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APPENDIX I.
REGULATIONS made by the Port Sanitary Authority for the
Port of London [pursuant to the Public Health Act, 1875,
Section 125], and approved by the Local Government Board,
for the removal to Hospital of persons brought within the
Port by any Ship or Boat who are infected with a dangerous
Infectious Disorder.
1. In these Regulations the expression " The Port Sanitary Authority " means the
Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, acting as the Port Sanitary
Authority of the Port of London ; the expression " Dangerous infectious disorder"
means any one of the following diseases : —
Diphtheria,
Erysipelas,
Measles,
Scarlatina,
Small-Pox,
Typhoid or Enteric Fever,
Typhus Fever.
The expression " Ship" includes a boat, and the expression " Medical Officer of
Health" includes any legally-qualified Medical Practitioner acting for such Officer
and any assistant to the Medical Officer of Health.
2. These Regulations shall remain in force until they are revoked by the Port
Sanitary Authority, or until fresh Regulations, under Section 125 of the Public Health
Act, 1875, are made by the Port Sanitary Authority and approved of by the Local
Government Board.
3. Every master or other person having charge of a ship arriving in the Port
of London, with any person on board, whether a passenger or belonging to the ship's
crew, suffering from a dangerous infectious disorder, shall stop on arrival off the Custom
House at Gravesend, and forthwith send notice to the Medical Officer of the Port
Sanitary Authority stationed at Gravesend, that there is a person on board suffering
from such a disorder.
4. The Master or other person in charge of the ship shall cause her to remain
off the Custom House until the Medical Officer of Health has boarded her.
5. The Medical Officer of Health to whom notice is given as aforesaid, shall as soon
as practicable visit the ship, and ascertain whether the person referred to in the notice
is suffering from a dangerous infectious disorder, and if in the opinion of the Medical
Officer of Health he is, and can properly be removed, and proper accommodation can
be provided for him in the Hospital of the Port Sanitary Authority at Gravesend,
or in some other hospital to which the Port Sanitary Authority are entitled to remove
patients, the master or other person having charge of the ship shall forthwith cause
such person to be removed to such hospital according to the directions of the Medical
Officer of Health.
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