INSPECTION OF VESSELS 123 



Hospitals, surgeon, and medicine 



46 U.S.C. 155 



In every such steamship or other vessel there shall be properly 

 built and secured, or divided off from other spaces, two compart- 

 ments or spaces to be used exclusively as hospitals for such passen- 

 gers, one for men and the other for women. The hospitals shall be 

 located in a space not below the deck next below the main deck of 

 the vessel. The hospital spaces shall in no case be less than in the 

 proportion of eighteen clear superficial feet for every fifty such pas- 

 sengers who are carried or brought on the vessel, and such hospitals 

 shall be supplied with proper beds, bedding, and utensils, and be 

 kept so supplied throughout the voyage. And every steamship or 

 other vessel carrying or bringing emigrant passengers, or passengers 

 other than cabin passengers, exceeding fifty in number, shall carry 

 a duly qualified and competent surgeon or medical practitioner, who 

 shall be rated as such in the ship's articles, and who shall be pro- 

 vided with surgical instruments, medical comforts, and medicines 

 proper and necessary for diseases and accidents incident to sea voy- 

 ages, and for the proper medical treatment of such passengers during 

 the voyage, and with such articles of food and nourishment as may 

 be proper and necessary for preserving the health of infants and 

 yoimg children; and the services of such surgeon or medical prac- 

 titioner shall be promptly given, in any case of sickness or disease, 

 to any of the passengers, or to any infant or young child of any such 

 passengers, who may need his services. For a violation of either 

 of the provisions of this section the master of the vessel shall be liable 

 to a penalty not exceeding $250. 



Discipline and cleanliness ; space for exercise of passengers ^ 



46 U.S.C. 156 



The master of every such steamship or other vessel is authorized 

 to maintain good discipline and such habits of cleanliness among 

 such passengers as will tend to the preservation and promotion of 

 health, and to that end he shall cause such regulations as he may adopt 

 for such purpose to be posted up on board the vessel, in a place 

 or places acxiessible to such passengers, and shall keep the same so 

 posted up during the voyage. The said master shall cause the com- 

 partments and spaces provided for, or occupied by, such passengers 

 to be kept at all times in a clean and healthy condition, and to be, as 

 often as may be necessary, disinfected with chloride of lime, or by 

 some other equally efficient disinfectant. Wlienever the state of the 

 weather will permit, such passengers and their bedding shall be 

 mustered on deck, and a clear and sufficient space on the main or any 

 upper deck of the vessel shall be set apart, and so kept, for the use 

 and exercise of such passengers during the voyage. For each neglect 

 or violation of any of the provisions of this section the master of the 

 vessel shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $250. 



1 Applies only to vessels carrying steerage passengers. 



