Reports and papers on the Port and riparian sanitary survey of England and Wales, 1893-94 / with an introduction by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board.
- Date:
- 1895
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reports and papers on the Port and riparian sanitary survey of England and Wales, 1893-94 / with an introduction by the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board. Source: Wellcome Collection.
797/822 page 721
![Authority, whether examined by the Officer of Customs or not, is uifcctsd 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 under Article 8), shall be of opinion that the ship is infected, he shall forthwith give a certificate in duplicate in the following Form, or to the like effect, and shall deliver one copy to the Master, and retain the other copy or transmit it to the Sanitary Authority. He shall also give to the Local Government Board information as to the arrival of the ship, and such other particulars as that Board may require. Certificate. day of 189 . Sanitary Authority of I hereby certify that I have examined the ship of , now lying in the Port of [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]. Art. 10.—The Master of any ship ao certified to be infected with Cholera shall thereupon moor or anchor her at the place fixed for that purpose under Article 6, and she shall remain there until the requirements of this Order have been duly fulfilled. Art. 11.—'No person shall leave any such ship until the examination herein-after mentioned shall have been made. Art. 12.—The Medical Officer of Health shall, as soon as possible after any such ship has been certified to be infected with Cholera, examine every person on board the same, and in the case of any person suffering from Cholera, or from any illness which the Medical Officer of Health suspects may prove to be Cholera, shall certify accordingly; and any person who shall not be so certified by him shall be permitted to laud immediately on giving to the Medical Officer of Health his name and place of destination, stating, where practicable, his address at such place. The name and address of any such person shall forthwith be given by the Medical Officer of Health to the Clerk to the Sanitary Authority, and such Clerk shall thereupon transmit the same to the Local Authority of the District in which the place of destination of such person is situate. In this Article the term Local Authority means any Urban or Eural Sanitary Authority; and in the Administrative County of Loudon, the Commissioners of Sewers, the Yestry under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, of a Parish in Schedule A., and the District Board of a District in Schedule B. to that Act, as amended by the Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1885, and the Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act, 1887, and the Woolwich Local Board of Health. Art. 13.—Every person certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be Buffering from Cholera shall be removed, if his condition admit of it, to Bome hospital or other suitable place appointed for that purpose by the Sanitary Authority; and no person so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the Medical Officer of Health shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease. If any person suffering from Cholera cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject, for the purposes of this Order, to the control of the Medical Officer of Health; and the infected person shall not bo removed from or leave the ship, except with the consent in writing of the Medical Officer of Health. Art. 14.—Any person certified by the Medical Officer of Healtli to be Buffering from any illness which such Officer suspects may prove to be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20415485_0797.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
