited from vessels which have touched at an
infected port :
Rags, carpets, embroideries, body linen, personal
effects, used garments and bedding (when not car-
ried as baggage), animal products (including horse-
hair and raw wool), claws, hoofs, sacking, plants, roots
and fresh and dried fruit.
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Date of Regulation.
February 4th,
1897.
February 2nd,
1897.
February 11th,
1897-
January 16th,
1897.
March
25th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
Inspection of vessels from infected ports prohibit-
ed at night.
Ships from an infected port passing the Canal in
quarantine not allowed to coal at Port Said during
the night.
Regulations based on the Venice Convention of
1897 issued by the Egyptian Quarantine Board.
These regulations reproduce the portions of the
Venice Convention which deal with (1) the measures
to be taken in the Red Sea, (2) the passage of the
Canal in quarantine, and (3) the treatment of vessels
arriving in Egypt from a plague-infected port in the
Mediterranean. The regulations for suspected vessels
prescribe, in addition to the measures expressly
laid down by the Convention, the disinfection of the
ship, baggage, etc., and susceptible merchandise be-
fore free pratique is granted in Egypt.
The passage of the Canal in quarantine to be
arranged so that the vessel arrives at Port Said
during the day.
(28) MOROCCO.
Vessels from British India not admitted.
(29) TUNIS.
Importation of the following articles from infected
Indian ports prohibited : Rags, clothes, bedding,,
raw leather and hides, animal refuse, etc.
(30) ZANZIBAR.
Steamers and native craft examined on arrival.
Healthy vessels granted free pratique. Arrange-
ments for the quarantine on shore of persons from
infected ships.
(31) MADAGASCAR.
All ships coming from infected Indian ports re-
pulsed.
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enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation.
March
25th,
1897.
May 19th, 1897.
December 18th,
1897.
December 3oth,
1897.
January 20th,
1897.
March 8th, 1897.
March
24th,
1897.
April 6th, 1897.
Purport of Regulation.
(32) RÉUNION.
Rice and grain in bags from Bombay must be
transferred on arrival to fresh uninfected bags. No
susceptible articles admitted.
All Indian ports declared infected. Rice ships
repulsed.
(33) NATAL.
Bombay declared infected.
Twelve days' quarantine imposed on arrivals from
Bombay.
AMERICA.
(34) UNITED STATES.
Treasury Quarantine Cholera Regulations applied
to plague with fifteen days' detention of exposed
persons.
(35) BRAZIL.
All Indian ports and Burma declared infected ;
ships proceed to lazaretto at Ilha-Grande.
(36) PERU.
All arrivals from healthy Indian ports with clean
bill-of-health admitted to free pratique. Ten days'
quarantine on arrivals from infected ports, but cargo
from infected ports cannot be discharged. No re-
laxations in the rules allowed in the case of vessels
previously calling at other ports.
(37) FRENCH GUIANA.
Rags, green hides, carpets, personal effects and
bedding, used or unused, from Indian ports only
admitted through the quarantine ports and after dis-
infection.
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General Regulations of the Local Government Board No.
of the United Kingdom as to Cholera, Yellow
Fever, and Plague.
To all port Sanitary authorities ;
To all other Sanitary authorities as herein defined ;
To the Queen's Harbour masters of dockyard ports ;
To all officers of Customs ;
To all medical officers of health of the Sanitary authorities
aforesaid ;
To all masters of ships ;
To all pilots ;
And to all others whom it may concern.
Whereas we, the Local Government Board, are empowered by
section 130 of "The Public Health Act, 1875," as amended by
" The Public Health Act, 1896, '' from time to time to make, alter, and
revoke such Regulations as to us may seem fit, with a view to the treat-
ment of persons affected with cholera or any other epidemic, endemic,
or infectious disease, and preventing the spread of cholera and such
other diseases, as well on the seas, rivers and waters of the United
Kingdom, and on the high seas within 3 miles of the coasts thereof,
as on land ; and may provide for the enforcement and execution of
such Regulations ;
And whereas by section 1 of "The Public Health Act, 1896,"
it is enacted that Regulations of the Local Government Board made
o
in pursuance of section 140 of " The Public Health Act, 1875," or
in pursuance of that section, as extended to London by " The
Public Health (London) Act, 1891," may provide for such Regulations
being enforced and executed by the officers of Customs and the officers
and men employed in the coastguard, as well as by other authorities
and officers, and without prejudice to the generality of the powers
conferred by those sections may provide for—
(a) the signals to be hoisted by vessels having any case of
epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease on board ; and
(b) the questions to be answered by masters, pilots, and other
persons on board any vessel as to cases of such disease
on board during the voyage or on the arrival of the
vessel ; and
(c) the detention of vessels and of persons on board vessels;
and
(d) the duties to be performed in cases of such disease by
masters, pilots, and other persons on board vessels:
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enforced in other countries.
Provided that the Regulations shall be subject to the con-
sent—
(a) so far as they apply to the officers of Customs, of the
Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs ; and
(b) so far as they apply to officers or men employed in the
coastguard of the Admiralty ; and
(c) so far as they apply to signals, of the Board of Trade.
And whereas by certain Orders, dated respectively the 28th day
of August, 1890, and the 6th day of September, 1892, we made Regu-
lations with a view to the treatment of persons affected with
cholera, and for preventing the spread of the disease, and it is
expedient that such Orders should be revoked, and that Regulations
should be made as hereinafter mentioned, to which the Commissioners
of Her Majesty's Customs and the Board of Trade have respectively
signified their consent so far as such Regulations respectively apply
to the Officers of Customs and to signals :
No\v, therefore, we, the Local Government Board, do hereby
revoke the aforesaid Orders, except in so far as they may apply to
any proceedings now pending, and we do, by this our Order,
and in exercise of the powers conferred on us by " The Public
Health Act, 1875," "The Public Health (London) Act, 1891," and
" The Public Health Act, 1895," and every other power enabling
us in that behalf, make the following Regulations, and declare that
they shall be enforced and executed by the authorities and officers
hereinafter mentioned :—
PART I.
Art. 1.—In this Order-
Tile term " ship " includes vessel or boat.
The term " Officer of Customs " includes any person acting under
the authority of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs.
The term " master," used in relation to a ship, includes the officer,
pilot, or other person for the time being in charge or command of
the ship.
The term " cholera''' includes choleraic diarrhoea,
The term "Sanitary authority " means every port Sanitary
authority, and every Council of a county, borough, and every urban or
rural District Council whose district includes or abuts on any part of
a Customs port, which part is not within the jurisdiction of a port
Sanitary authority.
The term " Local authority" means any Council of a county
borough, or any urban or rural District Council, and in the
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administrative County of London any Sanitary authority' as defined
by "The Public Health (London) Act, 1891."
The term " Medical Officer of Health" includes any duly-quali-
fied medical practitioner appointed or employed by a sanitary
authority to act in the execution of this Order.
The term " infected " means infected with cholera, yellow fever,
or plague : Provided that every ship shall be deemed infected in
which there is or has been during the voyage, or during the stay of
such ship in the port of departure or in a port in the course of such
voyage, any case of cholera, yellow fever, or plague.
PART II.
Art. 2.—(1) The Officer of Customs who, on the arrival of any
ship from foreign, shall visit the ship shall ascertain, so far as possi-
ble, whether such ship is infected, and if he have any reason to
suspect that the ship is infected, or has come from any infected
place, shall require the master of the ship, or the surgeon, if the ship
carries a surgeon, to give (in writing under his hand and in the form
hereunto appended, or in a form to the like effect) a true answer to
the following question : —
Question.—'Has any case or suspected case of—
Cholera,
Yellow fever, or
Plague
occurred in the ship
, of which you are
, during the voyage from
, or during the
stay of the ship in that port or in any other port in the course of
the voyage ?
Answer.—
cases or suspected cases of
occurred on board the
during the voyage from
[or during the stay of the ship in the port of
or
No case or suspected case of cholera, yellow fever, or plague
occurred on board the
during the voyage from
, or during the stay of the ship in that port or in
any other port in the course of the voyage.
(Signed)
Master [or Surgeon] of the
(2) The Officer of Customs who, on the arrival of any ship from
foreign, shall visit such ship shall, if he find, or have reason to sus-
pect, that the ship is infected, detain such ship, and order the master
forthwith to moor or anchor the same in such position as such Officer
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enforced in other countries.
of Customs shall direct ; and thereupon the master shall forthwith
moor or anchor the ship accordingly.
Art. 3.—Whilst such ship shall be so detained, no person (other
than an Officer of Customs or a person acting in the execution of
this Order) shall leave the same.
Art. 4.—The Officer of Customs detaining any ship as aforesaid
shall forthwith give notice thereof, and of the cause of such detention
to the Sanitary authority of the place where such ship is lying.
Art. 5.—Such detention by the Officer of Customs shall cease as
soon as the ship shall have been duly visited and examined by the
Medical Officer of Health ; or, if the ship shall, upon such examina-
tion, be found to be infected, as soon as the same shall be moored or
anchored in pursuance of Article 10.
Provided that, if the examination be not commenced within twelve
hours after the ship shall have been moored or anchored in pursuance
of subdivision 2 of Article 2, the ship shall, on the expiration of the
said twelve hours, be released from detention.
Art. 6.—Every port Sanitary authority and every other Sanitary
authority within whose district persons are likely to be landed from
ships coming foreign shall, with the approval of the Chief Officer of
Customs of the port, fix some place where any ship may be moored
or anchored for the purpose of Article 10 ; and shall make provision
for the reception of patients and persons suffering from cholera, yellow
fever, and plague, and removed under articles 13 and 14. The place
to be fixed as aforesaid, where any ship may be moored or anchored
for the purpose of Article ro, shall be some place within the jurisdic-
tion or district of the Sanitary authority, unless we otherwise con-
sent ; in which case the place so fixed shall, for the purposes of this
Order, be deemed to be within such jurisdiction or district:
Provided that, in the case of any dockyard port for which a
Queen's Harbourmaster has been appointed, the place where any
ship shall be moored or anchored for the purpose of Article 10 shall
from time to time be fixed by the port Sanitary authority with the
approval of the Queen's Harbourmaster, instead of with that of the
Chief Officer of Customs of the port :
Provided also, that where, in pursuance of the above cited Order
of the 28th day of August, 1890, or of any Order by the said Order
revoked, places have been fixed for the mooring, or anchoring of
ships for the purposes of the Regulations by this Order revoked, such
places shall be deemed to have been so fixed in pursuance of and
for the purposes of this Order.
Art, 7. The Sanitary authority, on notice being given to them by an
Officer of Customs under Article 4, shall forthwith cause the ship in
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regard to which such notice shall have been given, to be visited and
examined by their Medical Officer of Health for the purpose of ascer-
taining whether such ship is infected.
Art. 8. The Medical Officer of Health, if he have reason to sus-
pect that any ship coming or being within the jurisdiction or district
of the Sanitary authority, whether examined by the Officer of Cus-
toms or not, is infected, shall, or, if he have reason to suspect that
the ship has come from an infected place, may visit and examine such
ship for the purpose of ascertaining whether such ship is infected,
and may make the like visit and examination in the case of any ship
coming or being within the jurisdiction of the Sanitary authority
which has come from an infected place. The master of any such
ship shall permit the same to be so visited and examined.
The master of any' such ship shall also, on being required so to do
by the Medical Officer of Health, cause the ship to be brought-to,
and, if necessary, moored or anchored, in some convenient place
while the same shall be visited and examined ; but due regard shall
be had to the safety of the ship and to the convenience of navi-
gation.
Art. 9. If the Medical Officer of Health, on making such exam-
ination as aforesaid (whether under Article 7 or under Article 8), shall
be of opinion that the ship is infected, he shall forthwith give a cer-
tificate in duplicate in the following form, or to the like effect, and
shall deliver one copy to the master and retain the other copy or
transmit it to the Sanitary authority. He shall also give to us in-
formation as to the arrival of the ship, and such other particulars as
we may require.
Certificate.
day of
, 189...
,
.,,,,...District [or Town] Council.
or
Port Sanitary authority.
I hereby certify that I have examined the ship
of
, now lying in the port of
[or
detained
at
]
and
that I find that such ship is infected with
[cholera, or yellow fever, or plague].
(Signed)
Medical Officer of Health [or Medical Practitioner appointed
or employed by the Sanitary authority].
Art. 10. The master of any ship so certified tobe infected shall
thereupon moor or anchor such ship at the place fixed for that purpose
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under Article 6, and such ship shall remain there until the re-
quirements of this Order have been duly fulfilled.
Art. 11. No person (other than an Officer of Customs or a person
acting in the execution of this Order) shall leave any such ship
until the examination hereinafter mentioned shall have been made.
Art. 12. The Medical Officer of Health shall, as soon as possible
after any such ship has been certified to be infected, examine every
person on board the same, and in the case of any person suffering
from cholera, yellow fever, or plague, or from any illness which the
Medical Officer suspects may prove to be cholera, yellow fever, or
plague, shall certify accordingly.
Art. 13. Every person certified by the Medical Officer of Health
to be suffering from cholera, yellow fever, or plague, shall be removed
if his condition admit of it, to some hospital or other suitable place
appointed for that purpose by the Sanitary authority ; and no person
so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the Medical
Officer of Health shall have certified that such person is free from
the said disease.
If any person so certified to be suffering from cholera, yellow
fever, or plague cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject, for
the purposes of this Order, to the control of the Medical Officer of
Health ; and such person shall not be removed from or leave the
ship, except with the consent, in writing, of the Medical Officer of
Health.
Art. 14. Any person certified by the Medical Officer of Health
to be suffering from any illness which such officer suspects may prove
to be cholera, yellow fever, or plague, may either be detained on
board the ship for any period not exceeding two days, or be taken
to some hospital or other suitable place appointed for that purpose by
the Sanitary authority, and detained there, for a like period, in order
that it may be ascertained whether the illness is or is not cholera,
yellow fever, or plague.
If any such person, while so detained, shall be certified by the
Medical Officer of Health to be suffering from cholera, yellow fever,
or plague, the provisions of Article 13 shall apply.
Art. 15. No person on board such a ship as is mentioned in
Article 12 who has not been certified as required by that Article shall
be permitted to land unless he satisfy the Medical Officer as to his
name, intended place of destination, and intended address at such
place.
Such name, intended place of destination, and address shall forth-
with be given by the Medical Officer of Health to the clerk to the