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Regulations against arrivals from Indict
[ App. XI.
Date of Regulation.
January
4th,
1897,
January igth,
1897.
January 2otb.
January 28th,
1897.
February 2nd,
ï8 9 7.
Purport of Regulation.
an infected place to be pumped out at a suitable
place before the vessel enters any dock or basin.
On the sanitary authority providing a proper supply
of water for drinking and cooking, the medical offi-
cer may direct all casks and tanks containing such
water to be emptied and cleaned.
(2) FRANCE (AND ALGERIA).
On this date the French Government issued a de-
cree prescribing a set of general regulations to pre-
vent the infection of exotic epidemic diseases being
imported into the French ports. These regu-
lations were based on the Sanitary Conventions of
Venice, 1892, Dresden, 1893, and Paris, 1894, and
they are reproduced in this appendix.
Importation into France and Algiers of the articles
named iu the subjoined list prohibited from Bombay
and other infected Indian ports,
Cotton and other rags, body linen, personal effects,
and clothing and bedding (when not carried as bag-
gage), raw hides and undressed leather, animal mat-
ter and refuse, claws and hoofs.
The transit trade in the same articles prohibited
if involving unloading or handling.
Stringent sanitary regulations, in accordance with
the decree of the 4th January, applied to Southern
French ports in communication with the East, and
at those in the north in communication with Ply-
mouth.
Goods arriving directly or indirectly from Bombay,.
Karachi or other infected place in India admitted
only at Marseilles, Pauillac, Saint Nazarre, Havre,
Dunkirk, and Algiers. All bales containing suscep-
tible articles coming 1 from ports on the West Coast of
India, other than infected ports, to be accompanied
by a certificate of origin.
Dunkirk. Four days' quarantine imposed on heal-
thy arrivals from infected ports, and nine days'
APP. XI. ]
enforced in other countries.
439
Date of Regulation.
February loth,
1897.
March
iSth,
1897. f l
April
1 2th,
1897.
April
1 6th.
i
;
l897.
Purport of Regulation.
quarantine on infected vessels. After the removal
of the sick persons from infected vessels, the goods
and passengers to be disinfected.
Landing of all goods from plague-infected ports
absolutely prohibited at the Mediterranean ports.
Landing of non-interdicted goods at northern ports
permitted after disinfection. Disembarkation of
passengers from infected ports only permitted at
Pauillac, Saint Nazarre, Havre and Dunkirk. Dis-
embarkation permitted only after eight days' observa-
tion at Pauillac and Saint Nazarre and four days at
Havre and Dunkirk ; and after disinfection of baggage.
Marseilles. Arsenicated and dry salted hides from
India admitted. Landing of undressed leather, raw
hides, rags, animal refuse, and wool prohibited even
in transit. Oilseeds, coprah and carpets to be
disinfected. If there were no sickness on board or
death during the voyage, passengers permitted to
land after medical inspection and disinfection of
baggage. Steamers with interdicted cargo for
English ports permitted to discharge other cargo in
quarantine.
Marseilles. All vessels coming from infected ports
in India and the Persian Gulf subjected to 36 hours
quarantine. Linen and effects of the crew and pas-
sengers and accessible parts of the ship disinfected.
If healthy the passengers disembarked in lighters
after the necessary disinfection.
The vessels subjected to these precautions unless
certified to be from non-infected ports.
Regulations regarding goods for France and Al-
giers based on the Venice Sanitary Convention of
March 1897: —
(i) Importation of the articles named in the sub-
joined list coming directly Or indirectly
from plague infected localities prohibit-
ed :
Rags, animal refuse, claws and hoofs.
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[ APP. XL
Date of Regulation.
Final
t..
Before the Ven
ice Sanitary
Conference.
December 189M
ay 8th, 1897.
Purport of Regulation.
(ii) The transit trade in the articles same pro-
hibited if involving unloading or handling.
(iii) Raw and manufactured wool arriving directly
from an infected locality admitted only
after disinfection. Used and unused body
linen, personal effects, clothing, and bed-
ding, raw hides and untanned skins, com-
ing directly or indirectly from an infected
locality, admitted only after disinfection.
(iv) Vessels coming 1 from infected localities or
carrying goods named in article (iii), only
permitted to enter the ports of Marseilles,
Algiers, Pauillac, Saint Nazarre, Havre
and Dunkirk,
(v) Bales containing goods mentioned in articles
(i) to (iii) coming from ports in the Per-
sian Gulf and on the West Coast of India,
other than infected ports, to be accom-
panied by a certificate of origin.
Subsequently passengers were allowed to land at
Marseilles from healthy ships with the sole restric-
tion that soiled linen and bedding had to be disin-
fected before being brought on shore.
(3) ITALY.
During the height of the epidemic and before the
Venice Sanitary Conference vessels arriving from
Bombay, Karachi and other infected ports were only
permitted to land passengers after a process of dis-
infection so onerous that ships of the P. and O. Com-
pany merely landed the mails at Brindisi and then
carried their passengers to England.
Importation of fresh, arsenicated and dry salted
hides, wool, horse-hair, animals and portions of ani-
mals and rags prohibited.
Regulations based on the Venice Sanitary Con-
ference.
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enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation
July 2nd, 1897.
Purport of Regulation.
Healthy vessels allowed free pratique after medi-
cal inspection ; disinfection of wearing apparel,
domestic effects and other luggage either before
embarkation, during the voyage or at the time of
arrival ; pumping out of the bilge-water after dis-
infection and the substitution of fresh drinking-water
for the water stored on board.
S uspected vessels carrying a medical officer admit-
ted to free pratique after the adoption oí the pre-
cautions for healthy vessels, and in addition the dis-
infection of the effects belonging to the plague
sufferers and their attendants, and of the cabins in
which the plague sufferers resided. In the case of
vessels which do not carry a medical officer or dis-
infecting apparatus, the ship to be detained in qua-
rantine until the disinfection and other sanitary pre-
cautions have been completed.
Infected vessels to be detained in quarantine
and to undergo such treatment as may in each
case be prescribed by the Minister of the In-
terior. Importation, either direct or indirect, from
infected localities of all the articles enumerated
in the susceptible list of the Convention, except raw
silk, old sacking, carpets, and old embroidery, prohibi-
ted. Interdicted goods coming from a healthy port
in an infected country to be accompanied by a medi-
cal certificate and certificate of origin.
The medical inspection of ships to take place
during the daytime.
To facilitate the execution of the prescribed mea-
sures a doctor will, on application, be appointed at
Port Said by the Italian authorities to any vessel
bound for Italy. This doctor will be entrusted with
the general sanitary surveillance on board the ship
during the passage from Port Said to the Italian
port of destination. Within twenty-four hours of
arrival he is to ascertain that the disinfection of soiled
articles of wearing or domestic apparel has been
carried out, and to make a medical examination of all
persons on board. On arrival the doctor will lodge
with the harbour authorities a statement certifying
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[ APP. XL
Date of Regulation
January
8th,
1897.
February 6th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
to the sanitary condition of the vessel and suggesting
the treatment to be adopted. If everything is satis-
factory, the vessel will be immediately granted free
pratique.
(4) BELGIUM.
The royal decree of the 15th July 1805, relating to
cholera, applied to plague in the case of arrivals from
British India. The decree of the 15th July was drawn
up in conformity with the Dresden Sanitary Conven-
tion of 1893. It forbids the importation from infect-
ed localities of rags and of used linen, clothing,,
personal effects and bedding. Exception is made in
the case of compressed rags conveyed in bales as
merchandise, and certain mercantile waste products
not liable to contamination. Healthy, suspected and
infected vessels treated according to the Dresden
Convention of 1893.
In the case of vessels arriving from infected ports,
all parts of the ship which it may be deemed neces-
sary to disinfect to be disinfected.
The bilge-water to be pumped out and a fresh
supply of drinking-water to be taken on board.
All persons on board to be medically examined.
The ship's papers to be examined in order that the
nature of the cargo may be ascertained.
To facilitate these measures the vessel may be
detained at the sanitary station for one tide.
Certificate of origin must be produced for suspi-
cious or interdicted goods from healthy ports.
Importation of the following articles forbidden
even in transit :—
I. Green hides, salted or pickled, raw hides, hoofs,
etc., fresh animal matter, etc.
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APP. XI. ]
enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation
February 17th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
(Exception is made in the case of salted green ludes
which have been treated with arsenic, which are
admitted for sale in Belgium.)
2. Wearing apparel, bedding (used or unused).
3. Old or new carpets, woollen goods (used or un-
used), silk stuffs.
4. Peacock feathers and small articles, imported
retail, which might carry the germs of infection.
5. Buttles of liquor and perfumes, imported retail.
6. Dress goods, drill, etc., not packed in compressed
bales and secured with hoops.
7. Samples of raw wool, cotton, and jute, if not com-
pressed and bound with hoops.
The goods mentioned in Nos. 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 can be
admitted after having been disinfected by the
apparatus at the Doel Sanitary Station.
Articles admitted in transit but not for sale in
Belgium —
1. Raw wool in pressed bales bound with hoops.
2. All dress goods and drill stuffs packed in pressed
bales and bound with hoops.
The sanitary authorities may order the bales to
be sprinkled with disinfectants before they are un-
loaded from the vessel.
The following substituted for No. 7 in the list
above : —
All textile or similar products, whether of an animal
or vegetable nature — such as wool, entrón, jute,
fibres of these products, cocoanut fibre, etc. — if
not packed in compressed bales and bound with
hoops.
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[ APP. XI.
Date of Regulation.
March
12th,
1897.
April 5th, 1897,
May 1st, 1897.
May 5th, 1897.
December 30th ;
1896.
January
6th
1897.
January 19th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
Arscnicated hides admitted. All admissible goods
disinfected at Doel.
Regulations based on the Venice Sanitary Conven-
tion : — -
Importation from an infected locality of all the arti-
cles mentioned in the Venice Convention "suscepti-
ble" list, prohibitive. Provided that exemption may
be granted by ministerial decree in the case of raw
wool, raw hides and untanned skins, and certain
classes of rags and carpets, subject to whatever pre-
cautions may be prescribed with respect to packing,
disinfection, etc.
The transit of the interdicted
articles is permitted if they are packed in such a
manner that they cannot be handled on the way. A
certificate of origin may be required in the case of
articles on the interdicted list coming from a healthy
locality.
Import or transit may be permitted
although the interdicted article has passed through
an infected locality if it be Moved that it could not
have been contaminated. Infected, suspected, and
healthy ships to be treated in accordance with the
Venice Sanitary Convention.
The whole of the Bombay Presidency and Sind,
except the extreme east of Sind, treated as infected
for the purpose of the regulations. Articles on the
interdicted list con ing from other Indian ports, to be
accompanied by a certificate of origin.
Hides from infected localities, admitted if both
salted and arsenicated.
(5) MALTA.
Pratique refused and passengers prevented from
landing if there is a case of fever on board the
vessel.
Two days' quarantine imposed on arrivals from
Indian ports.
Quarantine increased to twenty-one days.
445
APP. XI. ]
enforced in other count fies.
Date of Regulation.
January 22nd,
1897.
January
27th,
1897.
February 2nd,
1897.
May 11th 1897.
May 22nd ; 1897
July 9th, 1897.
February 1st,
i8yj.
*
Purport of Regulation.
Absolute prohibit ion of the disembarkation of
passengers, crew and merchandise. Vessels permit-
ted to come and take provisions.
Arrivals from Meditei ranean ports which have been
in India within thirty days subject to medical inspec-
tion and disinfection.
Healthy vessels from India permitted to 1-ind pas-
sengers at C MÏIO island. Passengers subjected to
twenty-one days' quarantine and their clothes and
linen disinfected.
Vessels permitted to cool at
Corminotto.
Restrictions removed in the case of vessels arriv-
ing from Indian ports east of Cape Comorin.
Arrivals from Bombay and Karachi permitted to
cool and take in provisions in the quarantine
harbour. Passengers who have been in Bombay or
Karachi within thirty days to be detained in the
laz.iretto for a period not less than seven days from
rhe date rf disinfection and sufficient to complete
the period of thirty days from
the date cf
depaiture.
The importation of
cotton seed
from infected ports forbidden. The importation of
rags forbidden. The importation of the fo'loAving
articles forbidden before disinfection : wearing ap-
parel, solid linen and clothing, bedding materials,
hides, feathers, bones and jute goods.
The restrictions in the case of vessels from Bombay
and Karachi confined to vessels which have not been
admitted to free p atique in any port in the Adriatic
or Mediterranean Sea, or which have not, to the
satisfaction of the Chief Government Medical Officer,
been thoroughly disinfected be-fore being admitted to
such pratique.
(6) GIBRALTAR.
Vessels from India refused pratique and passengers
and goods not to be landed. Mails and specie land-
ed in quarantine. Vessels permitted to coal and
take in provisions in quarantine.
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[ APP XI.
Date of Regulation.
April 26th, 1897.
May 11th, 1897.
February 15th,
1697.
February 4th,
1897.
February 8th
1897.
March
11th,
1897.
March
13th,
1897,
March
25th,
1897.
May 6th, 1897.
September 6th,
1897.
»
Purport of Rjgulation.
Vessels from Calcutta and other Eastern Indian
ports granted pratique if provided with a clean bill-
of-health and if the condition of the health on board is
good.
Restrictive measures removed in the case of arrivals
from Indian ports east of Cape Comorin.
(7) CYPRUS.
Fifteen days' quarantine imposed against arrivals
from Indian ports.
(8) GERMANY.
Arrivals from British India and the Persian Gulf
subjected to sanitary control.
Importation of the fo'lowing articles from India
and Persia prohibited : —
Used bed and body linen, rags, hides, old clothes,
carpets, human hair, bristles, hair, wool, claws, hoofs.
Personal baggage exempted from the prohibition,
but may be disinfected.
Untanned skins and hides despatched after the
11th February from India, admitted if the port of
origin was free from plague, and the hides were com-
pressed into airtight bales and prepared for trans-
port in or near the harbour of the port of departure.
Bombay and Karachi excluded from the concession.
Prohibition against the importation of interdicted
articles extended to goods transhipped at ports in
India.
Dry-salted and arsenicated hides not admitted
from Indian infected ports.
Untanned air-dried hides known as " kips " ad-
mitted unconditionally.
Prohibition list reduced to the following: — Used
body and bed linen, old clothes-, rags.
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APP. XI. ]
enforced in other count lies.
Date of Regulation.
February 12th,
1897.
-
March
11th,
1897.
January 29th,
1897.
May 11th, 1897.
February 3rd,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
(9) AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Importation of the following articles prohibited
from Asia (Asiatic Russia exceptéed) : —
Rags, tatters, unwashed and old clothes, and bed
linen, old carpets, covers, bod furniture. Person-
al baggage exempted but examined by the
Sanitary police.
Importation of the following articles prohibited
from India and ports up to the Red Sea : —
Raw skins and hides, bones, horns, hoofs, trotters,
animal offal, hair, and brushes.
(10) SWITZERLAND.
Importation of rags, clothing, bedding, body linen
(except when carried as baggage), hides, skins,
furs, etc., from British India, prohibited. Travellers
permitted to enter via Chiasso and Geneva, after
satisfactory medical inspection and disinfection if free
from contact with plague cases for fourteen days.
Import of the articles enumerated in the Venice
Convention susceptible list, except arsenicated hides,
prohibited. Transit of the interdicted articles for-
bidden unless packed in such a manner that
they cannot be handled on the way.
Articles
in the interdicted list, if carried as baggage, to be
subjected at a frontier station to sanitary inspection
and if necessary disinfection. Such baggage per-
mitted to enter only through one of eleven specified
customs stations, where arrangements are made for
immediate examination and disinfection.
The Bombay Presidency, Sind and Goa considered
infected for the purpose of the regulations. Inter-
dicted articles from non- infected portion of India to
be accompanied by sufficient proof of origin.
(ll) PIOLLAND.
Ten days' quarantine imposed on arrivals from
Bombay and Karachi.
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Regulations against arrivals from India
[ APP. XI.
Date of Regulation
February 15tb,
1897."
October 14th,
1896.
February 22nd,
1897.
March
5th,
1097.
February 2nd,
1897
February 20th,
1897-
April 17 th, 1897.
Purport oí Regulation.
Importation of the following articles from Bombay
and Karachi prohibited : Rags, used wearing apparel,
unwashed body and bed clothing (including passen-
gers' baggage).
(12) SPAIN.
Quarantine imposed against arrivals from Bombay.
Arrivals from India subjected to three days' obser-
vation. Importations from Bombay of rags, old
clothes, tissues, mattresses, beltry, feathers, animal
hair, horns, hoofs, wo )1, silk, linen, hemp, jute, etc.,
prohibited.
Fourteen days' quarantine enforced against passen-
gers from Bombay; and a longer period if a case of
plague occurred on board.
(13) PORTUGAL.
Vessels, cargoes and passengers from Indian ports
disinfected in quarantine. All vessels from India not
admitted.
Lisbon, the only port open for landing mails and
passengers' baggage. All arrivals subject to qua-
rantine and disinfection. Patterns and postal parcels
not admitted.
Importation of the following articles from India as a
rule prohibited : —
(a) hair, horsehair, and feathers, when in their
natural condition ;
(b) patterns and postal parcels of any kind ;
(c) hides and skins, either fresh or dried, and
tanned hides if the hair remains on ;
(d) animal refuse ;
(e) green pulse and vegetables ;
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enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation.
February 19th,
1897.
March
16th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
(f) used furniture, stuffs, and tissues for orna-
menting walls, etc.;
(g) rags, shavings of wood or paper, waste
filaments, and other articles of the same
nature ;
(h) clothes and wearing apparel, shoes, beds,
and personal effects ;
(i) cotton, hemp, wool, linen, and silk if not
manufactured ;
(k) skins of olives and grapes ;
(k) vegetable substances such as hay and herbs
even though compressed and packed in
bales ;
(/) live animals.
Baggage of travellers admitted after rigorous dis-
infection. Interdicted articles may be admitted
without quarantine, but after any measure of disin-
fection that may be prescribed, if they have been
lying a long time in a European port, or if they have
been transformed by industrial process.
(14) RUSSIA.
All Indian ports declared contaminated.
Vessels only allowed to enter and discharge at
the following ports of the Black and Azof- Seas, at
which quarantine arrangements established : Theodo-
sia, Kertch, Odessa, Sebastopol, Novorissisk, Batoum,
and Poti. On arrival vessels from infected ports
subjected to ten days' quarantine, after which they
may discharge cargo.
The exterior packing of tea chests subject to dis-
infection. All other goods landed without disinfec-
tion unless believed to have come into immediate
contact with plague patients. In such case the
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450
Regulations against arrivals from India
[ APP. XI.
Date of Regulation.
February
1st,
1897.
January
I7th,
1897.
January 28th,
1897.
February 24th,
1897.
March
19th
1897.
April 8th, 1897
February 24th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
exterior packing or superficial layer of goods is
subject to disinfection.
(15) NORWAY.
All ports in British India declared infected. Cargo
can duly be discharged at the Christiania quarantine
station.
(16) ROUMANIA.
Muhammadans dissuaded from going on pilgrimage
and those who go to be subjected to rigorous in-
spection on return. Constanza closed to all ships
coming from Indian ports unless they have been
quarantined at an Ottoman port. In such cases
vessels granted free pratique at Constanza after a
satisfactory medical inspection. All other arrivals
from Indian ports to be subjected to sanitary pre-
cautions at Sulina. Importation of dirty body and
bed linen ; old clothes and personal effects as mer-
chandise prohibited. Travellers' dirty linen and
used sacks admitted after disinfection.
Importation from India of old newspapers and
similar printed matters prohibited.
Importation of all animal products from India
prohibited.
Sacks from India transhipped at British ports
allowed to enter Sulina and Constanza after disin-
fection.
New jute bags packed in bales by hydraulic pres-
sure coming from non-infected districts in India
admitted without disinfection.
(17) BULGARIA.
Importation of all merchandise from India forbidden.
All Bulgarian Black Sea ports closed against infect-
ed vessels and against all vessels from India unless
previously disinfected at an Ottoman port. Varna and
Bourgos open in certain cases after satisfactory medi-
cal inspection. Change of ships en route from infect-
ed port does not secure more favourable treatment.
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enforced in other countries.
Date of Regulation.
March
9th,
1897-
March
26th,
1897.
April
12th,
1897.
May 18th, 1897.
March
12th,
1897-
October 13th,
1896.
January 2nd,
1897.
February 10th,
1897.
March
8th,
1897.
Purport of Regulation.
All Bulgarian Black Sea ports unconditionally
closed against Rangoon.
Importation from infected countries of used and
soiled paper, newspaper, and printed papers used
as wrappings prohibited.
Rice admitted from Rangoon.
Rangoon considered a clean port and direct im-
portation of rice allowed. Jute sacks from Calcutta
admitted after disinfection.
(18) GREECE.
Importation of the following articles prohibited : —
Postal packets, patterns, hides, wool, bristles, ani-
mals and their products, rags, old clothes, etc.
(19) TURKEY.
Ten days' quarantine imposed on arrivals from
Bombay.
Ten days' quarantine and rigorous disinfection
imposed on arrivals from Karachi.
Infected ships repulsed.
Fifteen days' quarantine imposed on arrivals from
India. Repulse of infected ships maintained.
Should plague occur during the detention of the
vessel, twenty days' quarantine imposed from the
occurrence oí the last case, and rigorous disinfection
of clothing and personal effects. The vessel to be
disinfected and the drinking-water changed. The
bilge-water to be pumped out after being disinfected.
Vessels objecting to the precautionary measures per-
mitted to return from the port.
Importation of the following articles from India
prohibited: Feathers, raw hides (salted and dried),
furs, felts, hoofs, horns, bones, and all animal
products.