The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-26
HEALTH OFFICE, PORT OF CHARLESTON,
April 23, 1869.
q. p. Walker, Esq, II. B. M Consul,


Il. p. Walker, Esq, II. B. H. Consul,
Charleston:
S1R-I have the honor to ac1 aowledge your
communication of the 21st inst, desiring to be
informed what rules and regulations have been
established for the execution OF the Quaran-
tine laws in this harbor.
1 beg leave to say that all bills of health
American Consul, with official seal attached. or
agent (f no ConsuD of the American Govern
ment, and II no agent, then the principal Of
ficial of the city and port, of the healthy or un-
healthy condition Of the port OF departure.
1t this latter contingency sho-ld exist, the
vessel will be detained at quarantine until such
bills of health can be authenticated by her Ma
jesty's Consul at Charleston.
For further Information, respectfully refer
you to my letter Of the 1st instant to the mer-
chants engaged in the West India trade.
furthermore, all permits of examination
and discharge must be paid for, when issued,
according to tonnage, as in the harbor OF New
York. am, Sir, very respectfully,
ROBERT LEBBT, M. D.,
Health Officer.
That the foregoing may be better under
stood, we reprint and subjoin the letter of the
LIST instant, to which the health officer makes
reference, viz:
CHARLESTON, April 1. 1862
To Messrs, Welch g BrGndes. Risley d Cse,gh.
ton,- A. Canale, Bart 6 Wlrth. W. p.
Hall and J. A. Esasto,o & Co.
CfhNTLEMEM-A nave tne nonOr TO acknOWl-
edge your letter of 31st ult.. requesting to be
informed ''as to what restrictions are imposed
by the recent quarantine law, upon vessels
trading betw cen this port and the British and
Spanish West Indies during the summer sea-
son."
beg leave to inform you that the act of the
General Assembly, passed on the SIKH dsy of
September, 1868, establishing quarantine at
Georgetown, Charleston and Hilton Head, will
be rigidly executed.
The second section Of this act fixes the terms
Of quarantine, viz
'vessels arriving at the ports Of Georgetown,
to quarantine as follows:
II. Al vessels from any place where pesti-
lential.' contagious or infectious disease exist
ea s a. IL the time ct their departure. or which
thence to either OF said ports, or on board OF
which. during the voyage, any case OF such
disease shall have occurred, arriving between
shall remain at quarantine for at least thirty
days after their arrival, aud at least twenty
days after their cargo shall have been dis
and ene1
go. All vessels from any place (including
islands) in Asia, Africa or the Medlterl anean,
or from any Of the West Indies, Bahamas, Ber-
America, in the ordinary passage from which
they pass south of Hilton Head !; and all ves-
sells on board Of which, during the voyage or
while at the port of their departure, any person
day Of May and the first day of November, and
all vessels from q foreign port, and not en-
braced In the first subdivision Of this section,
shall, on arriving. at the quarantine ground, be
subject to visitation by the health oficerss but
shall not be detained beyond the requisite time
for due examination and observation, unless
they shall have had c2 board during the voyage
some case OF infectious, contagious or pestilen-
tlal disease, in which case they shall be sub
1ect to such quarantine and regulations as the
health ofhcers may prescribe.
''S: All vessels embraced in the foregoing
pSro3yisions So3 sic which & are nayigated BY steam,
tine and regulations as the health officer
shall enjoin, unless they shall have had on
board during the voyage some case of infec-
which casa they shall be subiect TO such quar-
ant,ne es the health officers shall pre- escribe."
This is the law.
OF law, am Of opinion, that the first clause is
imperative and that all vessels from any port
where, at the time OF their departure. any in
fictitious, pestilential or contagious disease is
have oeen healthy or not, must be quarantinod
by this act for at least thirty days after arrival
and at least twenty days after the cargoes have
been discharged. The second clause, in my
section, and are detained only for visitation
and examination by the health officer, unless
they shall have had on board during the voy.
age some case of disease in the foregoing
vessels, is entirely discretionary, unless they
shall have had on board during the passage
any ofthe prescribed diseases.
Thus, gentlemen, you have my interpreta-
ton Of the quarantine laws, entrusted to me
for the protection Of the community Of Charles
ton and the prevention by importation of all
epidemic or contagious diseases. Whilst it
barrass your trade or commerce in any manner,
I have duty to perform, and that fearlessly
and impartially, to execute the law, for which
] have been selected by the Executive Of South
Carolina.
am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
RoBKRr.LRBBY, M. D.,
Health Officer Port Of Charleston.
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nineteen bales Of cotton. from Abbeville. was
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