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The range of application demands certain elementary provisions. There must be a sufficient
head of free flow between the ship's side discharge and the sewer, with simple and secure connections
at both ends of the flexible hose. This requires that the discharge orifice must be linked
at a point above the water line, and the range of height must be considered in relation to the
variation of draft during loading and discharge of cargo. Other problems may arise with different
ships but this should not be beyond the ingenuity of the industry.
Sewage Disposal connection
SECTION VI-PUBLIC HEALTH (SHIPS) REGULATIONS 1952/63
1. List of Infected Areas (Regulation 6)—Arrangements for the preparation and amendment of
the list, the form of list, the persons to whom it is supplied and the procedure for supplying
it to those persons
Regulation 6 of the Public Health (Ships) Regulations, 1952/63, requires that "the medical
officer of health for every district shall from time to time prepare and keep up to date a list of
ports and other areas which are infected or believed to be infected with quarantinable disease or
which may serve other places or areas so infected or believed to be infected" and, further, that
copies of every such list and any amendment thereof shall be supplied to the Pilots and Customs
Officers employed in the district.
To attempt to supply the Pilots and Customs Officers with a weekly list of such ports and
areas based on the Weekly Record of Quarautinable Diseases issued by the World Health Organisation
would lead to chaos and to much more delay and inconvenience to shipping than the
system of inspecting, as a routine, ships from any part of the World in which dangerous infectious
diseases are endemic or, from time to time, epidemic. Consequently, for convenience of
working, the infected area is taken to include any port in all Asia, Africa, South America or
Central America (excluding transit through the Panama Canal). In the event of quarantinable
disease occurring outside this area, the Pilots and Customs Officers would at once be notified.
Ships bound for London coming up the English Channel take on a Pilot off Dungeness, those
coming across the North Sea take on a Pilot at the Sunk Lightship, near Harwich. The Elder
Brethren of Trinity House have kindly agreed that Pilots should hand copies of the Declaration
of Health to the Masters of ships they board and accordingly supplies of the Declaration of
Health are sent as required to the Pilotage Offices at Dover and Harwich. In addition, several of
the larger shipping companies using the port are supplied, on request, with Declaration of
Health forms which are placed on board their vessels with other ship's papers.
The instructions on page 4 of the Declaration of Health (applying only to the Port of London)
are as follows:—
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