The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states : including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention.

  • Sir George Sherston Baker
Date:
1879
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Credit: The laws relating to quarantine of Her Majesty's dominions at home and abroad, and of the principal foreign states : including the sections of the Public health act, 1875, which bear upon measures of prevention. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ships, including ships of war, which came from, or which had touched at, any place from whence the King by- Order in Council had adjudged it probable that the plague or any other infectious disease might be brought, subject to quarantine. The penalty of felony, without benefit of clergy, was imposed on disobedience of persons under quarantine, and on those also who, although not infected, should after entering the place of quarantine escape therefrom. In the year 1800, the project of erecting a Laza- retto on Chetney Hill, in the county of Kent, was adopted, and by an Act of Parliament, 40 Geo. III. c. 80, and subsequent Acts, large sums of money were granted for the purpose of carrying it into effect. This building was made use of for some years, but it was discovered, before its completion, that the situation had been injudiciously selected, and the intended institution was in consequence abandoned, and the material dis- posed of by order of Government. Since that time the use of ships, originally resorted to as a temporary expe- dient during the progress of the Lazaretto, has been continued; the different stations will be found specified in the Order in Council (see post, p. 84). To meet the expense of the building at Chetney Hill, certain duties were formerly imposed upon all ships coming from the Mediterranean, and to the same ships various regulations contained in the Quarantine Laws were applied, with a power of extending, by a special act of the Government, the operation of it to vessels coming from any other part of the world.