✨ Quarantine Regulations and Appointments




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  1. The Resident Magistrate and
    Health Officer, or Medical Practitioner ap-
    pointed for that purpose by the Resident
    Magistrate, shall upon the receipt of such
    report, visit the vessels so anchored, and
    if they shall find that any sickness of an
    infectious, or contagious nature, exists on
    board of her, they shall submit the infor-
    mation to a Board, consisting of the Resi-
    dent Magistrate, and one or more Justices
    of the Peace, the superior officer of the
    Customs of the port, and the Health
    Officer or Medical Practitioner as aforesaid,
    to be convened for that purpose by the
    Resident Magistrate, which board, or the
    majority of them, shall have authority to
    detain such vessel in Quarantine until
    every symptom of the aforesaid disease has
    disappeared, when the same board, or the
    majority of them, have hereby power to re-
    lease such vessel from Quarantine, and ad-
    mit her to pratique.

  2. During the period any vessel may
    be in Quarantine, the Resident Magistrate
    and Health Officer shall visit her along-
    side from time to time, and institute such
    regulations as the nature of the case may
    demand, and the Master, or Commander
    shall carry such regulations into effect, or
    forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty pounds.

POWER TO RESIDENT MAGIS-
TRATE IN CERTAIN CASES.

The Resident Magistrate, at any port
for which no Harbour Master is appointed,
shall have all such powers as are herein-
before given to Harbour Masters. All
penalties hereby imposed, shall be re-
coverable in a summary way.

SCHEDULE A.

Questions required to be answered by the
Master or other person in command of
any ship or vessel arriving in the Port
of
from any infected place :β€”

  1. What is the tonnage of the vessel
    and her name?
    Answer.

  2. What is the Master's name, and are
    you the Master?
    Answer.

  3. From whence do you come, and when
    did you sail?
    Answer.

  4. At what Ports have you touched on
    your passage?
    Answer.

  5. What vessels have you had inter-
    course, or communication with, on your
    passage, and from whence did they come?
    Answer.

  6. Have you any, and what Bills of
    Health?
    Answer.

  7. Did the Cholera, or any other highly
    infectious and dangerous disease, prevail
    at the place from which you sailed, or at
    any of the places at which you have
    touched, or on board of any vessel with
    which you have had communication? If
    so, state when and where?
    Answer.

  8. In the course of your voyage, have
    any persons on board suffered from sickness
    of any kind, what was the nature of such
    sickness, and when did it prevail? How
    many persons were affected by it, and have
    any of them died in the course of the
    voyage?
    Answer.

  9. What number of Officers, Mariners,
    and Passengers have you on board?
    Answer.

  10. What was the whole number of
    persons on board your vessel when you
    sailed?
    Answer.

  11. What is the whole number of per-
    sons now ill on board your vessel?
    Answer.

  12. If there be no sickness now on
    board, when did the last attack of disease
    appear, and when did it entirely dis-
    appear?
    Answer.

Colonial Secretary's Office,
Auckland, December 16th 1857.

HIS Excellency the Governor has
been pleased to appoint

The Provincial Surgeon at Auckland,
The Medical Attendant at Russell,
The Colonial Surgeon at New Plymouth,
The Colonial Surgeon at Wanganui,
The Provincial Surgeon at Wellington,
The Medical Attendant at Napier,
The Provincial Surgeon at Nelson,
The Provincial Surgeon at Canterbury,
The Medical Attendant at Otago,
to be Health Officers at these places
respectively, for the purpose of carrying
out the Quarantine Regulations.

E. W. STAFFORD.



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πŸ›οΈ Proclamation of Quarantine Regulations for the Colony of New Zealand (continued from previous page)

πŸ›οΈ Governance & Central Administration
8 December 1857
Quarantine, Regulations, Shipping, Harbour, Health

πŸ₯ Appointment of Health Officers for Quarantine Regulations

πŸ₯ Health & Social Welfare
16 December 1857
Health Officers, Quarantine, Appointments, Medical Practitioners
  • E. W. Stafford, Colonial Secretary