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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![An infected vessel may be released from quarantine after the removal of all articles constituting such vessel an infected vessel, other than cargo ; provided that if any portion of the cargo shall come from an infected place such vessel shall then bo released after due disinfection and fumigation as provided by this Ordinance. I would suggest sucli disinfection and fumigation as may be considered necessary by the Quarantine Authori- ties. Dr. BOWEN : If she had one package I would disinfect the deck ; if she had five I would consider the shij) ought to be disinfected. Db. crane read Precautions to be taken in cases of cholera, yellow fever and small pox. [See Annex (B) to Minutes, Sixth Sitting. Page 78.] Dr. crane : I would suggest in these that it be altered to read has been in any place liable to be declared infected under the — Section of this Ordinance. Dr. grieve : I suggest for sue- cessful re vaccination that recent successful vaccination or re vaccination be inserted. It is also proposed to add:— Any person on board. (See page 15, down to that such illness is not an infectious disease.) Then we come to another Section of amendments, clothing and cargo, which Dr. Crane will give you. Dr. crane read:— Clothing and Cargo. (See page 16.) [Under the heading Cargo, Rags, in first line, omit the words from an infected vessel, afterwards inserted.] Mr. BERKELEY : Rags—I think it should only apply to rags from infected ports. It might be desirable to erect a factory. The PRESIDENT: After the word landed in the paragraph as to rags, we might put in from an infected vessel. The portion relating to Ani- mals is all right. Then comes bal- last. Dr. BOWEN: I say add and fresh ballast taken on board if required. Mr. SANDERSON: I will move as regards the guarding of vessels in quarantine:— P [See Annex (A), Minutes, Fifth Sitting. Page 77.] Dr. PRINGLE: I suggest as an alternative our regulation in force in Jamaica:— [See Annex (C), Minutes, Sixth Sitting. Page 86.] Dr. BOWEN: If you sent him on board a vessel that had smallpox, you would clean them out. What are you going to do with the policemen ? Mr. LOW: Your policemen are all supposed to be vaccinated success- fully. Dr. grieve : There is a proposal to make a proper quarantine establish- ment with suitable ofl&cers to carry out all this. Dr. BOWEN: As a matter of fact you would have to put a maximum that would there be required if the establish- ment were to be a perfect thing. Dr. grieve : Is it necessary at all after all the elaborate provisions about people not leaving from on board ? Mr. SANDERSON: It is only now we are making rules to carry out these elaborate provisions. The president : Don't you think it better if we had a general resolu- tion that each of the British West Indian colonies undertakes to pro- vide suflScient regulations for guard- ing vessels in quarantine? We can't say the French Governments shall do this. I think a resolution will be best. Mb. SANDERSON: Strike out the two guards. The PRESIDENT: What is the use of putting it in the Ordinance ? When it became dark how could the guard see what took place ? Mr. low : It is no matter where you put the policeman, he will sleep all the time. Dr. PRINGLE : I move :— [See Minutes, Sixth Sitting. Page 84. End of first line, read by a duly iworn guard or guards.] Dr. GRIEVE: I will second that, with the omission of the duly sworn guard. 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0219.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
