disembark, the patient into a boat, until
7 there shall be no fear of infection
I have to submit to Your Excy that
the vessel abovementioned was
allowed to communicate with the shore on her arrival yesterday, without having any impediment put in her
way; on the other hand the Colonial Physician, impelled by excessive zeal, imposes on this vessel a
quarantine
which is not justifiable; since,
for two months, there
has been no
disease, on
board.
...
about
the same.
f. 4. 15. M. vessels
always in communication
with the shore without the slightest obstacle. Why then should A.M. Steamer "live" be subjected to a quarantine of ten days for one single case on board?
I have further to observe
that as the patient is a private servant
of one of the officers onboard the above-mentioned vessel, H.M. Government cannot consider itself responsible for the expenses occasioned by the Sanitary visits, police, etc.
I beg your Excy to take the circumstances alleged into consideration, and to be pleased, if you think fit, to give orders that the patient be received into the Civil Hospital of the Colony, and that the vessel be placed in free communication, and that in case the regulations of the port forbid such a measure, that the ship's doctor, since he is in quarantine, may attend on the patient, without the necessity of incurring...