38 FINAL ACT OF SECOND PAN AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC CONGRESS. 



ARTICLE 39. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress, recognizing that the edu- 

 cation of the public in the elementary facts of malaria is of 

 the utmost importance, requests that 



The American Republics inaugurate a well-considered plan of ma- 

 laria eradication, based upon the recognition of the principle 

 that the disease is preventable to a much larger degree than 

 has thus far been achieved. 



ARTICLE 40. 



The Second Pan American Scientific Congress urges that 



The American Republics in which yellow fever prevails or is sus- 

 pected of prevailing enact such laws for its eradication as 

 will best accomplish that result; 



Inasmuch as yellow fever exists in some of the European colonies 

 in America, they be invited to adopt measures for its elimina- 

 tion. 



ARTICLE 41. 



The Second'Pan American Scientific Congress recommends that 



Such of the American Republics as have not already done so should 

 justify the international conventions concerning the white- 

 slave trade. 



ARTICLE 42. 



The Second'Pan American Scientific Congress recommends that 



There be established throughout the American Republics uniform 

 methods in the presentation of statistics, in the classification 

 of merchandise and in the manufacture thereof, in the stand- 

 ard of weights, measurements, and tests, in nomenclature and 

 specifications, in administrative customs regulations, and in 

 the schedules of port charges; 



Provision be made for the collection and study of the data thus 

 made available, through some organization which will assure 

 a thorough and scientific comparative study of the questions 

 involved. 



