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
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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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![So recently as April 1860, a quarantine of three days was imposed on a vessel from Glaso-ow, -with a clean bill of health, on the alleged ground to prevent vessels leaving a port infected with cholera from receiving pratique in Spain until 10 days had elapsed from the date of their departure from the infected port; for instance, that a vessel from a continental port where cholera prevailed, should not be able to obtain pratique in Spain by touching at an English port, and taking a clearance from thence. The Vigo Board of Health, however, did not impose any quarantine whatever on vessels coming from Cadiz, or ports in the Mediterranean, which were not only in free communica- tion with Ceuta and Tetuan where the cholera was prevalent, but which vessels were actually conveying convalescents from cholera to those ports ; whilst the same Board imposed a qua- rantine of three days on the schooner Wavre from Glasgow, which port the Spanish Vice Consul certified was free from all contagious or epidemic diseases,—thus placing Glasgow as a clean port in a less favourable condition than Cadiz and Alicante, which might justly be considered, according to the Spanish health regulations, as at least suspected ports. The expenses incvirred by the Wavre, notwithstanding that the quarantine imposed on the vessel was at once cancelled by the Minister of the Interior at Madrid Avhen the case was made known to him, amounted to reals vella 390, or about 41., viz., health guard, 30 reals ; fumigation, 48 reals; expenses of ship for three days, 312 reals. CADIZ. From Consul W. Brackenbury's replies, it appears that the quarantine regulations here respecting the yellow fever and the plague are the same as in other ports of Spain, no suspected or infected vessels being admissible until after they have performed the reqr.ired quarantine either at Vigo or at Port Mahon.* Vessels arriving Vi lthout a bill of health ai-e inadmissible, and all Inlis of health must be endorsed by the Spanish Consul in the port of departure. With respect to the cholera, arrivals from a country where tlie disease exists are, if any of the crew have died on the ])assag-e or be ill on arrival, liable to a quarantine of 10 days in the harbour of Cadiz; and of five days, should there be no sickness on board. Arrivals from ports adjoining to those where cholera exists, are liable to a quarantine of three days in the harbovir. Typhus, small-pox, dysentery, or any infectious disoi'der, render vessels liable to quarantine of from three to 15 days, according to circumstances. No remission of quarantine is ever made in favour of any class of vessels, or of any -persons whatever. A period of 30, 20, or 10 days must have elapsed after the cessation of the plague, yellow fever, or cholera, in a place, before free pratique is granted There is no lazaret at or near to the town or port of Cadiz. In the event of sickness on board a vessel, a medical officer is sent alongside the vessel; but should the gravity of the case require it, the medical officer would be put on board at .the ship's expense, to remain during the period of quarantine, or to accompany her to Vi go or Mahon. IVo sanitary inspection is required previous to granting a clean bill of health to a vessel on leaving the port. No sanitary cordon or quarantine measures by land have been adopted at Cadiz. No disease for Avhich quarantine is liable to be imposed has occurred in Cadiz within the last 20 years, with the exception of the cholera, which appeared in the summer of 1854, -and in the neighboiiring towns in the summers of 1855 and 1856. In 1855 - - - - - -164 vessels were put in quarantine. In 1856 40 In 1857 ------ 58 In 1858 - 196 In 1859 - 138 Besides these 138 vessels which performed quarantine of observation at Cadiz last year .■<1859), 27 were sent off to a foul lazaret. Of these 27 vessels, nine were Spanish andl 8 were foreign. ♦ From London Gazette, 29 June 1860. A Spanish Royal Decree revises the Quarantine llegulations hitherto in force at the ports of Spani, and provides that— 1. All vesstis arriving with foul bills of health, or proceeding- from ports infected with the plamie • or the yellow fever; 2. Those which may have had or have on boajd dead bodies, or persons suffering- from tvphus, scurvy, smallpox, or other contagions maladies; ' ' 3. Those that have no bill of health, und cannot satisfactorily account for the want of it; 4. And those whicii are in a bad state of health, shall perform quarantine in the lazarets of San Simon and Mahon. Also that ships having- a foul bill of iiealth for cholera shall be sent to one of the lazarets of observation, established in the first-class ports, and will undergo the quarantine which the 35th Article of the law imposes. Ships proceeding from foreign ports, and not having a bill of health countersigned by the Spanish ^..consular agents, whenever there are such at the port of clearance, will be sent to the same ciuaiantiiie stations. 544-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b23984843_0007.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
