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By proclamation of the 10th of September, 1894, and under the provisions of chapter 68 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, the quarantine regulations established by Order in Council of the 20th day of June, A.D. 1893, together with all previous quarantine regulations were rescinded, and the following quarantine regulations, established by Order in Council of the 10th day of September, A.D. 1894, were substituted therefor and brought into force :

CANADIAN QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.

The Quarantine Stations and Service.

1. The quarantine stations of Canada on the Atlantic coast, are :— (a.) Grosse Isle, in the River St. Lawrence, with Rimouski, the Louise Embankment and the Grand Trunk Wharf at Lévis, as sub-stations, province of Quebec ;

(b.) Halifax, the harbour, and Lawlor's Island, in the province of Nova Scotia ;

(c.) St. John, the harbour, and Partridge Island, in the province of New Brunswick;

(d.) Sydney, Cape Breton, in the province of Nova Scotia ;

(e.) Pictou, in the province of Nova Scotia ;

(f.) Hawkesbury, in the province of Nova Scotia ;

(9.) Chatham, in the province of New Brunswick;

(h.) Charlottetown, in the province of Prince Edward Island.

2. On the Pacific coast :-

(a.) William Head, including Albert Head, in the Strait of Fuca, province of British Columbia, and also including as a sub-station the port of Victoria; and

3. Every other port, on both oceans, each such port being designated an unorganized quarantine station.

4. And every inland customs port on the Canadian frontier, between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, each such port being designated an unorganized inland quarantine station.

5. Each quarantine station is in the immediate charge of a specially appointed medical quarantine officer.

(a.) At each unorganized quarantine station and at each unorganized inland quarantine station the local collector of customs is the quarantine officer for the purposes of these regulations.

(b.) The whole of the quarantine service of Canada is under the administration of the Minister of Agriculture.

6. Every quarantine officer at a quarantine station in Canada, and every customs collector in his quality of quarantine officer, shall for the purpose of these regulations be a justice of the peace in virtue of the provisions of section 5 of the Act respecting quarantine, chapter 68, Revised Statutes.

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General Provisions.

7. Every vessel arriving from any port outside of Canada at any organized quarantine station shall be inspected by a duly appointed quarantine officer, at the place duly appointed for such inspection, and shall not be allowed to make customs entry at any port in Canada until it has received a clean bill of health.

8. No person shall be allowed to land from any vessel until such person shall have been declared by a quarantine officer free from infectious disease, and until, in the judgment of such officer, such landing can be effected with out danger to the public health.

9. Every vessel from any port outside of Canada requiring quarantine inspection shall, on arrival at any port in Canada, display a yellow flag at the fore, for a distinctive quarantine signal, in order to inform the quarantine officer that his services are required, and any vessel arriving by night shall display a red light at the fore for such signal.

10. Coasting vessels from Newfoundland and from ports in the United States contiguous to Canada and free from infectious disease may, from time to time, be excepted from these regulations by order of the Minister of Agriculture.

11. Any of Her Majesty's ships of war or any transport having the Queen's troops on board, accompanied by a medical officer, and in a healthy state, is exempt from quarantine inspection and detention.

Quarantine Detention.

12. Every quarantine officer shall satisfy himself as to the presence or absence of infectious disease by the personal inspection of those on board or by the sworn statement of the captain or surgeon, in the form hereto annexed, or by both.

13. Every vessel with infectious disease on board, or coming from an infected port or country, shall be liable to be detained at a quarantine station for disinfection, together with its passengers, crew and pilot, and passengers' luggage and cargo;

(a.) A vessel may be detained at quarantine for disinfection during the time necessary for that purpose;

(b.) The time during which a vessel may be detained for quarantine of observation is the accepted period of the incubation of the disease quarantined against, from the ascertained date of last possible exposure.

14. Any vessel so detained by order of the quarantine officer shall forthwith be anchored or moored in such position as the quarantine officer shall direct.

15. And whilst such ship is so detained no person shall leave the same, nor shall communication be allowed with such vessel, without permission from the quarantine officer.

16. The quarantine officer detaining any ship as aforesaid shall immediately notify the Minister of Agriculture, stating the cause of such detention.

17. Within the meaning of these regulations an infected port or country is a port or country where Asiatic cholera or other epidemic disease has been

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communicated to one or more persons through the medium of an infected person, personal effects, or otherwise. A port or country is not considered infected when a single case or a small number of cases has been imported and the disease has not been communicated from such cases.

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18. Every vessel may be inspected during any hour of the twenty-four: (a.) With the exception that in times of epidemic the Minister of Agriculture may direct that inspection shall only take place during the hours of daylight.

19. Any vessel shall have the right before breaking bulk to put to sea in preference to being quarantined, as provided by section 9 of the Act intituled : "An Act respecting Quarantine," chapter 68, Revised Statutes.

20. All costs incurred in the maintenance of healthy persons who may have been exposed to infection detained for quarantine of observation are to be at the charge of the vessel;

(a.) And the master of a vessel shall make arrangements with the quarantine officer for the landing of the necessary provisions and attendants or stewards for serving them;

(b.) Persons actually sick will be treated and taken care of in the tine hospitals, at the charge of the government;

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(c.) In the event of a vessel being allowed to proceed and leaving its passengers in quarantine, the subsequent transfer of such passengers from quarantine to the port of destination shall be at the charge of the vessel.

Quarantinable Diseases.

21. The graver quarantinable diseases are: Asiatic cholera, small-pox, typhus fever, yellow fever and the plague. The minor: scarlet fever, enteric fever (typhoid), diphtheria, measles and chicken-pox;

(a.) In addition to the above recital, it is the duty of every quarantine officer to satisfy himself as to the presence or absence of any other contagious or infectious disease;

(b.) And with respect to leprosy it is the duty of every quarantine officer, and particularly on the Pacific coast, to satisfy himself as to the fact of the presence or absence of such disease among the passengers, and in the event of any case of such disease being found the person affected shall not be allowed to land, but must be taken back by the vessel to the place whence he or she

came.

Pilots furnish Regulations.

22. It shall be the duty of every pilot to furnish the master of every vessel arriving at any port of Canada with a copy of these regulations under the penalty hereinafter prescribed.

Relating to Vaccination.

23. Every passenger shall be required to furnish evidence to the satisfaction of a quarantine officer of having been vaccinated, or having had the small-pox.

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24. The production of a certificate by a ship's surgeon, called "a protection card," and his testimony under oath verifying the truth of such certificate, may be taken by a quarantine officer as evidence of such vaccination and protection. Such quarantine officer shall, however, from time to time, make personal examination of holders of such certificates to satisfy himself of the manner in which they have been issued.

25. Any person not having shown satisfactory evidence of having been. vaccinated, or of having had small-pox, shall be vaccinated by a quarantine officer; or in the event of refusal shall be landed at the quarantine station, subject to detention for observation, and the expense of the maintenance of such person during such detention shall be a charge against the vessel;

(a.) A vessel arriving at any quarantine station in Canada will be less liable to detention if the vaccination of all steerage passengers not showing proof of vaccination within seven years is insisted on before embarkation. The ship's surgeon should satisfy himself of such fact in the case of every passenger early during the voyage or at the time of embarkation if possible, in order to be able to answer the questions put to him by the quarantine officer. 26. In the event of small-pox having occurred on any vessel every person on board not showing satisfactory evidence of having been vaccinated within seven previous years, or of having had the small-pox within that period, shall be vaccinated by or under the supervision of the quarantine officer; or in the event of refusal, shall be landed at the quarantine station, subject to detention for observation, and the expense of maintenance of such person or persons during such detention shall be a charge against the vessel.

Examination.

27. The quarantine officer shall examine the surgeon or any officer of any vessel, under oath, touching the state of health of such vessel and of every person on board, in the form of the questions appended to these regulations.

Isolation.

28. Every vessel provided with an isolated hospital, for men, and another for women, on the upper deck ventilated from above and not by the door only, may, if the quarantine officer is furnished with satisfactory evidence that such hospital accommodation has been promptly and intelligently made use of, be allowed to proceed after the landing of the sick and the disinfection of such hospital as has been used; any vessel, however, arriving with any infectious disease, without having such special isolated and ventilated hospital accommodation, or, if having it, without satisfactory evidence that it has been promptly and intelligently made use of, shall be liable to be detained for disinfection at a quarantine station.

Mails at Rimouski.

29. In the case of a vessel carrying Her Majesty's mails and arriving by the St. Lawrence, clearance certificate shall be from a quarantine officer at Rimouski, or Grosse Isle, and in the case of every other vessel from Grosse Isle only.

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(a.) With the exception that during a time of cholera or other epidemic, the permission to a mail steamer from an infected port or country to land passengers at Rimouski may be suspended by direction of the Minister of Agriculture;

(b.) And in such conditions the mails only to be landed at Rimouski, the vessel to proceed to Grosse Isle for inspection;

(c.) In the event of cholera having occurred on board of such vessel during the voyage, the outer bags containing the mail matter to be left on board the steamship for disinfection at Grosse Isle.

Disinfection of Luggage.

30. During a time of cholera or other epidemic the luggage of immigrants or passengers by every vessel arriving at any port in Canada, whether from an infected or healthy port or country, may, by direction of the Minister of Agriculture, be disinfected in each case.

(a.) When this disinfection is carried out at a substation, subsequent to the inspection and clearance at the main station, the clearance granted by the quarantine officer shall be conditional on the landing of immigrants and their luggage for disinfection.

(b.) The supervising officer of such disinfection to count the immigrants as they land, and if he finds the number tallies with that marked on the clearance of the quarantine officer and has satisfactory evidence that all their luggage has been landed with them, he shall punch the clearance at the place marked for that purpose, which shall then become valid for customs entry.

Passengers' Certificates.

31. Every maritime quarantine officer shall punch each immigrant "international passenger certificate" where such are in use, in such manner as to convey to inland health officers the result of the quarantine inspection, as provided by such card or certificate.

(a.) Every maritime quarantine officer shall punch the schedule list of immigrants by destination, province, or state (if destined for the United States) where such is in use, which shall be furnished by the ship's surgeon on forms supplied by the government, and shall forward such lists forthwith to the secretary of the board of health in the province or state to which such immigrants are destined.

Unorganized Quarantine Stations.

32. At every port at which there is no regular quarantine station the collector of customs at each port shall be the quarantine officer for the purposes of these regulations; and every such port shall be designated an unorganized quarantine station.

33. Every vessel arriving at an unorganized station from an infected port, or on board of which any death from infectious disease or outbreak of infectious disease has occurred during the voyage, shall remain outside until it receives permission to enter from the quarantine officer.