The principles of hygiene : a practical manual for students, physicians, and health officers / by D.H. Bergey.
- David Hendricks Bergey
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The principles of hygiene : a practical manual for students, physicians, and health officers / by D.H. Bergey. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.
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![solution of I : 800 of bichlorid of mercury. Ballast removed from vessels infected, or suspected of being infected, with plague, must not be taken from the (:[uarantine station. Par. 5. Bilges shall be cleansed and disinfected in the manner provided for water-tanks (Article XV., paragraph 4). Par. 6. Living coiiipartiiicnts of all classes of vessels. (a) The preliminary disinfection shall be done with sulphur dioxid and not with formaldehyd, on account of the greater potency of the former against animal life. (^) After this preliminary disinfection remove bedding, hang- ings, carpets, clothing, and textiles, for disinfection by steam or boiling, or other methods prescribed by United States quarantine regulations. Subsequently the compartments themselves, with the non-removable fabrics therein, shall be disinfected in accordance with the United States quarantine regulations. Par. 7. Personal Effects.—-Clothing, bedding, and other such articles shall be disinfected in accordance with the provisions of Articles V. and VIII., United States quarantine regulations. Par. 8. After the cargo has been discharged, the vessel must be submitted to a disinfection of all parts simultaneously by sul- phur dioxid gas of 5 per cent, per volume sti'ength for not less than twenty-four hours, in order to insure destruction of all animal life aboard. The remains of all rats and vermin should be gath- ered and burned, and the places where gathered subsequently dis- infected. Rats must not be handled with bare hands. Par. 9. After final disinfection as provided in paragraph 8, the vessel must be kept under observation a sufficient length of time to satisfy the quarantine officer that the ship is freed from all rats and verniin. INTERSTATE QUARANTINE. All interstate quarantine powers of the United States have also been conferred upon the Supervising Surgeon- General of the Marine-Hospital Service. The following is a transcript of the act of Congress conferring these powers and the interstate quarantine regulations: [Act of March 27, 1890.] An Act to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases from one State to another, and for the punishment of certain offences. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the President that cholera, yellow fever, small-pox, or plague exists in any State or territory, or in the District of Columbia, and that there is danger of the spread of such disease into other States, territories, or the District of Columbia, he is hereby authorized to cause the Secre-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21358539_0453.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
