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Credit: British West Indian Conference on Quarantine, 1888. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Page 11. The PEESIDENT : It shall be law- ful for tlie Executive Autliority to withdraw and declare its being no longer in force, any notification so made. [Annex (I) to the Minutes of the Seventh Sit- ting. Page 94.] Dr. G-RIEVE : Is it clear we have taken power to deal with a ship after she is allowed pratique and in which disease has broken out within the waters of the colony ? Mr. SAKDEESON: We have said Every vessel on board of which on any given day. The PEESIDENT : I understand it is the wish that this Ordinance shall cover all the cases mentioned by Dr. Grieve, and when considered by the draftsman he will take care to put it in. Dr. GEIEVE: This point struck me in connection with the clause. You were putting in a clause Any master of a vessel who knowingly suffers any person ill from an infectious disease to quit, or be removed from, any vessel, except so and so, shall be guilty of an offence, and I did not quite see whether the vessel had been brought under the Quarantine laws at all. Do you not think it would be well to make it clear that the moment a case arises in har- bour the vessel becomes subject to the Quarantine Authorities ? Dr. CEANE : I would suggest:— The Master of every vessel within the waters of this Oolony in which any per- son is suffering from an infectious dis- ease shall immediately on such fact becoming known to him report the same to the Health Officer. Dr. PEINGLE : I don't think it is much use saying infectious disease because the man would plead that he did not know it was. Dr. CEANE: No; but it would be incumbent upon him to find out. Dr. GEIEVE : Under the harbour regulations it only refers to the indivi- dual, but we want to bring in the vessel, to make the vessel come under the Quarantine Authorities. Mr. low : Would not that be met perhaps by 6 and e under the defi- nition infected Vessel? Dr. GEIEVE : That only gives the power to do, but does not provide for information coming to the Quarantine Authority. I propose to put it in the clause which makes it an offence to knowingly land a case of infectious dis- ease. Mr. low : But as pointed out by one of the medical officers, how is the man to know it is an infectious dis- ease ? Dr. GEIEVE : Then he could not be punished; it is knowingly allows. Mr. low : The captain of the ship may not know what the disease is, or whether it is one of our infectious diseases or not, and therefore it will be necessary to say any disease and leave it to the Health Officer to deter- mine what is the disease. Dr. GEIEVE : Then add, when- ever the Quarantine Authority ascer- tain there is infectious disease on board that vessel they shall have power to quarantine. Mr. LOW: That is all provided for. The PEESIDENT: I think there might be a new clause to this effect:— [Page 18. Master of every Vessel in Port required to report existence of in- fectious disease on board.] Dr. PEINGLE : A vessel might be within the waters of the colony without intending to come in. The PEESIDENT: As we cannot have this reprinted, these sections which have been approved, perhaps members will leave it to me to insert them in their proper places. I don't understand that members are wedded at all to the order in which the sections come, because it seems to me better dividing up the clauses under several headings. They will come in better—the preliminary clause, the definition clause, powers of Executive and appointment and powers of Quarantine Authority, things liable to be infected within the waters of the colony, to quarantine dealing with all vessels and handing over to the Quaran-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21297678_0226.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
