II. In the District of every Sanitary Authority which is situate without the Administrative County of London, the persons mentioned in Section 3 of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889,* and the Sanitary Authority shall, under this Order, have the same powers and duties in relation to the notification of cases of Plague as they would have under that Act if Plague were an infectious disease to which that Act applied. In the District of every Sanitary Authority in the Administrative County of London, and in the District of the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London, the persons mentioned in Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891(including the Managers of the Metropolitan Asylum District), and the Sanitary Authority shall, under this Order, have the same powers and duties in relation to the notification of cases of Plague as they would have under that Section if Plague were an infectious disease to which that Section applied. The Sanitary Authority shall forthwith cause Circular Letters to be sent to all legally qualified Medical Practitioners in the District informing them of their duties under this Regulation. III. It shall be the duty of every Medical Officer of Health to report forthwith to Us any case of Plague which may be notified to him, or which may otherwise come or be brought to his knowledge and which may occur in the District or area assigned to his charge. Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government (L.S.) Henry Chaplin, Will. Ed. Knollys, 2. Prevention of Epidemic Diseases. REGULATIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD, DATED NOVEMBER 9, 1896, AS TO CHOLERA, YELLOW FEVER, AND PLAGUE, AS AMENDED BY REGULATIONS DATED DECEMBER 24, 1902+. 1896. No. 932. As amended by 1902. No. 956. * 52 & 53 Vict. c. 72. † These Regulations were rescinded as to the ports of Bristol, Gloucester, Liverpool, and Manchester, by Statutory Rules and Orders, Nos. 332 and 700 of 1897, which orders were amended by the Regulations of 1902. The Regulations of 1896 are printed at length in Statutory Rules and Orders 1896, pages 440-9, and those of 1992 are printed at length in Statutory Rules and Orders 1902, page 427. To all Port Sanitary Authorities; To all other Sanitary Authorities as herein defined; To all Medicol Officers of Health of the Sanitary Authorities aforesaid; To all Masters of Ships; To all Pilots; And to all others whom it may concern. Whereas we, the Local Government Board, are empowered by section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875, as amended by the Public Health Act, 1896,† from time to time to make, alter, and revoke such Regulations as to us may seem fit, with a view to the treatment of persons affected with cholera or any other epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease, and preventing the spread of cholera and such other diseases, as well on the seas, rivers, and waters of the United Kingdom, and on the high seas within three miles of the coasts thereof, as on land; and may provide for the enforcement and execution of such regulations; And whereas by section 1 of the Public Health Act, 1896,† it is enacted that Regulations of the Local Government Board made in pursuance of section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875,* or in pursuance of that section, as extended to London by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,+ may provide for such Regulations being enforced and executed by the officers of Customs and the officers and men employed in the Coastguard as well as by other authorities and officers, and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by those sections, may provide for (a) the signals to be hoisted by vessels having any case of epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease on board; and any (b) the questions to be answered by masters, pilots, and other persons on board vessel as to cases of such disease on board during the voyage or on the arrival of the vessel; and (c) the detention of vessels and of persons on board vessels; and (d) the duties to be performed in cases of such disease, by masters, pilots, and other persons on board vessels; Provided that the Regulations shall be subject to the consent(a) so far as they apply to the officers of Customs, of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs; and (b) so far as they apply to officers or men employed in the Coastguard, of the Admiralty; and (c) so far as they apply to signals, of the Board of Trade. And whereas by certain Orders, dated respectively the 28th lay of August, 1890,* and the 6th day of September, 1892,† we made Regulations with a view to the treatment of persons affected with cholera, and for preventing the spread of the disease; and it is expedient that such Orders should be revoked, and that Regulations should be made as herein-after mentioned to which the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs and the Board of Trade have respectively signified their consent so far as such Regulations respectively apply to the officers of Customs and to signals; Now therefore, we, the Local Government Board, do hereby revoke the said Orders, except in so far as they may apply to any proceedings row pending, and we do, by this our Order, and in exercise of the powers conferred on us by the Public Health Act, 1875, the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,§ and the Public Health Act, 1896, and every other power enabling us in that behalf, make the following Regulations, and declare that they shall be enforced and executed by the authorities and officers herein-after mentioned: - Article 1.-In this Order PART I. The term "ship" includes vessel or boat; The term "officer of Customs" includes any person acting under the authority of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs; The term "master," used in relation to a ship, includes the The term "cholera" includes choleraic diarrhoea; The term "local authority" means any council of a county The term "medical officer of health" includes any duly qualified medical practitioner appointed or employed by a sanitary authority to act in the execution of this Order. Published in Statutory Rules and Orders, 1890, p. 82. Published in Statutory Rules and Orders, 1892, p. 25. +38 & 39 Vict. e 55. $ 51 & 55 Vict. c 76. 59 & 60 Vict. c. 19. The term "infected" means infected with cholera, yellow fever, or plague; Provided that every ship shall be deemed infected in which there is or has been during the voyage, or during the stay of such ship in the port of departure or in a port in the course of such voyage, any case of cholera, yellow fever, or plague. PART II. Article 2.-(1.) The officer of Customs who, on the arrival of any ship from foreign, shall visit the ship shall ascertain, so far as possible, whether such ship is infected, and if he have any reason to suspect that the ship is infected or has come from any infected place shall require the master of the ship, or the surgeon, if the ship carries a surgeon, to give (in writing under his hand and in the form hereunto appended or in a form to the like effect) a true answer to the following question; Question.-Has any case or suspected case of— Cholera, Yellow Fever, or Plague occurred in the ship of which you are during the voyage from or during the stay of the ship in that port or in any other port in the course of the voyage? Answer- cases or suspected cases of occurred on board the from the port of , during the voyage [or during the stay of the ship in ]. or No case or suspected case of cholera, yellow fever, or plague occurred on board the during the voyage from , or during the stay of the ship in that port or in any other port in the course of the voyage. Signed Master [or surgeon] of the (2.) The officer of Customs who, on the arrival of any ship from foreign, shall visit such ship shall, if he find, or have reason to suspect, that the ship is infected, detain such ship, and order the master forthwith to moor or anchor the same in such position as such officer of Customs shall direct; and thereanchor the ship upon the master shall forthwith moor or accordingly. Article 3.-Whilst such ship shall be so detained, no person (other than an officer of Customs or a person acting in the execution of this Order) shall leave the same. Article 4.-The officer of Customs detaining any ship as aforesaid shall forthwith give notice thereof, and of the cause of such detention, to the sanitary authority of the place where such ship is lying Article 5.-Such detention by the officer of Customs shall cease as soon as the ship shall have been duly visited and examined by the medical officer of health; or, if the ship shall, upon such examination, be found to be infected, as soon as the same shall be moored and anchored in pursuance of Article 10. Provided, that if the examination be not commenced within twelve hours after the ship shall have been moored or anchored in pursuance of sub-division 2 of Article 2, the ship shall, on the expiration of the said twelve hours, be released from detention. PART III. Article 6.-Every port sanitary authority and every other sanitary authority within whose district persons are likely to be landed from ships coming foreign shall, with the approval of the chief officer of Customs of the port, fix some place where any ship may be moored or anchored for the purpose of Article 10; and shall make provision for the reception of patients and persons suffering from cholera, yellow fever, and plague, and removed under Articles 13 and 14. The place to be fixed as aforesaid, where any ship may be moored or anchored for the purpose of Article 10, shall be some place within the jurisdiction or district of the sanitary authority, unless we otherwise consent; in which case the place place so fixed shall, for the purposes of this Order, be deemed to be within. such jurisdiction or district. Provided that, in the case of any dockyard port for which a Queen's harbour master has been appointed, the place where any ship shall be moored or anchored for the purpose of Article 10 shall from time to time be fixed by the port sanitary authority with the approval of the Queen's harbour master, instead of with that of the chief officer of Customs of the port. Provided also, that where, in pursuance of the above-cited Order of the twenty-eighth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety, or of any Order by the said Order revoked, places have been fixed for the mooring or anchoring of ships for the purposes of the Regulations by this Order revoked, such places shall be deemed to have been so fixed in pursuance of and for the purposes of this Order. Article 7.-The sanitary authority, on notice being given to them by an officer of Customs, under Article 4, shall forthwith cause the ship, in regard to which such notice shall have been given, to be visited and examined by their medical officer of health for the purpose of ascertaining whether such ship is infected. Article 8.-The medical officer of health, if he have reason to suspect that any ship coming or being within the jurisdiction or district of the sanitary authority, whether examined by the officer of Customs or not, is infected, shall, or, if he have reason to suspect that the ship has come from an infected place, may |