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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE

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CO. 885

9 PUBLIC RECORD' OFFICE, LONDON

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Miscellaneous, No. 167.

DRAFT MODEL QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

PREPARED BY DR. THOMSON, MEDICAL INSPECTOR OF THE LOCAL Government Board.

1. In these regulations: -

"Health Officer" includes any duly qualified medical practitioner appointed

or employed to act in the execution of these Regulations.

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Ship "includes vessel or boat.

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"Master charge of any ship.

means the master, officer, or other person for the time being in "Infectious or contagious disease" means Cholera, Plague, Yellow Fever, Small-pox or other infectious or contagious disease of a dangerous' nature,

"Infected place" means any port or place where any infectious or contagious disease exists: Provided that a place shall not be regarded as infected because of the occurrence of imported cases of such disease or because of the occurrence of a single non-imported case.

"Infected ship " means a ship on board of which a case or cases of infectious or contagious disease are present or have occurred within a period of twelve days previous to the date of arrival of the ship, except in the case of plague, cholera, and yellow fever, when such period shall be seven days instead of twelve.

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Suspected ship" means a ship on board of which a case or cases of infectious or contagious disease have occurred during the voyage or during the stay of such ship in the port of departure, but on board of which no fresh case has occurred within a period of twelve days, or in the case of plague, cholera and yellow fever, seven days, previous to the arrival of the ship.

"Healthy ship" means a ship which, although having come from an infected place, has had on board no death from, nor any case of, infectious or contagious disease either before leaving the port of departure, or during the voyage or on arrival.

"Observation " means isolation of passengers, either in a sanitary station or on board ship prior to their obtaining free pratique.

Surveillance ""

means that passengers are not isolated. They receive free pratique at once and are allowed to proceed to their place of destination (the proper Authority of which must be informed of their arrival), there to undergo medical supervision.

2. Every infected and suspected ship and every ship arriving from an infected place shall be inspected immediately on arrival by the Health Officer. "The Health Officer may board any ship arriving in the waters of the Colony and inspect every person in the ship. He may, if he think proper, call for inspection of the ship's books and papers, and he shall use every lawful means which may seem to him expedient for ascertaining the state of health of the persons on board and the sanitary condition of the ship.

3. Infected ships shall be dealt with as follows:-

(a.) The sick shall be at once disembarked and isolated.

(6.) The other persons on board shall be disembarked if possible and subjected to surveillance or kept under observation for a period which, when observation is resorted to, shall not exceed five days in the case of plague and cholera, six days in the case of yellow fever, and twelve days in the case of other infections or contagious diseases. Where surveillance is resorted to, the

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