The laws concerning public health : including the various sanitary acts passed in the session 1883, and the circulars issued by Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council and the Local Government Board / edited by Wm. Robert Smith, assisted by Henry Smith.
- United Kingdom
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- 1883
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Credit: The laws concerning public health : including the various sanitary acts passed in the session 1883, and the circulars issued by Her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council and the Local Government Board / edited by Wm. Robert Smith, assisted by Henry Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Certificate day of 188 , Sanitary Authority of I hereby certify that I have examined the ship , of , now lying in the port of [or detained at ] and that I find that she is infected with cholera. Medical Officer of Health [or medical practitioner appointed by the sanitary authority.] Art. 10.—The master of every ship so certified to be infected with cholera shall thereupon moor or anchor her at the place fixed for that purpose under Art. 6, and she shall remain there until the requirements of this order have been duly fulfilled. Art. 11.—No person shall leave any such ship until the examination here- inafter mentioned shall have been made. Art. 12.—The medical officer of health shall, as soon as possible after any such ship has been certified to be infected with cholera, examine all persons on board of the same, and all persons who shall not be certified by him, as hereafter mentioned, shall be permitted to land immediately on their giving their names and the places of their destination. Art. 13.—Every person certified by the medical officer of health to be suffering from cholera, shall be dealt with under any regulations that may have been made by the sanitary authority under section 125 of the Public Health Act, 1875; or, where no such regulations shall have been made, shall be removed, if the condition of the patient admit of it, to some hospital or place previously appointed for that purpose by the said authority ; and no person so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the medical officer of health shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease. If any person suffering from cholera cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject, for the purposes of this order, to the control of the medical officer of health; and the infected person shall not be removed from or leave the ship, except with the consent in writing of the medical officer of health. Art. 14.—Any person certified by the medical officer of health to be suffering from any illness which such officer suspects may prove to be cholera may either be detained on board the ship .for any period not exceeding two days, or be taken to some hospital or other place previously appointed by the sanitary authority, and detained there for a like period, in order that it may be ascertained whether the illness is or is not cholera. Any such person who, while so detained, shall be certified by the medical officer of health to be suffering from cholera, shall be dealt with as provided by article 13 of this order. Art. 15.—The medical officer of health shall in the case of every ship certified to be infected, give directions, and take such steps as may appear to him to be necessary, for preventing the spread of infection, and the master of the said ship shall forthwith carry into execution such directions as shall be so given to him. Art. 16.—In the event of any death from cholera taking place on board of such ship while so detained, the master shall, as -directed by the sanitary 3 b 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21453652_0809.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
