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of disease. By this advance, moreover, the diver is placed in complete subju- 
gation to the captain, who makes him work even when he is ill. As a second 
financial measure, Savvas would change the advance pay into a monthly salary. 
As a third, he proposes the founding of a relief fund for the divers, to which all 
captains and divers ought to contribute. From this fund assistance would be 
given to the widows and orphans and to the sick and disabled divers. The 
school for divers and the hospitals for the latter would likewise be maintained 
from the proceeds of this fund. 
Il. The first administrative measure proposed by Savvas is the founding of 
a diving school at Toros, Hydra, or at the navy-yard of Salamis. A diploma 
from this school would be demanded for permission to follow the calling of diver 
or to be a captain of a sponge-fishing vessel. Only when all the men are trained 
will it be possible, according to Savvas, to place upon the captain the responsi- 
bility for violating precautionary measures and not now when he acts in igno- 
rance. ‘The school would be under the direction of a naval officer, after the 
latter, if possible, has visited the diving school of the Russian fleet in Cronstadt, 
which is considered a model. A naval physician would likewise be detailed to 
this school, after having undergone a course of special studies on this subject in 
order to learn the elementary anatomical and sanitary knowledge in this domain. 
He would be present at the practical exercises of the students, to give immediate 
assistance in case of accident and to subject divers suffering from a chronic 
disease to a regular treatment, and if possible a hospital would be erected in the 
vicinity of the school. A course of one month should be sufficient training for 
the divers. 
Savvas’s second administrative measure is to subject the sponge-fishing 
vessels to a thorough examination before their departure, not only to ascertain 
the condition of the divers, but also to inspect the diving apparatus, the air 
pump, the rubber tube, the clothes of the diver, the manometer. Men suffering 
from lung and heart diseases should not be allowed to work as divers, nor should 
neurasthenic, weak, or anemic persons, those suffering from chronic diseases of 
the ear and nose, those who are very lame, nor men under 20 and over 4o years 
of age. This inspection ought to be held by a commission consisting of a naval 
officer as president of the board, a naval physician, and a naval engineer, who 
should go in person to the point from which the fleet of sponge-fishing vessels 
is to take its departure. The board of inspectors should be authorized by a 
special law to issue permit and ship’s papers to each vessel fulfilling the above- 
mentioned conditions, which permit and papers are at present issued by the 
authorities of the port; also to prohibit, by force if necessary, the departure of 
a vessel not fulfilling the conditions, or of a diver who does not possess the 
qualifications demanded. 
