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Progreso, Payo-Obispo, Xcalak ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 61 
Guatemala, Livingston, Puerto Barrios, Santa Thomas, Zacapa, Gualan ... 61 
Yellow fever in Guatemala, 1905 62 
Spanish Honduras, Puerto Cortes, San Pedro, Rio Blanco, Chamilicon, 
Choloma, &c. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 64 
Yellow fever in Spanish Honduras, 1905 65 
Nicaragua, Bluefields, Greytown, &c. ... ... ... ... ... ... 66 
Yellow fever in interior of Nicaragua ... ... ... ... ... ... 67 
Costa Rica, Port Limon ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 67 
Panama, Bocas del Toro, Colon and Panama ... ... ... ... ... 67 
Yellow fever in the Isthmus ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 68 
Tables showing Ports in which Yellow fever was present in 1905, and within 
5 days’ sail or steam of Belize ... ... ... ... ... ... 69 
CHAPTER IX. — The Shipping Trade of Belize and the Relationship 
of Trade Routes to the Distribution of Yellow 
fever — 
Transference of mosquitoes by ships ... ... ... ... ... ... 71 
Transference of mosquitoes by baggage 72 
Transference of Yellow fever cases by the Fruit and other vessels trading 
with Gulf and Fruit ports ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 72 
Sea trade of Belize with the United States and Central American Republics 
Note on the shipping relationships with Mobile, Livingston, Puerto Barrios, 
Puerto Cortes, Colon, Vera Cruz, Progreso, &c. ... ... ... ... 76 
Transference of Yellow fever by railway ... ... ... ... ... 78 
The Inter-oceanic Canal and the distribution of Yellow fever ... ... 79 
CHAPTER X.— Quarantine Administration in British Honduras — 
Basis of quarantine administration ... ... ... ... ... ... 80 
Recommendations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 82 
Early notification of quarantinable diseases ... ... ... ... 82 
Bills of Health 83 
Health returns of Foreign Countries ... ... ... ... ... 83 
Improvements in medical equipment and in inspection at the Ports 
of entry into the Colony ... ... ... ... ... ... 83 
Medical inspection at Corosal, Stann Creek and Punta Gorda ... 84 
Issuing of Bills of Health from additional ports in the Colony ... 85 
Improvements in quarantine accommodation ... ... ... ... 85 
Provision for the isolation and care of quarantinable diseases .. 86 
Alterations in the quarantine regulations to bring them up to date... 87 
CHAPTER XI. — Federal and State Quarantine in the United States; 
International Sanitation of the Pan-American 
Republics, 1905, and the West Indian Inter- 
colonial Sanitary Convention, 1904 — 
Federal and State Quarantine in the United States ... ... ... ... 89 
The medical officers of the United States Public Health and Marine 
Hospital Service in Belize and in other Foreign Ports ... ... 91 
International Sanitation amongst the Pan-American Republics ... ... 92 
The findings of the 2nd General International Sanitary Convention of the 
Pan-American Republics, Washington, October, 1905 ... ... ... 93 
The West Indian Inter-Colonial Sanitary Convention, 1904 ... ... .. 97 
Comparison between the findings of the two Conventions ... ... ... 100 
Note. — S anitary Control in Mexico and the Central American Republics ... 103 
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