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on board, and which may arrive in any of the ports of the United Kingdom or the islands aforesaid, coming from the Mediterranean, or from the West Barbary on the Atlantic Ocean, not being furnished with clean bills of health, such goods, wares, and merchandise, and other articles as aforesaid (such vessel having first repaired to Standgate Creek or Milford Haven as hereinbefore directed), shall perform quarantine in a floating lazaret, either at Standgate Creek or Milford Haven, and nowhere else, in the manner and for the time hereinafter mentioned.

XV. Immediately after the commander, master, or other person having charge of every such vessel so arriving with a foul bill of health, or on board of which infection shall have appeared, shall have undergone the examination hereinbefore directed, and shall have arrived with his vessel at the station so appointed as aforesaid, two quarantine guardians shall be placed on board such vessel by the superintendent of quarantine, or his assistant.

XVI. All persons on board any vessel under quarantine may be permitted to have communication with others by letters, under the following regulations and restrictions, viz. :

An officer appointed by the superintendent of quarantine shall daily, at a fixed hour, go round the different lazarets and vessels in quarantine to receive letters, the usual precaution of dipping such letters in vinegar, and putting them into the fumigating box being always first observed; and such letters shall remain in the fumigating box until such time as the superintendent shall give directions for taking them out to be forwarded, and no person, except the said superintendent of quarantine or his assistant, or one of the guardians on board the vessel, shall be permitted to deliver such letters from such fumigating box; and the said persons so hereby authorised to deliver the same shall take care, where several letters or papers are enclosed together, to slit open the covers in manner practised in the lazarets of the Mediterranean. And all letters to such persons so under quarantine shall be delivered to the superintendent or his assistant, and shall be distributed by him, or according to his directions; and no communication or conference shall be had by persons not under quarantine with persons so under quarantine, except by permission or in the presence of the superintendent or his assistant, and under such regulations and restrictions as shall be directed by the said superintendent.

Provided always, that the medical attendant and superintendent, or his assistant, or any other person duly authorised by an Order in Council, may go on board any vessel under quarantine without such medical attendant or superintendent, or his assistant, being in any way subject to the restraint of quarantine.

XVII. A night watch shall be regularly kept, and a sufficient number of guard-boats and officers shall be appointed for the purpose of preventing all clandestine communications with persons under quarantine; and all the boats belonging to vessels under quarantine, either at Standgate Creek, Milford Haven, or at the other out-ports, shall be taken from them, and no use made of such boats, except for the purpose of carrying goods to the lazaret, or upon occasions of necessity, such necessity to be determined by the superintendent of quarantine; and such boats shall not be delivered up to the commanders or masters of such vessels, until the expiration of the quarantine to be respectively performed by them.

XVIII. The superintendent of quarantine, or his assistant, or some other proper person appointed by the superintendent, shall, as often as required, afford assistance and provide necessaries for the persons under quarantine, taking care to allow of no improper communication with the persons employed for that purpose; which persons shall always place their boats to windward, and shall deliver, by means of buckets, the articles supplied by them.

XIX. The quarantine guardians who shall be placed on board vessels shall be instructed to take especial care that nothing whatever be delivered from on board such vessels when under quarantine, without an order in writing from the superintendent or his assistant, every such order to be entered in a book by one of the said guardians, and the original to be delivered back to the superintendent or his assistant; and nothing, however little susceptible it may be thought to be of infection, shall be conveyed from one vessel under quarantine to another, nor any personal intercourse be permitted from any such vessel to another; and one of the quarantine guardians, when thereto required by the superintendent of quarantine or his assistant, shall accompany the lighters and boats which shall be employed in passing to or from the vessel on board of which such guardians are placed, during the passage of such lighters and boats to and from such vessel, in order to prevent any communication in the transit of the cargo from the vessels to any floating lazaret, and shall take care, after every removal of goods, that no remnants of cotton, or of any other enumerated article, remain in the lighters or the boats, but shall, before leaving off work, collect and deliver such remnants into the lazaret with the last package which they shall then carry from the said vessel.

XX. The guardians shall take care that, after the discharge of the cargoes into the lazaret, the holds and between decks of the vessels shall be completely swept, and the sweepings burnt.

XXI. The said guardians shall diligently search the lockers, chests, and other repositories of the officers, passengers, and crews, and every

part of the vessels, so that no article so enumerated, nor any matter or thing considered as susceptible of infection, remain undelivered to the lazaret, unless what shall be declared by the said superintendent or medical attendant to be requisite for daily use, and shall see that all the said chests, lockers, and other repositories, and all the clothes and bedding in the vessel be daily opened and aired, in such manner as shall be directed by the superintendent of quarantine.

XXII. One of the said guardians shall make a daily report to the superintendent of quarantine or his assistant, and to the medical attendant, of the state of health of every person on board, and whether the regulations of quarantine have been properly complied with; and in case any impediment shall occur in the execution of the duties required of the said guardians, they shall give notice immediately to the commander, master, or other person having charge of the vessel in the first instance, and if thereupon such impediment be not instantly removed, they shall then give notice thereof to the superintendent of quarantine, or his assistant, who shall take care to use effectual means for the removal of the same.

XXIII. If any person on board shall fall sick, and any medical person shall be on board the vessel, such medical person shall confer with the medical attendant alongside the vessel, the medical attendant keeping to windward, at a distance of not less than ten feet; and in case there shall be no medical person on board, and it shall be necessary for the medical attendant to inspect the sick, the visit shall be made at the ship's boat by the medical attendant in his own boat, keeping to windward at the like distance of not less than ten feet; and if any patient, after being examined in the manner before-mentioned, shall be found to require such medical or chirurgical aid as cannot properly be administered except in the hospital ship, he shall be removed to such hospital ship.

XXIV. In case any pestilential disorder shall actually discover itself on board any vessel, or among any of the persons under quarantine, the person or persons affected with such disorder shall be removed with all possible care and despatch, under the special direction of the superintendent of quarantine and medical attendant, to the hospital ship, and proper attendants shall be assigned to such patient or patients by the superintendent of quarantine, with the advice of the medical assistant; and such patient or patients shall be visited at a due distance, by the said medical attendant; and in case nearer approach shall be required, some persons shall be specially appointed by the medical attendant for that purpose.

XXV. The passengers and crew of any vessel under quarantine may have the assistance of any medical persons they may desire from the

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shore, subject to the official visits of the medical attendant, and to such regulations and restrictions as the superintendent of quarantine, with the advice of such medical attendant, shall judge necessary; but all such medical persons, as well as all others, if they communicate by contact with the sick, shall perform the same quarantine as the sick persons themselves.

XXVI. After the quarantine guardians shall have been placed on board any vessel, the pilot may quit such vessel, and be removed to the hospital ship, and continue under quarantine until the probationary airing of the goods, wares, and merchandises, as hereinafter directed, shall be finished; and at the expiration of such probationary airing, such pilot, if he continue free from infection, shall be fumigated, and discharged from quarantine; provided always, that during the performance of such quarantine, such pilot shall not have communication

with any other person, except under similar restrictions to those herein

directed with regard to other persons under quarantine.

XXVII. In case any pestilential accident shall occur among the crew, passengers, or other persons on board any vessel during the probationary airing of the goods, at whatever stage of the quarantine such accident may happen, the quarantine of all the crew, passengers, or other persons, and of the pilot (if there shall be a pilot at that time liable to quarantine in respect to his having been on board such vessel), as well as of the goods, wares, and merchandises, shall recommence, and the sick persons shall be sent to the hospital ship, the external guard shall be immediately doubled, and notice of such accident shall be given, with all possible despatch, to the Lords of His Majesty's Privy Council, that they may give such orders thereupon as may appear to them to be necessary.

XXVIII. In the event of the plague actually appearing on board any vessel on her voyage to any port in the United Kingdom, she shall immediately, if to the southward of Cape St. Vincent, repair to some lazaretto in the Mediterranean, there to perform quarantine, and if to the northward of Cape St. Vincent, she shall immediately repair to Milford Haven, there to perform quarantine.

XXIX. The baggage, wearing apparel, books, and every other article belonging to any person on board any vessel arriving as above-mentioned with a foul bill of health, or on board of which infection shall have appeared, for which they shall have no immediate occasion, shall be sent to the lazaret, for the purpose of being aired in like manner as other goods of the same description; and before any of the passengers or crew shall be discharged from quarantine, they, their clothes, and other effects which have remained with them, shall be fumigated.

XXX. Immediately after the pilot, and such of the passengers and crew of the vessels so arriving with foul bills of health as may be permitted or directed to perform quarantine as hereinbefore mentioned, shall have quitted the vessel in which they shall have arrived, the hatches of such vessel shall be opened, and the probationary airing of the cargo shall commence, which probationary airing shall be in the following manner, viz. :—

Such a number of bales of the enumerated goods, wares, and merchandises hereinafter stated, as can be ranged upon deck, shall be taken from the hold, and the seams at one or both ends being ripped open, the contents shall be handled as much as possible by the sailors in presence of one of the guardians, and under this process of handling and turning such bales shall remain exposed to the air for six days, and on the subsequent day shall be put into a condition to be, and shall accordingly be delivered to the lighter appointed to transport them to the floating lazaret; and as soon as the deck is cleared of the first parcel of goods, a second parcel shall be hoisted up, and treated in like manner for the space of three days, and on the subsequent day shall in like manner be put into such condition, and shall be so delivered as aforesaid; after which a third parcel shall be hoisted up and treated in the same manner, also for the space of three days, and on the subsequent day shall in like manner be put into such condition, and shall be so delivered; but in case of any suspicious circumstances arising, the probationary airing shall be extended to eight, six, and four days, making, with the three intermediate days, twentyone days in the whole, or even to a greater length of time, if circumstances shall require.

XXXI. Of the goods, wares, and merchandises, which shall arrive in vessels with foul bills of health, the articles hereinafter enumerated shall be carried to a floating lazaret in Standgate Creek, or at Milford Haven, there to be unpacked, opened, and aired, for the space of forty days, viz. :—

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