Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)Paris, John Ayrton
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Medical Jurisprudence, Volume 1 (of 3)
Paris, John Ayrton
Medical laws and legislation -- Great Britain
Goods liable to quarantine shall be opened and aired, as directed by
order in council. Sec. 29, 31.
Forging certificates is felony without benefit of clergy. Sec. 30.
In case it shall happen that any part of _Great Britain_, _Ireland_, or
the Isles of _Guernsey_, _Jersey_, _Alderney_, _Sark_ or _Man_,
_France_, _Spain_, or _Portugal_, or the _Low Countries_, shall at any
time be infected with the plague or any other such infectious disease or
distemper as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for his Majesty to prohibit
and restrain all small boats and vessels under twenty tons, from sailing
out of any port until security be first given by the Master in a bond of
three hundred pounds, conditioned not to touch at such places; penalty
for sailing without giving such security, forfeiture and twenty pounds
per man. Sec. 32.
Publication in the London Gazette to be sufficient notice. Sec. 33.
Offences, not being felonies or subject to specific punishments, may be
determined before two Justices, who may fine not exceeding fifty pounds,
or imprison not exceeding three months. Sec. 38. Offences may be tried
in any county. Sec. 42. The general issue may be pleaded to actions
brought against persons for any thing done in execution of this act,
which action must be commenced within two months, and treble cost shall
be recovered on judgment for the defendant. Sec. 43.
For other points see the act itself, which is further extended by the
44th Geo. 3. c. 98; by this act the signal for the plague being actually
on board, is appointed to be a flag of eight breadths, divided quarterly
of black and yellow by day and two large lanthorns one over the other at
the main-topmast-head by night. Sec. 1.
The Privy Council may order ships coming from America or the West Indies
when the Yellow Fever, &c. prevails there, to go to certain places
without being liable to quarantine, unless it shall be afterwards
specially ordered. Sec. 6. For other regulations, see the Stat.
In Ireland the system of quarantine is regulated by the 40th Geo. 3. c.
79, the general outline of which is the same as in the English acts, but
with some additional severity towards health officers neglecting their
duty, the infliction of which may occasionally be necessary.[215]
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