Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896.

  • United States. Department of the Treasury.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORTS OF INSPECTIONS OF ALL NATIONAL, STATE, QUARANTINE STATIONS AND PORTS OF ENTRY. AND LOCAL [Arranged in geographical order.] By the provisions of the act of February 15, 1893, it is the duty of the Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service to perform all the duties in respect to quarantine and quarantine regulations which are provided lor by the act, and he is also directed to examine the quar- antine regulations of all State and municipal boards of health, and cooperate with and aid said boards in the execution and enforcement of their rules and regulations, and in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations made by the Secretary of the Treasury. To carry out the spirit and letter of this law the following regulation was promulgated by the Secretary of the Treasury: TREASURY REGULATION. ******* In the performance of the duties imposed upon him by the act of February 15, 1893, the Supervising Surgeon-General of the Marine-Hospital Service shall from time to time, personally or through a duly detailed officer of the Marine-Hospital Service, inspect the maritime quarantines of the United States, State and local as well as national, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the quarantine regula- tions prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury have been or are being complied with. The Supervising Surgeon-General, or the officer detailed by him as in- spector, shall, at his discretion, visit any incoming vessel, or any vessel detained in quarantine, and all portions of the quarantine establishment for the above-named purpose and with a view to certifying, if need be, that the regulations have been or are being enforced. J. G. Carlisle, Secretary. In accordance with the above regulation, regular inspections of all quarantine stations of the United States have been made in each of the past three years by officers of the Marine-Hospital Service, and reports have been received upon blank forms furnished by the Bureau. These inspections have been of undoubted value, because of the pre- cise information they have conveyed, and because, too, the careful and systematic review of the work of the local quarantines has had a bracing effect upon their administration. Heretofore the reports have not been published, but it is deemed proper now to publish those received during this the third year in which the inspections have been made.