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arrivals from infected or suspected districts, and that a resume of all examina- 
tions be recorded in an official diary kept for the purpose. 
(b) That there should be as little delay as possible before making 
the inspection, so that no ship is unnecessarily detained. 
(c) That if fumigation is necessary, it be carried out properly. 1 hat 
the right proportion of sulphur or carbolic-camphor to be employed be 
properly gauged, and that the chambers be properly sealed. 
(d) That the Medical Officer make examination of all water casks or 
other water receptacles on sailing craft, to determine the presence or 
absence of Stegomyia larvae. (Masters of sailing craft should be instructed 
to keep ail drinking water receptacles properly screened.) 
(e) That the Medical Officer be provided with a room, either at the 
quarantine station or at the general hospital, for the purpose of making 
blood and urine examinations, and that he be provided with a microscope, 
stains and accessories. 
(f) It is most desirable that every Medical Officer in charge of 
quarantine should have some practical knowledge of, and be able to 
recognise, the quarantinable diseases. Plague has not yet appeared in 
British Honduras, but it would tend to security if the quarantine officer 
were given the opportunity of seeing cases at some place where the 
disease was present. Every epidemic of Yellow fever shows that the most 
valuable time is lost by practitioners not recognising the early cases. 
(g) Fees . — As in the case of the P'ederal quarantine in the United 
States no fees should be charged for inspection and disinfection. Pees fall 
heavily on small craft, and as a great deal of the trade in British Honduras 
is carried out by small sailing vessels, trade is injuriously affected. 
(h) Medical Inspection at Corosal, Punta Gorda and Stann Creek . — The 
Medical inspection at these ports in the Colony should be as systematic and 
conducted in the same manner as at Belize. 
The Medical Officers at Corosal and Punta Gorda should visit from time 
to time, upon receipt or rumour of disease upon their respective frontiers, 
the adjacent towns. The Medical Officer at Corosal should be acquainted 
with the health conditions obtaining at Xcalak, Payo-Obispo, Bacalar or other 
places on his frontier. The Medical Officer for Punta Gorda in the same 
manner should from time to time visit Livingston and Puerto Barrios and 
make himself acquainted with the health conditions at these points and places on 
the line of railway. There should be a medical officer stationed at Stann Creek. 
These three places are vulnerable ports in the Colony, and the same 
prophylactic measures which are put in force in Belize will have to be applied 
to them if trade is to be encouraged. 
The medical officers charged with the inspection of shipping and traffic 
at Punta Gorda, Stann Creek, Corosal, Orange Walk, or at any other point 
in the Colony, should report weekly to the Quarantine Board, and should 
receive weekly from the Board copies of the digest of the Health Reports of 
the neighbouring Republics prepared for the Board by the quarantine officer 
at Belize (see ante). 
