354 DISCUSSION. 



LEPEOSY. 



Resolved, That — 



1. Leprosy is to be regarded as a dangerous communieable disease. 



2. Compulsory notification of all cases of leprosy to the authorities is essential. 



3. Compulsory segregation of all cases of leprosy is necessary, and preferably 

 in special colonies constructed for the purpose. 



4. The entrance of aliens afflicted with leprosy into a country must be pro- 

 hibited. 



QTJABANTINE. 



Resolved, That the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine, appreciating 

 the benefit which would accrue from concerted sanitary action on the part of 

 Eastern governments, be empowered officially to approach the following Govern- 

 ments, namely: Philippine Islands, Japan, Hongkong, French, Indo-China, Siam, 

 Netherlands-India, Straits Settlements, and Ceylon, with the view, if possible, of 

 obtaining their official support on the following lines: 



. 1. To have a common standard for the term "epidemic," when making reports 

 to, or imposing quarantine against, each other. 



We suggest the following definition for consideration: 



Plague, cholera, smallpox, or yellow fever shall be considered to be epidemic, 

 when, after the first telegraphic report of its occurrence, any weekly report there- 

 after shall show the occurrence of an average daily number of three cases. 



2. To agree to notify each other's territories as infected, only when the infec- 

 tious disease shall have assumed epidemic proportions as defined above; and 

 automatically to withdraw such notification when the average number of cases 

 for three successive weeks has fallen below the status epidemicus as above defined. 



3. To circulate weekly returns of plague, cholera, smallpox, or yellow fever 

 amongst each other, and also a telegraphic report on the first occurrence of any of 

 these diseases, in a clean port or territory. 



4. To insist on a bill of health being carried by all ships, leaving a country 

 declared to be infected, which intend to proceed to the port of another signatory; 

 such bills of health to include a return of infectious disease for the previous forty- 

 eight hours. 



5. To report by telegram to the country concerned the departure of an in- 

 fected or suspected ship (as defined by the Paris convention) which may intend to 

 proceed to any port in the territories of another signatory; and to indorse the 

 bill of health of the said infected or suspected ship with a full account of measures 

 taken to disinfect or otherwise deal with the said vessel. 



PLAQUE. 



Report. — In our opinion the only practical measure concerning plague that we 

 can recommend is the advisability of each country represented agreeing to notify 

 other countries the occurrence of cases of plague within their borders, the first 

 case by telegram and afterwards by weekly returns. 



Report. — Your committee, appointed to consider the opium question, regret that 

 the time at their disposal precludes the possibility of giving the subject adequate 

 consideration. 



They have reviewed the work done and the resolutions agreed on by the Inter- 

 national Opium Commission, Shanghai, 1909. 



With these resolutions your committee are in agreement, but it is to be re- 

 gretted that the paucity of medical commissioners prevented the question being 

 dealt with fully in its medical aspects. 



