CO129-117 - Public Offices - 1866 — Page 503

in the character of an Officer of Health.

Common sense alone shows that the

(Summander could have no

In concealing that he had

intuit

of

small pop on board, when the first thing binform the Colonial physician

he did was

of it, and to request that the patient right be received into the hospital.

Civil

Whether there have or have not been

and

cases of small pop both in the colony and on board $.13. M. ships of war, that there have had communication with the shore, if Your Exey should think proper & investigate the matter, perhaps it will be found that there is no mistake on my part-

The difficulties which have been put in the way of the "tiree proceed, no doubt, from the imperfect

organization of the vanitary

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thorities, who in all countries gene-

qua-

cally provide for vessels in rantine a place to receive the sick,

so as to prevent infection on board, and the expenses incurred are

ce charged

to the vessel.

With regard to the observation that the risk incurred by the.

by the communication

Mravoida

of the Officer of health with the shore isabel, Surill remark that. this does not justify the irregularity, of the measure : either the disorder= is contagions and the officer of heathe who visits the vessel ought to be put in quarantine, or it is not contagions, and the vessel ought to be admited