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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![THE PEESIDENT: I presume a bill of health will be framed. Mr. BERKELEY: Yes, but as a matter of fact a vessel going somewhere else outside this colony need not take a bill of health if she does not choose to do so. I will move when the bill comes on: it will meet Dr. Bowen's objection just now. Mr. McKINNEY: I think that a vessel arriving without a bill of health ought to be treated as an infected vessel. Mr. BERKELEY: I don't know why. I don't see my way to do so. Mr. McKlisTNEY: We do. The president : The resolution has been moved by Capt. Maling and seconded by Mr. Berkeley. Dr. grieve : My appeal for an expression of opinion on inter-communi- cation with regard to the general state of health, meets with approval : do I understand that ? Mr. SANDERSON : We have no machinery in force. Capt. MALING- : I don't see any objection to it. Dr. GRIEVE : Have you no regis- tration of deaths ? Mr. SANDERSON : Oh, we have of deaths, that is sent once a month to the clergy to be filled in with the fees. Mr. McKINNEY : The practice exists between us and New Orleans : we send every mail a health report. Mr. BERKELEY : I think it is a little bit outside quarantine. Capt. Maling's amended resolution was carried unanimously. The president : Dr. Pringle has a resolution to the effect. [See Minutes, Fifth Sitting. Page 74. For the Resolution as proposed, read Prevails in adjoining Foreign Country, third line- afterwards amended.] Dr. PRINGLE: The object so far as Jamaica is concerned is, we are in communication with Colon, Hayti, and Cuba. Dr. grieve : I have much pleasure in seconding that. We have Venezuela on one side and Surinam on the other, and if we could help Trinidad, I think it is our duty to do so. Dr. crane : The only question is whether it should be put as a separate resolution. It is not really necessary looking to the first one. The PRESIDENT : I think perhaps it would come in better as a separate resolution. Dr. bo WEN: i move as an amend- ment that it be brought in as a separate resolution, and further that exists shall be put in instead of prevails. We have no means of finding out the extent to which it prevails, and we have a definition of exists. Dr. grieve : I give notice of a resolution afiirming the desirabihty of establishing a system of interchange of information between the British West Indian Colonies as to pubHc health. The PRESIDENT: Dr. Pringle will now move his resolution. Dr. pringle moved the resolu- tion as altered. Dr. crane : I suggest the word adjacent instead of adjoining. Dr. pringle : Adjacent is a better word. Dr. grieve : I second the resolu- tion. I don't think it requires any words to show its usefulness. Adjacent substituted for adjoin- ing. The president : This resolution has been moved by Dr. Pringle and seconded by Dr. Grieve, and I think it is unanimously agreed to. The next resolution of which notice was given is by Mr. Low. Mr. low : I have a resolution to this effect :— That in the opinion of this Conference in order effectually to carry out the provisions of this Ordinance, it is alsolutely necessary that one or more Quarantine Stations shall be established in each colony in the British West Indies. To that Dr. Grieve has given notice of amendment :— And that each Quarantine Station shall comprehend a place for segregation of healthy persons, another for the disinfection of articles under quarantine with all the necessary appli- ances, and a third for the isolation and treat- ment of those ill of infectious diseases. I think the words he moved to have added are very necessary. And I would](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0194.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
