procedure prescribed in these Regulations and carrying a qualified medical officer shall be given "pratique," even though 12 days may not have elapsed since their departure from an infected or suspected port; provided that, in the case of a healthy vessel which has been in an infected or suspected port within 12 days of its arrival in the Protectorate, the following measures shall be taken before the crew and passengers are allowed on shore or to mix with the local population: (a.) The persons on board shall be medically inspected. (b.) The soiled linen and personal effects of the crew and passengers which, in the opinion of the officer appointed for the purpose by Her Majesty's Commissioner, may be regarded as contaminated or likely to be contaminated, shall be disinfected. (c.) A watch shall be kept over the health of the crew and passengers (until 12 days from the date of departure from the infected or suspected port). (d.) The crew shall not be permitted to land except on duty and subject to such precautions as the officer appointed for the purpose by Her Majesty's Commissioner deems necessary. (e.) The bilge-water shall be pumped out after disinfection and all water on board the vessel thrown overboard. (2) A vessel which carries no qualified medical officer shall not be given "pratique" until 12 days from the date of its arrival in the Protectorate. Until the 12 days' period has expired, such vessel shall during its stay at any port of the Protectorate remain at the quarantine anchorage appointed from time to time by the port officer by general or special order in this behalf. Until a vessel has been given "pratique" it shall have no communication with the shore, except orally or by signal. 5. On the arrival of a vessel from an infected or suspected port whose destination is a port of the Protectorate an officer appointed for the purpose by the Commissioner shall go alongside and ascertain whether 12 days have or have not expired since its departure from an infected or suspected port. (a.) If 12 days have expired since its departure from an infected or suspected port, and if it carries a qualified medical officer, the officer appointed for the purpose shall board the vessel and make such inquiries and inspection as he thinks necessary, and may require a declaration on oath from the medical officer of the vessel or the captain or both, as to the existence of plague or other infectious disease, or any suspicion thereof on board the vessel either during the voyage or before its departure. He shall then declare whether the vessel is "healthy," suspected," or "infected" as defined in Regulation 8. If he is satisfied that the vessel is "healthy" it shall be given "pratique "forthwith. If he declares it to be 66 "suspected" or "infected," it shall be dealt with in the manner prescribed in Regulation 8. (b.) If on the arrival of a vessel, it is ascertained that 12 days have not expired since its departure from an infected or suspected port, the procedure to be followed will depend on the fact whether the vessel carries a qualified medical officer or not. If it carries such an officer, the officer appointed for the purpose shall make such inquiries as he thinks necessary, and, if he comes to the conclusion that the vessel is "healthy," he shall give it "pratique" subject to the measures prescribed in Regulation 4 (1.). If the vessel carries no qualified medical officer, it shall be detained at the quarantine anchorage until 12 days have expired since its arrival in the Protectorate, after which the officer appointed for the purpose shall take the measures specified in clause (a.) of this Regulation and classify the vessel. Provided, however, that the officer appointed for the purpose may at any time before the expiration of the aforesaid period of 12 days, make such inquiries and inspections as he thinks necessary, and if, as the result thereof, he comes to the conclusion that the vessel is "infected," he shall forthwith and without waiting for the expiration of 12 days' period order it to be treated as infected. 6. On the arrival of a vessel which is onward bound and which uses a port of the Protectorate as merely a port of call, the officer appointed for the purpose by Her Majesty's Commissioner shall go alongside and ascertain whether 12 days have or have not expired since its departure from an infected or suspected port. (a.) If 12 days have expired since its departure from an infected or suspected port, and if it carries a qualified medical officer, and if the officer appointed for the purpose is permitted to make such inspections as he thinks necessary and, as the result thereof and as the result of any inquiries he may make, he is satisfied that the vessel is "healthy," the vessel shall be given "pratique," except as regards cargo considered as dangerous by the Health Officer. Otherwise it shall remain in quarantine at the anchorage appointed for the purpose by the Port Officer during its stay in port; no person shall be landed therefrom, and no communication with the shore or with other vessels shall be allowed except the landing of mails in quarantine and the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers in quarantine. (b.) If 12 days have not expired since its departure from an infected or suspected port, the procedure to be followed will depend on the fact whether the vessel carries a qualified medical officer or not. If it carries such an officer, the officer appointed for the purpose shall make such inquiries as he thinks necessary, and, if he comes to the conclusion that the vessel is healthy," he shall give it "pratique" subject to the measures prescribed in Regulation 4 (I.), provided that such a vessel may, instead of seeking free "pratique" remain in quarantine at the quarantine anchorage appointed for the purpose during its stay in port. If the vessel carries no qualified medical officer, it shall be detained at the quarantine anchorage during its stay in port. N.B.-No inspection of a vessel under Regulations 5 and 6 shall ordinarily be made except by daylight, and no business whatever transacted except from the hours of 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. 7. These Regulations shall not prevent the transhipment in quarantine of passengers or other persons or mails or cargo from a vessel in quarantine to another provided that thereafter the latter vessel shall be in quarantine. 8. For the purpose of these Regulations a "healthy" vessel means a vessel even though coming from an infected or suspected port which has had no death from or case of plague or infectious disease on board, either before departure, during the voyage or on arrival." A "suspected" vessel means "any vessel which cannot show a clean bill of health for 12 days." An "infected" vessel means "any vessel with plague or other infectious disease on board, or on board of which one or more cases have taken place within 12 days." · The only measures which the authorities of the port of arrival may enforce with regard to "healthy" vessels are those which are prescribed for "suspected" vessels (medical inspection, disinfection, pumping out the bilge-water, and the substitution of good drinking water on board), in addition to those specified as regards cargo, except that the measures prescribed for the disinfection of the vessel itself may not be enforced in the case of healthy vessels. The following treatment is prescribed for "suspected" and "infected" vessels respectively. Suspected vessels are subject to the following measures which will be carried out under the orders and supervision of the officer appointed for the purpose: (1.) Medical inspection. (2.) Disinfection: the soiled linen and personal effects of the crew and passengers which, in the opinion of the officer appointed for the purpose, may be regarded as contaminated or likely to be contaminated shall be disinfected or destroyed. (3.) Pumping out the bilge-water after disinfection and the substitution of good drinking water for the water stored on board. (4.) Disinfection of all parts of the vessel which have been inhabited by plague patients, and any other measures of disinfection that may be ordered by the officer appointed for the purpose, A watch shall be kept over the health of the crew and passengers for 12 days from the date of arrival of the vessel; and the crew shall not, without the special permission of the officer appointed for the purpose, be allowed to land, except on duty and subject to such precautions as he deems necessary. All infected vessels upon being declared infected by the medical officer shall proceed at once to Zanzibar, where the sick, as soon as practicable, will be disembarked and isolated, and the other precautions prescribed by the Zanzibar quarantine regulations complied with. 9. Any mails or cargo which may be brought by any vessel. arriving from an infected or suspected port shall be landed under such precautions as the officer appointed for the purpose may deem necessary to prevent the spread of disease or in fection. 10. It will be the duty of the Port Officer to facilitate the conveyance to all vessels in quarantine of such supplies of provisions, stores, and other articles as may be required by those on board. Such supplies will be placed on the boats of the vessel in quarantine to be subsequently removed by members of their crews. 11. All vessels arriving in the Protectorate which may have communicated with the vessels coming from an infected or suspected port shall be subject to the same rules as vessels arriving from an infected port. 12. All vessels which have undergone medical inspection and quarantine in the manner above described shall have the fact clearly stated on their bills of health. 13. All ports in communication with infected ports being regarded as suspected, vessels in communication with these suspected ports are likewise suspected. 14. When, in the opinion of the Principal Medical Officer, ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Com- REGULATIONS for holding Native Courts called "Railway Courts" in the East Africa Protectorate. Mombasa, March 17, 1899. [No. 87.] RULES and ORDERS made by Her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General under Article 52 of "The East Africa Order in Council, 1897."* 1. Any superior officer employed in the construction of the Uganda Railway, who is for the time being authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner, shall hold a Native Court to be called a "Railway Court.” 2. A Railway Court shall, within such local limits as the Commissioner may direct, exercise with respect to all natives employed in, or in connection with, the construction of the Uganda Railway the same criminal jurisdiction as may, under "The Native Courts Regulations, 1897,"t be exercised by the Assistant Collector's Court having jurisdiction in the place in which an offence is committed, and, for the purposes of such jurisdiction, those Regulations shall apply as if the Railway Court were an Assistant Collector's Court. 3. A Railway Court shall not exercise such jurisdiction if the Collector or Assistant Collector is for the time being quartered within 10 miles of the place at which the Railway Court would in ordinary course be held. 4. A return of all proceedings in every Railway Court and of the punishments inflicted in each case shall be transmitted monthly by the officer holding the Railway Court to the officer in charge of the district in which the Railway Court is held and also to the Protectorate Court. 5. The authority to hold a Railway Court may be withdrawn by the Commissioner at any time, and notice of such withdrawal shall be published in such manner as he may direct. 6. These Rules and Orders may be cited as "The Railway Courts Rules and Orders, 1899," and are substituted for the "Uganda Railway Camps Regulations of May 16, 1898," hereby cancelled. ARTHUR H. HARDINGE, Her Majesty's Commissioner and Mombasa, 17th March, 1899. * See Vol. 20. Page 68. † See Vol. 20. Page 74. |