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Art. 15. The Medical Officer of Health shall, in the case of every ship certificated to be infected, give directions, and take such steps as may appear to him to be necessary, for preventing the spread of infection, and the Master of the said ship shall forthwith carry into execution such directions as shall be so given to him.
Art. 16. In the event of any death from cholera taking place on board such ship while detained under Article 10, the Master shall, as directed by the Sanitary Authority or the Medical Officer of Health, either cause the dead body to be taken out to sea, and committed to the deep, properly loaded to prevent its rising, or shall deliver it into the charge of the said Authority for interment; and the Authority shall thereupon have the same interred.
Art. 17. The Master shall cause any articles that may have been soiled with cholera discharges to be destroyed, and the clothing and bedding and other articles of personal use likely to retain infection which have been used by any person who may have suffered from cholera on board such ship, or who, having left such ship, shall have suffered from cholera during the stay of such ship in any port, to be disinfected or (if necessary) de- stroyed; and if the Master shall have neglected to do so before the ship arrives in port, he shall forthwith, upon the direction of the Sanitary Authority or the Medical Officer of Health, 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. 18. The Master shall cause the ship to be disinfected, and every article therein, other than those last described, which may probably be infected with cholera, to be disinfected or destroyed, according to the directions of the Medical Officer of Health.
IlI.—Flag to be hoisted by Ships infected with Cholera.
Art. 19. The Master of every ship infected with cholera shall, when within three miles of the coast of any part of England or Wales, cause to be hoisted the Commercial Code Signal Q, being a yellow flag, under the national ensign, and shall keep the same displayed during the whole of the time between sunrise and sunset.
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this twenty-eight day of August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Chas. T. Ritchie,
President.
(L.S.) HUGH OWEN, Secretary.
Notice. The Public Health Act, 1875, provides by Section 130 that any person wilfully neglecting, or refusing to obey or carry out, or obstructing the execution of any regulation made under that Section, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding Fifty Pounds.