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In the chapter devoted to “ Yellow Fever in the Central American 
Republics, and in Mexico with Special Reference to the Fruit Ports,” I give 
a brief account of the prevalence of Yellow fever in Mexico, Panama and Central 
American Republics during this year, and tables showing the ports either within 
five days’ steam or sail from Belize, in which Yellow fever is endemic or 
liable to occur. 
C. — Sanitary Administration . — Under this head must be taken into 
account the sanitary control maintained in those countries with which the Colony 
trades, and, secondly, the state of sanitation in the Colony itself. In connection 
with the first I have already indicated in a short chapter devoted to “ Sanitary 
Control in Mexico and the Central American Republics” the extent of sanitary 
control at the principal ports. With the encouragement which the United States 
is giving to Central American sanitation, and as the result of the recent 
Convention at Washington, there is reason to hope that anti-Yellow fever measures 
will be adopted similar to those which have been carried out at Havana, New 
Orleans and Vera Cruz. But it will probably be some time before sanitary 
control will be deemed efficient in many of the ports, and in these instances 
quarantine measures will have to be framed to meet the particular cases. 
With regard to the sanitary administration of the Colony, it will become 
clear from this Report that not only is the sanitary administration of the Colony 
more efficient than in the surrounding Republics, but also that it is most 
practicable to render the principal ports in the Colony non-liable to Yellow 
fever. 
If in addition to the above considerations it were now possible, since the 
Washington Convention of this year, to procure from neighbouring States the 
additional knowledge referred to in the commencing articles of this Conven- 
tion, viz. : — 
1. Immediate notification of quarantinable disease, 
2. Prophylactic measures used against fever, 
3. Weekly health returns, 
the framing of quarantine regulations could be made uniform. It would be 
unwise, however, to rely at the present time on obtaining these data from all 
the Republics. 
I11 discussing quarantine administration in the United States (Ch. XI.) 
the machinery whereby the Government of that country seeks to ascertain 
the sanitary soundness of the countries with which it trades will be seen to be 
very complete. We have no such medical organisation in the neighbouring 
Republics, and we must rely upon the Consular Service. Of great use are the 
weekly Bulletins of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the 
United States, and the weekly Health Reports furnished by the Mexican 
Government. 
It is evident, both on account of its geographical position with “suspects” 
on either side and on account of its commercial relations, that quarantine is 
indispensable to British Honduras. It remains therefore to make it efficient in 
the light of recent knowledge, and at the same time to cause as little unnecessary 
delay to traffic as possible. The argument is sometimes put forward against 
the expense and uselessness of maintaining quarantine. British Honduras, in the 
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