INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNIl21, 1926. 2. A European doctor of medicine, Inspector General of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Service. 2597 3. The Sanitary Inspector of the city of Alexandria, or whoever acts in that capacity. 4. The Veterinary Inspector of the Administration of sanitary .Ante. p. 2591. services and public hygiene. All the Delegates must be physicians holding a regular diploma., granted either by a European faculty of medicine or by the Govern- ment, or bo regularly appointed offiCials in actual service, of the ~ade of vice consul at least, or of an equivalent grade. This provision is not applicable to the present incumbents. ART. 3 . The Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board shall 8ujlerVOOrypowers. exercise permanent supervision Qver the sanitary condition of Egypt and over arrivals from foreign countries. ART. 4 . As regards Egypt, the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine E~~th bulletins of Board shall receive each week, from the Board of Health and Public . Hygiene, the sanitary bulletins of the cities of Cairo and Alexandria, and each month the sanitary bulletins of the provinces. These bulletins shall be transmitted at shorter intervals when, owing to special circumstances, the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board so requests. On its part, the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board shall communicate to the Board of Health and Public Hygiene any decisions it may have reached and a.ny information it may have received from abroad. The Governments shall address to the Board, if they deem proper, the sa.nit8!'Y bulletin of their country, and shall notify it of epi- demics and epizootics as soon as they a1!Pear. ART. o. The Sanitary, Maritime, and c.zuarantine Board shall ascer- th~=napectionof tam the sanitary condition of the country and send inspecting boards . wherever it may deem necessary. The Board of Health and Public Hygiene shall be notified of the dispatch of these boards and shall endeavor to far.ilitate the perform- ance of their mission. ART. 6. The Board shall adopt preventive measures for the:pur- :-~tion of preven· pose of preventing the introduction of eJ?idemic8 and epizootics mto tI e easures. Egypt via the maritime or desert frontiers: and it shall determine the points at which temporary camps and permanent qua.l&ntine establishments are to be located. ART. 7. It shall draft the note to be written on the bill of health h~~f: on bills of issued by the health offices to departing vessels. . ART. 8. In case of the appearance of epidemics or epizootics in t::~I= :~r:::~ Egypt, it shall adopt preventive measures with the object of pre- countries. venting the transmission of these diseaGes to foreign countries. ART. 9. The Board shall supervise and control the execution of Execution of quarsn· th .. hihhadted tine measures. e quarantine sa.mtary measures w c it as op . It shall draft all regulations relating to the quarantine service and see to their strict enforcement both with regard to protecting the country and to maintaining the guarantees stipulated by interna- tional sanitary conventions. ART. 10. It shall re<P111 ate from a. sanitA.Mr standpoint the con- Oversight of HedJg di . ~~, -'" , pilgrims. tions under which pilgrims going to and returning from Hedjaz are to be transported, and watch over their state of health durmg pilgrimage. ART. 11. The decisions reached by the SanitAMr Maritime and Communication of n.. . - '" '. , decisions. etc.
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ID.terior they shall also be made known to the Ministry of Fo~ Affairs, which shall notify them, if necessary, to the agencies and consulates general.
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