APPENDIX III. STORM WARNING DISPLAYS OF THE U. S. WEATHER BUREAU. STORM DISPLAYS ALONG THE SEACOAST. A red flag with a black center indicates that the storm is expected to be of marked violence. The pennants displayed with the flags indicate the direction of the wind; red, easterly (from north through east to south); white, westerly (from south through west to north). The pennant above the flag indicates that the wind is expected to blow from the northerly quadrant; below, from the southerly quadrant. Northwesterly winds. STORM WARNING FLAGS. Southwesterly winds. Northeasterly winds. Southeasterly winds. By night a red light will indicate easterly winds and a white light below a red light will indicate westerly winds. Hurricane. The "Hurricane Display" denotes the expected approach of a hurricane or of one of the severe and dangerous storms that occasionally move across the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast. 171 APPENDIX IV. REGULATIONS U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE. APPROVED AUGUST 12, 1903. (Extracts.) DUTIES OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. PROFESSIONAL DUTIES. 116. The professional duties of commissioned officers are to examine all applicants for relief, to prescribe for and furnish out-patient or hospital treatment as may be required, and to make physical examinations of the seamen of the several Government services and the merchant marine, under such regulations as shall hereinafter appear. Professional duties defined. cadets, enlisted men, 117. Commissioned officers will, upon the application of the United States To examine seamen, shipping commissioner, or of the master or owner of any United States vessel etc., as to their phys engaged in the foreign, coastwise, or inland navigation trade, examine as to his ical condition. physical condition any seaman brought to them for that purpose, and will give a certificate as to his fitness or unfitness for service. They will physically examine, in accordance with existing regulations governing physical examinations, any foreign seamen sent them for that purpose by the duly authorized agent of a foreign line or by the consul representing the nation to which the vessel belongs. A fee of one dollar will be charged for each examination of a foreign seaman, and fees so received will be deposited with the collector of customs in the same manner as donations to the marine-hospital fund. Officers will also, upon the application of the proper authority, examine cadets, enlisted men, and persons desiring to enlist in the Revenue-Cutter, Life-Saving, CoastSurvey, and Light-House services, or to instruct them in the mode of resuscitating persons apparently drowned. No fee will be charged for this service. They will also examine alien immigrants when detailed for that purpose. They will also, when officially requested, furnish to commanding officers of revenue cutters certificates as to the physical condition of enlisted men of the RevenueCutter Service who may be under treatment in hospital or as out-patients. * * * To examine applicants for pilot's li 119. Whenever officially requested by the local inspectors of steam vessels or other proper officers, commissioned officers will examine applicants for pilot's cense. license as to sense of hearing, color perception, and general visual capacity, and will give a certificate accordingly. 120. No fee will be charged by any officer of the Public Health and Marine- No fee to be charged. Hospital Service for the medical examination or professional treatment of seamen of the United States merchant marine or for making a certificate as to their physical condition, and no officer shall accept a fee for professional service relating to the public service. SANITARY DUTIES. To enforce national quarantine rules and 123. It shall be the duty of commissioned officers to enforce the national health and quarantine laws and regulations; but no additional compensation shall regulations, Apr. 29, be allowed said officers by reason of such service as they may be required to perform except actual and necessary traveling expenses. 127. Upon the outbreak of smallpox at or near a relief station, commissioned officers will vaccinate such seamen as may come to the marine-hospital office for the purpose; and officers are authorized at all times to visit vessels to examine and vaccinate crews. 1878, s. 3; Feb. 15, 1893. Το men. vaccinate sea 173 RELIEF STATIONS. 404. A relief station of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service is a port or place where an officer of the Service is on duty to extend relief to seamen, or where an officer of the customs service is specifically authorized to extend said relief. 405. Relief stations shall be divided into the following classes: Class II. All other stations under command of a commissioned officer. Class IV. All other relief stations not included in the above classes. 406. At all relief stations where the number of patients warrants, an officer of the Service will be assigned to the command of the station, and whenever practicable the patients of the Service will be treated in hospitals maintained exclusively for their benefit. * * * 408. At each relief station of the first and second class, and whenever practicable at each relief station of the third class where an acting assistant surgeon of the Service is on duty, there shall be a marine-hospital office, where applicants for relief shall be received and examined, and the necessary action taken according to the regulations. 409. The marine-hospital office shall be located at the custom-house whenever practicable, and suitable office room for that purpose shall be set apart by the custodian of the custom-house building, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Persons entitled to relief. Coast and Geodetic Survey entitled to relief. Yachtsmen entitled. BENEFICIARIES. 411. The persons entitled to the benefits of the Public Health and MarineHospital Service are those employed on board in the care, preservation, or navigation of any registered, enrolled, or licensed vessel of the United States, or in the service on board of those engaged in such care, preservation, or navigation. Officers and crews of the Light-House Establishment, officers and crews of the Revenue-Cutter Service, seamen employed on the vessels of the Mississippi River Commission; seamen employed on the vessels of the Engineer Corps of the Army, and keepers and crews of the United States Life-Saving Service are entitled to the facilities of the hospitals and relief stations under special rules hereinafter prescribed. 412. Officers on vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey and seamen thereon, who are not enlisted men from the Navy, are entitled to the benefits of the Service. 413. Seamen employed on yachts are entitled to treatment, provided the said yachts are enrolled, licensed, or registered as vessels of the United States. 414. Seamen employed on United States Army transports or other vessels ports, etc., entitled to belonging to the Quartermaster's Department, United States Army, when not enlisted men of the Army, are entitled to the benefits of the Service. Seamen on United States Army trans treatment. Exceptions, R. S., s. 4804. Wrecked seamen entitled. Seamen sent by consular officers entitled. 415. No person employed in or connected with the navigation, management, or use of canal boats engaged in the coasting trade shall, by reason thereof, be entitled to any benefit or relief from the Service. 417. Seamen taken from wrecked vessels of the United States are entitled to the benefits of the Service if sick or disabled, and will be furnished care and treatment without reference to the length of time they have been employed. 418. Seamen employed on merchant vessels of the United States returned to U.S. Rev. Stat., s. 4577. the United States from foreign ports by United States consular officers, if sick or disabled at the time of their arrival in a port of the United States, shall be entitled to the benefits of the Service without reference to length of service. Seamen must make application for relief. Evidence to be presented by applicant. 419. A sick or disabled seaman, in order to obtain the benefits of the Service, must apply in person, or by proxy if too sick or disabled so to do, at the office of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, to an officer of that Service, or to the proper customs officer acting as the agent of the said Service at stations where no medical officer is on duty, and must furnish satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to relief under the regulations. 420. Master's certificates and discharges from United States shipping commissioners, made out and signed in proper form, showing that the applicant for relief has been employed for sixty days of continuous service "in a registered, enrolled, or licensed vessel of the United States," a part of which must have been during the sixty days immediately preceding his application for relief, shall U.S. Rev. Stat., 4803. entitle him to treatment. The phrase "sixty days continuous service" shall not be held to exclude seamen whose papers show brief intermission between short services that aggregate the required sixty days. Certificates from owners or agents as 421. The certificate of the owner or accredited commercial agent of a vessel as to the facts of the employment of any seamen on said vessel may be evidence. accepted as evidence in lieu of the master's certificate in cases where the latter is not procurable. must fur 422. Masters of documented vessels of the United States shall, on demand, sertificate of serv furnish any seaman who has been employed on such vessel a certificate (Form ice. 1915) of the length of time said seaman has been so employed, giving the dates of such employment. This certificate will be filed in the marine-hospital office or office of the customs officer when application is made for relief, whether the relief is furnished or the claim rejected. 423. Any master of a vessel or other person who shall furnish a false certificate of service, with intent to procure the admission of a seaman into any marine hospital, shall be immediately reported to the nearest United States attorney for prosecution. False certificates. 424. When an interval has occurred in the applicant's seafaring service by Exceptions. reason of the closure of navigation on account of ice or low water, such interval shall not be considered as excluding him from relief unless the sickness or injury for which he applies for relief be the direct result of employment on shore. 425. During the season when navigation is closed at any port, by reason of ice or low water, seamen applying for relief at such ports shall be entitled to same, provided they present the documentary evidence required in paragraph 420, which must show that the applicants were employed within sixty days immediately preceding the said closure of navigation, and provided it does not appear that the disease or injury is the result of employment on shore, or the result of vicious habits. Closure of naviga tion. Period of treatment 426. The time during which a seaman has been under treatment in hospital not to be reckoned as as a patient of the Service shall not be reckoned as absence from vessel in respect absence from vessel. to debarring him from further relief. Affidavits may be 427. Whenever an applicant for relief presents himself at the marine-hospital accepted as evidence. office or the custom-house without a master's certificate or shipping commissioner's discharge and it is impracticable to obtain such certificate, the affidavit of the applicant as to the facts of his last employment, stating names of vessels and dates of service, may be accepted as evidence in support of his claim for the benefits of the Service. Brief service on last vessel not a bar to re 428. When the period of the seaman's service as shown by his certificate on last vessel is less than sixty days, his affidavit as to previous service may be lief. accepted. Applications for relief after sixty days' 431. When a seaman applies for relief after an absence of sixty days or more from his last vessel, and it satisfactorily appears that such absence was absence from vessel. due to sickness or injury acquired in the line of duty, and that it was impracticable for him to apply to the proper officer for treatment, a statement of the facts, together with a copy of the application and other papers in support of same, shall be forwarded, with the recommendation of the medical officer, to the Surgeon-General for decision. 432. Any seaman who is able to write will be expected to sign his name upon the face of the master's certificate issued to him before said certificate is signed by the master of the vessel. * * * Seamen to sign certificates. Out-patients to furnish new service cer 434. When a seaman who has received continuous treatment at the outpatient office for a period of two months applies for further treatment he must, tificates. to entitle him to treatment, furnish a new certificate of service, showing that he is still following his vocation as seaman, or give satisfactory evidence that such service has been prevented by closure of navigation or by sickness, the latest dates of service and, in case of lack of recent service, its explanation, to appear in each new relief certificate. 435. The expenses of caring for sick and disabled seamen incurred during a voyage will not be paid by the Service. Expenses for sickness during voyage. Seamen admitted to local quarantine hos 436. The expenses for the care and treatment of seamen suffering from contagious diseases, who are entitled to the benefits of the Service, and who, in pitals. accordance with the State or municipal health laws and regulations are taken to quarantine or other hospitals under charge of the local health authorities, wili not be paid unless such seamen were admitted at the time by the request of an officer of the Service. Money not to be paid toseamen for expenses 437. In no case shall money be paid to a seaman or to his family or friends by the Service as reimbursement for expenses incurred during his sickness or of sickness. disability. |