Department of Agriculture. liquid sulphur dioxide in the same proportionate strength; and the period of exposure to be not less than 24 hours; (b.) Or fumigation by formaldehyde as above described; (c.) Washing or flushing with acid solution of mercuric chloride (1 to 800). Cabins, forecastle and other apartments to be thoroughly washed with mercuric solution. 41. In all classes of vessels all clothing, bedding, curtains, &c., to be subjected to steam for 30 minutes at from 100° C. (212° Fahr.) to 115° C. (239° Fahr.) 42. In all classes of vessels, the bilges to be first flushed with sea or river water, pumped out, and then treated with acid solution of mercuric chloride in large quantity, and allowed to remain in long contact. Unorganized Maritime Quarantine Stations. 43. At every port at which there is no regular quarantine station, the collector of customs shall be the quarantine officer for the purposes of these regulations; and in the event of disease, such collector may for the purposes of these regulations call in the services of a medical man, who shall, while so acting, be held to be a quarantine officer; and every such port shall be designated an unorganized maritime quarantine station. 44. Every vessel arriving at an unorganized maritime quarantine station from an infected port, or on board of which any death from infectious disease or outbreak of infectious disease has occurred during the voyage, shall remain outside until it receives permission to enter from the quarantine officer. 45. All the regulations applicable to regularly organized maritime qua rantine stations shall also apply to every unorganized maritime quarantine station in so far as circumstances will admit, and particularly the provisions in relation to inspection, anchoring or mooring, disinfecting, customs clearance, putting back to sea before breaking bulk, questions to ship's surgeon or officers, and penalties. 46. Any collector or sub-collector of customs in his quality of quarantine officer at any unorganized maritime quarantine station in Canada, if he is informed of or has reason to suspect the presence of any of the graver quarantinable diseases recited in section 20 of these regulations, shall order a medical inspection to be made of the vessel bringing such disease; (a.) In the event of a vessel arriving at an unorganized maritime quarantine station with quarantinable disease on board, the master shall pay a fee of $4 for each medical inspection ordered by the quarantine officer, and such fee or fees must be paid before customs clearance is granted; (b.) If no disease is found on board a vessel arriving at an unorganized maritime quarantine station and ordered to be inspected by the quarantine officer, the cost of such inspection shall not be a charge against the vessel, but will be defrayed by the government. (c.) If the disease found on board a vessel, or the history, conditions, or circumstances of a vessel be such as may seem to the collector or sub-collector of customs to be beyond the capabilities for isolation or disinfection existing at an unorganized maritime quarantine station, he shall at once report the Department of Agriculture. same to the Minister of Agriculture, who may, at his discretion, order that the vessel proceed to an organized quarantine station for quarantine clearance, before being allowed to make customs entry. And in such case the expense of the transfer of the vessel to the organized maritime quarantine station shall be a charge against the vessel. Unorganized Inland Quarantine Stations. 47. Every inland port on the frontier of Canada between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, at which there is a collector or a sub-collector of customs shall for the purpose of these regulations, be constituted an unorganized inland quarantine station. 48. Every collector or sub-collector of customs at every such inland frontier port shall be the quarantine officer. 49. Any collector or sub-collector of customs in his quality of quarantine officer at any unorganized inland quarantine station in Canada, if he is informed of or has reason to suspect the presence of any of the graver quarantinable diseases recited in section 20 of these regulations shall, in time of cholera or other epidemic disease, order a medical inspection to be made of the car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing bringing such disease; (a.) And such quarantine officer is empowered to detain such car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing, until such medical inspection shall have been made to his satisfaction; (b.) A medical man making such inspection by order of the quarantine officer shall, while engaged in such service, be the quarantine medical officer. 50. The fee payable to such quarantine medical officer for each such inspection shall not exceed the sum of $4, and in the event of any quarantinable disease being found, such fee shall be payable by the company or owner of the car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing, bringing such disease. 51. The customs collector or sub-collector in his quality of quarantine officer shall, on the report of the quarantine medical officer, in a time of epidemic disease, in the event of any of the graver quarantinable diseases being found, cause the detention of the car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing, bringing any person ill with such infectious disease until the requirements of these regulations are in his judgment satisfied; (a.) Any such person shall not be allowed to enter Canada until in the opinion of the quarantine medical officer he or she can safely do so; (b.) Any car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing bringing such person to the frontier shall have the option of returning as an alternative to quarantine detention; or (c.) The customs collector or sub-collector in his quality of quarantine officer shall, in his discretion, on the report of the quarantine medical officer, cause the removal and isolation of such person in any car or boat, set apart for the purpose, or in any suitable building sufficiently separated from other buildings to prevent contact or infection; (d.) And such quarantine officer may cause the disinfection of the car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing bringing such person, by means of sulphurous fumes, or any other mode of disinfection prescribed in these regulations Department of Agriculture. 52. In the event of cholera or other epidemic disease prevailing in any part of the United States through which a railway crossing the frontier of Canada runs, the Governor in Council may, on an order published in The Canada Gazette or in an extra of The Canada Gazette, made on a report of the Minister of Agriculture, and where there may not happen to be at that point of the frontier any adequate quarantine arrangements and apparatus to cope with an inroad of such epidemic disease, direct the complete cessation of passenger traffic at such point; or such restriction thereof as may, in the circumstances, be deemed advisable. Quarantine Officers give all necessary Orders-Prohibited from receiving Fees or Gratuities. 53. Every quarantine officer is empowered to give any necessary order, or do any necessary act, to enforce these regulations, and it is his duty to report immediately to the Minister of Agriculture any breach or attempted breach of them. (a.) No quarantine officer nor other person employed in the quarantine service of Canada shall directly or indirectly receive or take any fee or private gratuity or reward for any service rendered to any company, or owner, master, or crew, passenger, or other person at or detained in any quarantine, maritime or inland; (6.) Every person to whom the knowledge of any breach of these regulations may come should forthwith report the same to the Minister of Agriculture. Penalties for Customs Officers, Pilots, Masters, Surgeons and Officers of Vessels, etc. 54. Every pilot shall be furnished with printed copies of these regulations, one of which it shall be his duty to hand to the master of every vessel coming from a port outside of Canada, immediately on boarding such vessel, under a penalty of $50. 55. Every collector of customs or customs officer shall be liable to a penalty of $400, and imprisonment for six months, for allowing customs entry of any vessel in the absence of production of a quarantine clearance, in accordance with the requirements of these regulations. 56. Every master of a vessel, pilot or other person shall be liable to a penalty of $400, and imprisonment for six months, for any contravention of any of the foregoing regulations. The vessel shall be held liable for any pecuniary penalty imposed on the master. 57. Every ship's surgeon or other officer not answering with exact truth any of the questions contained in the form hereunto appended shall be liable to a penalty of $400, and imprisonment for six months. 58. Every breach of subsection (a) of section 53 of these regulations shall be held to be a malfeasance of office, an offence punishable with dismissal, Department of Agriculture. Questions to be answered under Oath to Quarantine Officers by Masters, Surgeons, or Officers of Vessels. 1. What is your vessel's name and your name? Date 2. From what port and at what date did your vessel sail? 3. What is your cargo and whence taken on board? 4. Are there any rags in such cargo? 5. Has your vessel touched at any place or places on her voyage? 6. Was such place or places, or any of them, to your knowledge, infected with cholera, small-pox, plague or any pestilential fever or disease? 7. How many persons were on board when the vessel sailed? Cabin passengers cattlemen 8. State whether any person on board during the voyage has been, or is now, ill with of the diseases above referred to, and if so, how many any } 9. Has any person died on board during the present voyage, and if so, state all particulars? ; 10. Has each of the steerage passengers on board been vaccinated or had the smallpox? 11. Did the vaccination of steerage passengers take place at time of, or before, embarking? 12. How many have you vaccinated on your present voyage? 13. (Question to be asked, in the event of small-pox having occurred during the voyage, of ship's surgeon, if such is on board).-Have you personally during the present voyage, examined each one of the passengers and crew for proof of vaccination within seven years, or of having had the small-pox in that period? 14. Did you or any of the crew or passengers, within your knowledge, land at any place or places within Canada during the present voyage? 15. Is there any person on board lunatic, idiotic, deaf and dumb, blind or infirm, and if so, is such person accompanied by relatives or guardians? 16. Have you an isolated hospital for men, and another for women, ventilated from above and not from the alley-way? 17. Were such hospitals, or one of them, immediately made use of on the occurrence of disease? I, 18. Are there any other facts which, in your opinion, should be communicated? (here state whether ship's master, or occupying another position on board) do solemnly and sincerely swear to the exactness and truth of the answers to the above questions signed by me. SO HELP ME God. Master. Master. (Signature) (Signature) Surgeon. Quarantine officer and justice of the peace, authorized by Order in Council in virtue of chapter 68, Revised Statutes, intituled "An Act respecting Quarantine.” Department of Agriculture. By Proclamation dated the 4th of April, 1899, under the Revised Statutes of Canada, chapter 68, entitled "An Act respecting Quarantine," section 7 of the quarantine regulations established by Order in Council, bearing date the 18th of August, 1898, was rescinded, and the following section substituted by Order in Council of the 4th of April, 1899, was brought into force. 7. No person who shall be on board any vessel arriving from any port outside Canada at any organized quarantine station or who shall have gone on board any such vessel after such arrival and before such vessel has been inspected by a duly appointed quarantine officer, shall leave such vessel without the permission of such officer until such vessel shall have been declared by such officer free from infectious disease. Any person violating this regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $400 and imprisonment for six months. Vide Canada Gazette, vol. XXXII., p. 2017. |