SPECIAL Quarantine Regulations AGAINST CHOIiEHA. 2 AN ACT To Prevent the Infection of Cholera in the Hawaiian Islands. Be it Enacted by the Queen and the Legislature of the Haw- aiian Kingdom: Section 1. The Minister of Finance, upon being thereto re- quested by the Board of Health, shall order that all ports of entry in this Kingdom, except the Port of Honolulu, be closed, and shall publish notice of such closing of said ports by pub- lication in newspapers published in Honolulu. Section 2. From the time of making said order, no vessel arriving from foreign ports shall be allowed to enter any port in this Kingdom except the port of Honolulu, unless driven into a port by stress of weather, nor shall such vessel under any circumstances be allowed to land any mails, cargo, passengers, officers or crew during the time while such order of the Minister of Finance is in force, except as provided in Section 3 of this Act. Section 3. After any vessel from foreign port shall have entered the port of Honolulu, the Board of Flealth may issue a permit to such vessel to proceed to and enter its port of destina- tion, if such port be any other than that of Honolulu. Section 4. The Minister of Finance when thereto advised by the said Board of Health, may revoke such order and give notice of such revocation by like publication, and thereupon the ports of entry established in the Kingdom shall be reopened for the entry of vessels arriving from foreign ports. Section 5. Any officer of any vessel arriving from foreign ports or any passenger thereon or any member of her crew who shall wilfully violate the prohibition established by the Minis- ter of Finance under this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any Police or District Court shall be punished by imprisonment not less than six months 3 nor more than two years and by tine of not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars. Section 6. This Act shall go into effect immediately. Approved this 27th day of September, A.H. 1892. LILIUOKALANI, R. By the Queen; Chas. T. Gulick, Minister of the Interior. PROCLAMATION. By virtue of authority given by an Act of the Legislative Assembly entitled, An Act to Prevent the Infection of Cholera in the Hawaiian Islands, approved on the 27th day of Septem- ber, 1892, and upon the recommendation of the Board of Health, I do hereby declare all Ports of Entry in the Kingdom, excepting Honolulu, closed to shipping other than coasting until further notice. E. C. MACFARLANE, Minister of Finance. Honolulu, October 1, 1892. SPECIAL Quarantine Regulations AGAINST CHOliEt^A. At a special meeting of the Board of Health held the 30th day of September, A.D. 1892, the following special rules and Quarantine Regulations for preventing the introduction of Cholera infection into the Kingdom were adopted: 1. Owing to the presence of Cholera in the United States and other foreign countries no vessel from a foreign country shall be allowed to enter, anchor, or have any communication with the shore at any port of entry in the Hawaiian Kingdom except Honolulu. 2. No pilot or any other person shall board any vessel from a foreign country except by permission of the Health Author- ities. When a vessel from a foreign country, shall call at a port of entry of the Hawaiian Kingdom except Honolulu, the pilot shall hand to the master of such vessel a copy of the Act and these regulations with instructions to proceed to Honolulu. Poet of Honolulu. 3. No pilot shall board any vessel, steamer, or sailing ves- sel from any foreign country until permitted to do so by the Port Physician. 4. Every vessel is to be spoken to by the Port Physician who may, in accordance with the following regulations, allow the pilot on board or not. Any pilot disregarding this order will be quarantined as long as the Board of Health thinks pro- per. It shall be the duty of the pilots to communicate at once 5 with the Port Physician when a vessel is signalled. No pilot shall go alongside the vessel until the Port Physician has spoken her, and no vessel under any circumstances whatever, except stress of weather, shall be spoken to at night. 5. No Custom House officer or guard shall be allowed on board until the vessel shall have been allowed free pratique, and shall have entered the harbor, except by permission of the Board of Health. Duties of the Poet Physician. 6. As soon as possible after being informed that a vessel is signalled, the Port Physician shall communicate with the pilot on duty and put off to the vessel. On coming alongside and without making fast to her the Port Physician shall, by means of a pole, get the Bill of Health from the vessel, disinfect it, with a 1 in 500 solution of corrosive sublimate in alcohol, read it and return it to the master. Steamees foe Honolulu. 7. If a steamer arrives from a non-infected port with a clean Bill of Health, the American Coast and Japan excepted, the Port Physician may after a careful examination of the passengers and the crew, allow the pilot on board, and the steamer will be allowed free pratique. 8. If the steamer arrives from the American Coast, or ports of Japan, with a clean Bill of Health, the Port Physician shall act as follows; If the vessel is less than ten full days from the date and hour of leaving the coast, neither the Port Physician nor the pilot shall board her. The pilot, without leaving his boat, shall give full and plain instructions to the master in regard to the anchorage. 9. The Port Physician shall order the vessel in quaran- tine for a period of not less than ten full days from the date and hour of leaving the port, and have the yellow flag hoisted. He shall report in writing to the Board of Health, who in the • 6 mean time will have sent proper guards in boats to prevent any communication with the vessel. 10. At the expiration of ten full days the Port Physician shall, on the written assurance from the Captain, that there is no contagious disease on board, examine the crew and passen- gers, and if the examination is satisfactory, allow the pilot on board and instruct him to anchor the vessel as close as possible to the Quarantine Wharf. 11. The passengers and their luggage without exception will be landed as quickly as possible at the Quarantine Station for thorough fumigation and disinfection, after which they will be released and submitted to a daily medical examination for ten full days afterwards. The expense of such examination is to be borne by the person examined. The captain and crew will remain on board and the crew under the supervision of an officer of the Board and the ship’s doctor, will proceed to the thorough fumigation and disinfec- tion of the ship and the ship’s furniture, the hold to be fumi- gated as soon as the hatches are opened. This done the crew themselves will be disinfected and the vessel afterwards allowed free pratique. The ship’s doctor will be requested to make a daily examination of the crew while in port, and report imme- diately to the Board of Health everv suspicious case of diarrhoea. \ Mail. 12. The mail will be landed at once by a quarantine boat disinfected and delivered to the Post Office authorities. Through Steamers. 13. Through steamers from America or Japan shall not be boarded either by the pilot or the Port Physician, but must anchor outside under the yellow flag and in qurantine, and must remain so until the tenth day after leaving the last port. This being complied with, such steamers may enter Ho- •nolnlu harbor under the same regulations as provided for 7 steamers bound for Honolulu. If the master is unwilling to submit to those regulations he may be allowed to land the Ho- nolulu passengers in quarantine with luggage and freight, but •the scows and men employed in such work must go into quar- antine for ten days from date of such exposure. The scows must be disinfected before being used again. The freight might safely be put loosely in the hold of some vessels chartered for that purpose, and thoroughly fumigated, a yellow hag to be permanently hoisted in day time on board such vessel, and a red light at night. The mail will be landed in the ship’s boats, or sent for from the Quarantine, or by a quaran- tined boat and crew, be fumigated and delivered to the Post Office authorities on the wharf. Steamers from the Coast bound for the Colonies, if in need of coal, may enter the harbor at once under strict quarantine if the Board is satisfied that they can- not be coaled outside. 14. Through steamers from the Colonies or any other non- inf ected port (always excepting the American Coast or Japan) if more than ten days out from the last port, and having a clean Bill of Health will be allowed free pratique. 15. Steamers from Asiatic ports shall be treated as provid- ed in these and other existing regulations. 16. Sailing vessels from the American Coast with a clean Bill of Health and no sickness, shall be subjected to the same regulations as provided for steamers bound for Honolulu. If from a non-infected port always excepting the American Coast or Japan, such vessel shall be allowed free pratique. If they have live stock on board, they will proceed to the cattle wharf to land at once said stock, which shall be done by the crew only, after which they will be towed back to a point as near as possible to the Quarantine Wharf to submit to Buie No. 11. In Case oe Cholera. 17. If any vessel arrives in the roadstead of Honolulu with cholera on board, or having had on the passage a case of cholo- ra, the Port Physician shall report the facts at once to the Board of Health, who will issue full and definite instructions for such cases. 18. Any vessel with an unsatisfactory Bill of Health will be anchored outside and the physician shall report the above fact to the Board of Health. 19. These regulations will be published in a Honolulu newspaper, and copies sent to the Coast and to the Hawaiian Consul for distribution amongst the various ship owners, also copies printed for the Port Physician to hand over to masters of vessel on arrival. 20. In every case the Board of Health will demand bonds from the Owners or Agents of every vessel and all the expenses entailed by the enforcing of these regulations will be charged against such bond. In no case will the vessel enter the harbor or land passengers or freight unless such bonds have been fur- nished and approved. 21. From and after date the physicians of Honolulu are requested to report to the Board of Health in writing every suspicious case of diarrhoea occurring within their practice or comingto their knowledge. They are requested to give the name, sex, age, and address of the patient. By order of the Board of Health. DAYID DAYTON, Attest: Chas. Wilcox, President Board of Health. Secretary Board of Health.