Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly.

  • Jamaica. Central Board of Health
Date:
1852
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Credit: Report by the Central Board of Health of Jamaica / presented to the legislature under the provisions of the 14th Vic. chap. 60, and printed by order of the Assembly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ^ Appmdi.v. A. Since I have Resided in St. Ann's Bay, now twenty-three years, I have never known a vessel put in quarantine. Q. 4. In wxM of the instances wiiere qnarantino has been imposed during' your service, has it bee^ owing to the vessels having merely arrived from aii infected or suspected port, or to their having actual disease on board at the time of arrival ? See answer to query No, 3. Q. 5. State, as nearly as you can, t]m nnmbef of vessels which have been put into quarantine in your port, during your tenure of office, in consequence of actual disease on board, and please to specify the disease or diseases for M'hicl^ the detention was im^ posed, A. Vide answer, No. 3. Q. 6. Is any medical attendance given to the mck on board a vessel in quarantine ; have you ever knoWTi of a case proving fatal on board ? A. I cannot give an answer to this question, as the quarantine ground is twenty miles from St. Ann's Bay, and as I have never had occasion to order a ves- sel in quarantine, I am not a position to say what practice is obsei ved. Q. 7. Please to describe the mode of procedure in ^ascertaining whether a vessel outside the port is to receive pratique^ or to be put into quarantine; does the pilot ascertain this before the visit of the health officer; do you know of an instance or instances where the pilot, boarding a vessel at sea, has taken the crew of his boat on board, and that the crew af- terwards left the vessel and returned on shore, leav- ing the pilot on board to take the vessel into poit ? A. The pilot has instrpctions, if a vessel has any epidemic disease on board, not to bring he^' into port. The healtli offtper boards a vessel when she comes into harboiir, bnt no communication is permitted with the town until the health officer visits iiie vessel. |t |s ^ ■common prs^cticp f<)f th^ ^f^W 'Pf ^ l^^i