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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![Db. GRIEVE : The bill of health does not give pratique ; you go entirely on the answers to questions. Dr. PEINGLE : You don't ignore it; you take it for what it is worth. The president : I think we had really better leave it out of the Ordi- nance, all this about form. De. BOWEN : As a matter of fact if a vessel brought a bill of health stating there had been no death from smallpox, and we knew from private information there had been eight or ten cases, we would quarantine her. The number of deaths is utterly value- less. Dr. crane : I would remind mem- bers that there are a great many other important matters to deal with. Mr. SANDERSON: Quite so, and time is being lost. The PRESIDENT: It is agreed then, that these three clauses should go in? Conference agreed to insert provision- ally in the draft Ordinance 3 Sections. rSee Minutes, Sixth Sitting, Bills of Health. Page 82.] The president having vacated the chair. Dr. crane. Vice President, as- sumed the conduct of the business. The vice PRESIDENT : It is pro- posed we should take up the remaining sections of the draft Ordinance which had been agreed to.' Mr. BERKELEY: We had better discuss some of the points which have not been discussed. Mb. SANDERSON : I move that the section be adopted providing for the appointment of Quarantine grounds. Mr. BERKELEY : I want to know whether the Conference has decided the system of treatment of cargo just as it is there ? The vice PRESIDENT : That is coming up again. Mr. SANDERSON: I move that the section as printed be taken. (Appoint- ment of Quarantine grounds.) (Page 16.) Mr. low : I second that. Adopted. Removal of Vessel to Quarantine Ground. (Page 17.) Mr. SANDERSON : I move that also. Mr. LO W : I second that. Adopted. The PRESIDENT resumes the Chair. A flag to be hoisted during Quaran- tine. (Page 17.) Mr. SANDERSON: I beg to insert in the draft, after quarantine, the words and the person in charge of a Quarantine Station. We find it necessary at the Quarantine Stations to keep a flag up during the day and a light at night. The president : We will put it in; if any colony does not like it, they can throw it out. Mr. low : I think it is a veiy good suggestion. I second. The PRESIDENT: You will have to put every Master or person. Dr. PRINGLE : For Signal Lan- tern, put Quarantine Light. Section amended accordingly. Penalty on Master of Vessel allowing any Person suffering from Contagious or Infectious Disease to quit Vessel. (Page 17.) Mr. SANDERSON : That has been copied verbatim from our Act. I pro- pose to alter to except with the per- mission of the Quarantine Authority for except in accordance with, &c. Dr. GRIEVE: You have already given authority to the Quarantine Autho- rity to prevent any one coming from the shij). Mr. SANDERSON: This is to pun- ish the master who allows him to do it. The PRESIDENT: We need not trouble about that. If the draftsman finds anything conflicting in the Ordi- nance, he will leave it out. It is a matter that will have to be very carefully con- sidered. Dr. crane : These clauses are taken from the Ordinance passed in Trinidad in 1877. The Royal Mail Steamer came to the colony and had pratique, and at the moment of departure she landed a case](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0214.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
