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Rh the participating States facts and documents of a general character concerning public health and especially regarding infectious diseases, notably the cholera, plague and yellow fever, as well as the measures taken to check these diseases.

The Government shall inform the Office of the measures taken by them toward the enforcement of the international sanitary conventions. The Office shall suggest amendments it might be desirable to make to the provisions of those conventions.

The Office is placed under the authority and supervision of an International Committee consisting of technical representatives designated by the participating States in the proportion of one representative for each State.

Each State is allowed a number of votes inversely proportioned to the number of the class to which it belongs as regards its participation in the expenses of the Office (See Article 11).

The Committee of the Office meets periodically at least once a year; the length of its sessions is unlimited.

The members of the Committee elect, by secret ballot, a chairman whose term of office shall be three years.

The business of the office is conducted by a salaried staff including:

a Director;

a Secretary General,

such force as may be necessary to perform the work of the Office.

The personnel of the Office shall not be permitted to fill any other salaried office.

The Director and Secretary General shall be appointed by the Committee.

The Director shall attend the meetings of the Committee in an advisory capacity.

The appointment and dismissal of employés of all classes appertain to the Director and shall be reported by him to the Committee.

The information collected by the Office shall be brought to the knowledge of the participant States by means of a Bulletin or of special communications addressed to them either in regular course or at their request.