Department of Agriculture. (c) Or the sulphur may be burned in a special furnace and the sulphur dioxide blown in by a power fan. Fumigation by sulphur dioxide is specially applicable to holds, steerages and other compartments too large for steam or formaldehyde, and which do not contain objects injured by it. It bleaches fabrics or materials dyed with vegetable and aniline dyes. It destroys linen or cotton goods by rotting the fibre through the acids formed. It injures most metals. It is promptly destructive to all forms of animal life. It is therefore specially valuable for the destruction of rats, etc., in plague ships, and of mosquitoes in yellow fever vessels. In sulphur fumigation the time of exposure should be not less than twelve hours. Mercuric bichloride.-This disinfectant is used in solutions not weaker than 1 to 1,000 of water. Its solubility is increased by using salt water, or by adding 2 parts per 1,000 of sodium (or ammonium) chloride. It is of use for the spraying, washing and drenching of free surfaces, alleyways, walls, floors, etc., where steam or gaseous disinfection cannot be used. It injuriously affects polished metals. It cannot be depended upon to penetrate substances in the presence of albuminous matters, dejecta, sputa, etc. These are best disinfected by burning or by chloride of lime or milk of lime. Carbolic acid. In solution of 5 per cent this may be used instead of the mercuric bichloride solution for polished metals, bright work, etc. Formalin (a 40 per cent aqueous solution of formaldehyde gas).-This in 5 per cent solution may also be used as a substitute for the mercuric bichloride solution or carbolic acid. It is non-injurious to metals. GENERAL. Disinfection of the mails. 32. When it is necessary to disinfect the mails it can be done by steam superheated to dryness, sulphur dioxide or formaldehyde gas. Perforation of the letters facilitates penetration. A simple method of disinfecting the mails in their bags or boxes is by formaldehyde gas. A soft towel or bunch of clean cotton waste may be placed in each bag or box and formalin poured upon it in the proportion of 1 oz. for every cubic foot of air space, leaving the bag or box closed for 5 or 6 hours. Soiled textiles. Textiles which are soiled with discharges of the sick or are in any other way presumably deeply infected must be disinfected by boiling, or by steam, or by steeping in one of the above disinfecting solutions. Utensils. Cooking and eating utensils are to be disinfected by immersing in boiling water or by steam. Bilges. In generally infected vessels the bilges should be flushed out with sea or river water and then treated with steam, or one of the disinfecting solutions in large quantity. Disinfection of luggage. 33. During a time of cholera or other epidemic, the luggage of immigrants or passengers by every vessel arriving at any port in Canada, whether from an infected or healthy port or country, may by direction of the Minister of Agriculture be disinfected in each case. Department of Agriculture. (a) When this disinfection is carried out at a substation, subsequent to the inspection and clearance at the main station, the clearance granted by the quarantine officer shall be conditional on the landing of immigrants and their luggage for disinfection. (b) The supervising officer of such disinfection to count the immigrants as they land, and if he find the number tallies with that marked on the clearance of the quarantine officer and has satisfactory evidence that all their luggage has been landed with them, he shall countersign the clearance, which shall then become valid for customs entry. COSTS AND CHARGES. 34. All quarantine inspections, except those under section (45), shall be made without any charge against the vessel. 35. All costs incurred in the maintenance of and attendance upon healthy persons, who may have been exposed to infection, or who have refused vaccination (see section 31c.), detained for quarantine are to be at the charge of the vessel. Vessel to provide provisions and attendants. (a) The master of a vessel shall make arrangements with the quarantine officer for the landing from the vessel or transportation from the mainland of the necessary provisions and for the attendance of stewards for serving them in cases where persons are so landed. Maintenance of sick. 36. Persons sick will be treated and taken care of in the quarantine hospitals at the charge of the government. Passengers forward. 37. In the event of a vessel being allowed to proceed, leaving its passengers in quarantine, the subsequent transfer of such passengers from quarantine to the port of destination shall be at the charge of the vessel. Disinfection free. 38. The appliances, materials and labour for disinfection are supplied by the government without charge to the vessel. UNORGANIZED MARITIME QUARANTINE STATIONS. 39. Every maritime port at which there is no regular quarantine station and no regular quarantine officer permanently or temporarily appointed by the Minister shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be constituted an unorganized maritime quarantine station. The customs officer the quarantine officer. 40. Every collector or sub-collector of customs at every such unorganized maritime quarantine station shall be the quarantine officer. When medical inspection to be ordered. 41. Any collector or sub-collector of customs in his quality of quarantine officer at any Department of Agriculture. suspect the presence on any vessel from abroad of any of the graver quarantinable diseases recited in section 4 of these regulations shall order a medical inspection to be made of vessel, crew, passengers, etc., on which such quarantinable disease exists or is suspected to exist. Medical man the quarantine officer. 42. A medical man making such inspection by order of the collector or sub-collector of customs shall, while engaged in such service, be the quarantine medical officer. Vessels from infected ports. 43. Every vessel arriving at an unorganized maritime quarantine station from an infected foreign 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. Regulations generally applicable. 44. All the regulations applicable to regularly organized maritime quarantine stations shall also apply to every unorganized maritime quarantine station in so far as circumstances will admit. Fee for medical inspection. 45. 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 $5 for each medical inspection ordered by the quarantine officer, and such fee or fees must be paid before customs clearance is granted. Healthy vessel free. 46. 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. Account. (a) In submitting an account for a medical inspection ordered by him, the collector or sub-collector of customs shall forward with the same a certificate setting forth the reasons for his action. (Vide Form No. 5 appended hereto.) Vessel may be sent to station. 47. 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 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. Prince Edward Island. 48. In the case of Prince Edward Island the regulations with regard to unorganized maritime quarantine stations shall apply to vessels from all ports outside of that province. Department of Agriculture. UNORGANIZED INLAND QUARANTINE STATIONS. Inland frontier ports. 49. Every inland port on the frontier of Canada at which there is no regular quarantine station and no regular quarantine officer permanently or temporarily appointed by the Minister shall, for the purposes of these regulations, be constituted an unorganized inland quarantine station. Customs officer the quarantine officer. 50. Every collector or sub-collector of customs at every such inland frontier port shall be the quarantine officer. When medical inspection to be ordered. 51. 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 4 of these regulations, shall order a medical inspection to be made of the car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing bringing or suspected of bringing such disease. Collector empowered to detain. (a) And such collector or sub-collector of customs is empowered to detain such car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing until such medical inspection shall have been made to his satisfaction. Medical man the quarantine officer. (b) A medical man making such inspection by order of the quarantine officer shall, while engaged in such service, be the quarantine medical officer. Vaccination. 52. And such quarantine medical officer shall have the power to cause vaccination of such persons as he may judge to require it; in the event of their refusing to be vaccinated, to prevent their entry into Canada. Fee for medical inspection. 53. The fee payable to such quarantine medical officer for each inspection shall not exceed the sum of $5, 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. Account. (a) In submitting an account for a medical inspection ordered by him the collector or sub-collector of customs shall forward with the same a certificate setting forth the reasons Department of Agriculture. Detention of infected conveyance. 54. The customs collector or sub-collector in his quality of quarantine officer shall, on the report of the quarantine medical officer, 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. Infected persons shall not enter Canada. (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; Conveyance has option of returning. (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 Isolation of infected persons. (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; Disinfection. (d) And such quarantine officer may cause the disinfection of the car, carriage, vehicle, boat or thing bringing such person, by means of formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, or any other mode of disinfection prescribed in these regulations adapted to the circumstances of the particular case. Regulations generally applicable. 55. All the regulations applicable to regularly organized maritime quarantine stations. shall also apply to every unorganized inland quarantine station in so far as circumstances will admit. Arrest of travel and traffic. 56. In the event of an epidemic of one of the graver quarantinable diseases prevailing in any part of the United States near which a railway crossing the frontier of Canada runs, 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, the Governor in Council may, on an order published in the Canada Gazette, made on a report, 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. 57. 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 |