ABSTRACT 
OF 
HEALTH LAWS 
GOVERNING QUARANTINE 
AT THE 
PORT OE PHILADELPHIA. 
CONTAINING 
INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO THE DUTIES OF OWNERS OF VESSELS, 
CAPTAINS AND PILOTS, ARRIVING AT SAID PORT, 
OR DETAINED AT THE LAZARETTO. . 
DIRECTION OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 
PHILADELPHIA: 
CRISSY & MARKLEY, PRINTERS, GOLDSMITHS HALL, LIBRARY ST. 
1860. In order to facilitate a ready compliance with the Quarantine 
Laws, and to prevent the plea of ignorance of those laws on 
the part of strangers and others arriving at the Port of Phila- 
delphia, the Board of Health have caused this pamphlet, con- 
taining an Abstract of said Laws, together with sundry Rules 
governing the Quarantine Station, to be published for gratuitous 
circulation among those persons more immediately interested. 
Health Office, June 1,1860. INDEX TO CONTENTS. 
PAGE. 
American Coal Vessels to pay no Health Fee 20 
Arrivals from Delaware State—how treated 5 
Articles exempt from Quarantine 10 
Certificate of Health 9 
Certificate of Physician after Quarantine 10 
Consignees to remove Passengers 28 
Duties of Lazaretto Physician 28 
Duties of Quarantine Master 25 
Duties of Steward 27 
Duties of Bargemen 28 
Examination of Vessels, Crews and Passengers 9 
Further Detention—when necessary....; 11 
Goods—how purified 14 
Health Fees on American and Foreign Vessels 6 
Health Fees on Outer Channel Visits 7 
Infected Vessels to be sent back to Quarantine 17 
Intercourse between infected Vessels prohibited, and boats 
secured 14 
Not to leave without Certificate from Physician 14 
Owners to pay Expenses 10 
Owners or Consignees to pay expenses of the Sick 16 
Outer Channel Fee—when not charged 28 
Passenger Ships—how to pay, and penalty for refusing 21 4 
Penalty for violation of Quarantine Laws... 8 
Penalty for false answers, 12 
Penalty for not presenting Certificate at Health Office.., 12 
Penalty for disobeying Orders 12 
Penalty for assaulting Health or Quarantine Officers 18 
Penalty for harboring such persons 15 
Penalty for eloping from Lazaretto, or for violating Quaran- 
tine Laws. 15 
Penalty for disobeying Quarantine Officers 16 
Penalty for landing Fish, Vegetables or Hides, without a 
Permit 19 
Penalty for neglect to notice Board of Health of discharge 
of Cargo 20 
Permits to visit Lazaretto 28 
Period of Quarantine 8 
Period of Detention 11 
Pilots Quarantined may proceed to Sea 17 
Pilots permitted to remain on shore, within Lazaretto bounds 18 
Quarantine Master to charge for cleaning Vessels 18 
Ships, when to proceed to Sea 12 
Sick eloping, to be apprehended and detained 15 
Sick to be removed to the Hospital 13 
Vessels detained—how moored 13 
Vessels to be detained for Purification 10 
Vessels Quarantined—how visited 19 
Vessels not to leave without Certificate from Physician 10 
Vessels to be removed from port, if necessary 20 
Vessels leaving Lazaretto, to give Security 21 
Vessels touching at Ports in the U. S. liable to detention 13 ABSTRACTS 
FROM THE 
ACTS OF ASSEMBLY, &c., OF PEMA. 
RELATIVE TO THE QUARANTINE OF PHILADELPHIA. 
Arrivals from Delaware State-How Treated. 
Act January 27th, 1802. 
Digest of Health Laws. Section I.—That in future, 
such vessels and crews, goods and passengers, beds, 
bedding and apparel, as shall appear by the certifi- 
cate of the Board of Health, or Health Officer, or (where 
there is no Board of Health or Health Officer,) by that 
of any regular physician and three justices of the peace, 
at any port or district in the State of Delaware, to have 
been landed at least fifteen days within the said State or 
district, and the said crew and passengers to be in a 
healthy state, arid the said goods, beds, bedding and ap- 
parel, to be well aired and purified, and to the best of 
their knowledge and belief, to be free from contagion 
and infection, shall, upon due examination of such cer- 
tificate, by the resident physician or other proper officer 
at the Lazaretto of the port of Philadelphia, be permit- 6 
ted to proceed to Philadelphia or the port or place of 
their destination, in the same manner as if the said land- 
ing, airing and purification had taken place at the said 
Lazaretto: Provided, That nothing hereinbefore con- 
tained shall prevent the proper officers at the Lazaretto 
aforesaid, in cases where, after any bill of health as afore- 
said has been granted at any port or place in the State of 
Delaware, any infectious or contagious disease shall 
exist, or be suspected to exist on board any such vessel, 
from directing such further quarantine or detention, 
cleansing, airing and purification, as in the judgment of 
the said officers and Bpard of Health, shall be requisite 
and necessary for the preservation of the people of the 
city and port of Philadelphia from pestilential and con- 
tagious diseases. 
Health Fees on American and Foreign Vessels. 
Act January 29 th, 1818. 
Sect. 2. All American vessels sailing under coasting 
documents, arriving at the port of Philadelphia, from any 
port or place in the United States, between the river St. 
Croix and the river St. Mary, shall pay one dollar for 
each arrival during quarantine months, and the said ves- 
sels, during that time, are not required to stop at the 
Lazaretto, but will pay the fee to the inspector of 
vessels. 
And all American vessels from any port in the United 
States where they may have touched or traded from a 
foreign port or place, shall pay the same sum as if they 
had arrived direct from such port or place. 
All American vessels arriving from any port or place 
in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Canada, or the islands 
or ports adjacent the river St. Mary’s, the coast of Florida, 
Bay of Mexico, including New Orleans and parts adja- 
cent, and from thence along the Bay of Honduras and 
coast of Terra Firma, as far as the river Amazon, in- 7 
eluding all the islands generally denominated West 
India, Bahamas, or Bermudas, shall pay on arrival five 
dollars. 
All American vessels arriving from any place in 
Europe, in the Western, Madeira, Canary, or Cape Yerd 
Islands, the west coast of Africa as far as latitude thirty- 
four degrees south, and from any place in the Mediter- 
ranean or straits thereof, or from any place from the 
river Amazon inclusive, and round the coast of Brazil, 
as far as latitude thirty-four degrees south, shall pay ten 
dollars each. 
And all American vessels arriving from any place be- 
yond latitude thirty-four degrees south, or round Cape 
Horn, or the Cape of Good Hope, shall pay twenty dol- 
lars each. 
And all foreign vessels arriving as aforesaid, (except 
prizes to American vessels,) shall pay twenty-five per 
cent, each, additional, unless otherwise regulated by any 
treaty. 
And prize vessels taken by foreign armed vessels shall 
pay twenty-five per cent, each more than is paid by Ame- 
rican vessels. 
And prize vessels taken by American vessels, shall 
pay, on arrival, ten dollars each. And public armed 
vessels and privateers shall pay sis dollars each. 
Fees on Cuter Channel Visits. 
And any vessel of the burthen of one hundred and 
fifty tons and upwards, arriving at the Lazaretto from 
any foreign port or coastwise, may come to in the outer 
channel, as near to the west end of the island of Little 
Tinicum, opposite the Lazaretto, as her draft of water, 
wind and weather will permit, for the purpose of re- 
ceiving the visit from the Lazaretto physician and Qua- 
rantine master. 8 
And if the said vessel does not receive her visit in the 
inner channel, she shall pay an additional sum of five 
dollars, of which two dollars shall be paid to the Laza- 
retto physician, and one dollar to the Quarantine master, 
as a compensation for their extraordinary services, and 
two dollars shall be paid into the treasury of the Board. 
Period of Quarantine. 
Section IV. From and after the passing of this act, 
every ship or vessel coming from any foreign port or 
place bound to the port of Philadelphia, between the 
first day of June and the first day of October in every 
year, shall come to anchor in the river Delaware, as near 
the Lazaretto as the draft of water and the weather will 
allow, before any part of the cargo or baggage be landed, 
or any person who came in such ship or vessel shall 
leave her, or any person be permitted to go on board, 
and shall submit to the examination hereinafter directed. 
Penalties for Violation of Quarantine Laws. 
And if any master, commander, or pilot, shall leave 
his station before the said Lazaretto, or if any master or 
commander shall permit or suffer any part of the cargo 
or baggage, or any person or persons arriving in such 
ship or vessel from any port beyond the limits of the 
United States, to be landed on either shore of the Dela- 
ware bay, or river, or suffer any person, except the pilot, 
to come on board before such examination be duly had, 
and a certificate obtained as is hereinafter specified, the 
person or persons so permiting, and the person or per- 
sons so landed, or going on board (unless imminent 
danger of the loss of the vessel or lives of the crew shall 
render assistance necessary,) being thereof convicted, 
shall pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be 
recovered and appropriated as is herein directed. 9 
Examination of Vessels, Crews and Passengers. 
And it shall be the duty of the Lazaretto physician 
and Quarantine master, so soon as any ship or vessel 
shall be anchored near the Lazaretto, between sunrise 
and sunset, immediately, wind and weather permitting, 
to go on board the same, and there thoroughly examine, 
in such form and manner as shall be prescribed by the 
Board of Health, the said ship or vessel, the crow, pas- 
sengers, cargo, and baggage on board the same, and to 
demand answers under oath or affirmation, to be admin- 
istered by either the said Physician or Quarantine master, 
* * * * touching the health of the crew and pas- 
sengers during the voyage, and the nature and state of 
the cargo. 
And if upon such examination it shall appear to the 
said Physician and Quarantine master, that the said ship 
or vessel came from a port or place at which no malig- 
nant or contagious disease prevailed at the time of her 
departure, that the persons on board such ship or ves- 
sel are free from every pestilential or contagious disease, 
(measles excepted,) and that the said vessel has had no 
malignant disease on board either during the homeward 
bound voyage, or during her continuance in a foreign 
port, and they shall see no cause to suspect that the 
cargo or any part thereof is infected, they shall forth- 
with deliver to the master or captain of such ship or 
vessel a certificate of the facts. 
Certificate of Health. 
And the said captain or master may, thereupon, pro- 
ceed according to his destination, and shall present such 
certificate at the Health office in Philadelphia, within 
twenty-four hours after his arrival and safely mooring 
there. 10 
Vessels to be detained for Purification. 
But if it shall appear, upon such examination, that 
the ship or vessel came from a port or place at which a 
malignant or contagious disease prevailed, such vessel 
shall be detained at the Lazaretto for such time as the 
Board of Health shall deem necessary, not exceeding 
twenty days. 
Owners to pay Expenses. 
And thereupon the Board of Health shall determine 
and direct what measures shall be pursued to cleanse 
the vessel and cargo, purify the clothing and baggage, 
and restore the health of diseased persons on board, 
* * at the expense of the master, owners or con- 
signees of the vessel and goods. 
Articles exempt from Quarantine. 
Provided always, That wine, rum, salt, sugar, spirits, 
molasses, mahogany, manufactured tobacco, dye woods, 
preserved fruits, and such other articles as the Board of 
Health shall, by their general regulations specify and 
permit, may be conveyed immediately to the city, in 
lighters. 
Certificate of Physician after Quarantine. 
And at the expiration of the said time, if it shall 
appear to the said Physician and Quarantine master, 
that no person has been sick with a malignant or con- 
tagious disease, (measles excepted,) on board said ship 
or vessel, either during the voyage homeward, or during 
her continuance in a foreign port, nor any of the crew 11 
or passengers, or other persons from on board such 
vessel during the performance of quarantine, and the 
said Physician and Quarantine master shall certify the 
said facts to the Board of Health, and that, in their 
opinion, the vessel, crew, cargo and passengers, may be 
safely suffered to proceed to the city, the said captain 
or master may proceed with the same according to his 
destination, whenever the Board of Health shall autho- 
rize the same to proceed and enter the city. 
Further Detention—when Necessary. 
But if upon examination of any vessel by the said 
Physician and Quarantine master, as aforesaid, or during 
the performance of quarantine by any vessel, it shall 
appear to the said Physician and Quarantine master that 
there has been any person sick on board the said 
vessel with any malignant or contagious disease, either 
during the voyage homeward, or during the continu- 
ance of the vessel in a foreign port, or during the per- 
formance of quarantine at the Lazaretto, (or that any 
person on board such vessel has been affected with such 
disease,) then in such case, the vessel shall be detained 
such farther time as the Board of Health may deem 
necessary. 
Period of Detention. 
And the cargo and baggage shall, unless otherwise 
ordered and directed by the Board of Health, be unladen 
and thoroughly cleansed and purified. The crew and 
passengers, and the cargo and baggage on board the 
same, shall not be suffered to enter the city before the 
first day of October, then next ensuing, without the 
permission of the Board of Health. 12 
When to Proceed to Sea. 
Provided nevertheless, That such ship or vessel, after 
she shall have been thoroughly cleansed and purified, if 
no malignant disease appear on board, may be allowed 
to take in freight at the Lazaretto by means of lighters, 
and proceed to sea. 
Penalty for False Answers. 
And if any master or captain, or other person, on 
board any vessel which shall be examined agreeably to 
this law, shall not true answers make to all such ques- 
tions as the Lazaretto physician and Quarantine master 
shall ask such person, for each and every otfence, being 
thereof legally convicted, shall forfeit and pay a sum 
not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered and 
appropriated as hereinafter provided and directed, and 
moreover shall be sentenced to imprisonment at hard 
labor for any term not less than one year, and not ex- 
ceeding live years. 
Penalty for not Presenting Certificate at Health 
Office. 
And if any captain or master of any ship or vessel, 
shall neglect to present his certificate at the Health 
office, in any case in which he is hereinbefore directed 
so to do, within the time directed by this act, he shall 
forfeit and pay the sum of three hundred dollars, to be 
recovered and appropriated as hereinafter directed. Penalty for Disobeying Orders. 
And if any captain or master of any ship or vessel, or 
any other person on board the same, shall refuse or 
neglect to comply with the directions of the Lazaretto 
physician and Quarantine master, which shall be made 
agreeably to this act or the regulations of the Board of 
Health, such person, for each and every such offence, 
shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five hundred 
dollars, nor less than two hundred dollars, to be reco- 
vered and appropriated as is hereinafter provided and 
directed. 
Vessels Touching- at Ports in the United States 
Liable to Detention. 
Section V. Any ship or vessel coming from any 
port or place within the United States, at which port or 
place the said ship or vessel had only called in or 
touched, upon her arrival from a foreign port or place, 
shall be liable and subject to all the rules, regulations 
and restrictions of the preceding sections of this act, in 
the same manner as if such ship or vessel had directly 
arrived at the Lazaretto from a foreign port or place 
without having first touched at a port or place within 
the United States, 
The Sick to be Removed to the Hospital. 
Section XI. It shall be the duty of the Lazaretto 
physician, immediately on the arrival of any ship or 
vessel liable to be detained at the Lazaretto in order to 
be cleansed and purified, to cause the sick, if any on 
board, to be removed to the Lazaretto hospital. 14 
Vessels detained—how moored. 
Section XII. It shall bo the duty of the Quaran- 
tine master, immediately after the arrival and examina- 
tion of any ship or vessel liable to be detained at the 
Lazaretto, for purification, to direct and cause such ship 
or vessel to be properly moored near the Lazaretto, at 
such distance from any vessel or vessels under quar- 
antine, as may prevent the communication of any infec- 
tious disease to or from the same. 
Goods—how purified. 
And the cargo, bedding, and clothing, or any part 
thereof, contained in such ship or vessel, to be landed, 
cleansed and purified, under the direction of the Laza- 
retto physician. 
Intercourse between infected vessels prohibited, and 
boats secured. 
. And it~shall be the particular duty of the said Quar- 
antine master to prevent any personal intercourse be- 
tween the persons on board different vessels under quar- 
antine, and for that purpose to take possession of and 
secure the boats of such vessels, from sunset to sunrise, of 
the succcdiug day, until their respective terms of quar- 
antine shall be completed, and to preserve and enforce 
order and obedience to this act. 
Hot to leave without Certificate from Physician. 
Section XVI. Every diseased person duly landed or 
sent to the Lazaretto, shall be there kept and maintained 
until the Lazaretto physician shall graut him or her a 
discharge in writing. 15 
The Sick eloping, to be apprehended and detained. 
And if before obtaining a discharge as aforesaid, any 
such person shall elope or otherwise absent himself or 
herself from the Lazaretto, it shall be lawful for the 
Health officer, or any constable or other person whom he 
shall call to his assistance, and they are hereby enjoined 
and required to lend such assistance, to pursue and 
apprehend the person so escaping or absenting himself 
or herself from the Lazaretto, and there again deliver 
him or her, to be detained until he or she be duly dis- 
charged as aforesaid. 
And moreover, the person so eloping and absenting 
himself or herself shall, for each and every offence, 
suffer such temporary confinement in the Lazaretto, not 
exceeding three mouths, as the Board of Health shall 
ordain and award. 
Penalty for harboring such persons. 
And if any master or captain shall, knowingly, re- 
ceive or employ on board of his ship or vessel, or if any 
housekeeper or other inhabitant of this Commonwealth 
shall knowingly receive, harbor, or in any way entertain 
any person so eloping or absenting from the Lazaretto, 
each and every master and captain, and each and every 
housekeeper or inhabitant so respectively offending, 
shall, on being thereof legally convicted, forfeit and pay 
a sum of two hundred dollars. 
Penalty for eloping from Lazaretto, or for violating 
Quarantine laws. 
And if any person arriving in and belonging to any 
ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto as aforesaid, 
shall elope or absent himself or herself, without having 16 
first obtained a discharge, signed by the Lazaretto phy- 
sician and Quarantine master, or if any person other 
than those detained at the Lazaretto, as aforesaid, shall 
go on board or alongside of any ship or vessel whilst 
under quarantine, as aforesaid, or if any person not 
authorized by the Board of Health, shall go within the 
limits of the Lazaretto, such person or persons shall per- 
form such quarantine as the Board of Health may direct; 
the person so offending, upon legal conviction of such 
offence, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two hundred 
dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as hereinafter 
directed. 
Penalty for disobeying Quarantine Officers. 
And if any diseased or other person arriving in or 
belonging to any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto 
as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to obey the directions 
of the Lazaretto physician or Quarantine master, re- 
spectively, agreeably to this act, and the order and regu- 
lations of the Board of Health, the person so refusing 
or neglecting, shall, for each and every offence, on being 
thereof legally convicted, forfeit and pay the sum of two 
hundred dollars, to be recovered and appropriated as 
hereinafter directed. 
Owners or Consignees, &c., of Vessels to pay the Ex- 
penses of Sick. 
And the expense and charge of boarding, lodging, 
nursing, medicine, maintenance, and other necessaries, 
which shall have been provided for the diseased persons 
landed and sent to the Lazaretto as aforesaid, and also 
of burying them in case of their death, shall be paid 
and discharged by the importer, master or captain, owner 
or consignee of the ships or vessels, respectively, in which such diseased persons were respectively imported : 
Provided always, nevertheless, That when the diseased 
persons are passengers and not servants, the said expense 
and charges shall be repaid by them, their executors or 
administrators, to the captain or master, owner or con- 
signee, who shall pay and satisfy, or be bound to pay 
and satisfy, the same as aforesaid. 
Infected Vessels to be sent back to Quarantine. 
Section XVII. When any vessel shall come up to 
the city of Philadelphia, although the said vessel may 
have obtained a certificate of health from the Lazaretto 
physician and Quarantine master, if the said vessel shall 
appear to the Board of Health to be infected with any 
contagious disorder, dangerous to the community, the 
said board are hereby authorized to order the said vessel 
to the Lazaretto, there to undergo the necessary purifi- 
cation before being permitted to return to the city afore- 
said. 
Pilots Quarantined may Proceed to Sea, 
Section XIX. No pilot, bringing a ship or vessel to 
the Lazaretto in an apparent state of good health, shall 
be obliged to perform quarantine, but the Lazaretto 
physician shall grant such pilot a certificate permitting 
him to proceed to the Capes of Delaware, in order that 
he may prosecute bis profession, but such pilot shall not 
on any pretence come into the city of Philadelphia, for 
twenty days from the date of such certificate, under the 
penalty of one hundred dollars, or one year’s imprison- 
ment, which penalty shall be recovered and applied in 
the manner hereinafter directed. 18 
Pilots permitted to Remain on shore within Lazaretto 
hounds. 
And any pilot bringing to the said Lazaretto a ship 
or vessel infected, or supposed to be infected, with any 
pestilential or contagious disease, may be permitted to 
go and remain on shore within the bounds of the Laza- 
retto (luring the time the ship or vessel brought thither 
shall be detained under quarantine : Provided always, 
That if the said vessel shall be infected with any such 
disease as aforesaid, he shall be detained and treated in 
the like manner as seamen or passengers so infected are 
herein directed to be detained and treated : And pro- 
vided further, That if he shall go without the bounds of 
the Lazaretto, he shall be liable to the same penalties as 
are by this act imposed on seamen or passengers es- 
caping therefrom. 
Penalty for Assaulting Health or Quarantine Officers. 
Section XXVIII. And if after the expiration of the 
quarantine, any mariner or other person who shall have 
complied with the regulations hereby established, shall 
commit any violence on the person of a member of the 
Board of Health, or any of the officers attached to the 
same, for anything done in the execution of his duty, 
such person shall be subject, on conviction thereof, to a 
fine of two hundred dollars, and shall also be sentenced 
to imprisonment at hard labor for any term not exceed- 
ing three years. 
Quarantine Master to Charge for Cleaning Vessels. 
Section XXX. The Quarantine master shall accom- 
pany the Lazaretto physician, on the arrival of vessels 
at the Lazaretto, and shall have them moored, and when 19 
necessary, well cleansed and white-washed, for which he 
shall he paid in addition to his salary, by the master, 
owner, or consignee, and shall be allowed to charge for 
lime and brushes the usual prices at which such articles 
are retailed in the city of Philadelphia. 
Vessels Quarantined—how Visited. 
And no person shall be permitted to go on board any 
vessel under quarantine, except the Lazaretto physician 
and Quarantine master, unless at the request of either of 
them, to perform some necessary service. 
Penalty for Landing1 Fish, Vegetables, or Hides, 
without a Permit. Act April 2,1821. 
Supplement.—Section 111. Between the first day of 
June and the first day of October, no ship or vessel which 
shall be laden with, or have on board any vegetables, fish 
or hides, shall be unladen at the port of Philadelphia, 
until a permit shall be applied for and obtained from 
the Board of Health. 
And if any master, captain, owner or owners, con- 
signee or consignees, or other persons, shall presume to 
unlade from on board of any such ship or vessel, any 
vegetables, fish or hides, without first having applied 
for and obtained a permit from the Board of Health, 
every such master, captain, owner or owners, consignee 
or consignees, or other person so offending, shall pay a 
fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered 
and appropriated as is directed in the act to which this 
is a supplement. 20 
Notice to Board of Health of Discharge of Cargo, and 
Penalty for Neglect. 
Section IV. Between the first day of June and the 
first day of October, within forty-eight hours after the 
discharge of the cargo of every ship or vessel at the 
port of Philadelphia, it shall be the duty of the captain 
or master, owner or owners, consignee or consignees, 
and other person having the direction of the discharge 
of the same, under the penalty of one hundred dollars, 
to be recovered and appropriated as by the act to which 
this is a supplement is directed, to give, or cause to be 
given, to the Board of Health, notice that the same 
cargo is discharged, and to permit and suffer the Board 
of Health, by themselves, or by their lawful agent, by 
them for that purpose appointed, to examine the condi- 
tion of the hold, ballast and limbers of such ship or 
vessel. 
Vessel to hs Removed from port if necessary. 
And if the Board of Health shall deem it for the 
safety and health of the city of Philadelphia, they are 
hereby authorized and empowered to designate a proper 
place to which the said ship or vessel shall be taken, 
and that her hold, ballast and limbers shall there be 
cleansed and purified, or at the expense of such captain 
or master, owner or owners, consignee or consignees, or 
other person having the direction of the discharge of 
the cargo, to send, or cause to be sent, such ship or ves- 
sel to a proper place, and have her hold, ballast and 
limbers cleansed and purified. 
American Coal Vessels to pay no Health Fee. 
Act June 11, 1832. 
Supplement.—Section 11. From and after the first day 
of July next, no health fee or half pilotage shall bo 21 
charged on any American vessel engaged in the Penn- 
sylvania coal trade. 
Vessels leaving Lazaretto to give Security. 
Act February 3, 1848. 
Supplement.—Section VIII. No vessel shall be per- 
mitted to leave the Lazaretto, without first giving secu- 
rity, to be approved by the Board of Health, for the 
payment of all expenses of said vessel, and of passen- 
gers and other persons imported therein, which said 
vessels, their captains, owners, or consignees, are by law 
made liable. 
Passenger Ships how to pay, and Penalty for 
Refusing. Act March 25, 1850. 
Supplement.—Section IV. For the purpose of more 
effectual!}7 securing the city and port of Philadelphia 
from the introduction of pestilential and contagious dis- 
eases, every ship or vessel arriving from a foreign port, 
shall, in addition to the visitation and examination now 
prescribed, be visited by the Lazaretto physician before 
passing the Lazaretto, or the Port physician before 
being hauled to any wharf within the city or port of 
Philadelphia, and such Lazaretto physician or Port phy- 
sician, as the case may be, shall rigidly examine the 
baggage, effects and property of the passengers and 
crow; for which service he shall then receive and pay 
over to the Board of Plealth the sum of fifty cents for 
each and every person on board such vessel: Provided, 
That in advance of such visit or payment of money, and 
in lieu thereof, the Board of Health may take security 
from the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel, or 
importer of or agent for the passengers, conditioned for 
the payment of all such sums immediately on the arrival 22 
of such ship or vessel at the city or port of Philadel- 
phia ; and if any master, pilot, owner, or consignee of 
such ship or vessel, or any other person, shall bring or 
cause to be brought, such ship or vessel from the Laza- 
etto, or haul, or cause her to be hauled to any wharf be- 
fore paying such money, or giving security as aforesaid, he 
or they so offending, shall for every such offence, forfeit 
and pay to the Board of Health the sum of five hun- 
dred dollars; to be recovered as penalties of like amount 
are now by law recoverable. RULES 
OF THE 
BOARD OF HEALTH, 
For the Government of the Lazaretto, in reference to 
Vessels, Crews, Passengers, Baggage, Cargo, &c. 
Lazaretto Physician. 
The Lazaretto physician is required to hold 
himself in readiness to visit, without delay, all 
vessels that come to at the Lazaretto, between 
sunrise and sunset, whether in the inner or outer 
channel. No visit is to be delayed on any con- 
sideration whatever, provided the wind and weather will 
permit it to be made without danger to the boat and its 
crew. 
Act 1818, 
Sec. 4th, 
Digest of 
Health 
Laws. 
On boarding a vessel, before administering to 
the captain the oath or affirmation required by 
law, he shall assemble the crew and passengers 
on deck, and examine personally into the state of their 
health ; such as may be sick to be visited below. In 
this manner he shall ascertain that all on board are free 
from sickness, and correspond in number with the cap- 
tain’s statement. 
Sec. 4th. 
Such vessels as upon a close examination, made 
in conjunction with the Quarantine master, he 
shall ascertain to have arrived from healthy ports, 
with healthy crews, to be in a perfectly clean condition, 
to have a sound cargo, not liable to produce infection 
should it be allowed to enter the city, and that no person 
has died on board during the voyage of any malignant, 
contagious or otherwise suspicious disease, he shall at once 
permit up, giving to the master thereof a certificate of the 
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facts, directed to the Health Officer. In every case, pre- 
viously to permitting a vessel to pass up, he is required to 
ascertain that the bilge water has been changed, by pour- 
ing fresh water into the pumps, and continuing to work 
them until nothing but pure water is discharged. No 
vessel whatever is to be permitted up, imtil the bilge 
water is rendered entirely pure. 
All vessels not answering to the above descrip- 
tion, he shall detain at the Lazaretto, and await 
the orders of the Board in relation to them. 
Sick persons, however, are to be landed without delay, 
ventilation of the hold, cabin, and forecastle, at once 
commenced, and all articles of an offensive nature taken 
from on board. 
Sec. 4th. 
Whenever he shall have any doubt as to the 
propriety of permitting up a vessel, he may de- 
tain her until he receives orders from the Board. 
Sec. 4th. 
All vessels coming from ports in the United 
States, north of Sandy hook, and which shall 
have for their cargoes plaster, salt, brimstone, 
and iron, only, and no other articles of foreign produce 
and manufacture, shall be allowed to proceed to the city 
without being subjected to a visit from the Lazaretto 
physican, as in the opinion of this Board these articles 
are not capable of containing contagion. 
Sec,. 2d. 
In conjunction with the Quarantine master, 
he is required to visit and inspect, daily, every 
vessel under quarantine, or undergoing purifi- 
cation. 
Sec. 11th. 
Vessels sent down from the city by order of 
the Board, or for purihcation, are to be pro- 
ceeded with in the same manner.as though they 
had stopped at the Lazaretto in their passage up. 
Sec. 17th. 
He is not to permit any person to pass within 
the bounds of the Lazaretto, or to leave the 
same during the quarantine season, nor any 
person during the same period to land at the wharf, or 
See. 16th. 25 
United States property attached to the institution, with- 
out a special permit of the Board, communicated to him 
in writing. And should any person enter, leave or land 
as aforesaid, without a permit as above, he is required to 
communicate the fact to the Board, that the persons so 
offending may be dealt with according to law. 
The Quarantine master is required, whenever 
the wind and weather will permit, to visit with- 
out delay, in conjunction with the Lazaretto 
physician, all vessels which shall come to at the Laza- 
retto, between sunrise and sundown, whether in the 
outer or inner channel, to examine carefully into the 
condition, in regard to cleanliness, of the hold, cabin and 
forecastle of such vessels, to have the bilge water 
pumped out, and by the introduction of fresh water, to 
purify, completely, the run and limbers of the said ves- 
sels, and also to ascertain whether any part of the cargo 
is in a damaged or infectious condition, and to report the 
result of his examination to the Lazaretto physician. 
Quarantine Master. 
Sect.lth. 
He shall have a watch set in front, of the sta- 
tion during the night, and generally preserve 
order in and about the Lazaretto, and enforce 
obedience to, and prevent as far as it lies in his power, any 
neglect, evasion, or violation of the Health Law, or of 
the rules, resolutions and ordinances of the Board. 
Sect. 12th. 
He is not to permit any one to enter into, or 
leave the bounds of the Lazaretto or Quarantine 
station, or to laud at the wharf or United States 
property attached to the institution, on any pretext 
whatever, during the Quarantine season, unless by the 
special permission of the Board, communicated to the 
Lazaretto physician in writing. And if any person 
should enter, leave or land as aforesaid, without such 
permit, he is required to communicate the fact to the 
Board, that the person so olfcndiug may be dealt with 
according to law. 
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Whenever he shall find, upon examination, 
that any vessel stopping at the Lazaretto is in a 
perfectly clean condition, and no part of her 
cargo is in a damaged or infected state, and the Laza- 
retto physician shall decide that the said vessel may be 
permitted up, he will sign with him the permit to that 
effect. 
Sect.4th. 
Whenever a vessel is detained at the Laza- 
retto, with a sick crew, for purification or under 
quarantine, it will become the duty of the 
Quarantine master to have her properly and safely 
moored at such distance from the Lazaretto, and all other 
vessels at the station, as shall prevent the communica- 
tion of disease to or from the same. He shall prevent 
any person from going on board vessels so detained, 
except for the performance of some essential duty, and 
then only with the consent of the Lazaretto physician, 
and he is required to take under his charge and effectu- 
ally secure the boats of all such vessels detained as 
above, every night from sunset to sunrise. 
Sect. 12th. 
The purification of vessels detained at the 
Lazaretto, by ventilation, scrubbing and white 
washing, is to be performed under the direction 
and superintendence of the Quarantine master, whenever 
the same shall be directed by the Lazaretto physician. 
Sect. 30th. 
Whenever a vessel is detained at the Laza- 
retto, he is in every instance to examine into the 
state of the men’s clothing, and if any is found 
to be foul or infected, to have the same sent on shore, to 
be washed by the Steward. He shall in no case what- 
ever, charge for the lime and brushes used in cleansing 
vessels, more than the retail price in Philadelphia of 
such articles, agreeably to the positive directions of the 
Health Law; the Board will never countenance a de- 
viation from this injunction. 
Sect. 30th. 
He is required, under the orders and direc- 
tion of the Lazaretto physician, to have all the 
sick removed from on board of vessels stopping 
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at the Lazaretto, also such portions of the cargo, bag- 
gage, and stores, as the said Physician may deem neces- 
sary, to be cleansed and purified: the cleansing and puri- 
fication of the same are also to be superintended by him. 
When a vessel has undergone purification, or 
has completed her period of quarantine, he is 
required to certify to the fact, in conjunction 
with the Lazaretto physician. He is required to visit 
daily, in company with the latter officer, every vessel under 
quarantine or undergoing purification, for the purpose of 
ascertaining the condition of her crew, hold and cargo. 
Sect. 11th. 
He shall take charge of the letter bags of all vessels 
detained at the Lazaretto, and also of all letters and 
papers delivered to him at any time by the captain, crew, 
or other persons belonging to the said vessels, and de- 
liver them to the postmaster within the Lazaretto. 
So soon as a patient is discharged from or 
dies at the Lazaretto, the Steward shall make 
out and transmit forthwith to the Board, a bill 
against the “ owner, captain or consignee” of the vessel 
from which the said patient was landed, for his or her 
board and attendance, at the rate of seventy-five cents 
for each day the said patient has remained at the Laza- 
retto, counting the day of entrance and departure each 
one day; and in case of his or her death, an additional 
sum of three dollars for funeral expenses. 
Steward. 
Sec. 16th. 
He shall be allowed to furnish to the vessels and pas- 
sengers detained under quarantine, whatever supplies 
they may require, for which he shall make such charges 
as shall be allowed by the Lazaretto Committee, and 
shall furnish to the said Committee a list of the articles 
so supplied. 
Whenever a vessel is detained under quarantine, 
should the Quarantine master deem the same necessary, 
the Steward shall have the clothing of the crew and 
passengers well ventilated, washed, and ironed, for 28 
which he shall be permitted to charge the sum of 
thirty-seven and a half cents per dozen: Provided al- 
ways, That the same cannot, in the opinion of the Qua- 
rantine master, be done promptly by the crew and pas- 
sengers themselves. 
Bargemen. 
The Bargemen shall keep watch during the night in 
such manner as shall be directed by the Lazaretto Com- 
mittee, and sound the watch-bell every half-hour, from 
nine o’clock in the evening until sunrise; they shall be 
prepared and required at any moment during the night 
to man the boat in case of accident or alarm on board of 
any ship or vessel detained at the Lazaretto, and pro- 
ceed with all possible expedition to the relief of the ship 
or vessel, passengers and crew. 
The owners or consignees of vessels from which pas- 
sengers have been landed at the Lazaretto, shall be 
notified, when the said passengers are discharged in a 
debilitated state, to provide some conveyance to bring 
them to the city. 
Notice to Consignees to Remove Passengers. 
Permits to Visit lazaretto. 
In all applications to visit the Lazaretto, the names 
of the persons on whose behalf the application is made, 
must be given, as well as the time at which they wish 
to enter, and the intended duration of their stay, and 
the number of persons must be stated. 
No permit shall be given to any person to visit the 
families of either of the officers of the Lazaretto, except- 
ing upon a request made through the said officers, and 
unless the application come from said families. 
No person shall be permitted to enter or depart from 
the Lazaretto whilst there is a vessel undergoing qua- 
rantine, or persons sick in the Hospital. 
Outer Channel Fee—When not Charged. 
No outer channel fee shall be charged on any vessel 
below 150 tons burthen, when the Lazaretto physician 
is making or about making an outside visit.