Interstate Quarantine Regulations.

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Interstate Quarantine Regulations.
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For Typhus Fever.
(8) Apartments infected by typhus fever shall be disinfected by one
or both of the following methods:
(a) Exposure to sulphure dioxide for twenty-four to forty-eight hours.
(b) Washing with a solution of bichloride of mercury 1-1000, or a 5
per cent solution of pure carbolic acid.
(9) Clothing, bedding and articles of furniture exposed to the infec-
tion of typhus fever shall be disinfected by one or more of the follow-
ing methods:
(a) Exposure to sulphur dioxide for twenty-four to forthy-eight hours.
(b) Immersion in a solution of bichloride of mercury 1-1000, or a 5
per cent solution of pure carbolic acid.
(c) Exposure to steam at a temperature of 100o to 102o C. for thirty
minutes after such temperature is reached.
(d) Boiling for fifteen minutes, the articles to be completely sub-
merged.

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Quarantine Laws of the United States

An ACT granting additional quarantine powers and imposing additional duties upon the Marine-Hospital Service.
(Approved February 15, 1893)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be unlawful for
any merchant ship or other vessel from any foreign port or place of (to)
enter any port of the United States except in accordance with the pro-
visions of this act and with such rules and regulations of State and
municipal health authorities as may be made in pursuance of, or con-
sistent with, this act; and any such vessel which shall enter, or attempt
to enter a port of the United States in violation thereof shall forfeit
to the United States a sum, to be awarded in the discretion of the court,
not exceeding five thousand dollars, which shall be a lien upon said
vessel, to be recovered by proceedings in the proper district court of
the United States. In all such proceedings the United States district
attorney for such district shall be conducted in accordance with the
rules and laws governing cases of seizure of vessels for violations of the
revenue laws of the United States.
SEC. 2. That any vessel at any foreign port clearing for nay port or
place in the United States shall be required to obtain from the consul,
vice-consul, or other consular officer of the United States at the port of
departure, or from the medical officer where such officer has been de-
tailed by the President for that purpose, a bill of health, in duplicate,
in the form prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, setting forth
the sanitary history and condition of said vessel, and that it has in all
respects complied with the rules and regulations in such cases pre-
scribed for securing the best sanitary condition of the said vessel, its
cargo, passengers, and crew; and said consular or medical officer is re-
quired, before granting such duplicate bill of health, to be satisfied that
the matter and things therein stated are true; and for his services in
that behalf he shall be entitled to demand and receive such fees as shall
by lawful regulation be allowed, to be accounted for as is required in
other cases.
The President, in his discretion, is authorized to detail any medical
officer of the Government to serve in the office of the consul at any
foreign port for the purpose of furnishing information and making the
inspection and giving the bills of health hereinbefore mentioned. Any
vessel clearing and sailing from any such port without such bill of
health, and entering any port of the United States, shall forfeit to the
United States not more than five thousand dollars, the amount to be
determined by the court, which shall be a lien on the same, to be re-
covered by proceedings in the proper district court of the United States.
In all such proceedings the United States attorney for such

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