Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-06-23

Mr.. EDITOR,
BY publishing the following, you will
afford some useful hints to our fellow citi- |
sens, and oblige q.
OF the Board of Health Of the City'V
New- York, to their .fsIlou citizens.
The Board of Health on whom deyolves
the important duty of guarding the city
syainst local, as well as foreign causes OF
disease, have deemed proper, on the ap-
proach of the warm season, when the Ut
most care and vigilance are necessary to
ayoid the disastrous consequences of past
times. to address their fellow citizens, and
request their earnest attention to the
means pointed out by the several laws and
regulations adopted for the preservation
of the public health-and they call upon
them, as they value the health of them
selves and families, to assist with zeal &
perseverance, in having said laws and re-
rulations enforced and observed
The several laws and regulations now
in operation for the security of the pub
lie health, constitute a system of external
and internal measures, intended to guard
against both foreign and domestic causes
OF disease. The following is brief sum
mary of them:
All vessels from Asia, Africa and their
Islands, the Mediterranean,Am America south
of Georgia, the West India, Bahama, Ber-
muda or Western Islands, from any for
eiga port with forty or more passengers,
and all vessels on board of which any per-
SON may have died, or been sick, while at
a foreign port, or On her homeward pas
sape, are subject to quarantine, and the
directions of the Health Officer, at all
times OF the year. Every master or COM
rnander of a vessel, offending in the pre-
mises, shall be considered guilty of mis-
deme ,nour, and on conviction thereof,
shall, for each offence, be fined in sum
not exceeding 1000 dollars, or imprisoned
fer not more than IL months.
All vessels from the West India, Ber-
nuda. America south of Georgia & north
of the equator, and Africa, between the
slst of May and ON the lst Of October, are
subject to quarantine, four days at least,
sogether with their passengers and crews,
ana when permitted to depart, must not
come within three hundred yards of the
city. Their earg"es being dise Ia RCD neeA'
By the inspector, the Health Commission
ers may permit them to come to wharf.
after which they may not change their
births between the Slst of May and the
LIST of October, without permission of the
Health Commissioners, or by order of the
Mayor, or Board Of Health. Every mas
ter, commander, consignee, or passenger,
of any vessel, or any person belonging
t., OF connected with the same, offending
against the provisions of this section. is
subiecr to q fine o! 20 thousand dollars.
or imprisonment for term not exceeding
twelve months.
All vessels from the Mediterranean.
Asia, America south of the equator, or
from Madeira, Canary, Cape de Verd,
Western or Bahama Islands, between the
3lst of May and the LIST of October, are
subject to two days quarantine at least:
after which the Health Officer shall di
rect to what wharf they may proceed, &
they cannot change their births without
permission of the Health Commissioners.
The penalty for the violation of these
regulations, is two thousand dollars or
imprisonment
Vessels from any place in the ordina
~ passage from which they must pass to
the south OF Cape Henlopen. between the
3lst of May, and the LIST of October, are
subiect to quarantine. The penalty for
every offence is two thousand dollars or
imprisonment.
All vessels coming from sickly ports.
or on board Of which any person NAV
have died or been sick of malignant fever
during the voyage, shall be unloaded
cleansed, and purified at the quarantine
ground, at any season of the year; and all
SUCH vessels arriving between the 3lst of
May, and the lst Of October, shall be de
tanned net less than thirty days, after
which, when judged safe by the Health
Officer, he shah report them to the Board
of Health for further directions; and no
person from on board such vessel, shall
be permitted to go to the city of New Y rk
until wenty days after the last death or
sickness OF malignan. fever. These reg,,-
lations are enforced under the penalty of
two thousand dollars, or Imprisonment.
All vessels bound to the eastward of
New-York, after the proper examination
by the Health Officer, are permitted to
pass through the sound, but they must
not be brought to anchor off the said city.
nor must any o. the crew or passengers
be permitted TO land, under the penalty of