WATERSIDE HEALTH COMMITTEE
'&. Waterside Health Committee, c-om« : prising Captain A. V. Hale-Monrai-(chairman), Cajitain R. S. Walton (secretary), ' Captain Hugh Williams, Ca.p— tain G. T. Hull, and two representatives from the Waterside Workers' Union, Messrs. M'Kay and Frew, has been.; formed to take over the regulation ofi' shipping and the ■waterfront to cope 1 with the epidemic. Regulations hava-'----beerz issued and arrangements made to deal with any case of influenza among, the shipping, and to carry but general fumigation. Each patient must bog taken to a clearing house in X Store, ™ near the Customhouse, before being)! i transferred to a hospital. Fumigating!*? operations were in full swing yesterday., Captain A. V. Hale-Monro, traffic; manager and chief wharfinger for thai Harbour Board, has been appointed 5 * Government Health Inspector oS^j wharves and shipping. The following arrangements have been] made by the Waterside Health Commit- \ tee for coping with the epidemic in re- ,' lation to shipping:—(l) The central^ bureau is at the tolls office, Queen's.; wharf, and a special officer is appointed?; for all hours; (2) - the master- or >other officer must "report immedi-*." ately any suspected case of illness 0n:..----the vessel concerned to the bureau; (3}-; the bureau officer will at once notify a-i medical officer, who will attend at first' opportunity; .(4) the suspected person will, until such time.as the doctor de- j cides, be kept as far as practicable isolated from the remainder of the crew ji(s) the fumigating staff will attend each' /vessel daily, and will carry out preventive disinfection generally; (6) all vessels to be' washed down' twice daily; (7) every person coming ashore or going". 1 aboard any vessel at the wharf must' first pass through the inhalation cham-< ber; (8) as a guarantee that the above" rule has been carried out, the certificate issued at the inhalation chamber must be produced, on demand to the offices' appointed.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 121, 18 November 1918, Page 5
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