File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎84v] (168/250)

Art. 26. In the case of cholera, infected ships shall undergo
the following measures :—
(1.) Medical inspection;
(2.) The sick shall be immediately disembarked and isolated;
(3.) The other persons must also be disembarked, if possible,
and either be kept under observation or subjected to surveillance
during a period which shall vary with the health conditions of
the ship and the date of the last case, but which shall not
exceed five days reckoned from the arrival of the ship;
(4.) Such soiled linen, wearing-apparel, and articles belonging
to the crew and passengers as are, in the opinion of the sanitary
authority of the port, infected shall be disinfected;
(5.) The parts of the ship that have been occupied by persons
ill with cholera, or that the sanitary authority regard as infected,
shall be disinfected ;
(6.) The bilge-water shall be disinfected and pumped out.
Hie sanitary authority may order that a supply of wholesome
drinking-water be substituted for that stored on board.
Casting human excreta, or allowing them to pass, without
preliminary disinfection, into the waters of the port may be
prohibited.
Art. 27. In the case of cholera, suspected ships shall undergo
the measures prescribed in (1), (4), (5), and (6) of Article 26.
The crew and passengers may be subjected to surveillance
during a period which must not exceed five days reckoned from
the arrival of. the ship. It is recommended that the crew be
prevented, during the same period, from leaving the ship except
on duty. r ° ^
Art. 28. In the case of cholera, healthy ships shall be given free
pratique immediately, whatever their bill of health may be.
The only measures that the authority of the port of arrival may
piesmbe as regards these ships are those specified in (1), (4), and
(6) of Article 26. w
I he crew and passengers may be subjected to surveillance, in
lespect of their state of health, during a period which must not
exceed five days reckoned from the date on which the ship left the
infected port. It is recommended that the crew be prevented,
( u mng the same period, from leaving the ship except on duty.
I he competent authority at the port of arrival may, in all cases,
exact a certificate, given on oath, from the doctor of the ship or, in
is default, from the captain, testifying that there has not been a
case of cholera on board since departure.
Art. 29. In applying the measures specified in Articles 21-28,
ie act of a ship of any of the three classes before-mentioned
can ymg a doctor and disinfecting apparatus (disinfecting chambers)
shall receive due consideration on the part of the competent
au , mnty. In the case of plague, like consideration shall be given