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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

... now before me your last letter of the 21st December, which I am glad to find is a bill of health: but, however, do not presume too much upon it, but obey and honor your physician, "that thy days may be ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

... clear bill of health the next day and went back to practice with a silk bandage around his knee. He was given light work and sat on the bench again while the second played two twelve-minute periods against the 'varsity substitutes. It seemed to him that Robbins fairly outplayed ...

— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour

... find you out if you are off before daylight; I doubt if they know that you are anchored. Besides, from Liverpool you would have a clean bill of health, and if they found it out, they would not say much; they're not over-particular, ...

— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Captain Frederick Marryat

... goes up his credit goes down. As every increase in his salary depends on the issue of a public debate as to the health of the constituency under his charge, he has every inducement to strive towards the ideal of a clean bill of health. He has a safe, dignified, responsible, independent position based wholly on the public health; whereas the private practitioner has a precarious, shabby-genteel, irresponsible, servile position, based wholly on ...

— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw

... 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