Quarantine Regulations 1915 (Provisional) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE QUARANTINE ACT 1908-12.
I, THE
GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of
urgency, the following Regulations under the
Dated this eighth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.
R. M. FERGUSON,
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
FRANK G. TUDOR,
Minister for Trade and Customs.
Part I.—Preliminary.
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Quarantine Regulations 1915.
(2) All Regulations under the Quarantine Act in force at the making of these Regulations. (Statutory Rules No. 121 of 1911, Nos. 105, 185, of 1912, and No. 67 of 1914) are hereby repealed.
2. These Regulations are divided into Parts as follows:—
Part I.—Preliminary.
Part II.—General Provisions.
Part III.—Quarantine of Vessels, Persons, and goods generally.
Part IV.—Special Measures against Plague.
Part V.—Miscellaneous.
Part VI.—Quarantine of Animals.
Part VII.—Quarantine of Plants.
C.12642.—Price 1s. 3d.
Part II.—General Provisions.
3. The Quarantine Signal* shall be—
(1) From sunrise to sunset:—
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a )For oversea vessels requiring pratique, the flag known as flag Q, being a yellow flag of six breadths of bunting hoisted at the mainmast-head;(
b )For vessels having or suspected of having a quarantinable disease on board or actually performing quarantine, the flag known as the Commercial flag L, being a large flag of yellow and black, borne quarterly, hoisted at the mainmast-head;
(2) From sunset to sunrise, three lights (two red and one white, each being not less than eight inches in diameter) of such a character as to be visible on a clear night all round the horizon for a distance of two miles, and placed as nearly as practicable amidships, at distances of six feet apart, in the form of an equilateral triangle with the apex (the white light) above.
Part III.—Quarantine of Vessels, Persons, and Goods Generally.
4. The hours of clearance for vessels subject to Quarantine shall be from sunrise to sunset provided that an authorized quarantine officer may, at any hour between five a.m. and midnight during the months from November to March (inclusive), and between six a.m. and ten p.m. during the remaining months of the year, if so directed by the Chief Quarantine Officer, inspect and clear any vessel carrying a medical officer who is a legally qualified medical practitioner.
* The following are the sections of the Act relating to the Quarantine signal:—
21. The master of every vessel Subject to quarantine shall—
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a ) hoist the quarantine signal at the mainmast-head of his vessel before she comes within one league of any port, and(
b ) keep the quarantine signal hoisted at the mainmast-head of his vessel while entering or being in any port or quarantine station.
Penalty: One hundred pounds.
22. (1) When—
(
a ) any eruptive disease; or(
b ) any disease attended with fever and glandular swellings; or(
c ) any disease which he believes or suspects, or has reason to believe or suspect, to be a quarantinable disease—
has broken out on board of any vessel, the masterof the vessel shall forthwith (unless the vessel is actually performing quarantine under the supervision of a quarantine officer)—
(
a ) notify a quarantine officer of the breaking out of the disease, and(
b ) hoist the quarantine signal at the mainmast-head of his vessel, and keep it so hoisted until he is authorized by a quarantine officer to take it down or until the vessel is released from quarantine.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
(2) The master of a vessel in port shall forthwith give notice in writing to a quarantine officer of every case of any prescribed disease which was on his vessel when she arrived in the port or which has arisen on his vessel since she arrived in the port.
Penalty: Fifty pounds.
23. The quarantine signal shall be as prescribed.
Under the Quarantine Act 1908, the Master and the Medical Officer are liable to a penalty of £100 for refusal or omission to give a true account and a true reply to any question, and for wilfully making a false statement in answer or for wilfully misleading a quarantine officer they are liable to two years’ imprisonment. | |||||||||
5. (1) The Primary Health Report relating to any vessel at its first part of entry to the Commonwealth shall be in accordance with the following form:— | |||||||||
Commonwealth of Australia. | |||||||||
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Health report and answers to questions as to the present and recent state of the health of all persons on board, and as to the history and sanitary circumstances of the undermentioned vessel during the current voyage, by | |||||||||
Master* of the said vessel. | |||||||||
and by | Medical Officer | ||||||||
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Name, Description, Tonnage, and Nationality of Vessel. | Port from which Vessel started, and Date of sailing therefrom. | Ports at which Vessel has called, and Dates of arrival and departure. | Number of Persons now on Board. | ||||||
Port. | Date. | Passengers | Crew. | ||||||
Arrival. | Departure. | Class. | Number. | malign. | Number | ||||
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Description. | Terminal Part of. Voyage. | Third......... |
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Tonnage. | Duration of Voyage, in Days. | Steerage.... | Donkeymen, greasers, firemen, trimmers | ||||||
Other persons not on articles nor on passenger list |
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*Master in relation to a vessel means the person (other than a pilot) in charge or command of the vessel. | |||||||||
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4.—Has any detailed inquiry, or medical inspection or examination of all or any of the persons on board been made within the last twenty-four hours, with a view to the detection of any quarantinable disease?
If so, give full particulars.
5.—Is there now, or has there been, on board during this voyage, any person affected with—
(
a ) any fever attended with or followed by eruption;(
b ) any skin eruption;(
c ) any illness attended with glandular swelling;(
d ) choleraic diarrhœa or diarrhœa with collapse;(
e ) any disease which you believe or suspect to be or to have been a quarantinable disease, or which resembles or has resembled a quarantinable disease.
(State particulars of any case in Schedule A on back hereof).
6.—Is there any person suffering from tuberculosis in any form, demonstrable syphilis in an active condition or any other communicable disease, or any infirm, invalid, epileptic or mentally defective person on board the vessel?
If so, state particulars in Schedule B on back hereof.
7.—Has any person affected with any sickness or disease left the vessel during the present voyage?
If so, state particulars.
8.—Has any person died on board during the voyage?
If so, state particulars in Schedule A on back hereof.
9. Does the cargo include any secondhand clothing or bedding or any rags or any flock made of rags or other textile material, whether in compressed or uncompressed bales, or any used sacks or carpets or canvas?
If so, state particulars, including information as to the port or ports from which such cargo was shipped.
10.—From inquiries made:
(
a )Is any person on board in possession of any culture, virus, or substance containing any disease germ or microbe or disease agent?(
b ) If so, has the permission of the Minister to import the article been obtained?
11.—(
a ) Is there now or has there been during the voyage any unusual number of rats or mice on board?(
b ) Have any dead or apparently sick rats or mice been found on board during the voyage?If so, state particulars.
12. At what ports was drinking water or water ballast taken on board?
13. Have you any Bills of Health?
It so, state number and ports to which they relate.
The answers to questions and the particulars given in this Report, and in the Schedules hereunder, are true and correct.
Master.
Medical Officer.
Witness
Quarantine Officer or other authorized person.
Date
Note.—
Schedule A.
particulars as to any case of disease described in question no. 5 or death during the voyage.
Name and class or Rating. | Sex. | Age | Port of | Duration of illness. | Nature of illness. | Remarks. | ||
Embarkation | Debarkation. | Beginning. | Termination. | |||||
Schedule B.
particulars as to any person on board suffering from any disease or condition named or described in question no. 6.
Name and Class or Rating. | Sex. | Age. | Port of | Nature of Illness, Infirmity, or Defect. | Remarks. | |
Embarkation. | Destination. | |||||
Note.—It necessary, amplify Schedules A and B on a separate sheet of paper.
Comments of quarantine officer at the Port of—
Notice to Masters.—In order to expedite the clearance of the vessel, this form should be filled up by the medical officer (if carried) or by the master immediately on arrival in Australian waters, and all Bills of Health and other documents relating to the sanitary history of the vessel should be ready for production to the Quarantine Officer. The master is further requested to take the necessary steps to have all persons on board ready for inspection, together with passenger and crew lists, log book, sick lists, &c.
The passenger and crew lists should be in duplicate, typewritten (if practicable) and grouped according to class or rating.
5 (2) The Health Report shall be prepared and signed in duplicate by the Master and (if carried) by the Medical Officer of any vessel at its first port of entry or call. The duplicate copy, which will be returned to the Master, shall be kept by him for production on any Quarantine or Customs officer demanding to sec it.
6. (1) At any Australian port (other than the first port of entry) which the vessel enters without pratique, the viséd duplicate Primary Health Report returned to the Master by the quarantine officer of the first part of entry shall be produced to the quarantine officer or to an authorized person, together with a Supplementary Health Report relating to the history and sanitary circumstances of the vessel after its arrival in Australian, waters.
(2) The quarantine officer
or any authorized person, at any port in Australia may require (
7. The supplementary Health Report shall be in accordance with the following form:—
Commonwealth of Australia.
SUPPLEMENTARY HEALTH REPORT.
Health Report and Answers to Questions as to the present and recent state of health of all persons on board, and as to the history and sanitary circumstances of the vessel during the current voyage, subsequent to the examination made at the first port of entry in Australia.
By Master of the said Vessel,
and by Medical Officer of the said Vessel.
(1) Name of the Vessel
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| Name of Port. | Date of Arrival. | Number of Persons landed. |
(5) Number of persons now on board— | ( | Total. |
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QUESTIONS.
(6) Have you the duplicate Primary Hearth Report viséd by the quarantine officer of the first part of entry and of any subsequent port of call which the vessel has entered without pratique?
Answer.—
(7) Has any detailed inquiry or medical inspection or examination of all or any of the persons on board been made since leaving the first port of call in Australia? If so, give particulars
Answer.—
(8) Is there now or has there been on board since arrival in Australia waters any person affected with—
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a ) any fever attended with or followed by eruption.(
b ) any skin eruption.(
c ) any illness attended with glandular swellings, or(
d ) any choleraic diarrhœa or diarrhœa with collapse(
e ) any disease which you believe or suspect to be or to have been a quarantinable disease?
State particulars of any case in the Schedule on back hereof.
(9) Is there on board any person suffering from tuberculosis in any form, demonstrable syphilis in an active condition, or any other communicable disease, or any other sick, infirm, invalid, epileptic, or mentally defective person, or has any such person been landed from the vessel at any port in Australia? If so, state particulars in the Schedule on back hereof.
Answer.—
(10) Have any dead or apparently sick rats or mice been found on board during the voyage since leaving the first port of entry? If so give particulars.
Answer.—
The answers to questions and the particulars given in this Report, and in the schedule hereunder, are true and correct.
Master.
Medical Officer.
Witness
(Quarantine officer or other authorized person.)
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Schedule.
PARTICULARS AS TO CASE OF ILLNESS OR DEATH DURING THE VOYAGE SINCE ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA.
Name and Class or Rating. | Sex. | Age. | Part of | Nature of Illness. | Duration of Illness. | ||
Embarkation. | Debarkation or Destination. | Beginning. | Termination. | Remarks. | |||
Note.—If necessary, amplify the Schedule on a separate sheet of paper.
Comments of quarantine officer at Port of—
Notice to Masters.—This report is supplementary to that given to the quarantine officer at the first port of entry, and should be prepared by the medical officer (if carried) or master ready for signature immediately before arrival at any other Australian port which the vessel enters without pratique, and also in all cases on arrival at the terminal port.
Any
vessel entering an Australian port without pratique, must if no case of
quarantinable or suspected quarantinable disease exists on board, fly flag Q;
and any vessel having or suspected of having any quarantinable diseases on board
must fly Commercial flag L.In either case the vessel must show the
quarantine signal by night. See Regulation 3, also Quarantine Act, sections 17
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8. The Certificate of pratique shall be in the following form:—
Commonwealth of Australia.
The
Certificate of Pratique.
Granted to the (
of which (
is Master, at a.m. 19 p.m.
This Certificate shall have effect in (
c )or until (
d )
This certificate shall not, unless explicitly expressed, exempt the vessel from fumigation or any other measure of disinfection.
In the event of any quarantinable diseases breaking out during currency, this certificate shall become null and void; and must be surrendered on demand to a quarantine officer.
(Signed)
Port of.— Quarantine Officer.
Date—
9. Every oversea vessel arriving at any port in Australia shall bring from the port of departure and from every oversea port called at during the current voyage, a Bill of Health, in which information is given as to the existence or non-existence of small-pox, cholera, plague, yellow fever, typhus fever, or any other pestilential disease at or in the vicinity of the port concerned during the fortnight next preceding the visit of the vessel. The Bill of Health shall be signed and dated within twenty-four hours before the time of the departure of the vessel from the port to which it refers.
The information given shall include the number or approximate number of existing cases of any of the diseases named, and shall be certified to by the port health officer if the port is a British possession, or by the British consul or such other person as may be approved if the port is a foreign port.
10. An outward Bill of Health in respect of any Australian port and its vicinity shall, on application by the master, or owner, or agents of any vessel visiting such port, be issued by a medical quarantine officer or other authorized officer, subject, except in the case of any vessel of war, to the payment therefor of a fee of Two shillings and sixpence.
11. The respective orders to be served in the case of
(
a ) any vessel and any person or goods thereon;(
b ) any other person; and(
c ) any other goods
to be ordered into quarantine shall be in accordance with the following forms:—
(
a ) In the case of a vessel.
Commonwealth of Australia.
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ORDER.
To
I hereby order into quarantine the vessel of which you are the master—together with all persons and goods an board the vessel.
Date Quarantine Officer.
Port of
(
b ) In the case of a person.
Commonwealth of Australia.
ORDER.
To
I hereby order you into quarantine
Quarantine Officer.
Date
(
c ) In the case of goods.
Commonwealth of Australia.
ORDER
To
I hereby order into quarantine the following goods, of which you are, or appear to be, the owner, consignee, possessor, or custodian.
Date
Quarantine Officer.
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13.
14. (1.)
The period during which persons landed in quarantine under the provisions of
section 34, sub-section (1), paragraph (
18 days if the disease in regard to which infection is suspected is small-pox;
14 days if such disease is typhus fever; and
7 days if such disease is yellow fever or plague or cholera.
(2.) The period of quarantine or quarantine surveillance shall be reckoned from the last day on which in the opinion of the quarantine officer there has been exposure to infection from a quarantinable disease.
(3.) In
the case of quarantine for small-pox any person who has been
(4.) Any person to be released under this Regulation shall, if so required, submit himself with his goods and effects to disinfection as prescribed or to the satisfaction of the quarantine officer.
15. Any person eligible under these Regulations for release under quarantine surveillance, may, subject to the concurrence of the Chief
Quarantine Officer, and to any conditions as to disinfection imposed by these regulations, be released under surveillance on application in accordance with the following form:—
To the Chief Quarantine Officer, State of—
I hereby request that I [and the under-named members of my family being under the age of twenty-one years, and under my control*], may be permitted to leave (
a )under quarantine surveillance, and I hereby undertake to comply with all the regulations relating to quarantine surveillance. My address will be (
b )
Signature—
Date—
Note.—It will be sufficient if this undertaking is signed by the head of the family in cases where more than one member of a family desires to leave under quarantine surveillance, and where they are less than twenty-one years of age.
Every member of a family above twenty-one years of age must give a separate undertaking.
16. (1.) The master of any vessel in quarantine may make application for the release under surveillance of any member of his crew who is eligible for release under surveillance. The application shall be in the following form:—
I hereby request that the undermentioned member (or members) of the crew of the
may be permitted to leave the under quarantine surveillance, and Ihereby undertake the responsibility of seeing that each member of the crew so released complies with all the regulations relating to quarantine surveillance.
Name—
Address on Shore—
Signature of Master—
Date—
(2.) The Master shall be responsible for the compliance, by each member of the crew so released, with the regulations relating to quarantine surveillance, but no individual member of the crew shall be thereby released from his obligation to comply with those regulations.
17. Any person released under quarantine surveillance shall, as frequently and at such times as the Chief Quarantine Officer directs, present himself for inspection and examination to a quarantine officer, or to a medical officer of health when available, or to a duly qualified medical practitioner as the Chief Quarantine Officer directs, and shall, if required by the Minister, pay such fee as may be fixed for the inspection or examination.
18. (1.) Any person released under quarantine surveillance shall, immediately on the appearance in himself of any symptoms or signs of illness or disease report the facts, or cause them to be reported, to the quarantine officer or other person to whom he has been directed to present himself under the provisions of the last preceding regulation.
(2.) The parent or guardian signing the application for the release of any child under surveillance shall be responsible for the observance by the child of the provisions of the regulations relating to release under surveillance. __________________________________________________________________________________
* Strike out words in brackets if not applicable.
19. No. person under quarantine surveillance shall leave the port where he is released or change his residence without the permission of the Chief Quarantine Officer.
20. No person under quarantine surveillance shall leave the State in which he has been released without permission of the Director of Quarantine, on the recommendation of the Chief Quarantine Officer, subject to such conditions as may be imposed by the former.
21. Any person contravening any of the regulations relating to quarantine surveillance shall be liable to the penalty fixed generally for any breach of these Regulations, and shall also forfeit all the privileges and advantages of release under quarantine surveillance and may be removed by any constable or authorized person to a quarantine station.
22. Subject to these Regulations no person or goods shall be detained in quarantine for any longer period than is considered necessary in the interests of the public health by the Chief Quarantine Officer.
23. No vessel in quarantine shall be moved without the approval of the quarantine officer, and then only to such place and under such conditions as are approved by him.
24. Where quarantine is being performed on board a vessel the master shall—
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a ) provide such practicable means of isolation of persons on board, and carry out such cleansing, fumigation, and disinfection as the quarantine officer directs;(
b ) render all assistance in his power to the quarantine officer, maintain order and discipline upon the vessel, muster for examination all persons on board when so required by the quarantine officer, and carry out all his instructions;(
c ) when directed by the quarantine officer convey any or all of the persons on board to any quarantine station in such order and in such groups and by such means as the quarantine officer directs;(
d ) deliver at the quarantine station any personal effects belonging to any person landed from the vessel if so directed by the quarantine officer;(
e ) discharge the cargo of the vessel in accordance with the directions of the quarantine officer;(
f ) dispose of all sweepings, refuse, or ballast from the vessel in such manner as the quarantine officer directs.
25. The examination provided for in Section 70 of the Act shall be any examination involving or requiring the use of any of the recognised methods of medical examination.
26. The notices referred to in section 74 of the Act shall be such as the Chief Quarantine Officer considers necessary to issue regarding persons or goods subject to quarantine.
27. The master of a vessel subject to quarantine shall not permit any goods, mails, or loose letters to be removed from his vessel except under the direction of the quarantine officer and subject to their disinfection as prescribed.
28.
(a) Noperson performing quarantine at a quarantine station, and no person in a quarantine station during quarantine, shall go beyond the bounds of the quarantine station;
(b) Noperson or class of persons in quarantine whose movements are by order of the officer in charge restricted to a certain area within the quarantine station shall go outside the limits of the area fixed;(
c ) All persons in quarantine shall submit to inspection and medical examination at such times as the officer in charge requires;(
d ) All persons in quarantine shall duly observe the notices signed by the officer in charge and posted on the recognised notice boards;
(e) Noperson in quarantine shall have any communication with a person not in quarantine except with the consent of, and subject to the conditions imposed by the officer in charge;(
f ) Every person in quarantine shall aid in maintaining due order and cleanliness in the quarantine quarters;(
g ) Every person in quarantine, except such as the officer in charge of the quarantine station exempts, shall take his meals at the following hours, or at such hours as usually obtained on the vessel from which he has been landed:—
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h ) Lights in all quarters at any quarantine station shall, subject to any exception permitted by the officer in charge, be extinguished at 10.30 p.m.;(
i ) Every person in quarantine shall, when directed by the officer in charge, be in his proper quarters at least half-an-hour before the time fixed for the extinguishing of lights;
(j) Noperson in quarantine shall use any lavatory for purposes other than those for which it is provided;
(k) Noperson in quarantine shall smoke in any prohibited place;(
l ) No alcoholic liquor shall be introduced into a quarantine station without the authority of the officer in charge;(
m ) Any person in quarantine who, in the opinion of the officer in charge, is indulging in alcoholic liquor to excess may, by a written order signed by such officer, be prohibited from being supplied with alcoholic liquor while in quarantine, and while the order continues in force no person having notice of the order shall sell or supply any alcoholic liquor to the person with respect to whom the order is made;(
n ) No person in quarantine shall carry or use any firearm;
(o) The body of any person who has died on a quarantine station shall be disposed of in such manner and by such means as the Chief Quarantine Officer directs;
(p) Any person in quarantine wishing to make a complaint shall do so in writing within 24 hours of the occurrence of the matter to which the complaint relates. The complaint shall be addressed to the officer in charge.(
q) Any person in quarantine wishing to consult the medical officer shall attend at the surgery (except in cases of emergency) at such hours as are appointed by the Chief Quarantine Officer.
29. All persons employed in any quarantine station shall obey the orders and instructions of the officer in charge.
30. Cargo and personal effects ordered into quarantine shall be disinfected as prescribed.
31. In these Regulations—
"Disinfection" means the destruction of germs or other agents of infection of communicable disease or of disease under the Quarantine Act.
"Disinfectant" means any substance or means which, when used or applied as directed to articles or substances containing or to which are attached germs or other agents of infection of communicable disease, or disease under this Act, will effect disinfection.
"Effective spraying appliance" means an appliance fitted with a compressed air reservoir and with a fine spraying nozzle (such as a strong garden spray-pump).
32. The following means of disinfection and disinfectants are approved and prescribed:—
(1)
Means of Disinfection—
(a) Exposure to saturated steam at a pressure of not less than 10 lbs. to the square inch for twenty minutes, after exhaustion of air from the disinfecting chamber;
(b) Boiling in water for not less than thirty minutes;(
c ) Immersion in an approved disinfectant solution for not less than one hour;
(d) Saturation or thorough wetting andkeeping wet with an approved disinfectant solution for not less than one hour;(
e ) Thorough spraying on all surfaces by means of an effective spraying appliance with either the first or the third of the approved disinfectant solutions described in sub-section 2;
(f) Fumigation at a temperature of not less than 75 deg. F., for not less than six hours with moistened formaldehyde gas of the strength and of the degree of moisture produced by the evaporation in a completely closed space of at least one (1) pint of a 40 per cent. solution of formaldehyde; or eight (8) ounces of paraform and one and one-half (1½) pint of water for each thousand cubic feet of enclosed space. Formaldehyde fumigation may also be effected by the formalin-permanganate method—one pint of a 40 per cent. solution of formaldehyde and ten ounces of permanganate of potash being used for each thousand cubic feet of space. If this method is used, at least one and one-half (1½) pint of water, for each thousand cubic feet of space to be fumigated, shall be evaporated by boiling in the space immediately prior to fumigation, the temperature in the space being not less than 75 deg. F. The solution of formaldehyde shall be added to the permanganate of potash in a receptacle or receptacles sufficiently large to prevent any overflow. Formaldehyde fumigation as described shall be used only as a means ofsurface disinfection and for the preliminary disinfection of enclosed spaces such as saloons, cabins, quarters, or wards, and for the disinfection of articles of value which cannot without destruction be disinfected by any other approved means.
(g) Any saloon, room, quarters, cabinet, or other enclosed space to be disinfected by fumigation shall, prior to fumigation, be rendered as air-tight as possible by pasting up all cracks and openings, ventilators, fireplaces, windows, and doors. The walls and floors and all hangings and upholstered surfaces in any room to be fumigated shall prior to fumigation be freely sprayed with clean hot water.(2)
Approved Disinfectant Solutions— (
a ) A one per cent. (1%) aqueous solution or emulsion of a cresol disinfectant readily miscible with water and having a carbolic co-efficient of not less than ten (10).
(b) A soapy aqueous solution or emulsion of any disinfectant of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a ) and containing three per cent. (3%) of soft (potash) soap.(
c ) A two per cent. (2%) solution of formaldehyde prepared by mixing one part of a forty per cent. (40%) solution of formaldehyde with 19 parts of clean water.
(d) An aqueous mixture of fresh chlorinated lime (containing not less than twenty-five per cent. (25%) of available chlorine) made by mixing immediately prior to use six (6) ounces of the chlorinated lime in one gallon of cold water.
33. Wherever practicable hot disinfectant solutions shall be used for immersion, washing, mopping or scrubbing purposes.
34. Saloons, cabins, quarters and similar spaces which can be closed shall, as a preliminary measure of disinfection, and prior to removal of contents, be fumigated with formalin as prescribed.
35. Ceilings, walls, woodwork, painted metal work, upholstered and other fittings and articles which are not readily accessible or which cannot without damage be washed, shall be disinfected by thorough spraying with an approved disinfectant solution, followed (after six hours) by free exposure to the air for not less than six hours.
36. All floors and accessible surfaces of holds and other places, woodwork, leather work, trunks, furniture, fittings, vehicles and all articles such as glass, china, silverware, ornaments, brushes, combs, which will not be damaged by washing with a disinfectant solution, shall be scrubbed or mopped or washed with a disinfectant solution, or if practicable with a soapy disinfectant solution, and shall be left thoroughly wet for not less than one hour.
37. Fixed
carpets shall be disinfected by thorough spraying
38. Bedsteads, bunks, and wire mattresses shall be disinfected by mopping or thorough washing, with an approved soapy disinfectant solution or emulsion, the articles being allowed to remain wet for not less than one hour.
39.
Wherever practicable bulky articles such as mattresses, beds, pillows,
bolsters, blankets, rugs (including horse and cattle rugs), curtains, cushions,
loose carpets, mats, coloured woollen clothing, and other similar articles and
materials shall be disinfected by means of saturated steam as prescribed in
Section 31 (1) (
40. All washable textile and other portable washable articles shall, if steam under pressure is not available, be disinfected by immersion in an approved disinfectant solution (where practicable a soapy solution) for not less than one hour, after which they may be washed—or washed and boiled.
41. All textiles and other articles that cannot, without destruction or serious injury, be immersed or steam disinfected, shall be hung on lines and thoroughly sprayed on both sides with an approved disinfectant solution (not a soapy solution), or shall be fumigated with formaldehyde, as prescribed, care being taken to hang them in such a manner as to expose them freely to the action of the fumigant; all sprayed or fumigated articles shall after six hours be exposed to the air for not less than six hours.
42. Papers that may not be burnt, loose letters, books, silks, silk hangings, delicate fabrics, ladies' hats, feathers, &c., shall be disinfected by exposure in a completely closed space to moistened formaldehyde gas as prescribed, for six hours, and shall subsequently be exposed freely to the air for not less than six hours.
43. Rags, old wearing apparel, infected dressings, and papers and other articles of little or no value shall be destroyed by fire.
44. Any officer or other person engaged in superintending or carrying out measures of disinfection shall wear washable overalls or a washable cotton suit, including cap.
45. Any officer going on board any vessel having or suspected of having a quarantinable disease on board or actually performing quarantine, shall wear washable overalls, including cap.
46. Any quarantine officer on board a vessel on which there is a case of quarantinable disease, or which is in quarantine and has not been disinfected as prescribed, shall, on leaving such vessel, unless he is going into quarantine, immediately remove his overalls and immerse them in the disinfectant solution or place them in a washable bag pending disinfection, and shall wash all exposed parts of the body and his boots with approved soapy disinfectant solution.
47. (1.) Any person convalescent from a quarantinable or communicable (infectious) disease or deemed by the quarantine officer in charge to be in an infective condition or capable of carrying infection, shall, together with his personal effects, be disinfected.
(2.) The person shall strip himself of all clothing, which shall at once be removed for disinfection. He shall then bathe himself or be bathed, with the aid of a cresol soap prepared for use with hard or salt water, in a warm solution or emulsion of a miscible cresol disinfectant having a carbolic co-efficient of ten (10) of a strength of one ounce of disinfectant to each two gallons of warm water. The body, and especially the scalp and hair (head and face) and other exposed parts, shall be freely lathered for five minutes; after washing off the lather, the body shall be dried with clean (disinfected) towels, and clean (disinfected) clothes shall then be put on.
(3.) An evaporating soapy cresol solution compounded as follows may be used instead of the watery disinfectant solution above described for the disinfection of the hair, seal p, and beard:—
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The solution must·be applied freely and rubbed well into the hair. After five minutes the resulting lather may be wiped off with a clean damp towel.
(4.) Care must be taken when using the evaporating lotion to avoid any naked flame, as the solution and its vapour are inflammable.
(5.) Clothing and other personal effects shall be disinfected as prescribed in these Regulations.
(6.) Hair pads and any other articles which the quarantine officer thinks fit shall, if directed by the officer, be destroyed by fire.
48. Packages
of goods which, in the opinion of the quarantine officer have been in contact
with or have been exposed to infection, but in respect of which there is no
reason to believe that the contained goods are infected or have been in contact
with or exposed to infection, shall be disinfected by
49. Surface disinfection shall be effected by—
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a ) fumigation with moistened formaldehyde gas for six hours as prescribed, each package being so placed as to be freely exposed to the action of the disinfectant, or(
b ) thorough spraying in an enclosed space of all surfaces with an approved disinfectant solution, followed after six hours by free exposure of the packages to the air and sun not less than twenty-four hours.
50. Goods on a vessel in quarantine or on a vessel which a quarantine officer is not satisfied is free from infection shall, unless they have, in the opinion of the quarantine officer, been definitely exposed to contamination by the infective agent of a quarantinable disease, be disinfected by free exposure for not less than forty-eight hours to the open air and sun at a quarantine station or on an approved isolated wharf or pier or lighter or other exposed place from which persons not subject to quarantine are excluded.
51. Goods which in the opinion of the quarantine officer are capable of spreading a quarantinable or other communicable disease shall, according to their nature, be disinfected by the means prescribed.
52. Any secondhand clothing or any article which, in the opinion of a quarantine officer, is likely to convey the infection of any disease, shall, if the quarantine officer so orders, be disinfected to the satisfaction of the quarantine officer.
53. Ordinary mail packages which have been stored in rat-proof mail rooms on board any mail vessel from a proclaimed place, or subject to quarantine, shall be exempt from any special measure of disinfection, unless the quarantine officer, after due investigation, is of opinion that they have been in contact with any infected person or infected goods, or are from any other cause liable to convey infection.
Any ordinary mail package on board any vessel ordered into quarantine shall, unless the quarantine officer is satisfied after due investigation that they have not been in contact with any infected person or infected goods, be disinfected by surface disinfection. For the purpose of disinfection the quarantine officer may cause the corners of envelopes or of wrappers enclosing mail matter to be cut.
54. The master of every vessel from any proclaimed place shall, on arrival at the first port of entry in Australia, furnish to the quarantine officer a complete list of all passengers on board and the full address in Australia of any person who intends to disembark at any Australian port.
55. (1.) Every vessel which arrives in Australia from a proclaimed place shall be ordered into quarantine unless the quarantine officer, after full inquiry and inspection, reports that no danger to public health will arise from giving such vessel pratique.
(2.) The report referred to shall be in the following form:—
Commonwealth of Australia.
After full inquiry into the sanitary history and sanitary circumstances of the undernamed vessel, I am of opinion that the (here describe and name the vessel) may without danger to public health be given pratique, and I have accordingly given a certificate of pratique, which will have effect in (here state the name of the port or ports which the vessel will enter during the voyage and in which the pratique will under ordinary conditions hold).
Port of
Date
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Quarantine Officer.
56. The master of any vessel in port shall give notice in writing to the Chief Quarantine Officer of the State in which the said port is situated of every case on his vessel of any of the following diseases:—
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*"Quarantinable disease" means small-pox, plague, cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, or leprosy, or any disease declared by the Governor-General, by proclamation, to be a quarantinable disease.
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(c) The cost of such telegram or despatch shall be recouped to the sender by the Department of Trade and Customs, and a fee of Two shillings and sixpence shall be paid to the sender: Provided that no fee shall be payable to any medical practitioner employed by any State Government who becomes aware of the cases of disease in the course of his official duty.
59. The Minister may—
(1) undertake the preparation of vaccine; and
(2) sell such vaccine at such prices as he determines from time to time; or
(3) at his discretion issue vaccine without charge.
60. Vaccinations may be performed and certificates of successful vaccination issued by quarantine officers at fees determined by the Minister.
Part IV.—Special Measures against Plague.
61. The master or owner of any vessel in any port in Australia shall—
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a ) effectively obstruct by means of stout netting or other means all openings or holes in the side of the vessel next to any wharf or lighter or other vessel and shall keep them so obstructed while the vessel is alongside such wharf or lighter or other vessel;(
b ) affix and keep affixed an effective rat disc or screen not less than 1 foot or more than 3 feet from the side of the vessel to every rope or hawser connecting the vessel with any wharf or lighter or other vessel.(
c ) when so ordered by a quarantine officer thoroughly illuminate from sunset to sunrise with electric or other brilliant lights the whole of the side of the vessel next to the wharf or to any vessel or lighter lying alongside.(
d ) remove at sunset and keep removed until sunrise the landing stages and all nets and gangways between the vessel and any wharf, except during such time as those landing stages, nets, or gangways are required for the discharge or loadingof cargo or for access of persons to and from the vessel and are actually being used for such discharge, loading, or access; and
(e) take any other necessary and practicable measures to prevent the migration of rats to and from the vessel.
62. The master or owner of any vessel in any port in Australia shall—
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a) thoroughly empty, or flush out and empty the bilges prior to berthing the vessel;(
b) keep all foodstuffs and food refuse in rat-proof and mouse-proof receptacles, rooms, or compartments;(
c ) prevent the discharge of any organic refuse, galley scraps and waste from the vessel on to the wharfs or into the waters of the port;
(d) maintain on board and use effective means for the destruction of rats and mice; and(
e ) when so ordered by a quarantine officer lay on the vessel poison baits effective for rats and mice.
63. The master or owner of any vessel in any port in Australia shall, if so ordered by a quarantine officer—
(a) submit any part or the whole of the vessel to sulphur fumigation as prescribed or to some other approved method of fumigation. If so directed by the quarantine officer, the fumigation shall be carried out while the vessel is alongside a wharf or while the vessel is in stream, and either before or after the cargo has been discharged;(
b ) wash or spray thoroughly with the prescribed insecticidal solution all portions of the vessel likely to harbor or to afford a shelter for fleas, lice, bugs, and other vermin;(
c ) empty and flush or disinfect and clean all lavatories, water tanks, or any closed space on board the vessel:Provided that in any case where there is reasonable cause to apprehend that the vessel may be endangered by the removal of water ballast, the quarantine officer may cause any tank or other receptacle to be sealed; and thenceforward, so long as the vessel remains within the port, the master shall prevent the breaking or removal of the seal or the discharge or removal from the tank or receptacle of any part of the water ballast except with the written permission of the quarantine officer;
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d ) cause to be disinfected or fumigated any articles specified by the quarantine officer;
(e) remove and re-stow or re-arrange, in such a manner as to prevent access or harborage of rats or mice, any dunnage rubbish or deck cargo;(
f ) remove, open up, or otherwise render thoroughly accessible to fumigation any linings, casings, partitions, lockers and similar enclosed spaces above or below deck;
(g) protect effectively against the passage of rats or mice all openings other than doors or hatches which are liable to afford communication for rats from any hold or cargo space to any other part of the vessel; and
(h) protect effectively against the passage and harborage of rats or mice, any specified opening or place whether below or above deck.
64. The master or owner of any vessel on arrival at any port in Australia from a place proclaimed infected with plague or as a place from or through which plague may be carried shall—
(a) submit the vessel to fumigation and treatment as prescribed for the destruction of rats, mice, and other vermin:Provided that the vessel may be exempted from fumigation if the master produce—
(i) a certificate showing that at the port of departure the vessel, while empty or after loading for the current voyage, was fumigated as prescribed; and
(ii) a certificate or certificates showing that at the port of departure (if a proclaimed place) and at every proclaimed place subsequently called at, effective measures were taken to prevent the migration of rats to the vessel. The measures adopted shall be specified in the certificate.
The certificate or certificates in each case shall be signed by the Port Health Officer or local quarantine officer if the proclaimed place is within the British Dominions, or be indorsed by the British Consul if the proclaimed place is a foreign port or country:
Provided further that in the absence of such certificates the vessel may, if no plague infected rats or mice have been found on board, be exempted from fumigation at any port of call in Australia excepting the terminal port;
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65. The following processes are prescribed:—
(a) For the destruction of rats and mice in closed spaces in vessels—thorough sulphur fumigation for at least eight hours with a gaseous mixture containing not less than three parts per centum of sulphur oxides. The fumigation shall wherever practicable be effected by passing sulphur fumes under pressure into the closed space, the contained air being at the same time partially exhausted;(
b) For the destruction of insects and other vermin in vessels—sulphur fumigation as prescribed, or thorough application of an aqueous solution or emulsion of soft soap, cyllin and kerosene, containing of each one part per centum. The application must be made by means of a mop or scrubbing brush or similar appliance, or by forcibly spraying the mixture into all places infested with or suspected of being infested with fleas, lice, bugs, or similar insects or vermin.
66. For the purpose of these Regulations, "wharf" includes any pier, stage, landing place, jetty or similar structure, foreshore, or place at which a vessel may lie.
67. (1) The fees charged for the sulphur fumigation of vessels by means of any approved mechanical appliance worked by steam, oil, or electric power and not forming part of the equipment of the vessels concerned, shall be as follows:—
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(3) When the fumigation or disinfection of any vessel is carried out by the owners or agents, or their employees, the work shall be supervised by a Quarantine or other authorized officer, and a fee of £1 1s. shall be charged for such supervision.
(4) In any case where overtime is worked, or travelling or other expenses are incurred by an officer in the fumigation or disinfection, or in the supervision of the fumigation or disinfection of any vessel, the cost of the overtime and travelling or other expenses shall he paid by the owners or agents of the vessel.
68. The charge for the disinfection of packages of second-hand clothing or of passengers' effects as required by Proclamation issued under the Quarantine Act shall be as follows:—One shilling per package.
This charge shall be paid by the master or owner or agent of the vessel, each of whom shall be severally responsible therefor.
Part V.—Miscellaneous.
69. (1) The Medical Officer shall forward a monthly report to the Chief Quarantine Officer upon the general condition of patients in the Lazaret, and shall report fully upon the death of any patient.
(2) No patient shall go beyond the bounds of the Lazaret without the consent of the Medical Officer, or visit any place forbidden by the Medical Officer.
(3) No person shall visit the Lazaret without the written permission of the Chief Quarantine Officer.
(4) No application for permission to visit the Lazaret shall be granted unless it is made in writing to the Chief Quarantine Officer at least seven days before the date of proposed visit. The Chief Quarantine Officer may authorize such departures from this Regulation as may, in his judgment, be rendered necessary or advisable from time to time in particular cases.
(5) No visitor shall remain at the Lazaret more than half-an-hour without special permission. The Medical Officer or Officer-in-Charge may, at his discretion, require any visit to be terminated at any time whether written permission has been granted or not, should he consider that the condition of any patient is aggravated, or is likely to be aggravated, by the visit.
(6) Visitors on arrival shall wait in a place set apart for that purpose until the patient is brought to them by the Caretaker or Matron and shall not, unless specially permitted, enter any enclosed part of the Lazaret area: Provided that, in the case of bedridden patients, the Medical Officer may grant permission for the visitor to see the patient under such conditions as he considers fit.
(7) No visitor shall kiss or embrace or allow himself or herself to be kissed or embraced by any patient.
(8) No visitor shall shake hands with any patient on whose hands there is any open sore or wound.
(9) No visitor or employé shall remove from the Lazaret, except after disinfection as prescribed, and by the written permission of the Medical Officer, any article which has been in the possession of a patient.
(10) Every visitor shall, during his stay in the Lazaret, obey all instructions of the Medical Officer and of the Caretaker or Matron.
(11) Visitors shall wash their hands in a disinfectant solution immediately before leaving the Lazaret and shall carry out such other personal disinfection as may be required by the Medical Officer.
(12) No mail matter of any kind shall be allowed to leave the Lazaret unless lodged with the Caretaker for transmission.
(13) The Caretaker shall disinfect as prescribed or as directed by the Medical Officer all mail matter or paper money before allowing it to leave the Lazaret.
(14) No mail matter of any kind bearing a stamp which has been in the possession of, or which has been placed thereon by a patient, shall be sent or taken from the Lazaret.
(15) No envelope or wrapper shall be sealed by any patient with the aid of the tongue or lips. All such mail matter despatched from the Lazaret shall be sealed by means of the appliances provided.
(16) No visitor or officer (excepting the Caretaker, or other authorized officer), shall receive from any inmate any book, package, paper, letter, or other written or printed matter, including paper money, for transmission to any person outside the Lazaret.
(17) No patient shall receive any article or effects which, in the opinion of the Medical Officer, should not be allowed into the Lazaret, and no patient shall send out from the Lazaret any articles or effects without the consent of the Medical Officer.
(18) Articles taken into use at the Lazaret shall not be issued therefrom to any other place. Damaged or disused articles shall, with the approval of the Medical Officer, be destroyed by the Caretaker.
(19) Any visitor bringing to the Lazaret any articles such as clothing, provisions, fruit, &c., for any patient shall deliver them to the Caretaker, who will give a receipt for them, and advise the Medical Officer of the nature of the articles. The said articles shall await the directions of the Medical Officer, and, if he thinks fit, but in no other case, shall be delivered to the patient.
(20) Articles sent by boat to patients should be addressed to the patient in care of the Medical Officer. Should any articles so brought or delivered be considered by the Medical Officer to be unsuitable or undesirable for the patient in his then condition, or should it be sent in contravention of these Regulations, it will, if not perishable, be withheld for return to the sender, or impounded pending the decision of the Chief Quarantine Officer.
(d) Immersion in or spraying with Bordeaux mixture, as prescribed, for fungus diseases of plants and for packages.(
e ) Immersion in a solution of copper sulphate (bluestone) or a mixture of carbonate of potassium and sulphate of copper in water, as prescribed for fungus diseases, especially of vines.
(f) Boiling in water, for not less than two minutes, for cases, packages, and bags.
(g) Spraying with lime and sulphur mixture as prescribed for deciduous trees and plants in a dormant state.
149. The
precise methods of treatment and fumigation shall be as follows:
(a) Fumigation with hydrocyanic acid gas shall be carried out in a chamber or receptacle specially adapted for fumigation purposes, and shall be maintained for one hour. The procedure shall be as specified hereunder, and the generating mixture shall be in the case of—(i)
Fruit Trees, and Hardy Plants in Foliage: —One-third (
1 /3 ) oz. (Troy) of fused potassium cyanide (98 per cent.).One and one-half (1½) fluid ozs. of sulphuric acid (1.8 sp. gr.).
Three (3) fluid ozs. of water.
(ii)
Greenhouse Plants: —One-quarter (¼) oz. (Troy) of fused potassium cyanide (98 per cent.).
One (1) fluid oz. of sulphuric acid (1.8 sp. gr.).
Two and one-half (2½) fluid ozs. of water.
Greenhouse plants shall be fumigated after sunset at a temperature as near 50 deg. F. as practicable, and in a dry atmosphere.
(iii)
Deciduous Trees and Plants in a Dormant State:— One (1) oz. (Troy) of fused potassium cyanide (98 per cent.).
Two (2) fluid ozs. of sulphuric acid (1.8 sp. gr.)
Three (3) fluid ozs. of water.
The quantities above specified shall be used for each 100 cubic feet of space contained in the fumigating chamber or receptacle. In each instance the water and sulphuric acid shall be successively placed in a glazed earthenware or enamelled vessel, and the potassium cyanide shall be placed in the carrier constructed for the purpose; the chamber or receptacle shall then be tightly closed and the potassium cyanide shall be added by turning the handle of the carrier as required on the outside of the chamber or receptacle. All plants to be fumigated shall be so placed as to be freely exposed to the vapour, and fumigation shall be maintained for not less than one (1) hour. After the expiration of one hour, the doors and vents of the chamber or receptacle shall be opened for a sufficient time to allow all gas to escape before removal of the goods.
No officer or other person shall enter any fumigation chamber until all sensible traces of hydrocyanic acid gas have disappeared.
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b) The lime and sulphur mixture for spraying deciduous trees and plants in a dormant state for fungus diseases and scale and mite pests shall be prepared as described hereunder and the spraying shall be carried out as follows:—Take 3 lbs. of lime, which shall have been slaked at least three weeks before using; 6 lbs. of ground sulphur free from lumps, and 50 gallons of water.
Provide one wooden cask with a capacity of 55 gallons; one can with a capacity of 5 gallons, and two cans each with a capacity of 1½ gallons. The wooden cask shall be marked on the inside with an incised or seared (burnt) mark to indicate the measure of 50 gallons. The 5-gallon can shall be marked on the inside with an incised or painted mark to indicate the measure of 2½ gallons; and the 1½-gallon cans shall each be marked on the inside with an incised or painted mark to indicate the measure of 1¼ gallons.
The 6 lbs. of sulphur shall be mixed into a paste in one of the 1½-gallon cans with 1¼ gallons of boiling water, and the 3 lbs. of the slaked lime shall be mixed in the other 1½-gallon can with 1¼ gallons of hot water.
The lime solution and the sulphur solution shall then be poured together into the 5-gallon can. The mixture shall then be boiled from 1 to 1½ hours, kept well stirred, and cold water added from time to time to prevent loss in boiling over. The mixture shall then be poured into the cask, and sufficient water shall be added to make up 50 gallons. The resultant mixture shall be carefully strained before use.
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(2) For the generation of vapour, carbon bisulphide of a specific gravity of 1.29 at 32 degrees F. shall be used, and the bisulphide of carbon vapour shall be of a strength, in the case of—
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a ) Seeds, grain (crimson clover, rye, millet, and barley excepted), nuts, and nutmegs—one and one-half (1½) pounds of carbon bisulphide to each thousand (1,000) cubic feet of space to be fumigated.
(b) Seeds and grain of crimson clover, rye, millet, and barley, one pound of carbon bisulphide to each thousand (1,000) cubic feet of space to be fumigated.
(3) All seeds, grain, nuts, and nutmegs to be fumigated shall, if practicable, be spread out in thin layers so as to be freely exposed to the vapour, and shall be so placed as to be below the sieves or trays specified below, and the fumigation shall be maintained for not less than thirty-six (36) hours. If seeds, grain, nuts, or nutmegs cannot be spread out, vapour of twice the specified strength shall be used, the packages shall be stacked and fixed so as to leave space of not less than 3 inches between the packages on all sides, and fumigation shall be maintained for not less than forty-eight ( 48) hours.
(4) The bisulphide of carbon shall be evaporated by being poured on a layer of cotton waste placed on a sieve or pervious tray. The layer of cotton shall be not less than 1 inch in thickness and shall be spread evenly over the sieve or tray.
(5) One such sieve or tray, containing at least one-half of a pound of cotton waste, shall be provided for each half (½) pound of carbon bisulphide required, and the bisulphide shall be poured evenly over the cotton waste.
The sieve or tray shall be supported or suspended in the upper part of the fumigating chamber. If more than one sieve or tray is used, they shall be so placed as to secure most effectively an even distribution of the fumes and their intimate contact with any seeds, nuts, or nutmegs to be fumigated.
(6) No officer or other person shall smoke or expose any light in or within 20 feet of any fumigating chamber in which carbon bisulphide is being used or while any sensible trace of the carbon bisulphide remains in such chamber.
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Three wooden casks, one having a capacity of at least 40 gallons, and the other two having a capacity of 25 gallons each, are required.
Each of the two smaller casks shall be marked on the inside with an incised or seared (burnt) mark to indicate the measure of 20 gallons. These casks shall be raised on a platform, and shall be fitted with wooden taps, so placed as to run their contents into the third cask placed below.
Six (6) lbs. of sulphate of copper (bluestone) shall be suspended in a bag or cloth from a stick placed across the top of one of the smaller casks. P our four (4) gallons of hot water into the cask. The water must completely cover the bluestone in the bag or cloth. When the bluestone has entirely dissolved, 16 gallons of cold water shall be added.
Four (4) lbs. of fresh quicklime in hard lumps shall next be slaked slowly in the other cask by adding water, pint by pint, as it is absorbed, until a thick paste of lime free from lumps is formed. Sufficient water shall then be added to make up 20 gallons and the whole shall be thoroughly stirred. This forms "milk of lime."
When the bluestone solution and the milk of lime are quite cool, they shall be poured together at the same rate (evenly) into the third cask.
These directions must be carefully followed to produce an effective mixture.
(2) The following test for determining whether Bordeaux mixture is properly prepared is approved and prescribed:—
Dissolve 4 ozs. of ferrocyanide of potassium in one pint of water, place this in a glass vessel, and add a few drops of the mixture to be tested. Should any brownish discoloration occur, more milk of lime must be added to the Bordeaux mixture, till, on testing, no discoloration is apparent.
Any tree or plant in quarantine affected with any fungus disease shall be immersed or sprayed with Bordeaux mixture, or lime or sulphur mixture, as directed by the Chief Quarantine Officer.
153. (1) Immersion in an aqueous solution of two (2) per cent. of copper sulphate or in an aqueous mixture of carbonate of potassium and sulphate of copper (producing hydrocarbonate of copper).
(2) The
hydrocarbonate of copper mixture shall be prepared by dissolving
(3) Imported vines shall, if so directed by the Chief Quarantine Officer, be dipped in the copper sulphate solution or in the mixture prescribed.
(4) Weakly plants, or those showing new shoots, shall, one hour after being dipped, be washed in clean water.
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155. Any loss occasioned during the removal, handling, or treatment of any imported plant under the direction of a quarantine officer shall be borne by the owner of such plant, and he shall have no claim whatever against the Commonwealth for compensation for any such loss.
156. Any plant or goods, together with any case, package, or packing material seized under the provisions of section 68 of the Act shall be removed to a quarantine station, and if their introduction is not
absolutely prohibited under the Act, they may, after due detention and treatment, and provided that, in the opinion of the Chief Quarantine Officer, there is no danger to be apprehended by their introduction, be sold, otherwise they shall be destroyed.
157. Except in those cases where a penalty is specially provided in the Act for any offence against the Act or breach of the Regulations made thereunder, the penalty for a breach of any of the Regulations of this Part shall be a sum not exceeding Fifty pounds.
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