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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    Appendix. 5 5.1 As small-pox still continues prevalent in the metropolis and else- where, the Corporation of London, as sanitary authority of the port of London, hereby recommends, as a precautionary measure, that, as long as the epidemic exists, all seamen should be medically examined, in accordance with the provisions of sec. 10, Merchant Shipping Act, 1867. MONCKTON. Guildhall, lgthjicly, 1877. CORRESPONDENCE. The subjoined correspondence refers both to the sanitary work of the port of London, and to the Cape of Good Hope.77 A copy of the correspondence has been sent to the Colonial authorities at Cape Town. [Copy.] 3 and 4, fenchurch street, London, E.C., yd July, 1877. Gentlemen,—We shall be glad if you will inform us as to what regulations are in force under the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, in way of dealing with vessels that arrive in the port of London having on board, or having had on board, cases of contagious or infectious disease. Our mail steamer Taymouth Castle, which arrived at Cape Town from England on the 28th May last, had a case of small-pox on board, and under regulations in force in that colony she was put in quarantine for twenty-one days, and no one allowed to land. We conceive that in your experience this is a very dangerous system to follow, and should be altered. '' We are, Gentlemen, '' Your obedient Servants, (Signed) Donald Currie and Co. The Port Sanitary Committee '' of the Corporation of London, '' Port Sanitary Offices, Deptford, S.£. 77 See ante, p. 273.