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Training Ships.
Examinations of Masters, Mates, and Engineers.
Mercantile Marine Offices and Local Marine
Boards.
Registrar of Seamen's Office.
Storm Warnings and Weather Forecasts.
Naval Reserve.
Discipline.
Inquiries into Misconduct.
Inquiries into Wrecks and Casualties.
Wreck and Salvage.
The Wreck Registers.
Rockets and Lifeboats.
The Albert Medal.
Rewards for saving Life.
Relief of distressed Seamen (Rules and
Principles) and Claims upon Owners.
Commercial Code of Signals.
Admiralty Courts.
International Questions concerning Shipping.
All other Questions affecting a Ship or her Crew.
Letters on any of these subjects to be addressed as
follows:-
O.H.M.S.
The Assistant Secretary,
Marine Department,
Board of Trade,
London,
S.W.

M.

FINANCIAL DEPARTMENT.
Subjects.
Estimates and Accounts of all the other Depart-
ments of the Board of Trade.
Accounts of Lighthouse Boards.
Accounts of Mercantile Marine Officers.
Accounts of Consuls and Colonial Shipping,
Masters, including Accounts of Relief of
distressed Seamen.
Wages and Effects of deceased Seamen.
Money Orders.
Seamen's Savings Banks.
Seamen's Temporary Deposit Bank (Liverpool).
Pensions.
Merchant Seamen's Fund.
Letters on any of these subjects to be addressed as
follows:-

F.

O.H.M.S.
The Accountant,
Board of Trade,
London,
S.W.

STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT.
Subjects.
Statistics generally.
Letters on these subjects to be addressed as
follows :-
O.H.M.S.
The Chief of the Statistical Department,
Board of Trade,
London,
S.W.

S.

Circular No. 308, dated February, 1868.
INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS IN BRITISH
POSSESSIONS ABROAD.
(Merchant Shipping Act, 1867.)
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL STORES.
By section 4, paragraph 1, of "The Merchant
Shipping Act, 1867," it is provided that the Board of
Trade shall "prepare or sanction a Book or Books
containing instructions for dispensing" the Medicines

and Medical Stores, to be carried on board Ships, in
accordance with the scale issued and published by
them under the Act in question.
By paragraph 2 of the same section it is also pro-
vided, that "the Owners of every Ship navigating
between the United Kingdom and any place out of
the same shall provide and cause to be kept on board
such Ship" . . . . . "a Copy of the said Book, or
of one of the said Books containing Instructions."
In pursuance of the powers vested in them by the
above-named section 4 of the Act, the Board of Trade
have accordingly caused to be prepared and have
sanctioned the Book bearing the title of the
"SHIP-CAPTAIN'S MEDICAL GUIDE,"
which has been compiled by Harry Leach, Esquire,
of 41, Great Tower Street Buildings, London, E.C.,
the Medical Officer appointed by them for the Port
of London.
The work is published by A. M. Walker, of 75,
Fleet Street, London, E.C., and can be procured of
the publisher through all booksellers and stationers.
The price of each copy is one shilling.
Her Majesty's Officers in British Possessions
abroad are accordingly requested to make known the
title, price, and manner of procuring the Medical
Guide to all persons who may wish for information
on the subject.

THOMAS GRAY,
Assistant-Secretary.

Circular No. 285, dated February, 1868.
INSTRUCTIONS TO OFFICERS IN BRITISH
POSSESSIONS ABROAD.
(Merchant Shipping Act, 1867.)
MEDICAL SCALE FOR MERCHANT SHIPS.
The annexed Scale of Medicines and Medical
Stores for Merchant Ships has been issued and caused
to be published by the Board of Trade. It appeared
in the London Gazette of the 13th December, 1867,
and came into operation on the 1st January, 1868,
when it superseded the scale then in force.
The following portions of section 4 and section 5
of "The Merchant Shipping Act, 1857," refer to the
Scale of Medicines and Medical Stores, viz. :-
By section 4, paragraph 1, it is provided that "The
Board of Trade shall from time to time issue and
cause to be published Scales of Medicines and
Medical Stores, suitable for different Ships and
Voyages." By paragraph 2 of the same section it is
further provided that "The Owners of every Ship
navigating between the United Kingdom and any
place out of the same shall provide and cause to be
kept on board such Ship a supply of Medicines and
Medical Stores in accordance with the scale appro-
priate to the said Ship." The concluding portion of
the same section sets forth that "if in any Ship as
aforesaid such Medicines [and] Medical Stores"
"as are hereinbefore required are not
provided, packed, and kept on board as hereinbefore
required, the Owner or Master shall be deemed to be
in fault, and shall for each default incur a penalty
not exceeding twenty pounds, uuless he can prove
that the non-compliance with the above provisions,
or any of them, was not caused through any inatten-
tion, neglect, or wilful default on his part;" and
further, that "if in any case it is proved that some
person other than the Master or Owner is in default"
"then such other person shall be liable to
a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds."
By section 5 of the Act it is provided that "Any
person who manufactures, sells, or keeps or offers for
sale, any such Medicines or Medical Stores as afore-
said which are of bad quality, shall for each such
This Scale has already been published in Gazette No. 25, of
22nd May, 1868, page 226.