Service publications.

  • Australia. Quarantine Service
Date:
1915-1917
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    3T For tho destruction of mosquitoes there shall bo a complete and simultaneoiw fumigation of all parts of the vessel by sulphur dioxide gas, 2 per cent, volume gas, tw.> hours' exposure. Where sulphur is liable to injure articles, pyrethrum powder, campho- phenol, or other approved culicides, may be used instead. Vessels arriving under the following conditions shall be placed in quarantine :— («) With a quarantinable disease on board, or having had such a disease on board diu-ing the voyage. (b) Any ves-sel which the quarantine officer considers infected with quarantinable disease. ((■) Vessels arriving from infected ports in which the regulations prescribed to be observed in foreign ports have not been carried out. {d) In the case of vessels arriving from infected poi'ts without sickness on board, the personiiel sha,\\ be detained under observation at quarantine to complete the period of incubation of tho disease against which quarantine is directed. Vessels entering the port for tho purpose of passing through the Canal without discharge of cargo or disembarking passengers at tho ports of Balboa or Cristobal, or the ports of Panama or Colon in the Republic of Panama, will be given pratique to proceed -without detention, provided the special regulations prescribed for observation in foreign ports have been carried out, and no disease of a quarantinable nature has occurred during the voyage. Such vessels from ports infected with quarantinable disease arriving within the period of incubation of such disease or diseases shall be paseed thi'onsh the Canal in quarantine. Vessels entering the port for the purpose of passing through the Canal without discharge of cargo or di.sembarking passengers at the ports of Balboa or Cristobal, or the ports of Panama or Colon in the Republic of Panama, arriving from ports affected with <iuarantinabl(! disease, and in which the special regulations jjreseribed for observation in foreign ports have not been carried out, may bo passed through the Canal in quarantine after necessary measures of disinfection, &c., have been taken. Such yes.sels, however, as have not completed the quarantine period since leaving the last infected port, in addition to disinfection, may be detained in quarantine a sufficient length of time to cover the period of incubation of the disease in question before beincr allowed pas.sage through the Canal. ■ Vessels entering the port for passage through the Canal that have on board cases of ■ quarantinable disease, or that have had such during the voyage, may be allowed to proceed to tho port of destination after the measures jirovided by the quarantine regu- lations have been cari-i(!d out. In such case the vessel should proceed through the Canal in (juarantine. In case the vessel coming under tho previous section, a statement of the nature of the disease removed at quarantine, and the measures of disinfection carried out, shall be communicated to tho health officer of the next port to which the vessel is going ; a sealed letter attached to the bill of health, and forming a part of the ship's papers, should be addressed to the health officer of tho port of destination, and the pratique granted the vessel shall have a notation of the facts entered thereon. .SPECIAL REGULATIONS FOR PASSAGE THROUCH THE PANAMA CANAL IN QUARANTINE. Permission for passage through the Canal in ciuarantine shall onlv be granted with th(! approval of the Chief Health Officer. A quarantine officer and one or more sanitary guards, or one or more sanitary guards when in the judgment of tho Chief Quarantine Officer such will bo sufficient, shall board the vessel for pa.s.sage in qnarantuie and accompany hor through the Canal. Their duty shall bo to prevent unauthorizi-d communication and see to tlii^ proper execution of the proscribed sanitary aiul (|uarantino n^gulations. during the passage through tho All embarkations, landings, and transhipments of passengers or cargo arc forbidden <luring th(! passages through tho (!anal botwoen the terminal ports. yesaels passmg through in quarantine shall make the trip from port to port without putting into dock. In ease of being ooin])olled to put into dock tho necessary operations . I bo performed by tho ■personnd on board, all communication with the emplovcos of the Panama Canal being avoided. When ships are conveyed through tho Canid in qunrnntine. tho trip shall be made in tho daytime only, when practicable.