The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-27
new QUARANTINE RULES
State Board Of Health Adopts
Rigid Regulations for In
speeting Vessels.
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TRENTON, July q. lS97.-In the future
all vessels arriving at New Jersey ports
having On board any cases of infectious
diseases, or coming from infested dis
tricts, will be subject to a rigid quaran-
tine.
Among the measures passed by the last
Legislature was one entitled An act to
prevent the introduction of dangerous in
fictitious, epidemic and ~pestilential diseases
into the State of New Jersey, and to
improve the present system Of maritime
quarantine" The State Board Of Health
since the passage Of the act has given
much attention to the subject Of maritime
quarantine. which has resulted in the pre-
paration of a quarantine code by the
State Board. This win be issued in cir
cular form within a few days. and will
contain also all the statutes of the State
relating to the subject of quarantine.
The regulations of the State Board are
designed simply to carry out the inten-
lions expressed in the several acts of the
Legislature. They provide, first, that
every vessel arriving in any port or har-
Dor of the State shall be subject to visi-
tation and inspection by the Health OFF,
Ger Of the port, If there be u an officer,
and if not by an officer designated by the
local Board of Health having Jurisdiction
over that port or harbor. No person Is
allowed to land from or board any vessel
arriving from a foreign port or from any
infected place. or from any port south of
Cape Henlopen, from May ! to November
!, nor is any baggage or cargo allowed
to be taken from the vessel until a permit
has been first secured.
This permit is to be issued to the mas
ter of every vessel by the Health Officer
of the port, provided that the vessel
shall have been subjected to sanitary in
spection by the proper officer at one of
the quarantine stations of the port of
New York; hat a written permit issued
by this officer shall have been deposited
with the officer of the port, and that the
vessel, her passengers, crew, baggage and
cargo shall have been found by the Off
GERS of the port or the local Board of
Health to be free from the infection of
yellow fever, cholera, typhus fever, diph-
iberia, smallpox, measles or n other
disease of a contagious, infectious or pes
tilential nature.
The regulations also provide that no
permit shall be issued to land passengers
crew or cargo to any vessel from any for
eign port until it has been shown that the
requirements of the act of Congress, ap-
proved February Is, 1893, a V been con-
formed to. No straw or bedding is al
lowed to be landed from any vessel from
a foreign port or an infected place until
1t has been thoroughly disinfected by the
Health officer. The board prescribes that
this disinfection shall consist in exposure,
In a closed chamber, to steam at a tenn
perature of not less thar 240 degrees Far
enheit, and for a period of not less than
thirty minutes.
1t is required that a special permit must
be taken out to land rags, hides, straw or
bedding from a vessel from a foreign or
infected port or from one south OF Cape
H~enlopen.
AS soon as an infected vessel, or one
having on board any person with an In
f~ectious disease, arrives, it Is made the
duty of the Health officer of the port to
at once notify the State Board of Health.
at Trenton, by telegraph. In case any
such vessel arrives In any harbor or port
on the eastern border of the State
the local officer is required to cause 1t to
proceed at once to the Quarantine Station
of the port of New York, and it is made
the duty of the vessels commander to see
that it is taken there for such detention
and disinfection as may be necessary
The penalty for violating any OF the
of these regulations or the
State Board of Health is a fine of $3.50, or
by imprisonment for not more than six
months, or both.