Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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In the case of quarantine for Small-pox, any person who has been properly
vaccinated under the observation or to the satisfaction of the Chief Quarantine
Officer may, as soon as practicable, be released under quarantine surveillance or
released from quarantine.
Any person to be released under this regulation shall, if so required, submit
himself with his goods and effects to disinfection as prescribed or to the satisfaction
of the quarantine officer.
15. Any person eligible under these regulations for release under quarantine
surveillance, may, subject to the concurrence of the Chief Quarantine Officer, and
to any conditions as to disinfection imposed by these regulations, be released under
surveillance on application in accordance with the following form:—
Quarantine Act, 1908. Sections 34 and 35 (4)
To the Chief Quarantine Officer,
State of
(a) Name of
ship or
station.
(b) Give intended
address.
I hereby request that I (and the undernamed members of my family
being under the age of twenty-one years, and under my control*), may be
permitted to leave (a) under quarantine surveillance,
and I hereby undertake to comply with all the regulations relating to
quarantine surveillance. My address will be (b)
Signature
Date
Note.—It will be sufficient if this undertaking is signed by the head of the family, in cases where
more than one member of the family desires to leave under quarantine surveillance, and where they are.
less than twenty-one years of age.
Every member of a family above twenty-one years of age must give a separate undertaking.
16. Any person released under quarantine surveillance shall, as frequently and
at such tunes as the Chief Quarantine Officer directs, present himself for inspection
and examination to a quarantine officer, or to a medical officer of health when
available, or to a duly qualified medical practitioner as the Chief Quarantine Officer
directs, and shall, if required by the Minister, pay such fee as may be fixed for the
inspection or examination.
17. Any person released under quarantine surveillance shall, immediately on
the appearance in himself of any symptoms or signs of illness or disease, report
the facts, or cause them to be reported, to the quarantine officer or other person to
whom he has been directed to present himself under the provisions of the last
preceding regulation.
The parent or guardian signing the application for the release of any child
under surveillance shall be responsible for the observance by the child of the
provisions of the regulations relating to release under surveillance.
18. No person under quarantine surveillance shall leave the port where he is
released or change his residence without the permission of the Chief Quarantine
Officer.
19. No person under quarantine surveillance shall leave the State in which he
has been released without permission of the Director of Quarantine, on the
recommendation of the Chief Quarantine Officer, subject to such conditions as may
be imposed by the former.