Quarantine : return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 August 1861, for : copy of the papers relating to quarantine, communicated to the Board of Trade on the 30th day of July / Edgar A. Bowring.
- Edgar Alfred Bowring
- Date:
- 1861
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Quarantine : return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 August 1861, for : copy of the papers relating to quarantine, communicated to the Board of Trade on the 30th day of July / Edgar A. Bowring. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![I. Additional Abstracts of Retuns of Information respecting Quaranti]>ie, communicated to the Board of Trade. M ARSEIL LES. Marseilles. Consul E. Mark states, that Quarantine is never imposed here unless a vessel brings a foul bill of health. The duration of quarantine, when the plague is apprehended, is from 10 to 15 days; in the case of yellow fever, from three to seven days; and in the case of cholera, the quaran- tine is optional or discretional, and varies from three to five days, allowance being made for the length of the voyage. In the event of smallpox, typhus, or any other disease supposed to be transmissible, quarantine is applicable only to the vessel, and not to the country whence she comes. The duration of the quarantine in such cases would be regulated by the persistance of the malady on board, or amongst the passengers landed at the lazaret. In some exceptional cases, steam packets, arriving from the Levant with no medical man on board, might be subjected to eight days' quarantine. No difference is made in the treatment of vessels of war or of merchant ships. On leaving French ports, the former are exempted from health visits on board. Persons of all ranks are subjected alike to the sanitary regulations. The cessation of quarantine occurs upon the receipt of an authentic declaration, stating the disappearance of the malady after 30 days for the plague, 20 days for the yellow fever, and 10 days for the cholera. The lazaret consists of establishments on an island two and a half miles distant from the port, and from which the public is entirely excluded. The following is the tariff of the sanitary fees:— ' 1st. Fees connected with the ordinary movements of ships: C French ships from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast, Coasting s or vice versa - - - - - - - L Foreign ships ditto - ditto - - - - - Long voyages - - - Packet ships arriving on fixed days from j an European port at an Atlantic port, or jcach voyage coming from a foreign port to a French Mediterranean port, provided the habitual f geason ticket/^^^^^ length of the voyage does not exceed 12 ■ thalf yearly frs. cts. 0 05 per ton. 0 10 per ton. 0 15 per ton. 0 15 per ton. 0 50 per ton. 0 25 per ton. 0 03 per ton. 2 00 per ton. hours - 2d. Quarantine Dues : Anchorage, per day - - - Each person at the lazaret, per day 3d. Dues on the Fumigation of Merchandise at the Lazaret : Jrs. cts. Bale goods 0 50 per 100 ks. Hides 1 00 per 100 hhds. Small skins - - - 0 50 per 100. Merchandise is landed at the lazaret for purification by various means, such as exposing it to the dew, ventilation, immersion, and chloruretted fumigations, according to the nature of each case. The opening out of the goods, the washing of the effects, the cleaning of the ship, the incineration or the immersion of the infected substances are likewise practised. The goods subjected to these processes are clothes, drills, hides, feathers, wool, silk, horse- hair, and remains of animals. Quarantine is discretional for articles made of cotton, flax, or hemp. Invalids in quarantine are landed and attended by the lazaret doctor. The invalids not indigent have only to pay for any extraordinary expenses, but nothing on account of the sanitary service. A medical visit is made on the arrival of every suspected vessel.^ The 45th Article of the international regulations defines the means to be used for the purification thereof. The state of every ship is registered. On the leaving of all vessels from the port, an examination is prescribed by the regulations ; the results thereof are stated in the bill of health. Only one case of the evasion of quarantine has been found at the port of Marseilles, and that was in 1843, and it led to a condemnation of five years imprisonment. Since](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23984843_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
