departure, or in a port in the course of such voyage, any case of cholera, yellow fever, or plague.

PART II.

On the arrival of any ship from foreign parts, the officer of customs shall visit such ship, and shall, if he find, or have reason to suspect, that such ship is infected

1. Detain such ship.

2. See that ship is moored or anchored as he shall direct.

3. While such ship is so detained, see that no person, except an officer of customs, shall leave the same.

4. Forthwith give notice to the S. A. of the place and the cause of such detention.

Such detention shall cease as soon as the ship shall have been visited and examined by the M. O. H.; or, if he find such ship infected, it shall remain moored or anchored until the requirements of this Order have been duly fulfilled.

Provided that if the examination be not commenced within twelve hours after ship shall have been moored or anchored, the ship shall, on the expiration of the said twelve hours, be released from detention.

Procedure.

PART III.

Every port sanitary authority, and every other S. A., shall make provision for the reception of patients and persons suffering from cholera, yellow fever and plague.

The S. A., on notice being given to them by an officer of customs, shall forthwith cause the ship to be visited and examined by their M. O. H.

If M. O. H. require master, he shall cause the ship to be brought to, and, if necessary, moored or anchored in some convenient place.

If M. O. H. be of opinion that the ship is infected, he shall forthwith give a certificate in duplicate to that effect, shall deliver one copy to the master, and retain the other copy, or transmit it to the S. A. He shall also give information as to the arrival of the ship, and such other particulars as the L. G. B. may require.

M. O. H., as soon as possible after any ship has been certified as infected, shall examine every person on board. And all persons suffering from cholera, yellow fever or plague, or from any illness which he suspects may prove to be any of these, he shall certify accordingly.

Every person suffering from any such disease shall, if his condition admit of it, be removed to some hospital or other appointed place; nor shall he be removed therefrom until the M. O. H. shall have certified that he is free from the said disease.

If person suffering cannot be removed, the ship shall remain subject to the control of the M. O. H.; nor can he be removed or leave the ship without the consent, in writing, of the M. O. H.

Any person only suspected may be detained for any period not exceeding two days, in order that it may be ascertained whether the illness is, or is not, cholera, yellow fever or plague.

No person shall be permitted to land from an infected ship unless he satisfy the M. O. H.

1. As to his name;

2. Intended place of destination; 3. Intended address at such place.

If such person, within forty-eight hours after landing, shall arrive at any place of destination or address other than that which he has given, he shall forthwith in writing notify his address to the M. O. H. of the S. A., or to the L. A. of the district in which such place is situate.

The master shall cause all clothing, bedding, and other articles likely to retain infection, to be disinfected or destroyed, and he shall cause the ship, and every article therein, to be disinfected or destroyed, according to the direction of the M. O. H.

PART IV.

The master of every ship infected with cholera, yellow fever or plague, shall, when the ship is within three miles of the coast of any part of England and Wales, or is within the limits of a port, cause to be hoisted

1. At the masthead, or where it can be best seen, during the whole of the time between sunrise and sunset, a day signal, consisting of a large flag of yellow and black borne quarterly; or

2. At the peak or other conspicuous place, at a height of not less than twenty feet above the hull of the ship, during the whole of the time between sunset and sunrise, a night signal, consisting of three lights, which shall be arranged, at a distance of not less than six feet apart, in the form of an equilateral triangle, the light at the apex

of the triangle being white, and the lights at the ends of the base being red in colour.

PART V..

Nothing in this Order shall render liable to detention, disinfection, or destruction any article forming part of any mail (other than a parcel mail) conveyed under the authority of the Postmaster-General, or of the postal administration of any foreign government, or shall prejudicially affect the delivery in due course of any such mail to the Post Office, in accordance with the provisions of the Post Office Acts.

This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. It shall come into operation on January 1st, 1899, and remain in force until January 1st, 1904.

This Act, the Acts of 1867, 1871 and 1874, may be cited collectively as the Vaccination Acts, 1867 to 1898.

The period within which the parent, or other person having the custody of a child, shall cause the child to be vaccinated shall be six months from the birth of the child instead of three months as provided by sect. 16 of the Vaccination Act, 1867.

The public vaccinator of the district shall, if the parent or person having the custody of child so requires, visit the home of the child for the purpose of vaccinating the child.

NOTE.-The Vaccination Act, 1867, requiring the child to be taken to a public vaccinator is thus repealed.

If child is not vaccinated within four months after its birth, the public vaccinator, after at least twenty-four hours' notice to the parent, shall visit the home of the child, and shall offer to vaccinate the child with glycerinated calflymph, or such other lymph as may be issued by the L. G. B.

Exemption from Penalties.

No parent or other person shall be liable to any penalty under sect. 29 or sect. 31 of the Vaccination Act of 1867, if within four months from the birth of the child he satisfies two justices, or a stipendiary or metropolitan police magistrate in petty sessions, that he conscientiously believes that vaccination would be prejudicial to the health of the child, and within seven days thereafter delivers to the vaccination officer a certificate by such justices or magistrate of such conscientious objection.

Provision against Repeated Penalties.

An order under sect. 31 of the Act of 1867 directing that a child be vaccinated shall not be made on any person who has previously been convicted of non-compliance with a similar order relating to the same child.

Treatment of Prisoners.

Persons committed to prison under this Act shall be treated in the same way as first-class misdemeanants.