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Las diagrammes suivants iilustrent la mAthode. 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 THE PI Approved by the M REGULATIONS ISSUBD BY THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HPLVLTH, IN THE MATTER OF SMALL POX. Approved by the Lieutenant-Governor September ^th, I880, and piMiahed in " Ontario Gazette" September 5th, 1885. l—Mli a^immtk^. / REGULATIONS ISSUED BY THE PROVINCIAL BOARD OF HEALTH, IN THE MATTER OF SMALL POX. '■■^ Whereas, owing to the prevalence of an epidemic of small-pox in Montreal, there is clanger of the disease hecoming epidemic in Ontario ; therefore, the Provincial Board of Health, subject to the approval of the Lieutenant-Oovernor in Council, enacts the follow- ing regulations : — 1. Wherever small-pox is present in any municipality in (Jnt^rio, the Council of every such municipality, and of every municipality adjoining the same, shall at once appoint one or more sanitary policemen for the purpose of iissistuig to arrest the spread of the disease, and the Council of any municipality in Ontario where tlie Provincial Board of Health deems the appointment of one or more sanitary policemen necessary, shall also make such appointment. If the Medical Health officer of the municipality, or the Provincial Board of Health, require the appointment of any specitied numher of sanitary policemen, then such number shall be appointed. In ca.se the Council of a municijtality neglects or refuses to make the required appointments, th(> Provincial Board of Health may appoint as many sanitary policemen for such municipality as it deems necessary. 2. Any default on the part of the authorities of any municij)ality in taking immediate and effective action in carrying out the regulations of ti>e Provincial Board <>t" Health, or of any of the Health Acts of this Province, or of any Health By-law in force; in the municipality, shall be at once reported by the Medical Health Othcer to the secretary of the Provincial Board, in order that the said Hoard may lake such measures as it deems requisite for placing the said municipality in a position, as regards its sanitary arrange- ments, to effectively combat the said disease. 3. On the occurrence of the first, or any, case of smallpox in a n>unicipality, the Medical Health Othcer shall at once remove the person attackeii to the isolation hospital, tent, or other plac-e provided under section 44 of the P«l>lic Health Act, 1HH4, or cause such iH'rson to U- otherwise efficiently isolated, anat. sailing vessel, carriage, or other vehicle, whidi may have »»een ex|)osed to the tontagion. 4 He shall further place in another building or tent, which shall be provided by the T/)cal lioard of Health, all persons who may have Um-u exposed t»> the contagion, and shall supply them with all necessaries until the periotl of incubation of the disease shall have elapsed and no such pi-rson shall go, or be permitted t.> go, abroad until he or she has LMveii satisfactory proof of successful vaccination within the preceding seven years, sliall hav,- obtained a medical certiHcat*; of insusceptil)ilitv to the vaccine disease, nor the clothhig or .'tfects worn or carried by or with him or her have been properly or unti disinfected, if the same have been exiK)sed to ccmtagion. 'i Wh.>n any vessel coming from an infectetl locality enU-rs any |K)rt in Ontario, the ical Health Uflicer liaving jurisdiction in the port shall make a strict inspection of the >w, luggage, clothing, bedding. Medical .. j. i vess.-! and examination of th- passengers, ofhcers and crew, frei-dit or other effects, before any ,KMson, luggage freight or other thing is anded. or allowed to Ik; lane iusli 'd i.' "' .<^asH s«d, per- ""'^I'l^' to pay ther.fr a y ''""' ^'^^'"^ *'"' P^'-^o-s for' winch Hul ' '*'"" '" '•»'■'>« -a., or ^ P ^ '^-. -ul are not re..,ents in the ^^^^r.i.i;^\:^ZC: ^Zt^Z ';»'■' « i"i° '", , ^^'izr.:''"''^ ""■""""" »i'w.. V rvLr:": :';-"r"'"">- "P"n fill attempt to v. L . ^ '""" "''*"«ceptil.ihtv to th,. v„ .; ?■ ''^*"* ^"''^ »ot '"".self orhers'^^f w : "V''''r'^'^^^'"" "^^-en yearssh'ir "" '''f'^""- ascertained ^'f the .nunio , rv ' ^'"■"*' ^^^^ "^ •><■'""" re,, nested i, ^ ''?''" *'^" ^•'^^•<-i>"ttion of h- the W^ a ^ y ';^ta,n vaceination. o^^J C^ Hk ":■ '7 '^ ""^ "''•^'^'' '^'f-- of the Province unless accompan,e.l l,y a properly authenticated certiricate from a Health ^hfprov?n^ri 1"". f 'u Vr'''' ^°' °* ^"^""' °^ f'«'» «"«'« P--" approved Of by ll^TC h^n f "^'^l^^^'ert.fying that the said articles had l^en properly d Uin- fected before shipment, or were freq from infection. r ^" / 10. The Medical Inspectors to whom is assigned the duty of inspecting trains and '^J:Z^J:Z^Z^^-:^'^ ^" -«P- ^^ ^'^ duties^ereiUer men'| (1) An Inspector shall at.en.i at the Railway station or steamboat wharf at Mont-I real, a r-asonable time prior to the departure of every boat or train going west, and shall whenever he deems it expedient, take passage on such boat or train ; tb.ir?!."*' '^*" ''''^''^ '^["'x?^'' I"*T"8«''« »»»^« °onie off the trains or boats or whether! their journey commences at Montreal ; I tv,« IV "^ f ''^"^."°*'f«" "^^^^^l^ passengers have tickets direct from Montreal, or whetheJ dsewherl r ' pHssengers have probably stopped ov;r there at (4) He shall note the destination of all such persons • (5) He shall obtain information as to the quarters' whence they have come, anl whether there is any reason to suspect their being infected ; * .Wl-^^ "*!'u ^""P^'^f"'- believes that any such person is' infected, or that his or h, ^ her clothmg and effects aforesaid at some convenient point en route, until the period < I incubation is over, and the clothing and other effects shall be at once disinfected ; (7) If the Medical Inspector only suspects that any person on board, or the effec i of any such person have l,een exposed to infection, the Medical Inspector shall notil the Medical Health Ofticer of the locality to which the person is going, to meet the tra or boat, and to keep the said person thereafter under observation! (8) In either of the case* mentioned in the two next preceding rules, unless tl person believed to be conveying, or suspected of conveying contagion, shows satisfacto. proof of vaccination withm seven years, or of insusceptibility to the vaccine disease, I shall be for hwith vaccinated ; and, if necessary shall be detained by the Local H^alt OHicer until vaccinated by him or .some other proper person ; A' a P. K^^rif^B^ur* ^""T.^ regarding whom there is suspicion, should be dealt witli directed by the Public Health Act 1884 ; (lO)CThe action to be taken in the event of a case of small-pox l>eing discovered «nu.tly as tollows : (a) Detention and isolation of persons affected ; ib) Fumigation car or boat; (c) \ accmation of all persons who have been exposed to the contagior & i:f^'«°" /?y P^Tr "^^^ '^^^'^^ ^ ^ vaccinated; (e) Notification of Lc Health Otticers at places of destination. (11) The Medical Inspector to whom is assigned the duty of insiiecting trains ■ boats running from any other place than Montreal, shall be governed by the rules la down m Regulation 10, substituting the name of such place for Montreal, and such rul shall apply in whatever direction the boat or train may run from such place