Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 45 Part 2.djvu/927

 INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNE 21,1926. 2603 TITLE II.--8IlRVICE OF PORTS, QUARANTINE STATIONS, AND SANITARY ITarmstroBot (talk) 00:58, 7 January 2012 (UTC) ot ports and STATIONS. ART. 10. The sanitary, maritime, and quarantine policing along oc!,0~clng ot Egyptian the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean and Red Seas, as well as. on the land frontiers, in the direction of the desert, shall be intrusted to the directors of the health offices, the directors of sanitary stations or quarantine camps, the chiefs of sanitary agencies or sanitary posts, and the em~oyees under their orders. f ARdT'b1,1. The d~lctofrs of the h~a1th offices shall have the direction totfhrhgfu:'~c­ oan e responslb e or the serVIce both of the office at the head of which they are placed and of the sanitary posts thereunder. They shall see to the strict enforcement of the reguJations on sani.· tary, maritime, and quarantine police. They shall obey the instru~ tions they receive from the PresIdent of the Board and shall ~ve the necessary orders and instructions to all the employees of theIr office, as well as to the employees of the sanitary posts attached thereto. They shall be charged with the examination and speaking of ves. sels and with the application of the quarantine measures, and, in the cases provided by the regulations, they shall proceed to make medical inspections and inquiries regarding violations of quarantines. In administrative matters they shall correspond onl;r with the President, to whom they shall transmit all sanitary information which they gather while discharging their duties. ART. 12. In regard to salary the directors of the health offices shall Salaries ot directors. be divided into two classes: The first class offices, which are four in number, viz: Alexandria, Port Said, Suez Basin and camp at Moses Sprin& and Tor. The second class offices, three in number, viz: Damietta, Souakim, and Kosseir. ART. 13. The chiefs of the sanitary agencies shall have the same Chiefs otagencies. duties and powers, as regards the agency, as the directors as regards their office. ART. 14. There shall be a single agency at EI Ariche. El Arlche agency, ART. 15. The chiefs of the sanitary posts shall have under their Duties of chiefs ot orders the employ~es of the post which they are directing. They saIlltary posts, shall be under the orders of the director of one of the health offices. They mall be charged with the duty of carrying out the sanitary quarantine measures called for by the regulations. They shall not be permitted to issue any bill of health or author· ized to vise any bills of health except those of vessels departing with pratique. They shall compel vessels arriving at their ports with a foul bill of Restrlotlons. health or under irregular conditions to put into a port where there is a health office. They can not make sanitary inquests themselves, but they must cali upon the director of their office for this purpose. Outside of cases of absolute urgency, they shall correspond only with this director in all administrative matters. In urgent sanitary and quarantine matters, such as the measures to be taken in regard to an arriving vessel, or the annotation to be made on the bill of health of a departing vessel, they shall correspond directly with the President of the Board; but they must communicate this correspond- enl'..6 to their director without delay. They shall be obliged to give notice, by the quickest route, to the Shipwrecks. President of the Board regarding shipwrecks of which they have knowledge. ART. 16. The sanitary posts shall be six in number, as follows: Posts of Port Neuf, Aboukir, Brullos, and Rosetta, under the Alexandria office. Sanitary poets.

�