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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![what you do with your policeman in Jamaica if he catches a man suffering from smallpox. You put him in one place, and we put him in another. Mr. SANDEESON: Would it not be as well to limit the section, with the view of punishing a person after his quarantine period is over, for having broken quarantine ? The PEESIDENT : There is plenty of power for that. The question is the mode of dealing with the policeman who catches the man. The object is simply to provide for the return of the man into quarantine. On resumption after adjournment, The PEESIDENT said : We had fin- ished section 27; after that the three sections come in out of the Trinidad, Barbados, and St. Lucia Ordinances. We start again at section 28.—(See Page 48.) Mr. BEEKELEY: I think that should be made to read, It shall be lawful for the Governor immediately after the coming into operation of this Act, &c., so as to make it stronger. Capt. MALINO : Some of the colonies have not started lazarettos ; and with- out that the Act could not come into operation. Mr. low : Having heard the remarks of the delegates from the Leeward Is- lands I wish to move a resolution. I entirely agree with what they say, and I feel that in the colonies I represent it is necessary that something should be done to insist upon quarantine stations being established. I have seen twenty, thirty and forty people kept for three weeks, lying in the harbour under a burning sun and under an insufficient awning, because the colony had no lazaretto, or as it is now pro- posed to call it, quarantine station. I think we should have a resolution, that it is the opinion of the Con- ference that there should be a quaran- tine station in each Island ; that being so, with such an expression of opinion from the Conference, it would be hard for any Government to avoid carrying out what is decided at this Conference. I propose, therefore, if the Conference agrees with me, that this resolution be placed on the minutes :— [Soe Minutes, Fourth Sitting, Page 68.] Mr. SANDEESON: I second that. The PEESIDENT: It will be more convenient to give notice, so that it may be brought up with the other resolutions which are to be discussed after we have finished with the sections of the Ordinance. I do not want, if possible, to introduce resolutions amongst the discussions upon certain details of the Ordinance that is before us. Mr. low : Certainly, Sir, I am in your hands entirely in that respect. The PEESIDENT: I was going to say, in reference to what Mr. Berkeley stated, that from a legal point of view it is a difficult thing to say the Governor shall do so and so. The most any Legislature can do is to say it shall be lawful to do so. You cannot put it imperatively upon the Governor, who is dependent upon the ways and means, and upon the very same authority who say he shall do so and so might refuse to find the ways and means. Therefore I think in the Ordi- nance it will be sufficient to say it shall be lawful for the Governor, with that expression of opinion in the shape of a resolution of the Conference. Mr. BEEKELEY: I propose to leave out the words whenever it shall be thought necessary. Dr. GEIEVE : I give notice of an ad- dition to what Mr. Low has proposed :— [See Minutes, Fourth Sitting. Page 68.J Dr. CEANE : There are the words in the section whenever it shall be thought necessary. Mr. BEEKELEY: I proposed to leave them out, and say it shall be lawful for the Governor. The PEESIDENT : That would fol- low ; if the power is given in the Act he would be bound to do it immedi- ately. Mr. low : But, if left to him, he might not choose to do it immediately. The PEESIDENT : The Secretary of State, on the passing of the Act, would see to that. Dr. BOWEN : If you get a Governor who is opposed to it, he will do his best to make it inoperative.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0184.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
