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Bill of health

noun

A certificate saying that a departing ship's company is healthy (to be presented at the next port of arrival).

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"Bill of health" Quotes from Famous Books

... protect themselves; and, whatever laws and lawyers might urge to the contrary, that right was now ours. In a neighbouring county, the inhabitants of certain infected villages were already fairly shut up amid their dwellings by the countryfolk around, who could themselves show a clean bill of health; and we, if in the circumstances of these villagers, would very possibly be treated after the same manner. And what remained to us in our actual circumstances was just to anticipate the process of being ...

— My Schools and Schoolmasters - or The Story of my Education. • Hugh Miller

... to which I have referred, adopted a form of a bill of health to be used by all vessels seeking to enter the ports of the countries whose representatives participated in its deliberations. This form has since been prescribed by the National Board of Health and incorporated with its rules ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 8: Chester A. Arthur • James D. Richardson

Words linked to "Bill of health" : certification, certificate, credential, clean bill of health, credentials