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Art. 13.—Every person certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be suffering
from Cholera shall be removed, if his condition admit of it, to some hospital or other
suitable place appointed for that purpose by the Sanitary Authority; and no person so
removed shall leave such hospital or place until the Medical Officer of Health shall have
certified that such person is free from the said disease.
If any person suffering from Cholera cannot be removed, the ship shall remain
subject, for the purposes of this Order, to the control of the Medical Officer of Health;
and the infected person shall not be removed from or leave the ship, except with the
consent in writing of the Medical Officer of Health.
Art. 14.—Any person certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be suffering from
any illness which such Officer suspects may prove to be Cholera, may either be detained
on board the ship for any period not exceeding two days, or be taken to some hospital
or other suitable place appointed for that purpose by the Sanitary Authority, and detained
there, for a like period, in order that it may be ascertained whether the illness is or
is not Cholera.
Any such person who, while so detained, shall be certified by the Medical Officer of
Health to be suffering from Cholera, shall be dealt with as provided by Article 13 of
this Order.
Art. 15.—The Medical Officer of Health shall, in the case of every ship certified
to be infected, give directions, and take such steps as may appear to him to be
necessary, for preventing the spread of infection, and the Master of the said ship
shall forthwith carry into execution such directions as shall be so given to him.
Art. 16.—In the event of any death from Cholera taking place on board such ship
while detained under Article 10, the Master shall, as directed by the Sanitary Authority
or the Medical Officer of Health, either cause the dead body to be taken out to sea,
and committed to the deep, properly loaded to prevent its rising, or shall deliver it
into the charge of the said Authority for interment; and the Authority shall thereupon
have the same interred.
Art. 17.—The Master shall cause any articles that may have been soiled with Cholera
-discharges to be destroyed, and the clothing and bedding and other articles of personal
use likely to retain infection which have been used by any person who may have
suffered from Cholera on board such ship, or who, having left such ship, shall have
suffered from Cholera during the stay of such ship in any Port, to be disinfected
or (if necessary) destroyed; and if the Master shall have neglected to do so before
the ship arrives in port, he shall forthwith, upon the direction of the Sanitary Authority
or the Medical Officer of Health, cause the same to be disinfected or destroyed, as
the case may require; and if the said Master neglect to comply with such direction
within a reasonable time, the Authority shall cause the same to be carried into
execution.
Art. 18.—The Master shall cause the ship to be disinfected, and every article therein,
other than those last described, which may probably be infected with Cholera, to be
disinfected or destroyed, according to the directions of the Medical Officer of Health.