The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach.

  • Leach, Harry.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceeding in the whole three months' wages), either by such seaman himself, or by Her Majesty's Govern- ment, or any officer of Her Majesty's Government, or by any parochial or other local authority on his behalf, and such expenses may be recovered in the same way as if they were wages duly earned: pro- vided that this enactment shall not operate so as to affect any further liability of any such owner or master for such neglect, or any remedy which any seaman already possesses. Section 8. Where a seaman is by reason of illness incapable of performing his duty, and it is proved that such illness has been caused by his own wilful act or default, he shall not be entitled to wages for the time during which he is by reason of such illness incapable of performing his duty. Section 10. The following rules shall be observed with re- spect to the medical inspection of seamen; that is to say, (1) At any port where there is a Local Marine Board, the Local Marine Board, and at other ports in the United Kingdom, the Board of Trade may appoint a medical inspector of seamen. (2) Such medical inspector of seamen shall, on application by the owner or master of any ship,
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