The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and ResponsibilitiesRiesenberg, Felix
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The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities
Riesenberg, Felix
Merchant marine -- United States; Navigation; Sailors
In every such steamship or other vessel there shall be properly built
and secured, or divided off from other spaces, two compartments or
spaces to be used exclusively as hospitals for such passengers, one for
men and the other for women. The hospitals shall be located in a space
not below the deck next below the main deck of the vessel. The hospital
spaces shall in no case be less than in the proportion of eighteen clear
superficial feet for every fifty such passengers who are carried or
brought on the vessel, and such hospitals shall be supplied with proper
beds, bedding, and utensils, and be kept so supplied throughout the
voyage. And every steamship or other vessel carrying or bringing
emigrant passengers, or passengers other than cabin passengers,
exceeding fifty in number, shall carry a duly qualified and competent
surgeon or medical practitioner, who shall be rated as such in the
ship's articles, and who shall be provided with surgical instruments,
medical comforts, and medicines proper and necessary for diseases and
accidents incident to sea-voyages, and for the proper medical treatment
of such passengers during the voyage, and with such articles of food and
nourishment as may be proper and necessary for preserving the health of
infants and young children; and the services of such surgeon or medical
practitioner shall be promptly given, in any case of sickness or
disease, to any of the passengers, or to any infant or young child of
any such passengers, who may need his services. For a violation of
either of the provisions of this section the master of the vessel shall
be liable to a penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(Sec. 5.)
Discipline and cleanliness.
The master of every such steamship or other vessel is authorized to
maintain good discipline and such habits of cleanliness among such
passengers as will tend to the preservation and promotion of health, and
to that end he shall cause such regulations as he may adopt for such
purpose to be posted up on board the vessel, in a place or places
accessible to such passengers, and shall keep the same so posted up
during the voyage. The said master shall cause the compartments and
spaces provided for, or occupied by, such passengers to be kept at all
times in a clean and healthy condition, and to be, as often as may be
necessary, disinfected with chloride of lime, or by some other equally
efficient disinfectant. Whenever the state of the weather will permit,
such passengers and their bedding shall be mustered on deck, and a clear
and sufficient space on the main or any upper deck of the vessel shall
be set apart, and so kept, for the use and exercise of such passengers
during the voyage. For each neglect or violation of any of the
provisions of this section the master of the vessel shall be liable to a
penalty not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. (Sec. 6.)
Privacy of passengers.
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