WHEN VESSEL MAY RETURN TO SEA WITHOUT QUARANTINE.

Sec. 111. A vessel may, before breaking bulk, put to sea in preference to being quarantined, if the Health Officer is satisfied that its sick will be taken care of for the remainder of the voyage, and its bill of health shall be returned if it has not arrived at its port of destination. The Health Officer shall state on such bill of health the length and circumstance of its detention and its condition on reputting to sea and shall take care of such of its sick as prefer to remain.

WHEN MASTER OF VESSEL MUST PROVIDE FOR PASSENGERS.

Sec. 124. All passengers on board any vessel under quarantine shall be provided for by the master of the vessel on which they arrive. If the master neglects or refuses to provide for them, or if they have been sent on shore by the Health Officer, they shall be maintained by the quarantine commissioners at the expense of the vessel.

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FEES AND COMPENSATION OF HEALTH OFFICERS.

Sec. 130. The Health Officer shall receive fees for his services at not exceeding the following rates namely: For inspection of any vessel from a foreign port five dollars. For inspection of every vessel from a domestic port, south of Cape Henlopen, between May first and November first, in each year, steamers three dollars, other vessels one dollar. For medical inspection of every one hundred or fraction of one hundred steerage passengers upon transatlantic steamers two dollars. For each special permit issued for the discharge of cargo, portion of cargo or baggage brought as freight, twenty-five cents. For sanitary inspection of every vessel after the discharge of cargo or ballast ten dollars. For fumigation and disinfection of every vessel from an infected port, or of such vessel as in the judgment of the Health Officer shall require fumigation and disinfection by reason of exposure to infection or contagion, fifty dollars, or such sum not more than fifty dollars or less than five dollars, as may in the judgment of the Health Officer be deemed reasonable, during a single quarantine. For boarding every vessel and giving a permit between sunset and sunrise, at the request of the owner, consignee or master of the vessel, when such pratique can be given without danger to the public health, five dollars. For vaccination of persons on vessels each twenty-five cents. But no charge shall be made for the vaccination of any person who shall have been successfully vaccinated by the medical officer of the ship.

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LIEN FOR SERVICES AND EXPENSES.

Sec. 123. All such expenses, services, and charges shall be a lien on the vessels, merchandise or other property in relation to which they shall have been made, incurred or rendered, and if such master, owner, or consignee shall omit to pay the same within three days after the presentation of such account, the commissioners may proceed to enforce such lien in the manner provided in the lien law for the enforcement of liens upon vessels; * *

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SANITARY CODE OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.

Extracts from pamphlet edition of the code, issued January 1, 1899.

REPORTS AS TO CONTAGIOUS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Sec. 148. That the master, chief officer, and consignee, or one of them, of every vessel not being in quarantine, or within quarantine limits, but being within one-fourth of a mile of any dock, wharf, pier, or building of said city, shall daily report to the Sanitary Bureau, or cause to be reported, in writing, the particulars, and shall therein state the name, disease, and condition of any person being in or on such vessel, and sick of any contagious disease.

Sec. 151. That every master and chief officer of any vessel, and every physician of, or who practiced on, any vessel which shall arrive in the port of New York from any other port, shall at once report to this Department any facts connected with any person or thing on said vessel, or that came thereon, which he has reason to think may endanger the public health of this city; and he shall report the facts as to any person being or having been sick thereon, of a contagious disease, and as to there being or having been, during the voyage or since her arrival, any infected persons or articles thereon.

Sec. 152. That every master, charterer, owner, part owner, and consignee of any vessel or of the cargo thereof which shall be in the water of said city, unless detained in quarantine, shall at once give, or cause to be given, to the Sanitary Superintendent, written notice of any infected article or person, and every person sick of a contagious disease, being or having within ten days been on board said vessel; and also of each and every fact and thing relative to said vessel, sick person or cargo, or to the crew of such vessel, which any of the first

mentioned persons shall have reason to think may be useful for this Department to know, or be or become dangerous or prejudicial to life or health in said city.

REMOVALS FROM AND UNLOADING OF VESSELS.

Sec. 159. That every master, owner, charterer, part owner, or consignee of any vessel, that shall bring any cotton into the port of New York and within the limits of the City of New York between the first day of May and the first day of November of each year, shall at once report to this Department, or cause to be made, in writing, a report to this Department of the fact of any such cotton being in a dangerous, infected, or unsound condition, or having been exposed to any infection.

Sec. 160. That no master, charterer, owner, part owner or consignee of any vessel, or any other person, shall bring to any dock, pier, wharf, or building within one thousand feet thereof, in said city, or unload at any dock, building, or pier therein, or have on storage in the built-up portions of said city, any skins, hides, rags, or similar articles or materials, having been brought from any foreign country or any infected place, or from any points south of Norfolk, Virginia, without or otherwise than according to written permit so to do from this Department; and no person shall sell, exchange, remove, or in any way make exposure of any straw, bedding or other articles, used by immigrants upon any vessel bringing immigrants to this port, until it has been adequately and properly cleansed or disinfected; and all straw, bedding or other articles that have been exposed on any vessel to contagion or infection of any contagious disease, or have been or are liable to communicate such disease, shall be destroyed by fire on said vessel.

Sec. 161. That no owner, agent, or consignee of any vessel, or cargo, and no officer of any vessel (in respect of either of which vessel or cargo a permit, according to any law, ordinance, or regulation shall or should have been obtained to pass quarantine, or to come up to the water front of the city of New York) shall unlade, or land, or cause to be unladen or landed, such cargo, or any part thereof, in said city, without having first received the written permit of this Department so to do.

Sec. 162. That no captain, officer, consignee, owner, or other person in charge of any vessel (or having right and authority to prevent the same) shall remove or aid in removing from any vessel to the shore (save as legally authorized by the Health Officer of the port of New York, and into quarantine grounds and buildings only) any person sick of, or person that has been exposed to, and is liable very soon to develop any contagious disease, nor so remove or aid in removing any articles that may have been exposed to the contagion of any such disease, except in accordance with a permit from the Department of Health, or with its special regulations.

Sec. 163. That no master, charterer, consignee, or other person shall order, bring or allow (having power and authority to prevent) any vessel or person, or article therefrom, from any infected port, nor any vessel or person or article therefrom, liable to quarantine, according to the ninth section of the three hundred and fifty-eighth chapter of the laws of 1863 (or under any other laws, and whether such quarantine has been made or suffered or not), to come or be brought to any point nearer than three hundred yards of any dock or pier, or to any building in said city without or otherwise than according to a permit from the Department of Health. Nor shall any vessel, or person or thing therein or therefrom, having been in quarantine, come or be brought within the last-named distance of any lastnamed place, without the permit or assent of this Department.

Sec. 164. That no person shall bring into this city from any infected place, or land, or take therein, from any vessel lately from an infected port, or from any vessel or building in which had lately been any person sick of a contagious disease, any article or person whatsover, nor shall any such person land or come into such city without a permit from the Department of Health; and it shall be no excuse that such person or article so offending, or the occasion of offense, has passed through quarantine, or has a permit from any other source than this Department.

Sec. 165. That no owner, part owner, charterer, agent, or consignee of any vessel, nor any officer or person having charge or control of the same, shall allow to be cast therefrom, and no person shall cast therefrom, into any public waters of the city of New York, any straw, bedding, clothing, or other substance, from any incoming vessel, from any foreign port, or port south of Cape Henlopen, without a permit from this board, except as allowed by the quarantine authorities.

REMOVALS OF SICK PERSONS.

Sec. 167. That no person shall within this city, without a permit from this Department, carry, remove, or cause or permit to be carried or removed, any person sick with any infectious or contagious disease, or remove or cause to be removed, any such person from any building or vessel to any other building or vessel or to the shore,

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APPENDIX II.

WIND SIGNALS OF THE U. S. WEATHER BUREAU.

STORM AND INFORMATION SIGNALS 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 northeast to south); white, westerly (from southwest 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.

Southwesterly winds.

STORM SIGNALS.

Northeasterly winds.

Southeasterly winds..

By night a red light will indicate easterly winds and a white light above a red light will indicate westerly winds.

The "Information Signal" consists of a red pennant of the same dimensions as the red and the white pennants (direction signals) and when displayed indicates that the local observer has received information from the central office of a storm covering a limited area, dangerous only for vessels about to sail to certain points. The signal will serve as a notification to shipmasters that the necessary information will be given them upon application to the local observer.

Hurricane.

The "Hurricane Signal" denotes the expected approach of a hurricane or of one of the severe and dangerous storms that occasionally moves across the Gulf of Mexico and along the Atlantic Coast.

111. 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 de

fined.

dets, enlisted men, etc.,

112. Commissioned officers will, upon the application of the United States, To examine seamen, cashipping commissioner, or of the master or owner of any United States vessel as to their physical conengaged in the foreign coastwise, or inland navigation trade, examine as to dition. his physical condition any seaman brought to them for that purpose, and will give a certificate (Form 1928) 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 $1 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 RevenueCutter, Life-Saving, Coast-Survey, 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.

for pilot's license.

113. Whenever officially requested by the local inspectors of steam ves- To examine applicants sels or other proper officers, commissioned officers will examine applicants for pilot's license as to sense of hearing, color perception, and general visual capacity, and will give a certificate accordingly.

114. No fee will be charged by any officer of the Marine-Hospital Service for the medical examination of seamen of the United States merchant marine or for making a certificate as to their physical condition.

SANITARY DUTIES.

No fee to be charged.

enforce

national and

quarantine rules

117. It shall be the duty of commissioned officers to enforce the national To quarantine rules and regulations; but no additional compensation shall be regulations. Apr. 29, allowed said officers by reason of such service as they may be required to 1878, s. 3; Feb. 15, 1893. perform except actual and necessary traveling expenses.

121. Upon the outbreak of smallpox at or near a relief station, commis- To vaccinate seamen. sioned officers will vaccinate such seamen as may come to the marine-hospital officer for the purpose; and officers are authorized, at all times, to visit vessels to examine and vaccinate crews.

RELIEF STATIONS.

353. A relief station of the Marine-Hospital Service is a port situated on Definition. any navigable water of the United States where an officer of the MarineHospital Service is on duty to extend relief to seamen or where an officer of the customs service is specifically authorized to extend said relief.