The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised and enlarged by William Spooner.
- Leach, Harry.
- Date:
- 1901
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The ship captain's medical guide / compiled by Harry Leach ; revised and enlarged by William Spooner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![ACT OF ICVIUTAMFNT. CKliTALN SECTIONS OF THE MEliCIIANT SHIPPING ACT, 181)4. Section 200. (1) Hoard of Trade sliall issue scales of medi- cines and medical stores suitable for different classes of ships and voyages, and sliall also prepare or sanction books containing instructions for dispensing the same. (2) The owner of every ship navigating between the United Kingdom and any place out of the same shall provide and cause to be kept on board a supply of medicine and medical stores according to the scale appropriate to the ship, and also tlu' said books or one of them. (d) d’lie master or owner of every such ship, except in the case of— {(i) Ships bound to Furopean ports or ports in the Mediterranean Sea ; and {}>) Such ships 01- classes of ships bound to jiorts on the Fastern coast of America north of the thirty- iifth degree of north latitude, and to any islands or ])laces in the Atlantic ()cean north of the same limit, as the Hoard of Trade may exempt; Shall provide and cause to be kept on board a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28992349_0193.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
