Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 505, 24 Ianuali 1902 — AMERICAN REPUBLICS ON QUARANTINE LAWS [ARTICLE]

AMERICAN REPUBLICS ON QUARANTINE LAWS

MEXICO CITY. Jan s.—The com mittee on international sanitary regulations of the Pan-American Congress will report this week recommendations for an international ar rangement on the following basis: The signatory republics agree that it shall be the duty of their respective health and quarantine organizations to promptly notify the diplomat- 1 lc or consular representatives of the signatory republics stationed within their territory of the existence and progress within their sovereign limits of the following diseases, namely: Cholera, yellow fever, bubonic plague, smallpox, or other serious pestilen tial outbreaks. It shall be the duty of the sanitary authorities in the respective ports to note on the bills of the transmissible diseases which may exist in said ports prior to the sailing of the vessel. in order to bring health and quarantine organizations more closely to-; get her for mutual benefit and- international cooperation a general convention of representatives of these organizations shall be provided for. An international sanitary committee shall be established, whose membership shall consist of not to exceed five delegates appointed by each republic; said delegates to be selected from the respective health an dquar anline organizations of each republic so far as possible. »■