The Independent. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1895-1905, 1900-03-05
FROM SAMOA.
News frcm the South Seas -Precau-
tions Against the Plague

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 hav-
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, 1t is hereby
enacted as follows.
l. That the President and the
Health officer shall be Board of
Health.
2. The Board of Health shall have
full power to frame such bylaws and
regulations providing penalties for
n-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.
s. 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 insisted in or
been provided for in this ordinance and
had been part thereof and shall re-
spectively take effect from the publ
cation, issuing or taking thereof, as
the case may be.
T. This ordinance may be cited as
the Bubonic Plague Ordinance.
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
lied and empowered to frame and en-
act such bylaws (providlng penalties
for non-observance thereof, to give
such orders, take such measures and
employ such persons as may seem fit
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 it is necessary that
stringent and immediate measures
should be taken to prevent the intro
duction into Samoa of the bubonic
plague, of which disease the greatest
preventive is cleanliness, both in per-
son and dwelling.
Public notice is hereby given that
the Board of Health aforesaid, under
the powers vested in it by said ordi-
nance, is framed and does hereby pub
lish and enact the following bylaws:
Bylaws having reference to ship
ping and the harbor of Apia:
Amy vessel coming from
plague-infected port having had COM
munication with such port otherwise
than by signal, whether the same shall
have been duly declared an infected
port or not, shall anchor in the Apia
harbor at the place appointed and In
dicated to him by the municipal pilot
of Apia; and no person on such vessel
shall be allowed to land or to have
communication with the shore until
after the vessel has been admitted to
pratique by the Health Office of Apia.
B.-Every such vessel coming from
plague infected port shall remain at
the place SO appointed by the pilot
whether any case of bubonie plague
or not has occurred on board during
the voyage until a period of at least
ten days has elapsed from the time of
such vessel leaving the infected port,
when, If no case has occurred on
board, the vessel shall be admitted to
pratique, but if any case shall have
developed in the vessel, all persons on
board shall be subject to quarantine as
printed by the municipal quarantine
ordinance 1891.
C.-Every master of such vessel
arriving as aforesaid shall, under the
direction of the Health officer or the
pilot, before entering the harbor of
Apia, pump out all bilge water and