ملف ٢٩٠٨/١٩٠٧ الجزء ٣ "الخليج الفارسي: الحجر الصحي؛ شكوى ألمانية" [ظ‎‎٩‎٠] (٢٥٠/١٨٠)

(b.) That a careful examination of every one on board, without
exception, has been made within twelve hours of arrival at the
Egyptian port, and that no case of either of these diseases has been
detected.
These ships shall not undergo medical inspection, and shall be
given free pratique at once, subject to their having completed five
clear days since leaving the last infected port at which they
called.
Such of these ships as have not completed the requisite period
may pass through the Canal in quarantine without medical
inspection, provided they produce the certificate above mentioned
to the quarantine authority.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the quarantine
authority shall have the right of medically inspecting, by its
officers, ships of war in all instances in which it considers this
procedure necessary.
Infected or suspected ships of war shall be subject to the
Regulations in force.
Only fighting units shall be regarded as ships of war. Trans
ports and hospital ships shall be classed as ordinary ships.
Art. 78. The Egyptian Maritime and Quarantine Board may
arrange the conveyance, by rail, over Egyptian territory, of mails
and ordinary passengers from infected countries in quarantine
trains, under the conditions specified in Annex No. 1.
Section YI .—Measures in the Persian Gulf.
Art. 79. Ships shall undergo the health-visit at the Island of
Ormuz sanitary station before they enter the Persian Gulf. They
shall undergo the measures specified in Section III, Chapter II,
Part I, that their health conditions and the place whence they
have come render applicable.
Ships, however, that have to proceed up the Shatt-el-Arab shall
be permitted, if the period of observation has not been completed,
to continue their voyage, on condition that they traverse the
Persian Gulf and the Shatt-el-Arab in quarantine. A chief guard
and two sanitary guards, taken on board at Ormuz, shall keep the
ship under supervision as far as Bussorah, where a second medical
inspection shall be made and the necessary measures of disinfection
carried out.
I ending the organization of the Ormuz sanitary station, the
sanitary guards shall be taken on at the temporary station provided
in accordance with paragraph 2 of Article 82 hereinafter, and
these guards shall accompany ships proceeding in quarantine up
the Shatt-el-Arab to the station provided in the neighbourhood of
Bussorah.
Ships that have to call at Persian ports to disembark passengers
or goods may do so at Bender-Bushire.