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above-recited Orders contained, except in so far as they apply to Scotland, or may apply to any proceedings now pending, and We do hereby Order as follows:
Art. 1.In this Order :-
Definitions.
The term "Ship" includes vessel or boat;
The term "Officer of Customs," includes any person having authority from the Commissioners of Customs;
The term "Master" includes the officer or person for the time being in
charge or command of a ship;
The term "Cholera" includes Choleraic Diarrhea;
The term "Sanitary Authority" has the same meaning as in "The
Public Health Act, 1872";
The term " Clothing and Bedding" includes all clothing and bedding in actual use and worn or used by the person attacked, at the time of or during the attack of Cholera.
For the purposes of this Order, every ship shall be deemed infected with Cholera, in which there is or has been during the voyage or during the stay of such ship in a foreign port in the course of such voyage, any case of Cholera.
1.--Regulations as to Customs Inspection.
Art. 2.-If any Officer of Customs, on the arrival within the limits of any port in England of any ship, ascertains from the master of such ship or otherwise, or has reason to suspect, that the ship is infected with Cholera, he may detain such ship, and order the master forthwith to moor or anchor the same; and thereupon the master shall forthwith moor or anchor the ship in such position as such Officer of Customs shall direct.
Art. 3. Whilst such ship shall be so detained, no person shall leave the same.
Art. 4.-The Officer of Customs detaining any ship as aforesaid, shall forthwith give notice thereof, and of the cause of such detention, to the Port Sanitary Authority, if there be one, or otherwise, to the Sanitary Authority of the District within which the ship shall be detained.
Art. 5.--Such detention by the Officer of Customs shall cease as soon as the said ship shall have been duly visited and examined by the proper Officer of the Sanitary Authority; or, if the ship shall, upon such exam- ination, be found to be infected with Cholera, as soon as the same shall be anchored or moored in pursuance of Art. 9 of this Order.
Provided, that if the examination be not commenced within twelve hours after notice given as aforesaid, the ship shall, on the expiration of the said twelve hours, be released from detention.
II.--Regulations as to Sanitary Authorities.
Art. 6. The Port or other Sanitary Authority at every port shall, as speedily as practicable, with the approval of the Chief Officer of Customs of such port, fix some place or places within the said port where any ship may be detained, moored, or anchored, for the purpose of these regulations.
Art. 7.--Any officer appointed by such Sanitary Authority to see to the carrying out of this Order, if he have reason to believe that any ship arriving within the district of such Authority, whether examined by the Officer of Customs or not, is infected with Cholera, or shall have come from a place infected with Cholera, may visit and examine such ship, for
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the purpose of ascertaining whether it is so infected; and the Master of such ship shall suffer the same to be so visited and examined.
Art. 8.-The Sanitary Authority, on notice being given to them by an Officer of Customs, under this Order, shall forthwith cause the ship in regard to which such notice shall have been given, to be visited and examined by their Medical Officer of Health, or some other legally qualified Medical Practitioner, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is infected with Cholera.
Art. 9.--The master of every ship which is infected with Cholera shall, after any such examination as aforesaid, as long as the ship is within the District of a Sanitary Authority, moor or anchor her in such position as from time to time the said Authority shall direct.
Art. 10.-No person shall leave any such ship until the examination herein-after mentioned shall have been made.
Art. 11-The Sanitary Authority shall, as soon as possible after the arrival of any such ship, cause all persons on board of the same to be examined by their Medical Officer of Health, or some other legally qualified Medical Practitioner, and shall permit all persons who shall not be certified by him, as hereafter mentioned, to land immediately.
Art. 12.-Every person certified by the Medical Officer of Health or Medical Practitioner making such examination, to be suffering from Cholera, shall be dealt with under any rules that may have been made by the Sanitary Authority under the 29th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, or, where no such rules shall have been made, shall be removed, if the condition of the patient admit of it, to some hospital or place previously appointed for such purpose by the said Authority; and no person so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the Medical some other legally qualified Officer of Health of the Authority, or Medical Practitioner appointed by them, shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease.
If any person suffering from Cholera cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject, for the purposes of this Order, to the control of the Medical Officer of Health, or some other legally qualified Medical Practi- tioner appointed by the said Authority; and the infected person shall not be removed from or leave the ship, except with the consent in writing of the Medical Officer of Health or other Medical Practitioner.
Art. 13.--Such Medical Officer of Health or Medical Practitioner shall give directions, and take such steps as may appear to him to be necessary, for preventing the spread of the infection, and the Master of the said Ship shall forthwith carry into execution such directions as shall be given to him by such Officer or Practitioner.
Art. 14.-Any person certified by such Medical Officer of Health or Medical Practitioner as aforesaid to be suffering from any diarrhoeal or other illness which he may suspect to be Cholera, may either be detained on board the ship or taken to some hospital or other previously appointed place, and detailed there, for any period not exceeding two days, until it be ascertained whether the illness is or is not Cholera.
Any such person who, while so detained, shall be certified by the Medical Officer of Health or Medical Practitioner to be suffering from Cholera, shall be dealt with as in the above Article relating to patients suffering from that disease.
Art. 15.--In the event of any death from Cholera taking place on board of such vessel while so detained, the Master shall cause the dead body to be taken out to sea, and committed to the deep, properly loaded to prevent its rising.
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