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Inspection of the Articles of the second general International Pan- 
American Sanitary Convention, October, 1905, as we ^ as t ^ e West 
Indian Convention, 1904, shows at a glance when compared with the older 
quarantine regulations the advances which have been made. 
In the first place it becomes obvious that the power to carry out 
quarantine effectively and the general sanitary soundness of a country will 
always be salient factors in the eyes of most advanced nations. In the 
second place, quarantine is becoming not a means of exacting revenue or a 
reason for exhibiting inhumanity, but an international maritime sanitary 
measure for the suppression of certain infective diseases. 
With resrard to British Honduras I would therefore recommend com- 
billing with the United States and the other American Republics, and with 
the West Indies in making common cause against the quarantinable diseases, 
and to adopt as the basis of our quarantine the Articles of the last Inter- 
national Pan-American Convention. 
It is unnecessary here to recapitulate them, as I have already summarised 
them in the succeeding chapter, and judging from a very close observation of 
the working of quarantine upon fruit and other vessels during the Yellow 
fever epidemic of this year in the Gulf and in Central American Ports, they 
will in my judgment combine the maximum amount of efficiency with the 
minimum disturbance to trade and discomfort to passengers. 
It must be always recollected that as the country which quarantines has 
considerable discretionary powers, much will depend upon the sanitary 
conditions of the port of departure of the vessel. 
I am further of opinion that under Clause XXXIV. a mutual arrange- 
ment can be made whereby passengers can travel during periods of infection. 
This year passenger traffic was paralysed in Belize, and great loss of time, 
money, hardship and suffering caused thereby. 
