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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The president : Other than at a cholera-infected port, that refers to water only. I thinlc, Dr. Crane, some- thing like this will be necessary :— Such Certificate shall be in the form of Schedule — to this Ordinance. That gives the power to issue it; then we go on to say that vessels arriving from an infected place in the British West Indies and producing a certificate of non-communication, &c., and that vessels arriving from other than a British West Indian colony must state the facts. There is nothing else we have to do with, regard to the Ordi- nance, except to go through it. Dr. grieve : I think I am right in suggesting that there ought to be an omission supplied with regard to quaran- tine of persons laid down by the Ordinance. In the draft it ought to be put where this quarantine is to be undergone by persons. Mr. low : At the Station, is it not ? for segregation and so on. Dr. grieve : I should propose that in the section should be inserted either in a Quarantine Station or in a vessel, defining where it is to be undergone. I don't think in any part of the Ordi- nance it is defined where it is to be un- dergone. Dr. PRINGLE : Don't the words come in afterwards, as may be di- rected ? Dr. grieve : Yes, but it has not been directed in the Ordinance. The PRESIDENT: Will you kindly draw our attention to it when we get to the section ? Dr. GRIEVE: I propose to strike out as may be directed in the Ordi- nance, and say either in the vessel in which he arrived or in a Quarantine Sta- tion. The PRESIDENT: Suppose they want to import rags; this section says rags may be landed in a quarantine station, I don't know what for except for disinfection, but they must be re- shipped in ten days. Mr. LO W : I understood that was to meet the case suggested by Dr. Bow en of a vessel arriving in a leaky condition. ^ Dr. crane : I take it it gives permis- sion to the Quarantine Authority, after they have been landed at a Quarantine Station, to land them if they think fit afterwards. Dr. grieve : Oh, no. Dr. BOWEN : If they are not from an infected vessel they come under another clause. Dr. grieve : If they came in an infected vessel that had not come from an infected country ? There are many definitions of infected vessel. I think rags coming from an infected country should never be admitted. Mr. BERKELEY : I think it will do very well as it is (quoting clause). The PRESIDENT: Rags comingfrom an infected place in an infected vessel. Do you mean to say rags coming from a place where there was a solitary case of yellow fever ? Dr. GRIEVE : I would not have them. Dr. crane : I don't think it would press very much in the West Indies if we do make it stringent because there is no paper manufacture here nor is there likelv to be. Dr. PRINGLE: I don't see any reason why rags cannot be disinfected like clothing by dry air. The PRESIDENT remarks, with regard to rags, that the object is to allow them to be put in a Quarantine Station for the purpose of vessels in distress. [See Annex (D) to the Minutes of the Seventh Sitting. Page 93.] With regard to cargo, this is a new section. I drew it on the instructions given yesterday. It is the medium pro- vision we want:— [See Annex (E) to the Minutes, Seventh Sit- ting. Page 93.] We agree to everything in Mr. Low's suggestion except that of teUing the ship she must leave: that must be put in the Ordinance in any colony which thinks fit to adopt it. Mr. LOW: Yes, I understand the Conference was against me on this. Dr. crane : Is it, shall under no circumstances be landed ?](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0224.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
