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No. 10 of 1899.
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Ship to carry medicines, madical stores, etc., In accordance with scale issited by Board of Trade.
Owner, etc.,
provide
Tuedicines
No. 10 of 1899.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
Provisions, Health, and Accommodation.
8. (1) The owner, agent, or master of every British or colonial ship navigating between this Colony and any place out of the same shall cause to be kept on board such ship a supply of medicines and medical stores, in accordance with the scale appropriate to such ship as laid down in the published scales of medicines and medical stores issued by the Board of Trade, and a copy of the book or books issued by the said Board containing instructions for dispensing the same, and also a sufficient quantity of anti-scorbutics, to be served out to the crew, of proper quality and in accordance with the requirements of the Merchant Shipping Acts.
(2) The owner, agent, or master of any such ship who wilfully neglecting to refuses or neglects to provide and keep on board such medicines, medical stores, books of instructions, and anti-scorbutics as are by this section required shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on summary conviction before a Stipendiary Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.
and medical
stores to be guilty of mis. demeanor.
Inspection of
medical stores. M. B. Act. 1894, s. 202,
(3) It shall be the duty of the Health Officer of the Port to inspect the medicines, medical stores, and anti-scorbutics of any British or colonial ship navigating between this Colony and any place out of the same, and, if such articles are deficient in quantity or quality or are placed in improper vessels, he shall give notice to the master of the ship and to the Harbour Master; and the Harbour Master shall, before granting a clearance to such ship, require a certificate from the Health Officer that the default has been remedied, and, if such certificate is not produced, the ship shall be detained until the certificate is produced, and if the ship proceeds to sea, the owner, consignee, or master of the ship shall for each offence be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars.
Master of (4) The master of any ship, before shipping any scaman, may ship before shipping
require that such seaman shall be inspected by the Principal Civil sammy Medical Uncer, who, on euch inspection, shall give a certificate require bim to undergo
under his hand as to the state of health of such seaman, which medical
certificate such seaman shall produce and show to the master of the inspection.
ship in which he may be about to serve; and for every certificate there shall be paid the fee of 50 cents, to be paid by the agent or master of the ship in case such seaman proves to be in sound health, or by the seaman himself in case be shall prove to be affected with
• As amended by No. 2 of 1908, No. 90 of 1911, No. 18 of 1012,
No. 17 of 1912 and No. 48 of 1912 Supp. Sched.
MERCHANT SHIPPING.
any contagious disease, or by the boarding-house keeper with whom [8.8]
Contd.] such seaman is residing, in case such boarding-house keeper shail have failed to report the state of health of such seaman in accordance with the requirements of sub-section (5) hereof.
(5) Every keeper of a licensed boarding-house for seamen, in the Keeper of list of seamen resident in his house which he is required to furnish onsed
boarding- to the Harbour Master, shall report as to the state of health of each house to
report state seaman, so far as he may be able to ascertain the same; and every of boarders scaman who is reported, or is otherwise discovered, to be affected health. with a contagious disease shall be removed, by warrant under the hand of the Harbour Master; to a hospital, where he shall be kept until he is discharged as cured, and has obtained a certificate of bis having been so discharged, which certificate he shall produce and show to the Harbour Master, when required to do so; and the ex- penses which may be incurred in and about the maintenance and treatment of any such seaman in such hospital shall be a debt due to the Crown, and shall be paid by such seaman; or, in case the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seaman has resided before his removal to hospital has not reported, or has made a false report, as to the state of health of such seaman, then auch expenses shall ie paid by such boarding-house keeper, in case it appears to and is certified by the medical officer in charge of the hospital, to which such seaman is removed, or by an assistant surgeon, that the disease with which he is affected is of such a nature as that the keeper of the boarding-house could, with ordinary and reasonable observation, have ascertained its existence; and in every case such expenses shall, in case of non-payment, be sued for and recovered by the Harbour Master on behalf of the hospital.
obstructing
to hospital.
(6) If any seaman affected with a contagious disease, and Penalty on reported so to be by the keeper of the boarding-house in which such seams for scaman is residing, refuses or offers any hindrance or obstruction to removal his removal to a hospital; or, having been removed to a hospital, attempts to leave the same before he is properly discharged cured; or, having been discharged cured, refuses to produce his certificate of discharge when required by the Harbour Master to do so; or, being affected with a contagious disease, refuses or neglects to inform the keeper of the boarding-house in which he is residing of the fact of his being so affected, then and in every such case such seaman so offending shall be liable to a fine not exceeding 25 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month,