Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889.

  • United States. Marine Hospital Service.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Revised regulations for the government of the United States Marine-Hospital Service : approved May 20, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Act April 2!), “ Se(j. 2. That whcucvci' any infectious or contagious — ’ - - disease shall appear in any foreign port or country, and viHiiiKSurgeon-\yiiQnever any vessel shall leave any infected foreign tieiierul. , i port, or, having on hoard goods or passengers coming from any place or district infected with cholera or yel- low fever, shall leave any foreign port, hound for any port in the United States, the consular officer, or other representative of the United States at or nearest such foreign port shall immediately give information thereof to the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hos- pital Service, and shall report to him the name, the date of departure, and the port of destination of such vessel; and shall also make the same report to the health officer of the port of destination in the United States, and the consular officers of the United States shall make weekly reports to him of the sanitary condition oi the ports at which they arc respectively stationed; and the said Sur- geon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, he charged with the execution of the provisions of this act, and shall frame all needful rules and regulations for that purpose. which rules and regulations shall be subject to the ap- proval of the President, but such rules and regulations shall not conflict with or impair any sanitary or quaran- tine laws’or regulations of any State or municipal author- ities now existing or which may hereafter be enacted. M.Kiiaii office™ “ Sfx. 3. That it shall be the duty of the medical offi- of the Marine-Hospital Service and of customs offi- cers to aid in the enforcement of the national quarantine rules and regulations established under the preceding section; but no additional compensation shall be allowed said officers by reason of such services as they may be required to perform under this act, except actual and necessary traveling expenses. Surgcon-Goncmi “ Sec. 4- That tlic Surgcon-Gcncral of the Marinc-Hos- •aS!f^arco™pital Service shall, upon receipt of information of the '‘'■'iTcckif'bxlcparturc of any vessel, goods, or passengers from in- fected places to any port in the United States, immedi- ately notify the proper State or municipal and United States officer or officers at the threatened port of destina- tion of the vessel, and shall prepare and transmit to the medical officers of the Marine-Hospital Service to co - lectors of customs, and to the State and municipal health authorities of the United States weekly abstracts of consular sanitary reports and other pertinent informa • tion received by him. th btnict.