Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896.

  • United States. Department of the Treasury.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From foreign ports. Month. From— Number. Month. From— Number. 1 1 1 x Bermuda 1 1 1 1 1 1 September Scotland.. I 1 13. State results of your visit to (a) tlie custom-house; (b) to the immigration bureau. Inspection of foreign vessels and certificate from health officer were not required prior to entry in any case. Consular bills of health are required and filed. There is practically no immigration to this port. 14. State whether, in your opinion, the quarantine facilities are sufficient to care for the shipping entering the port. No. I think Bangor should be provided with quarantine ground and isolation buildings, as there is considerable shipping coming to this port. 15. Name the quarantine regulations of the Treasury Department which are not properly enforced, and state specifically whether the regulations regarding inspec- tion and disinfection, and particularly the period of observation after disinfection, of vessels are observed. Inspection of foreign vessels prior to entry. 16. Mention any facts which in your opinion should be known to the Depart- ment bearing directly or indirectly upon the quarantine service, and make such recommendations as seem proper. I would recommend that the collector of customs be instructed to enforce the regulations of the Treasury Department relating to the inspection of foreign vessels prior to their entry at the custom-house. September 26, 1896. A. Rules and regidations of the local hoard of health relating to quarantine inspection at Bangor, Me. [Adopted by the local board of health October, 1892.] From and after this date the following rules and charges will be enforced at this I. All vessels arriving at this port with plague, cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus fever, or other contagious disease on board, or havinghad the same during the voyage, must be directed by the pilot or harbor master to anchor on quaian- tine ground and remain there until released by written order of the board. II Any vessel arriving from a foreign port with or without sickness on board, and’not having a clean bill of health from consular officer at port of clearance, will be directed by the pilot or harbor master to anchor at quarantine and remain until released by written order of the board. .... , . III All vessels or steamships arriving from European or Asiatic ports will be compelled to anchor at quarantine and remain until inspected under the direc- tion of and released by written order of the board, unless special permission shall bo given in writing to allow any such vessel to come to its wharf for inspection there, in which case no person shall enter or leave the vessel until permitted by written order of the board. ,. _ . . ,,, , IV. Inspection will be made promptly as soon as notice of arrival shall be received, but only during the hours of daylight, or from 8 a. m. to b p. m., and the charges shall be as follows, to wit: For each sailing vessel For each steamship carrying freights only --f For each steamship carrying passengers ,