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I set these Bye-laws out in full for your information:—
BYE-LAWS made by the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of
London, pursuant to the Public Health (London) Act, 1891,
Section 66 (3), and confirmed by the Local Government Board,
for removing to Hospital, and for keeping in Hospital so long
as may be necessary, any persons brought within the Port by
any Vessel who are infected with a dangerous Infectious
Disease.
1. In these Bye-laws the expression "The Port Sanitary Authority"
means the Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, acting
as the Port Sanitary Authority of the Port of London. The term Medical
Officer of Health or Medical Officer of the Port of London Sanitary Authority
shall include any duly qualified medical practitioner appointed or employed
to act on their behalf.
The expression "Dangerous Infectious Disease" means any one of the
following diseases:—
Small-pox,
Diphtheria,
Membranous Croup,
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever,
Typhus Fever,
Typhoid Fever,
Enteric Fever,
Relapsing Fever,
Continued Fever,
Measles,
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.