The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-05

|. IN THE SOUTH
Latest AdviceS From
Samoa.
BUBONIC PLAGUE BYLAWS
Commodore Weaver Found Out
American Transport Aberanda
At the Port Of Apia.

APIA. Samoa, Feb. 17.-Whereas,
the bubonic plague having appeared in
Honolulu and that place having been
declared by the President TO be an in
fected port, and the said disease hsv-
ing also made its appearance at other
islands in the Pacific which are now
or may hereafter be declared infected
ports; it is deemed necessary that
stringent measures be taken TO prevent
the introduction of the disorder into
Samoa. Now. therefore, it is hereby
enacted as follows:
1. That the President and the
Health officer shall be a Board of
Health.
2. The Board of Health shall have
full power TO frame such bylaws and
regulations providing penalties for
non-observance thereof; give such or
ders, take such measures, and employ
such persons, as may seem to the said
| Board to be from time to time advis-
| able, for the purposes of. preventing
the introduction of bubonic plague into
Samoa and preserving proper sanitary
conditions in the municipality.
3. All bylaws, orders and measures
| framed. made or taken by the Board
of Health shall become law and be
binding and obligatory upon all per-
sons in like manner as If the same
| had respectively been insisssd in or
been provided for in this ordinance and
had been part thereof and shall Ee-
spectively take effect from the publi-
cation. issuing or taking thereof. as
the case may be.
| A. This ordinance may be cited as
the Bubonic Plague Ordinance.
Bylaws Enacted.
Bylaws under the Bubonic Plague
Ordinance, 1900, A. D.:
Whereas, under the Bubonic Plague
ordinance, 1900, enacted by the Munic-
ipal Council of Apia on the 25th of
January, 1900, and duly approved by
the Consular Board, the Board of
Health thereby appointed were author
lied and empowered to frame and en-
act such bylaws (proviuIng penalties
for nOn-Observance thereof, to give
such orders, take such measures and
employ such persons as may seem mt
to them from time TO time advisable
for the purposes of preventing the in
production of bubonic plague into Sa-
moa and preserving proper sanitary
conditions in the municipality of Apia;
And, whereas, for the welfare and
health of the public il is necessary that
lstringent and immediate measures
should be taken to prevent the intro
lductiOn into Samoa of the buboniC
lplague, of which disease the greatest
preventive is cleanliness. both in per-
son and dwelling.
Public notice is hereby given tina
the Board of Health aforesaid, under
the powers vested in it by said 0rdl-
nance. is framed and does hereby pub
lish and enact the following bylaws:
Bylaws having reference to snip
ping and the harbor OF Apia:
| Amy vessel coming from a
plague-infected port having had COM
munication with such port otherwise
than by signal. whether the same shall
have been duly declared an injected
port or not, shall anchor in the Apla
harbor at the place appointed and IN
dicated to him by the municipal pllol
of Apia; and no person on such Yessel
shall be allowed to land or TO have
communication with the shore until
after the vessel has been admitted 70
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| B.--Eyery such vessel coming from
a plague infected port shall remain az
the place so appointed by the pllo'
whether any case Of bubOnlc plague
or not has occurred on board during
the voyage until a period OF at least
ten days has elapsed from the time oi
such vessel leaving the infected port
when, If no case has occurred on
board. the vessel shall be admitted "a
pratique, but IL any Gaze shall nave
developed in the vessel, all persons on
board shall be subject to quarantine as
printed by the municipal quarantine
ordinance 1891.
| C.-EyeTy master of such Nessel
arriving as aforesaid shall. under tne
direction of the Health officer or the
pilot. before entering the harbor Oi
Apia. pump out all bilge water ano
empty all tanks containing water PAL
last or drinking water and snall aiso
disinfect under such direction the ollge
and all tanks on board.
! D.-No such vessel shall enter the
port of Apia at night and all persons
are prohibited from going alongslde
auy such vessel either inside or out
side the harbor on any pretence what