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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![case where disease originated on board ? Mr. SANDERSON: She is an in- fected vessel. Every vessel which has arrived or touched at an infected port although she has bad no communication therewith shall be declared an infected vessel, except she has brought a certi- ficate that she did not communicate with the shore. The PRESIDENT: The object is to deal with a vessel on to which a person or thing has come from an infected place, for the purposes of inspection. You want to make a vessel which has gone into Martinique an infected ves- sel, and by a subsequent clause she is admitted to pratique if she has got a certificate. Mr. SANDERSON : I move as a the term infected vessel means:— Every vessel which shall have arrived from an infected place. Dr. BOWEN : If we deal with persons as regards time that is well enough, but we are bound to deal with clothes. Dr. BOWEN: We will have to alter these sections, and put in another. The president : Strike out any article or thing which in b and [See paragraphs (b) and (c) term Infected Ves- sel, Page 40, Minutes, Second Sitting.] And then we may have sub-section f. [See paragraph (f), term Infected Vessel, Page 61, Minutes, Third Sitting.] Definition adopted. As shewn on page 60, Minutes, Third sitting. Dr. grieve : It seems to me that the next thing to settle is the dura- tion of detention or quarantine as regards vessels. We deal with vessels as they arrive—all infected vessels arriving in port shall be placed in quarantine for such period as may be found necessary by the Quarantine authorities—not for a fixed period, as I understand there can be none for articles or things. We have already provided for persons ; we have now simply to provide for articles, &c. I don't think it advisable to place any obstacle in the way of the Quarantine authorities of any port taking persons out of the ships, disinfecting the vessels and handing them over to their con- signees there and then. The president : It would do away with the question of period if the ship is not admitted to pratique until properly disinfected. Dr. Crane's sug- gestion will come in here. Dr. crane : I would ask that it be taken first with reference to persons, then with reference to the disinfection of vessels and cargo. Dr. grieve : No Hmit of time can be placed to the quarantine of persons or things. Dr. crane : You must have some thorough system of disinfection, because it is on that we depend for the pre- vention of the introduction of disease. Dr. GRIEVE: We shall have to define what is to be considered effectual disinfection under the Ordinance. The president : We get rid of clauses 16 and 17, and simply have a proviso that no vessel shall be admitted to pratique until the Quarantine Author- ities have certified that she is properly disinfected. We throw upon the Quaran- tine Authorities the obligation of setting to work to disinfect. Capt. MALING : Who will sign that certificate ? The PRESIDENT: Ithink the Quar- antine Authority will sign the certificate upon the advice of the Health Officer. Mr. SANDERSON: With us, the Surveyor gives his certificate right off. The PRESIDENT: This is merely a matter of detail for each colony. Dr. GRIEVE : Would you move a clause to throw the responsibility upon the Quarantine Authority ? Dr. crane : It seems to me there are other things to be considered if we are going on the old Ordinance now before us—Quarantine ground, removal of vessels to the quarantine ground, flag, use of schooner, light, persons going on board, Ac. Before you get on to the question of disinfection you have the question of the removal of passengers into the lazaretto. You must either leave your passengers on board and deal with them, or remove them from the ship;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0166.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
