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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Port of London 1890
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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III.—Flag to be hoisted by Ships infected with Cholera.
Art. 19.—The Master of every ship infected with Cholera shall, when within three
miles of the coast of any part of England or Wales, cause to be hoisted the Commercial
Code Signal Q, being a yellow flag, under the National Ensign, and shall keep the
same displayed during the whole of the time between sunrise and sunset.
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this
Twenty-eighth day of August, in the year One thousand eight hundred
and ninety.
HUGH OWEN, CHAS. T. RITCHIE,
President. Secretary.
Notice.— The Public Health Act, 1875, provides by Section 130 that any person
wilfully neglecting, or refusing to obey or carry out, or obstructing the execution of
any regulation made under that Section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding
Fifty Pounds.
Date of publication in the London Gazette,
29th August, 1890.
Charles Skipper and East, Printers. St. Dunstan's Hill, E.C.