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 INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNE 21,1926. by sea shall undergo the necessary quarantine measures at Tor before landing at Akaba. ARTICLE 137. 2587 Vessels bringing pilgrims back toward the Mediterranean shall tl:e~n'lr. In quaran- pass through the canal in quarantine only. ARTICLE 138. The agents of navigation companies and captains are warned .LandingofEgyptian that, after completing their observation period at the sa.nitary sta- pilgnms. tion of Tor, the Egyptian pilgrims will alone be permitted to leave the vessel permanently in order to return thereupon to their homes. Only those pilgrims will be recognized as Egyptians or as resi- dents of Egypt who are provided with a certificate of residence issued by an Egyptian authority and conforming to the established model. Pilgn'ms other than Egyptians, can not be landed in an E!!'Vptian Special permits for . T b' I' po. other t.han Egyptians. port after leavmg or, except y speCla permIt under speCIal con- ditions imposed by the Egyptian health authority, in accord with the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Board of Egypt. Conse- quently, navigation agents and captains are warned that the trans- shipment of pilgrims not residents of Egypt at Tor, Suez, Port Said, or Alexandria is forbidden except under a special permit for each case. Vessels having pilgrims on board who are not Egyptian nationals teTarmstroBot (talk) 00:55, 7 January 2012 (UTC);~on~:;~! shall be subject to the rules applicable to these pilgrims and shall ports. not be received in any Egyptian port of the Medi terranean. ARTICLE 139. Egyptian pilgrims shall undergo an observation of three days and TPr~tentlon, a medical examination and if there be occasion, disinfection and dis- insectisation at Tor, or any other station designated by the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Board of Egypt, pilgrims shall not be per- mitted to enter any Egyptian port in the Mediterranean. ARTICLE 140. etc., at If pla~ue or cholera is found to exist in Hedjaz or in the port or::rr:"'lnltd'.!i:e from WhICh the vessel hails, or if it has existed in Hedjaz during the etc. ' course of the pilgrimage, the vessel shall be subjected at Tor to the rules adopted at Camaran for infected vessels. The/ersons stricken with plague or cholera shall be landed and isolate in the hospitals. The other passengers shall be landed and isolated in groups composed of as few persons as possible, so that the whole number may not suffer with any particular group in which the plague or cholera should develop. The soiled linen, wearing apparel, and clothing of the crew and passengers, as well as the baggage and cargo suspected of contamina- tion shall be landed and disinfected. Their disinfection as well &s that of the vessel shall be thorough. However, the local health authority may decide that the unload- ing of the heavy baggage and the cargo is not necessary, and that only a part of the vessel need undergo disinfection. The measures .provided in Article 25 shall be applied with regard ;;TarmstroBot (talk); p. 2.062. to the rats which may be found on board. 0 . AU the pilgrims shall be subjected to an observation of six full PiliiiatlOn of all days from the day on which the disinfecting operations are com- pleted, in the cll.se of plague and five days in the case of cholera. If a case of pla.gue or cholera has appeared in one section. the period

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