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.

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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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    812/886 (page 742)
    I.—Regulations as to Detention by Officers of Customs. Art. 2.—If any officer of customs, on the arrival of any ship in the Port of London, ascertain from the master of such ship or otherwise, or have reason to suspect, that the ship is infected with cholera, he shall detain such ship, and order the master forthwith to moor or anchor the same in such position as such officer of customs shall direct; and thereupon the master shall forthwith moor or anchor the ship accordingly. Art. 3.—Whilst such ship shall be so detained, no person shall leave the same. -it.il Art. 4. The officer of customs detaining any ship as aforesaid shall forthwith give notice thereof, and of the cause of such detention, to the sanitary authority. Art. 5.—Such detention by the officer of customs shall cease as soon as the ship shall have been duly visited and examined by the medical officer of health; or, if the ship shall, upon such examination, be found to be infected with cholera, as soon as the same shall be moored or anchored in pursuance of article 10 of this order. Provided, that if the examination be not commenced within twelve hours after notice given as aforesaid, the ship shaU, on the expiration of the said twelve hours, be released from detention. IE.—Regulations as to Sanitary Authorities. Art. 6.—The sanitary authority shall, as speedily as practicable, with the approval of the chief officer of customs of the port, fix some place within the jurisdiction-of the sanitary authority where any ship may be moored, or anchored, for the purpose of article 10 ; and shall make provision for the reception of cholera patients and persons suffering from illness removed under articles 13 and 14. . Art 7.—The sanitary authority, on notice being given to them by an officer of customs, under this order, shaU forthwith cause the ship in regard to which such notice shall have been given, to be visited and examined by the medical officer of health for the purpose of ascertaining whether she is infected with cholera. Art 8 —The medical officer of health, if he have reason to believe that any ship within the jurisdiction of the sanitary authority, whether examined by the officer of customs or not, is infected with cholera, shall, or if she have come from a place infected with cholera, may, visit and examine such ship, for the purpose of ascertaining whether she is so infected; and the master of such ship shall permit the same to be so visited and examined. _ Art 9 —If the medical officer of health, on making such examination as aforesaid (whether under article 7 or 8), shall be of opinion that the ship is infected, he shall give a certificate in duplicate in the following form, or to the like effect, and shaU deliver one copy to the master and retain the other, or transmit it to the sanitary authority. Certificate. day of 188 . Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London. I hereby certify that I have examined the ship » f , now lying in the Port of London [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].