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(b) Bills of Health. — It is evident from the experience of 1905 that 
fresh instructions should be issued concerning them. At a meeting of the 
Quarantine Board held at Belize on October 1 8th, the Hon. H. B. Walcott, 
Collector of Customs, President, in the chair, it was resolved that the Foreign 
Office be approached with the view of instructions being issued to Consular 
Officers to state on Bills of Health the date of the termination of the last case of 
quarantinable disease at the ports for which they are issued. This informa- 
tion is essential to carry out Article IX. of the Washington Convention, 
1905 (Ch. XI.). That misunderstanding may occur is made evident by the 
fact that it was “not known (at Belize early this year) that Yellow fever was 
also present in Colon during 1904 and the early part of 1905, against which 
port no precautions whatsoever were taken owing to clean Bills of Health 
having been issued by the British Consul to all vessels arriving from the 
Port.” 
In a communication from the British Consul at Puerto Cortes, dated 
October 10th, 1905, it is stated : “ No cases to report (last case died 
September 29th), although as trains are running daily with general freight 
and bananas through infected points, I cannot see how I can give clean 
Bills of Health until the line of railway is declared perfectly free of disease, 
under these circumstances 1 would suggest that all vessels, big or small, 
leaving the port should be obliged to present British Bills of Health.” 
Guidance in a case like this would be furnished by Article VIII. of the 
Washington Convention, 1905. 
(c) Health Returns of Foreign Countries. — In addition to the weekly 
returns to be furnished by Consuls, I recommend that the following weekly 
and periodical Health Reports be immediately procured and filed by the 
Quarantine Board. 
1. The weekly Public Health Reports of the Public Health and 
Marine Hospital Service of the United States. 
2. The weekly and periodical reports issued by the Supreme Board 
of Health of Mexico 
3. The monthly reports of the Department of Health of the Isthmian 
Canal Commission. 
4. The Health Reports of Havana. 
5. Reports of other Central American Republics, if they are 
published. 
These reports are of great importance as they contain information 
directly affecting British Honduras. It should be the duty of the Medical 
Officer in charge of the quarantine to lay a summary of the reports, in so far 
as they affect British Honduras, regularly before the Board. 
2.— Improvements in Medical Equipment and in Inspection at the 
Ports of Entry into tiie Colony. 
For the work of the Medical Officer of the quarantine to be effective it 
is necessary : — 
(a) That the routine examination of ships be systematic. That the 
temperature and pulses of crews and passengers be taken in the case of 
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