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CHOLERA.
fixed for that purpose under article 6, and she shall remain there until the requirements of this order have been duly fulfilled.

Art. 11. —No person shall leave any such ship until the examination hereinafter mentioned shall have been made.

Art. 12. —The Medical Officer of Health shall, as soon as possible after any such ship has been certificated to be infected with cholera, examine every person on board the same, and in the case of any person suffering from cholera or from any illness. which the Medical Officer of Health suspects may prove to be cholera, shall certify accordingly; and any person who shall not be so certified by him shall be permitted to land immediately on giving to the Medical Officer of Health his name and place of destination, stating, where practicable, his address at such place.

The name and address of any such person shall forthwith be given by the Medical Officer of Health to the Clerk to the Sanitary Authority, and such Clerk shall thereupon transmit the same to the Local Authority of the District in which the place of destination of such person is situate.

In this Article the term "Local Authority" means any Urban or Rural Sanitary Authority; and in the Administrative County of London, the Commissioners of Sewers, the Vestry under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855,[1] of a Parish in Schedule A., and the District Board of a District in Schedule B. to that Act, as amended by the Metropolis Management Amendment Act, 1885,[2] and the Metropolis Management (Battersea and Westminster) Act, 1887,[3] and the Woolwich Local Board of Health.

Art. 13. Every person certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be suffering from cholera shall be removed. if his con- dition admit of it, to some hospital or other suitable place ap- pointed for that purpose by the Sanitary Authority; and no person so removed shall leave such hospital or place until the Medical Officer of Health shall have certified that such person 18 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; and the infected per- son shall not be removed from or leave the ship except with the consent in writing of the Medical Officer of Health.

Art. 14.  Any person certified by the Medical Officer of Health to be suffering from any illness which such Officer suspects may prove to be cholera, may either be detained on board the ship for any period not exceeding two days, or be taken to some hospital or other suitable place appointed for that purpose by the Sanitary Authority, and detained there, for a like period, in order that it may 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 Heath to be suffering from cholera, shall be dealt with as provided by Article 13 of this order.

  1. ↑ 18 & 19 Vict. c. 20.
  2. ↑ 48 & 49 Vict. c. 29.
  3. ↑ 50 & 31 Vict. c. 27.
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