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with the estuary of the Plate, in such a manner that the operation may result in a chain of triangles with vertices on each bank of the river.

II. The work referred to in Article I shall serve as a basis for the coincidence of the sheets of the 1 million scale map corresponding to this zone.

III. In order to settle the details of the work and to draw up the technical and administrative Convention necessary to carry out the operations, an International Commission is appointed, which shall consist, on the part of the Argentine Republic, of the Chief of the Military Geographical Institute and of the Chief of the Survey Section of the same (Sección Geodesia) and, on the part of the Republic of Uruguay, of the Military Geographical Service and of the Chief of the Survey Section of the same (Sección Geodesia); this Commission shall sit thirty days after the ratification of the present Convention.

This Commission shall, in a like manner, in the course of its labours, resolve all problems of a technical or administrative nature that may arise and may not have been foreseen in the said Convention.

IV. In the technical and administrative Convention, the methods and procedure to be followed in the field and in the office calculations shall be laid down so as to ensure the greatest possible uniformity and precision and to ensure that all the complete and original documents or photographic copies, collated and authorised, and field or calculation books be preserved in the archives of both Contracting Nations.

The Composition of the Commissions working in the field shall in a like manner be fixed, and also the materials which shall be at their disposal, the estimate of expenses, the time to be taken over the tasks and the moment when they are begun.

V. Each Military Geographical Institute shall appoint its personnel for the field and shall provide them with all supplies, tools or articles that may be necessary, at the cost of and with the previous consent of their respective Governments.

VI. The present Convention shall be ratified, its ratification shall be exchanged either in Buenos Aires or Montevideo, and it shall enter into force as soon as such exchange has been effected.

In faith whereof the Plenipotentiaries above named have signed this Convention and have affixed thereto their seals. Done in duplicate, in Montevideo, this 11th day of the month of April of the year 1918.

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SANITARY CONVENTION between the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.-Montevideo, April 21,

1914.

[Ratifications deposited by Brazil, January 18, 1921; Paraguay, September 17, 1917; and Uruguay, October 13, 1914.]

(Translation.*)

His Excellency the President of the Argentine Republic, His Excellency the President of the United States of Brazil,

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Paraguay, His Excellency the President of Uruguay,

desiring to safeguard the public health without causing unnecessary inconvenience to commercial transactions or to the transit of passengers, have resolved to conclude a Health Convention for this purpose, and have named as their Plenipotentiaries:

His Excellency the President of the Argentine Republic: Dr. Nicolas Lozano, the Technical Secretary of the National Department of Health; Dr. Wenceslao E. Acevedo, Director of the Division for Maritime and River Health Questions;

His Excellency the President of the United States of Brazil: Dr. Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Director of the "Oswaldo Cruz" Institute; Dr. Alberto Baez Conrado, Consul-General attached to the Brazilian Legation at Montevideo;

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Paraguay: Dr. Benigno Escobar, Director of Public Relief and of the Free Hospital; Dr. Manuel Pérez, Surgeon to the Free Hospital;

His Excellency the President of the Republic of Uruguay: Dr. Alfredo Vidal y Fuentes, President of the National Health Council; Dr. Ernesto Fernàndez Espiro, Director of Health and of the International Health Office, and Member of the National Health Council; Dr. Jaime H. Oliver, Professor of the Faculty of Medicine and Member of the National Health Council;

Who, having exchanged their full powers, which were found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following provisions:

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League of Nations Treaty Series," No. 144. Signed in the Spanish and Portuguese languages. Not ratified by the Argentine Republic.

Chapter I.-GENERAL PROVISIONS.

ART. I. Each of the Contracting Governments undertakes to communicate to the others the discovery of the first case or cases of Asiatic cholera, of Oriental plague, or yellow fever as soon as these diseases tend to spread. Information shall be similarly communicated, without delay, whenever cases of these diseases occur at places other than those which were originally infected.

II. The communication referred to above shall be made immediately by the Government of the infected State to the diplomatic representatives of the other Contracting States.

III. The communication in question shall give information on the following points: notification of the place in which one of the above-mentioned diseases appeared; the date when it commenced, its ascertained or probable cause; the number of cases of deaths; the symptoms of the disease; the means adopted to combat it. In the case of plague, it will further be stated whether the first cases were preceded by a marked mortality among rats, and if the presence of this disease has been proved among them.

IV. The health authorities of the infected country, after transmitting the statement refered to in Article II, will forward each week to the health authorities of the other Contracting States detailed statements regarding the course of the epidemic, giving the following information: the number of cases and deaths since the last statement, and the means employed to prevent the dissemination of the disease and its extension to the other Contracting States, without prejudice to the rights of the health authorities of the States which are free from infection to demand the same information if it should be necessary.

V. The health authorities of the infected State, after fulfilling the requirements of Article II, shall furnish to the Consular agents of the Contracting States such information as they may require regarding the course of the disease.

VI. The Government of a State which seeks to guard itself against infection shall communicate to the infected State the measures which it proposes to take against persons and goods coming from the latter State, and the date on which these measures will come into force.

VII. A locality shall be considered as infected if repeated cases of cholera, yellow fever or plague occur there, without having been introduced from abroad.

VIII. The appearance of the first cases of cholera, plague or yellow fever at any place whatsoever shall not be sufficient grounds for the immediate application of defensive measures against persons and goods coming from that place, unless cases of plague or yellow fever should recur; and, in regard to

cholera, unless new cases occur in addition to the original cases, thus showing that the disease has not been mastered.

IX. Prophylactic measures cannot be taken against persons or goods coming from localities in the neighbourhood of those which have been declared infected, or which are in communication with such places, from the moment that they have adopted the necessary precautions to guard themselves against infection.

X. Measures shall not be adopted against a vessel coming from an infected place, if such vessel can be shown to have sailed five days (in the case of cholera or plague) or six days (in the case of yellow fever) before the outbreak of the epidemic.

XI. A place will cease to be considered as infected when ten days have elapsed since the last case of cholera or plague, or twelve days since the isolation of the last yellow fever case; and when, further, the necessary means for disinfection have been taken, including, in the case of plague, measures for the extermination of rats, and, in the case of yellow fever, for the extermination of mosquitoes.

XII. The High Contracting Parties undertake to adopt no other prophylactic measures, either in regard to sea or land transport, than those which are expressly specified in this Convention.

XIII. The Governments of non-infected States shall be entitled to send health delegates to the State which is regarded as infected, with the object of collecting information and data relating to the course of the disease, and to the prophylactic measures taken against it.

XIV. The term "health security service" is understood to mean the medical inspection carried out by the authorities concerned in respect of passengers arriving or passing through when coming from the infected places, during a period which may not exceed the period of incubation of the disease against which defensive measures are being taken:

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(a.) As regards first and second-class passengers, the health security measures" will be carried out on land and in suitable places.

The transfer of these persons from one point to another of the territory, or their departure from the country, shall be subordinated to the measures adopted by the respective authorities who furnish them with their health passports.

To guarantee the effectiveness of this security service, special passports will be issued to the passengers before they disembark, and they will be required to deposit a sum of money, which will be refunded to them when they cease to be under supervision, or recourse may be had to some other method which will ensure the same results.

(b.) As regards third-class passengers, the health security

measures may be put in force in such places and subject to such restrictions as the respective authorities may think fit.

XV. The Contracting Parties undertake to receive, without any distinction, in their establishments for relief or isolation, sick persons in transit who are infected with cholera, plague or yellow fever, without regard to their place of origin or destination, except in so far as their remaining on board may constitute, in the opinion of the health authorities, a danger to the other passengers.

Chapter II.-DEFENSIVE MEASURES ON LAND.

XVI. When the infected locality is situated near the frontiers of the Contracting States, measures for the protection of health shall be adopted in conformity with the following principles:

(a.) Communication shall not be interrupted between the infected country and uninfected States, and health cordons and quarantine measures on land shall be abolished.

(b.) The High Contracting Parties reserve the right to limit the number of points on the frontier through which the transit of passengers and goods may take place, the same principles being applied in regard to these places as in regard to maritime and river prophylaxis.

Chapter III.-MARITIME AND RIVER PROPHYLAXIS.

XVII. The Contracting Governments agree that they will not close their ports, no matter what may be the hygienic condition of the vessels or of the places from which they have come. They also reserve the right to limit the number of ports to be used for commercial operations with the infected countries.

XVIII. No vessel may be refused admission, no matter what may be its port of clearance or its hygienic condition, provided that it complies with the provisions of this Convention.

XIX. The health authorities shall take steps, at least once in three months, for the extermination of rats on the vessels which travel between the ports of the Contracting States.

XX. Postal correspondence shall be admitted without any restrictions, except that, in cases of cholera or plague, postal packages containing articles which have been used and are liable to infection may be the subject of appropriate measures.

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