Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-06
PLAN TO EIGHT DISEASE.
Report of Pan-American Committee
Has Been Prepared

/ MeNICO Slly, jul. O.-lue VA
International sanitary regulations of the
4 an-American conference will report
this week unless the conference is brok-
en- up by the delegates over arbitration.
! The recommends tons on sanitary mat
tiers are perhaps of greater practical i'm
| portance than any that have hitheto
| been submitted to the conference. The
recommendation that will attract most
attention in the United States is that
which looks to the naturalization of
quarantine. The report recommends an
| international arrangement on the fol-
| lowing basis:
The undersigned signatory republics
desiring to lessen the burdens expert
eneed by the existing administrator Of
quarantine regulations imposed upon in
ternational intercourse and commerce
on account Of the existence within their
respective sovereign limits of infectious
or contagious diseases and convinced of
the fact that International comfy in
sanitation and quarantine would tend
greatly to remove existing obstacles
and promote mutual interchange Of
trade and commerce, as well as eradi-
cate organic causes of contagious dis
eases. thereby protecting human life
and adding to the prosperity and devel-
opment of those places now imperiled by
| ravages of disease, have agreed to rec
ommend the following resolutions to the
earnest consideration Of their respective
governments:
81. All matters relating to maritime
quarantine should be intrusted to the
national governments. which shall have
the sole right to institute maritime
quarantine; to establish the necessary
quarantine stations, both land and float
ing; to define the length of time during
which vessel may be detained, and to
adopt such measures as may be deemed
necessary to prevent the introduction Of
contagious disease.
"2. In the ports of each Of the sigma
tory states there should be tabiished
two kinds of quarantine-frst, the
quarantine of inspection or observation;
and second, the quarantine of detention
and disinfection.
g. The signatory parties agree to rec
ommend that prohibitive quarantine on
all kinds of new manufactured rner-
chandise between ports and territories
of the parties shall be abolished.
"a. The signatory parties hereby agree
to co-operatet with and lend every pos
sible effort to the municipal, provincial,
or local authorities within their respect
i've limits to the end that efficient and
modern sanitary conditions may be OBJ
tanned in all the ports and territories of
each. for the purpose that quarantine
restrictions may be diminished to a
minimum and finally abolished.
80. The signatory republics further
agree that it shall be the duty of their
respective health and quarantine or
CARNATIONS promptly to notify the dip
lomatic or consular representatives Of
the signatory republics stationed within
their territory of the existence and pro-
gress within thier sovereign limits of
the following diseases, namely: Cholera,
yellow fever. bubonic plague. smallpox,
or other serious pestilential outbreaks
1t shall be the duty Of the sanitary au-
thorities in the respective ports to note
on the bills of health the transmissible
diseases which may exist in said ports
prior to the sailing of the vessels.
80 In order to bring health and quar-
antine organizations more closely to-
gether for mutual benefit. and interna-
tional cooperation, general conven-
ton of representatives of these organi-
cations shall be provided for as herein
after specified"