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         death has occurred during the voyage from unknown or suspicious causes, and if the
         Health Officer is satisfied by such enquiry and examination that no person on board is
         suffering, or during the voyage has suffered, from plague, and that no death has
         occurred during the voyage from unknown or suspicious causes, and if the ship carries
         a qualified Medical Officer, quarantine shall be dispensed with, and pratique granted.
              If the vessel does not carry a qualified Medical Officer, he shall direct the Com-
         mander to take the vessel to the quarantine anchorage duly appointed and notified by
         the Commissioner in Sind, and there to remain for a period of eight clear days from
         the date of arrival in the harbour. The Health Officer shall also direct the Com-
         mander to prohibit, during the period for which the vessel remains at the quarantine
         anchorage as aforesaid, all communication, except such as is hereinafter provided for,
         between such vessel and the shore or other vessels and boats in the harbour.
     IV.-If the Health Officer, as the result of the enquiry and examination made under
         paragraph III above, shall have reason to believe or suspect at the time when the
         vessel arrives in the harbour that any person on board is suffering, or during the
         voyage has suffered, from plague, he shall direct that such person, if alive, and, in any
         case, the family and others, who have been in immediate attendance on, or in contact
         with, him on the voyage, together with all his or their baggage and personal effects;
         other than articles which the Health Officer directs to be immediately destroyed, be
         removed to such particular spots as may from time to time be selected by the Com-
         missioner in Sind as places of quarantine, there to remain until permitted to leave by
         the Health Officer. After such removal all other persons may be allowed to land
         under such precautions as the Health Officer considers necessary. The vessel shall
         then be thoroughly disinfected under the direction and supervision of the Health
         Officer, and pratique shall be granted after such disinfection has been completed.
     V.-Any mails, baggage, or cargo which may be brought by any vessel so arriving shall
         be landed under such precautions as the Health Officer may deem necessary to prevent
         the spread of the disease.
     VI.-It will be the duty of the Port Officer to facilitate the conveyance to all persons in
         quarantine of such supplies of provisions, stores, and other articles as may be required.
     VII.-All vessels arriving at Karáchi which may have communicated with vessels coming
         from Bombay shall be subjected to the same rules as vessels arriving at Karáchi from
         Bombay."
      17.   By the 5th February 1897 arrangements had been made to improve
the system of medical inspection of vessels departing from Karáchi and to adopt
rules similar to those applied to Bombay : and on that date the following notifica-
tion was published in the Government Gazette:
     " No. 820-322 P.-The following rules have been prescribed by His Excellency the Governor
in Council in accordance with the Epidemic Diseases Act of 1897:
     1. No vessel shall leave the Port of Karáchi until she has been inspected by the Health.
          Officer of the Port and the Master or person in charge of such vessel has obtained a
          Bill of Health or certificate from such officer that the Master or person in charge,
          officers, crew and passengers (if any) of such vessel are free from any dangerous
          epidemic disease.
     2. Should the Health Officer of the Port be of opinion that any person on board of any
          vessel so inspected is suffering from a dangerous epidemie disease he shall refuse to
          give a Bill of Health or certificate as aforesaid unless and until such person is removed
          from the vessel.
     3.  After the Master or person in charge of the vessel has obtained any Bill of Health or
          certificate under the provisions of these rules no person or cargo shall be admitted or
          taken on board such vessel before she leaves the Port of Karáchi unless such vessel is
          again inspected by the Health Officer of the Port and another Bill of Health or
          certificate obtained from such officer by the Master or person in charge of such vessel.
     4. No port clearance shall be delivered to any vessel unless and until the Master or
          person in charge thereof shall produce the Bill of Health or certificate so to be obtained
          as aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of Customs officers to refuse delivery of the port
          clearance without the production of such Bill of Health or certificate.
     5. All steamers and square-rigged vessels will be inspected by the Health Officer before
          leaving the wharves or moorings, and all coasting craft shall anchor between and to
          the west of No. 1 mooring and deep-water point for the purpose of being medically
          inspected by the Health Officer of the Port on the eve of their departure.
     6. Vessels not leaving port within 24 hours after receiving pratique may not leave with-
          out re-inspection. The date and hour of his inspection will be noted in the Bill of
          Health by the Health Officer.
     7. The medical inspection of vessels and passengers shall be carried out between sunrise
          and sunset.
     8. Disobedience to any of the above rules Nos. 1 to 6 will subject the offender and all
          persons aiding or abetting him to a prosecution under the Indian Penal Code."