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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    OREGON. REPORTS ON LOCAL QUARANTINE AND INSPECTION STATIONS. By P. A. Surg. J. C. PEltltY, M. H. 8. COOS BAY. 1. There is no quarantine establishment on Coos Bay. The limit of anchorage for noninfected vessels is 1 mile; it is located 2 miles below Empire City and about the same distance from the entrance to Coos Bay. That for infected vessels is just inside the bar, in Charleston Bay, and Empire City is the nearest village, being 3A miles distant. There are no facilities for inspection, the health officer having to provide boat and boatmen at his own expense. There are no facilities for disinfection, removal and treatment of sick, or deten- tion of suspects. There is a daily mail to and from Empire City, and a telegraph office. 2. The health officer is Dr. C. W. Tower, whose post-office address is Marshfield, Oreg. 3. The only quarantine laws and regulations observed at this port are those prescribed by the State law, a copy of which is transmitted with my report on the quarantine service of Astoria, Oreg. No regular inspection service is maintained. The pilots are instructed to take all vessels with sickness aboard to Charleston Bay, raise the yellow flag, and then the health officer comes down and inspects the vessel, etc. No infected vessel has entered this port. 4. The only quarantine procedures enforced at this port are the regulations con- tained in the State law. The health officer expressed a willingness to comply with the regulations of the Treasury Department. 5. Inspections are maintained throughout the year. 6. Only those vessels having sickness on board are inspected. 7. The health officer, upon inspection of vessels, inquires as to the sanitary con- dition at port of departure, sickness occurring during the voyage, and investigates the sanitary condition of the crew and the vessel. If the vessel is found to be infected, the facts are reported to the collector of customs, and he will inform the Department. 8. No communication is held with vessels in quarantine except by health officer. Pilots are detained on board infected vessels, and no intercommunication among vessels is permitted. 9. As there are no facilities for disinfection of vessels or for the care of the sick of any vessel infected with yellow fever, cholera, or smallpox, such vessel would be held in quarantine and the facts immediately telegraphed to the Department by the collector of customs and authority asked to remand the vessel to the nearest United States quarantine station for disinfection, etc. In the meantime the peo- ple detained on board would be inspected daily by the health officer, and the most rigid means taken to prevent dissemination of the contagion. 10. No records are kept by the health officer. 11. There are no fees connected with the quarantine work at this port. 12. No vessels were entered at the custom-house during the last fiscal year. The coasting vessels are not required to report at the custom-house; these vessels come in cargo of general merchandise. 13. I was informed by the collector of customs that no vessels would be allowed to enter until he was satisfied that such vessels were free from any quarantinable disease. If an infected vessel arrives, he would communicate the facts to the Department and ask authority to send the vessel to the nearest United States quarantine station. There is no immigration bureau at this port. 14. I consider the inspection service sufficient for the needs of this port, pro- vided the health officer exercises due vigilance in the performance of his duties.
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