CO129-180 - Public Offices & Others - 1877 — Page 365

signal, the Officer visits the vessel and unterrogates the Master as to the healthy of the brew and Passengers (if any), and whether any deaths or sideness. has occurred on board during the voyage: whether he has any Bill of Health, and, if from the Mediterranean, British Cousuls Bill of Health, failing which the vessel is detairied and the

case reported to the Board. If all questions are answered in a

satisfactory manner, the vessel is allowed free pratique and the "Quarantine a bertificate "is issued without which no vessel is allowed to report.

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or contagious character

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or even of a doubtful nature, or the character of which is unknown to

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the Master the vessel is detairied and

Medical officer.

inspected by the proper

Should a vessel arrive from any Port infected with cholera or suspected", the printed bholera questions are put, and if the answers are

satisfactory, the Vessel

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is cleared, but, if otherwise she is detained and the Medical Officer of Healtte * is immediately apprized, and on

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"The Sanitary Auttiority, the Socal autturity ou the Nuisance Authority (now the Local authority or the Savitary Auttiority) as the case may [ The Sanitary authority of every

district cises sanitary jurisdiction over all porto and stupping in it's District, except where from topographical arcumstances it has been found necessary

to create a Special Port Sanitary Authority. The Public Healtti Act 1845 (accs: 287- 293) empowers the Local Government Board to create such an autiouty, and to assign, to it such powers, rights, duties to provided for in this Act, and exercised by Sanitary Authorities in generd as may be necessary. I