File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎81v] (162/250)

doubtful cases occurring in its territory. It cannot, therefore, be
too strongly impressed on the several Governments that they
should make notification of plague and cholera compulsory, and
that they should keep themselves informed as to any unusual
mortality among rats or mice, particularly in ports.
Art. 6. It is to be understood that neighbouring countries
reserve to themselves the right to make special arrangements with
the object of organizing direct exchange of information between
the principal administrative officers on their frontiers.
Section If.— The Conditions under which a Local Area may be
regarded as infeded or as having ceased to be infected.
Art. 7. The notification of a first case of plague or cholera
shall not lead to the adoption of the measures prescribed in the
following Chapter II against the local area in which the case has
occurred.
But when several non-imported cases of plague have occurred,
or when the cases of cholera constitute a foyer* the local area
shall be declared infected.
Art. 8. In order that the measures be limited to places which
are infected, the Governments must apply them to arrivals from
infected local areas only.
“ Local area ” means a portion of territory clearly defined in
the information that accompanies or follows notification—as, for
instance, a province, a “ government,” a district, a department, a
canton, an island, a commune, a town, a quarter in a town, a
village, a port, a polder, an agglomeration, &c., whatever may be
the extent and population of these portions of territory.
But this limitation to the infected local area must be accepted
oidy on the definite condition that the Government of the infected
country take the measures necessary (a) for preventing the export
of the things specified in Article 12 (l) and (2) derived from the
infected local area, unless previously disinfected, and (5) for
checking the spread of the epidemic.
When a local area is infected, no restrictive measure shall be
taken against arrivals from that local area, if they have left it not
less than five days before the beginning of the epidemic.
Art. 9. In order that a local area cease to be regarded as
infected it must be officially established—•
(1.) That no death from nor fresh case of plague or cholera has
occurred within the five days following either the isolation! or
the death or recovery of the last case of plague or cholera;
(2.) That all measures of disinfection have been carried out,
and that, in the case of plague, measures have been taken against
rats.
* I.e., a “ centre of dissemination.”—E ditor.
t “Isolation” means the isolation of the sick person, of those in
permanent attendance on him, and the prohibition of visits by any other
person.