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manner that indemne vessels may there undergo immediately upon their 
arrival the prescribed measures, and not be sent for this purpose to another 
port. 
Governments should make declaration of the ports which are open in 
their territories to arrivals from ports infected with plague, cholera or 
Yellow fever. 
Article XXXVI. — It is recommended that in large seaports there 
be established : — 
(а) A regular medical service and a permanent medical super- 
vision of the sanitary conditions of crew’s, and the inhabitants of the 
port. 
( б ) Places set apart for the isolation of the sick and the observa- 
tion of suspected persons. In the Stegomyia belt there must be a 
building or part of a building screened against mosquitoes, and a launch 
and ambulance similarly screened. 
( c ) The necessary installation for efficient disinfection and 
bacteriological laboratories. 
( d ) A supply of potable water above suspicion, for the use of the 
port, and the installation of a system of sewerage and drainage, 
adequate for the removal of refuse. 
Articles XXX VII to XL V. — Deal with rational measures to prevent 
spread of infection across frontiers and by river routes. In connection 
with the latter and not without interest to British Honduras, Article 
XLV. lays down that “The power rests with Governments of countries 
bordering upon rivers to regulate by special arrangement the sanitary 
regime of river routes.” 
Article XL VI .— Ships infected with Yellow fever are to be subjected 
to the following regulations : — 
1. Medical visit (inspection). 
2. The sick are to be immediately disembarked, protected by 
netting against the access of mosquitoes, and transferred to the place 
of isolation in an ambulance or a litter similarly screened. 
3. Other persons should also be disembarked if possible, and 
subjected to an observation of six days, dating from the day of 
arrival. 
4. In the place set apart for observation there shall be screened 
apartments or cages where anyone presenting an elevation of 
temperature above 37 '6 degrees Centigrade shall be screened until he 
may be carried in the manner indicated above to the place of 
isolation. 
5. The ship shall be moored at least two hundred metres from 
the inhabited shore. 
6. The ship shall be fumigated for the destruction of mosquitoes 
before the discharge of cargo, if possible. If a fumigation be not 
possible before the discharge of the cargo, the Health Authorities 
shall order either : — 
(a) The employment of immune persons for discharging 
the cargo ; or 
(b) If non-immunes be employed they shall be kept 
under observation during the discharge of cargo and for six 
days, to date from the last day of exposure on board. 
Article XL VII. — Ships suspected of Yellow fever are to be subjected 
to the measures which are indicated in Nos. 1, 3 and 5 of the preceding 
