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Rh 9. Atomizers, disinfecting chambers, and the appliances necessary for chemical disinfection.

10. Machines for distilling water, apparatus for the sterilization of water by heat, and machines for manufacturing ice. For the distribution of the drinking water: Pipes and closed, tight tanks capable of being emptied only by stop-cocks or pumps.

11. A bacteriological laboratory with the necessary personnel.

12. A set of movable night-soil cans for receiving the previously disinfected fecal matters and spreading them over one of the most distant parts of the island from the camps, care being taken that these dumping grounds are properly managed from a hygienic standpoint.

13. All dirty water shall be removed from the camps and shall neither be allowed to stagnate nor be used in preparing food. The waste waters coming from hospitals shall be disinfected.

132. The health authority shall provide a building for the food supplies and one for the fuel in each camp.

The schedule of prices fixed by the competent authority shall be posted up in several places in the camp in the principal languages of the countries inhabited by the pilgrims.

The camp physician shall each day inspect the quality of the victuals and see that there is a sufficient supply thereof.

Water shall be furnished free of charge.

133. The sanitary stations of Abou-Ali, Abou-Saad, and Vasta, as well as those of Djeddah and Yambo, shall fulfill the following conditions:

1. At Abou-Ali there shall be established four hospitals—two for plague patients (male and female) and two for cholera patients (male and female).

2. At Vasta a hospital for ordinary patients shall be created.

3. At Abou-Saad and Vasta stone lodgings with a capacity of fifty persons each shall be constructed.

4. Three disinfecting chambers shall be located at Abou-Ali, Abou-Saad, and Vasta, with laundries, accessories, and apparatus for the destruction of rats.

5. Shower baths shall be established at Abou-Saad and Vasta.

6. On each of the islands of Abou-Saad and Vasta there shall be installed distilling apparatus capable of furnishing altogether fifteen tons of water a day.

7. The measures with regard to fecal matters and dirty water shall be regulated in accordance with the rules adopted for Camaran.

8. A cemetery shall be established in one of the islands.

9. The sanitary arrangements at Djeddah and Yambo provided for in Article 150 shall be installed, and especially the disinfecting chambers and other means of disinfection for pilgrims leaving Hedjaz.