APPENDIX.

Laws to be Repealed by the Public Health Law.

[EXPLANATION.- The page reference is to the eighth edition of the Revised Statutes. Section reference immediately following is to the text of the revision which will take the ace of the law repealed.]

[LAWS OF 1863, CHAPTER 358, PAGE 1165.]

Sections 74-77, of Revision.

AN ACT establishing a quarantine and defining the qualifications, duties and powers of the health officer of the harbor and port of New York.

Establishment of quarantine.-SECTION 1. Quarantine, for the protection of the public health, according to the provisions of this act, is hereby authorized, required and established in and for the port of New York for all vessels, their crews, passengers, equipage, cargoes and other property on board of the same, arriving thereat from other ports. Of what to consist.—§ 2. The quarantine establishment shall consist of: First, warehouses, wet-docks and wharves; second, anchorage for vessels; third, floating hospital; fourth, boarding station; fifth, burying ground; sixth, residence for officers and men.

Structures. § 3. The warehouses, wet-docks and wharves, together with appropriate appurtenances for unlading and storing cargoes, and such facilities as will enable merchants to overhaul and refit vessels while in quarantine, shall be constructed at such expense and in such place in the lower bay of New York, not on Staten Island, Long Island or Coney Island, as the quarantine commissioners may determine, with the approval of the commissioners of the land office.

Mode of construction.- § 4. The warehouses shall be of such capacity only as will secure the best natural ventilation consistent with security for merchandise, but in the aggregate they shall be of a capacity equal to the storage of fifty medium-sized cargoes; and they shall have connected with them apartments with suitable appliances for special disinfection by forced ventilation, refrigeration, high steam, dry heat and chemical disinfection.

Capacity.

§ 5. The wharves shall be constructed with due regard to safety to and protection for vessels, and sufficiently extensive to admit of the safe moorage of at least four vessels of the largest size at the same time. There shall be two wet-docks, each one capable of admitting a ship of the largest size.

· Location. § 6. The anchorage for vessels under quarantine shall be in the lower bay, distant not less than two miles from the nearest shore, and within an area to be designated by buoys by the quarar. tine commissioners and health officer.

Floating hospital.-§ 7. The floating hospital shall be constructed with special reference to the purposes of a hospital, and with a capacity sufficient to accommodate one hundred patients. From the first day of May to the first day of November that floating hospital shall be anchored in the lower bay, not less than two miles distant from the nearest portion of the quarantine anchorage and from the nearest shore. From the first day of November to the first day of May, the floating hospital may be moored at the quarantine wharves or other secure place, subject to the discretion of the commissioners of quarantine.

Boarding stations.— § 8. The boarding station for vessels from any place where disease subject to quarantine existed at the time of their departure, or which shall have stopped at any such place on their voyage, or on board of which, during the voyage, any case of such disease shall have occurred, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, shall be in the lower bay, below the narrows, and consist of the vessel at present used as a floating hospital, or such other vessel as may hereafter be provided, to be anchored in such proximity to the floating hospital and the channel as will afford the greatest dispatch in boarding and directing vessels as soon as practicable after their arrival; and said station shall be provided with all necessary appurtenances for personal cleanliness and the purification of personal baggage; and all such vessels, immediately on their arrival, shall anchor near such boarding station, within the quarantine anchorage specified in section six of this act, and there remain, with all persons arriving thereon, subject to the provisions of this act and of the act hereby amended. [Thus amended by L. 1865, ch. 592.]

(LAWS OF 1863, CHAPTER 358, PAGE 1166.)

Section 109 of Revision.

Period of quarantine.- § 9. Vessels arriving at the port of New York shall be subject to quarantine, as follows: First. All vessels from any place where disease subject to quarantine existed at the time of their

departure, or which shall have arrived at any such place and proceeded thence to New York, or on board of which, during the voyage, any case of such disease shall have occurred, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, shall remain at quarantine for at least thirty days after their arrival, and at least twenty days after their cargo shall have been discharged, and shall perform such and further quarantine as the quarantine commissioners may prescribe, unless the health officer, with the approval of the quarantine commissioners, shall sooner grant a permit for said vessel or cargo, or both, to proceed. Second. From any place (including islands) in Asia, Africa or the Mediterranean, or from any of the West Indies, Bahama, Bermuda or Western Islands, or from any place in America in the ordinary passage from which they pass south of Cape Henlopen and all vessels on board of which, during the voyage or while at the port of their departure, any person shall have been sick, arriving between the first day of April and the first day of November, and all vessels from a foreign port, not embraced in the first subdivision of this section, shall, on their arrival at the quarantine ground, be subject to visitation by the health officer, but shall not be detained beyond the time requisite for due examination and observation, unless they shall have had on board during the voyage some case of quarantinable disease, in which case they shall be subject to such quarantine and regulations as the health officer and the quarantine commissioners may prescribe. Third. All vessels embraced in the foregoing provisions, which are navigated by steam, shall be subject only to such length of quarantine and regulations as the health officer shall enjoin, unless they shall have had on board during the voyage some case of quarantinable disease, in which case they shall be subject to such quarantine as the health officer and the quarantine commissioners shall prescribe.

(LAWS OF 1863, CHAPTER 358, PAGE 1166.)

Section 108 of Revision.

Vaccination.- § 10. Persons with insufficient evidence of effective vaccination, and known to have been recently exposed to small-pox, shall be vaccinated as soon as practicable, and detained until the vaccinia shall have taken effect. No other well perso. s shall be detained in quarantine any longer than necessary to secure cleanliness. Such vaccination and disposal of persons vaccinated shall be made under regulations to be fixed by the quarantine commissioners and health officer. Persons having small-pox shall be disposed of in the same manner as is done under existing laws.

Diseases subject to quarantine.-- § 11. The only diseases against which quarantine shall apply are yellow fever, cholera, typhus or ship fever and small-pox, and any new disease not now known of a contagious, infectious or pestilential nature, at the discretion of the quarantine commissioners and health officer.

(LAWS OF 1863, CHAPTER 358, PAGE 1167.)

Sections 115, 116, of Revision.

Sanitary measures.— -§ 12. For the purpose of sanitary measures merchandise shall be arranged in three classes:

1. Merchandise to be submitted to an obligatory quarantine and to purification.

2. Merchandise subject to an optional quarantine. And 3. Merchandise exempt from quarantine.

The first class comprises clothing, personal baggage and dunnage, rags, paper rags, hides, skins, feathers, hair and all other remains of animals, cotton, hemp and woolens. The second class comprehends sugar, silks and linen and cattle. The third class comprehends all merchandise not enumerated in the other two classes.

Id. § 13. With existing quarantinable disease on board, or if there have been any such disease on board within the ten days last preceding, merchandise of the first class shall be landed at the quarantine warehouse. Merchandise of the second class may be admitted to pratique immediately, or transferred to the warehouses, according to circumstances, at the option of the health officer, with due regard to the sanitary conditions of the port. Merchandise of the third class shall be declared free, and admitted without unnecessary delay.

Id. § 14. In all cases where there has been quarantinable disease on board during the voyage, letters and papers shall be submitted to the usual purifications, but with such precautions as not to affect their legibility; articles of merchandise or other things not subject to purifying measures in an envelope officially sealed shall be immediately admitted to pratique, whatever may be the condition of the vessel; and if the envelope is of substance considered as optional, its admission shall be equally optional.

Id. § 15. If a vessel, though not having had during the voyage any case of quarantinable disease, yet be found in a condition which the health officer shall deem dangerous to the public health, the vessel and cargo shall be detained until the case shall have been considered; the decision of the health officer, however, in all such cases, shall be rendered within twenty-four hours. Vessels in an unhealthy state whether there has been sickness on board or not, shall not be allowed