Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889.
- Marine Hospital Service
- Date:
- 1889
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Qunraiitino utA* t i u IIH Bubjuct to f;utiGml rogiila- tioub uf the Serv- ice. Pilots ntid others nut to leave vessel. Quamntlno of- ficers to arrost persons violating <]uaruiitiuo. Duties of in- siwctor. Ofponons found sick. with any contagious disease, or having had on board at any time during the thirty days preceding their arrival any case of contagious disease, shall not enter any port of the United States until such disinfection or other pre- cautionary measures shall have been performed as pre- scribed by these regulations, and the certificate of the medical officer of the Marine-Hospital Service, or other designated agent of the Treasury Department, shall, in such cases, as in the cases referred to in the preceding paragraph, be accepted by the collector of customs as sat- isfactory evidence of compliance with the regulations. 330. Quarantine stations will be governed by the gen- eral regulations of the Service, so far as applicable. 331. No pilot or other person will be allowed to leave a vessel until the vessel shall have been inspected by the quarantine officer, and any person violating this regula- tion shall be reported to the nearest United States Attor- ney for prosecution under the act of August, 1888, and no person will be allowed to leave the quarantine reser- vation, or a vessel placed in quarantine, without permis- sion of the quarantine officer. 332. Quarantine officers are hereby empowered and au- thorized to cause the temporary arrest of any person violating the quarantine regulations, and turn them over to the custody of the nearest United States marshal and notify the United States attorney to that effect; or, if that be impracticable, to confine them on the quarantine reservation, subject to the orders of the said marshal or attorney. 333. When a vessel arrives at a United States quaran- tine boarding station, the inspecting officer will examine the papers of the vessel to inform himself of her passen- gers and cargo ; he will require all persons named on the passenger-list and crcw-list to present themselves and answer to their names at muster. Should any person have died on the voyage, the circumstances of the death will be inquired into, and in case of there being any person sick, such person will be carefully examined by the inspecting officer, the only exception being, in case of naval vessels, the statement of the senior surgeon or medical officer as to the sanitary condition of the vessel 334. When persons are found sick of cholera, small-pox, yellow fever, plague, or diphtheria, they shall be immedi- ately removed to the quarantine hospital, and the vessel thoroughly disinfected.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28716097_0102.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
