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

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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$Qunran/fue. promuli^ate such regulations as may be deemed req[iiisite for the guiflance of captains and mas- ter. of vessels arriving at the several ports of this islami ; tiie same shall he printed, and that every pilo't shall furnish a copy to each vessel which he l)rin«s into ])ort, unth-r a penalty. 4 . That the Central Board of Health shall pro- nui Igate a code of regulations for the guichuice of the health officers of this island : that this shall eml)iace their duties in every respect, and shall diriict them what to do in such cases as do usu- ally occur, or w Inch may be considered as likely to 1:aike place; that it shall specify every disease for which restrictive or other measures may be deemed rerpiisite, including also snch directions as may be considered necessary for the cleans- ing arid purifying of ships, their cargo, &c. 5. That in consequence of the small traffic car- ried on in mauy of the ports in which quaran- tine regidations are now enforced, as also fr^m tlie proximity of many of these ports to each othe r, and the circumstance that besides these j3ort; s above alluded to, numbers exist into which vess( 3ls do enter irrespective of all quarantine re- stric tions, or in which, at any rate, no provision for a he{ ilth officer is made, the Board wonld recom- snenc I that a certain number only of these ports be selected as quarantine stations ; and all ves- sels nrriving in these seas, and bound to any in- termediate port in this island, shall first visit the nearest quarantine port, and there remain until visited h y the health officer; if free of disease, she shall be admitted to pratique, where if the port is the one she is bound to, she may directly haul into the nvAiarf and land her cargo, or if bound to another or adjacent port, she may at once pro- ceed thither, or should sickness exist, indepen- dant of foulness of the ship itself, the sick may forthwith be landed and the vessel be allow ed to depart, oi: if sickness is to be attributed to th^$