ملف ٢٩٠٨/١٩٠٧ الجزء ٣ "الخليج الفارسي: الحجر الصحي؛ شكوى ألمانية" [و‎‎١‎٢‎٠] (٢٥٠/٢٣٩)

maintained the view always held by His Majesty’s Government that the
Constantinople^ Board of Health is an Ottoman institution, though
under international control, and that the Ottoman Government is
ultimately responsible for the measures that may be taken in the
sanitary defence of the Turkish Empire.
2 . The Tangiers Sanitary Board.
W (3 v ere able to associate ourselves unreservedly with the following
“ vceux ” expressed by the Conference That the Tangiers Board
should apply the decisions of the International Sanitary Conventions;
that the Morocco pilgrimage should he properly supervised ; and that a
lazaret should be established in a suitable spot near Tangiers, as for
example, at Malabata.
3. The Bed Sea, Suez Canal, and the Alexandria Board.
A proposal was made by ourselves, and supported by the Egyptian
Delegates, that the medical visit on ships passing the Suez Canal should
be allowed to take place at night, as well as by day. This proposal was
accepted, in so far as it is to apply to first and second class, but not to
third-class passengers. The visit is also to be permitted to take place
on board the ship (and not, as before, compulsorily on shore), provided
that the third-class passengers do not subsequently leave the ship.
The Egyptian delegation further proposed that pilgrim ships from
Hedjaz should henceforth be allowed to transit the Canal without a
preliminary detention at Tor. This proposal, however, met with
opposition, and was therefore withdrawn!. It w r as revived, in a slightlv
modified form, by the Bussian delegation, but was again rejected.
Ultimately it w r as agreed that pilgrim ships belonging to those nations
which shall have accepted the present and the previous Conventions
shall be allowed to transit the Canal without detention at Tor, if they
fulfil certain conditions. These conditions are stated at lenMh in
Article CXLIII. of the Convention.
Thvo proposals were made respecting the powers and attributions of
the Alexandria Maritime, Sanitary, and Quarantine Board. The first
avas made by the Italian delegation, and v T as to the effect that the
Board should cease to have any concern wdth the internal sanitary
affairs of Egypt, and that these should be left entirely to the Govern
ment of His Highness the Khedive. The second was made by the
Egyptian delegation, and was to the effect that both the internal and
external sanitary control of Egypt should be confided to one Govern
ment body, the International Board at Alexandria confining itself to
the task of furnishing information to the European Governments on
the couise of sanitary affairs in those regions. TVh supported both
proposals, but both wrnre rejected, and no alteration has been made in
the powers or attributions of the Board.
TI e should here call your Eordship s attention to the unanimous and
warm tribute paid by the Conference to Dr. Buffer, for his conduct of
affairs as President of that Board.
^TTie.Egyptian delegation further proposed that the passage by train
of. mails and passengers from contaminated countries should be per
mitted across Egypt, under conditions which had been already submitted
to the Alexandria Board, and which were repeated to the Conference.
This proposal was accepted by the Conference, and the regulation for
the transit of Egypt in quarantine by train forms Annex 1 of the new
Convention.
d. The Sanitary Defence of the Persian Gulf.
The decisions on this question are a repetition of those of the
Venice Sanitary Convention of 1897, with certain modifications and
additions. They are, as before, grouped under two headings— the