continued. Description of Signals. North German Lloyd- The apex of the triangle is to be at the bottom, and is to be formed by a Green light, the angle at the left-hand side by a Red light, and the angle at the right-hand side by a white light as seen from the shore. When this signal is acknowledged by the telegraph station at Hurst Castle no reply is to be made from the ship. WEST INDIA LINE. Where used. 6. (a) The steam whistle blown well, (b) burned Near Hurst Castle. Northumberland Steam One pyrotechnic Blue light burned close to the Shipping Company, Shields. G. M. Papayanni, 8, Fenwick St., Liverpool. Note. The blue light is not to be used in pilot 1. A bright White light shown in a lantern from 2. A bright White light shown in a lantern from Messrs. Pothonier et See Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. "Red Star Line"...... See Société Anonyme de Navigation, Belge- Richardson, Spence, and See American Steam Ship Company, of Phila Co., Liverpool. Do. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, 55, Moorgate St., London. Royal Ulster Yacht Club, Ryde and Co., London. Selkirk, H. J., Liverpool. delphia. See Blue Star Line. See Société Anonyme, &c. A Yellow pyrotechnic light, and a Roman candle A single Blue light to be exhibited by each yacht an answer. See Belgian Royal Mail Company. See Canada Shipping Company, Limited. "Forms," No. 50-continued. Names and Addresses of Applicants. Siemens, Brothers, 12, FORMS. Description of Signals. A White light produced by burning magnesium Smith, Sundins, and Co., See Hamburg American Steam Ship Company. Société Anonyme de South Wales Atlantic Steam Ship Company (Hy. A. Gadsden, Manager), 1, Dock Chambers, Cardiff. State Line Steam Ship nagers), 65, Great Union Steam Ship Company, Southampton. G. Warren and Co., 8, Fenwick St., Liverpool. cccclxvii Where used. Anywhere within British jurisdiction, and on the high seas. Three Red lights burning simultaneously, one On or West India and Pacific The Chatham light White Star Line (Messrs. Co.), Liverpool. and 1. A Green pyrotechnic light followed quickly by near the coasts of the United Kingdom. Off Browhead in the county of Cork. Anywhere on the high seas. On or near the coasts of the United Kingdom and on the high seas, but is registered only for such of the company's ships as are steamers, and are employed in making voyages between Great Britain and the east coast of the continent of North America. Anywhere within British jurisdiction, and on the high seas. 2. Two Green pyrotechnic lights exhibited Off Holyhead at simultaneously. Mark Whitwill and Son, See Great Western Steam Ship Line. the mouth of the Mersey, and on the high seas. Bristol. No. 51. General Order of the Local Government Board, dated July 17th, 1873, as to Ships infected with Cholera or Choleraic Diarrhoea. (See 29 & 30 Vict. c. 90, s. 52.) To all urban, rural, and port sanitary authorities (a); to all officers of customs; to all masters of ships; and to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS the Lords of her Majesty's most honourable privy council, by an order bearing date the 29th day of July, 1871, after reciting certain provisions of an act passed in the 6th year of the reign of his Majesty King George IV. c. 78, and of the Sanitary Act, 1866, and further that cholera was then prevailing in certain parts of continental Europe with which this country had communication, and that it was requisite to take precaution, as far as practicable, against the introduction of that disease into this country, did make certain rules, orders, and regulations in respect thereof, and by certain other orders bearing date respectively the 3rd and 5th days of August, 1871, did make further regulations; and whereas under and by virtue of the Local Government Board Act, 1871, all powers and duties vested in and imposed on her Majesty's most honourable privy council by among others the said Sanitary Act, 1866, were, as regards England and Wales, transferred to and imposed on the local government board; And whereas cholera is now prevalent in certain parts of continental Europe with which this country has communication, and it is expedient that the said rules, orders, and regulations should be rescinded, and other rules, orders, and regulations substituted in their place. Now, therefore, we, the local government board, do hereby rescind all such rules, orders, and regulations in the above-recited orders contained, except in so far as they apply to Scotland (b), or may apply to any proceedings now pending, and we do hereby order as follows: Art. 1. In this order: Definitions. The term "ship" includes vessel or boat. The term "officer of customs" includes any person having authority from the commissioners of customs. The term "master" includes the officer or person for the time being in charge or command of a ship. The term "cholera " includes choleraic diarrhoea. The term "sanitary authority" has the same meaning as in the Public Health Act, 1872. The term " clothing and bedding" includes all clothing and bedding in actual use and worn or used by the person attacked at the time of or during the attack of cholera. For the purposes of this order, every ship shall be deemed infected with cholera in which there is or has been during the voyage, or during the stay of such ship at a foreign port in the course of such voyage, any case of cholera. I.-Regulations as to Customs Inspection. Art. 2. If any officer of customs, on the arrival within the limits of any port in England of any ship, ascertains from the master of such ship or otherwise, or has reason to suspect that the ship is infected with cholera, he may detain such ship, and order the master forthwith to moor or anchor the same; and thereupon the master shall forthwith moor or anchor the ship in such position as such officer of customs shall direct. Art. 3. Whilst such ship shall be so detained, no person shall leave the same. Art. 4. The officer of customs detaining any ship as aforesaid, shall forthwith give notice thereof, and of the cause of such detention, to the port sanitary authority, if there be one, or otherwise to the sanitary authority of the district within which the ship shall be detained. Art. 5. Such detention by the officer of customs shall cease as soon as the said ship shall have been duly visited and examined by the proper officer of the sanitary authority; or, if the ship shall, upon such examination, be found to be infected with cholera, as soon as the same shall be anchored or moored in pursuance of Art. 9 of this Order. Provided that if the examination be not commenced within twelve hours after notice given as aforesaid, the ship shall, on the expiration of the said twelve hours, be released from detention. II.-Regulations as to Sanitary Authorities. Art. 6. The port or other sanitary authority at every port shall, as speedily as practicable, with the approval of the chief officer of customs of such port, fix some place or places within the said port where any ship may be detained, moored, or anchored, for the purpose of these regulations. (a) A list of the existing port sanitary authorities is annually published in the Appendix to the Report of the Local Government Board presented to parliament. See 38 & 39 Vict. c. 55, ss. 287-291. () As to Scotland, see an Order in Council of the 28th of July, 1873, gazetted the 30th of July, 1873. Art. 7. Any officer appointed by such sanitary authority to see to the carrying out of this order, if he have reason to believe that any ship arriving within the district of such authority, whether examined by the officer of customs or not, is infected with cholera, or shall have come from a place infected with cholera, may visit and examine such ship for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is so infected; and the master of such ship shall suffer the same to be so visited and examined. Art. 8. The sanitary authority, on notice being given to them by an officer of customs, under this order, shall forthwith cause the ship in regard to which such notice shall have been given, to be visited and examined by their medical officer of health, or some other legally qualified medical practitioner, for the purpose of ascertaining whether it is infected with cholera. Art. 9. The master of every ship which is infected with cholera shall, after any such examination as aforesaid, as long as the ship is within the district of a sanitary authority, moor or anchor her in such position as from time to time the said authority shall direct. Art. 10. No person shall leave any such ship until the examination hereinafter mentioned shall have been made. Art. 11. The sanitary authority shall, as soon as possible after the arrival of any such ship, cause all persons on board of the same to be examined by their medical officer of health, or some other legally qualified medical practitioner, and shall permit all persons who shall not be certified by him, as hereinafter mentioned, to land immediately. Art. 12. Every person certified by the medical officer of health or medical practitioner making such examination to be suffering from cholera shall be dealt with under any rules that may have been made by the sanitary authority under the 29th section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, or, where no such rules shall have been made, shall be removed, if the condition of the patient admit of it, to some hospital or place previously appointed for such purpose by the said authority; and no person so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the medical officer of health of the authority, or some other legally qualified medical practitioner appointed by them, shall have certified that such person is free from the said disease. If any person suffering from cholera cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject, for the purposes of this order, to the control of the medical officer of health, or some other legally qualified medical practitioner appointed by the said authority; and the infected person shall not be removed from or leave the ship except with the consent in writing of the medical officer of health or other medical practitioner. Art. 13. Such medical officer of health, or medical practitioner, shall give directions and take such steps as may appear to him to be necessary for preventing the spread of the infection, and the master of the said ship shall forthwith carry into execution such directions as shall be given to him by such officer or practitioner. Art. 14. Any person certified by such medical officer of health, or medical practitioner as aforesaid, to be suffering from any diarrhoeal or other illness which he may suspect to be cholera, may either be detained on board the ship or taken to some hospital or other previously appointed place, and detained there, for any period not exceeding two days, until it be ascertained whether the illness is or is not cholera. Any such person who, while so detained, shall be certified by the medical officer of health or medical practitioner to be suffering from cholera, shall be dealt with as in the above article relating to patients suffering from that disease. Art. 15. In the event of any death from cholera taking place on board of such vessels while so detained, the master shall cause the dead body to be taken out to sea, and committed to the deep, properly loaded to prevent its rising. Art. 16. The master shall cause the clothing and bedding of every person who may have suffered from cholera on board such vessel, or who, having at any time been on board such vessel, shall have suffered from cholera during the stay of such vessel in a foreign port, to be disinfected, or, if necessary, destroyed; and if the master shall have neglected to do so before the ship arrives in port, he shall forthwith, or upon the direction of the said authority, cause the same to be disinfected or destroyed, as the case may require; and if the said master neglect to comply with such direction within a reasonable time, the authority shall cause the same to be carried into execution. Art. 17. The master shall cause every part of the ship, and every article therein, other than those last described, which may probably be infected with cholera, to be disinfected or destroyed, when required to do so by the said authority, or by their medical officer of health. Given under our seal of office, this 17th day of July, in the year 1873. APPDX. 5 H No. 52. Instructions as to Witnesses' Expenses, issued by the Board of Trade to Receivers of Wreck and Superintendents of Mercantile Marine (March, 1876). WITNESSES' EXPENSES. The Board of Trade having sanctioned the accompanying scale of allowance to officers and seamen retained as witnesses for inquiries into maritime casualties or for prosecutions under the Merchant Shipping Acts, Receivers of Wreck and Superintendents of Mercantile Marine will not in any instance grant a larger rate of pay without the express authority of the Department. Nor will they without such express authority make any payments whatever to persons not provided for in the scale. In the event of any case arising in which it may appear desirable to grant a larger rate of remuneration, the receiver or superintendent will report the circumstances to the assistant secretary of the finance department of the Board of Trade, who will issue the necessary instructions on the subject. When a scaman detained at one port is sent to another port to give evidence at a Board of Trade inquiry, the receiver or superintendent by whom the seaman is so forwarded will furnish him with a letter addressed to the receiver or superintendent of the port to which he is directed to proceed, containing particulars of the date of his detention, the rate at which he is to be paid according to the scale, and a statement of account containing particulars of the amounts advanced to him for daily allowance and travelling. This letter, which is intended for the guidance of the receiver or superintendent at the port of destination, will be delivered to him by the witness as soon as he arrives, and should be forwarded to the Board of Trade with the accounts at the end of the month. As soon as a witness has given his evidence or is no longer required, the receiver or superintendent at the port where the inquiry is held, will, after taking his receipt, finally settle with him, paying him the balance due to him. In the case of a witness forwarded from another port and wishing to return, such balance will include railway fare (second class) and one day's allowance for each additional day necessarily occupied in returning to the port from which he came. The receiver will satisfy himself that the journey is really made. |