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come from a place infected with Cholera, may, visit and examine such ship, for the purpose
of ascertaining whether she is so infected ; and the Master of such ship shall permit the
same to be so visited and examined.
Art. 9.—If the Medical Officer of Health on making such examination as aforesaid
(whether under Article 7 or under Article 8), shall be of opinion that the ship is
infected, he shall forthwith give a certificate in duplicate in the following Form, or to
the like effect, and shall deliver one copy to the Master, and retain the other copy or
transmit it to the Sanitary Authority. He shall also give to the Local Government
Board information as to the arrival of the ship, and such other particulars as that Board
may require.
Certificate.
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Sanitary Authority of
I hereby certify that I have examined the ship
of , now lying in the Port of [or detained
at ] and that I find that she is infected with Cholera.
Medical Officer of Health [or Medical Practitioner appointed
by the Sanitary Authority.]
Art. 10.—The Master of any ship so certified to be infected with Cholera shall
thereupon moor or anchor her at the place fixed for that purpose under Article 6,
and she shall remain there until the requirements of this Order have been duly fulfilled.
Art. 11.—No person shall leave any such ship until the examination herein-after
mentioned shall have been made.
Art. 12.—The Medical Officer of Health shall, as soon as possible after any such
ship has been certified to be infected with Cholera, examine every person on board
the same, and in the case of any person suffering from Cholera or from any illness
which the Medical Officer of Health suspects may prove to be Cholera, shall certify
accordingly; and any person who shall not be so certified by him shall be permitted
to land immediately on giving to the Medical Officer of Health his name and place
of destination, stating, where practicable, his address at such place.
The name and address of any such person shall forthwith be given by the Medical
Officer of Health to the Clerk to the Sanitary Authority, and such Clerk shall thereupon
transmit the same to the Local Authority of the District in which the place of destination
of such person is situate.
In this Article the term "Local Authority" means any Urban or Rural Sanitary
Authority; and in the Administrative County of London, the Commissioners of Sewers,
the Yestry under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, of a Parish in Schedule A.,
and the District Board of a District in Schedule B. to that Act, as amended by the
Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1885, and the Metropolis Management
(Battersea and Westminster; Act, 1887, and the Woolwich Local Board of Health.