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and shall include any infectious disease to which Section 55 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, has been applied by the Port Sanitary Authority
in manner provided by that Act.
2. Every master or other person having charge of a vessel 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 disease, shall, if
bound up the River Thames to any place situated Westward of a line drawn
from Havengore Creek in Essex, to Warden Point in the Isle of Sheppey,
proceed to Gravesend and stop off the Custom House, Gravesend, and if bound
up the River Medway, shall stop on arrival off Garrison Point, Sheerness, and
forthwith send notice to the Medical Officer of the Port Sanitary Authority
stationed at Gravesend or Sheerness, as the case may be, that there is a person
on board suffering from such a disease.
3. The master or other person in charge shall cause the vessel to remain
off the Custom House, Gravesend, or Garrison Point, Sheerness, until the
Medical Officer of Health, or Medical Officer of Port of London Sanitary
Authority has boarded the said vessel.
4. The Medical Officer to whom notice is given as aforesaid, shall, as soon
as practicable, visit the vessel, and ascertain whether the person referred to in
the notice is suffering from a dangerous infectious disease, and, if in the
opinion of the Medical Officer 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, and it is desirable that he should be
removed thereto, the master or other person having charge of the vessel shall
forthwith cause such person to be removed to such Hospital according to the
directions of the Medical Officer.
5. Every person infected with a dangerous infectious disease who may be
removed to the Hospital of the Port of London Sanitary Authority at Denton,
below Gravesend, or to any other Hospital to which the Port Sanitary
Authority are entitled to remove patients, shall remain in such Hospital so
long as may be considered necessary by the Medical Officer in charge of the
Hospital, for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection.
6. If any dangerous infectious disease shall break out on board any vessel
arriving in the Port of London, and after she has passed Gravesend, the
master or other person having charge of such vessel shall give notice to the
Medical Officer of Health of the Port Sanitary Authority, at his Office at
51, King William Street, Greenwich, S.E., that there is on board a person
suffering from such a disease, and if, upon examination, the Medical Officer of
Health shall find that he is so suffering, the master or other person in charge
of such vessel shall forthwith cause such person to be removed to a Hospital to
which the Port Sanitary Authority are entitled to remove patients, as
directed by the Medical Officer of Health.