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isolation could be carried out. The immigrants housed in the barracks were also isolated, and 19 of those who had been placed under observation were found to be suffering from trachoma. Further 7 cases of mumps have appeared in the barracks. These are being isolated and the barracks in which they were housed are being disinfected. Subject to your orders on this matter, I have decided to prolong the period of 10 days observation under quarantine which expires to-morrow, for such further time as may be necessary for the extirpation of this disease amongst the immigrants, and the avoidance of its propagation.
(Signed) F. Valenzuela.
No.12. Mexico, May 26th 1908. Due note has been taken of your message of yesterday relative to the visit made on board the Steamship "Suisang". Note has also been taken of the cases of trachoma which have developed themselves amongst the persons detained in the barracks. As the existing regulations do not authorize us to prolong the detention in the barracks you may continue to detain therein those who are actually ill, setting at liberty the others and advising us of the places to which they are going.
(Signed) E. Liceaga.
No.13.
No.13. From Salina Cruz, May 27th 1908. I have the honour to inform you that we this day proceeded to set at liberty the Chinese immigrants who arrived on board the China Commercial Steamship Company's steamer "Suisang" and were housed in the Company's barracks as the period of observation under quarantine expired yesterday. The immigrants who left the barracks in good health numbered 111, and 28 were re-embarked on board the "Suisang" on account of being afflicted with trachoma. Ten out of the eleven second class passengers who were housed in the same barracks left for their respective destinations.
The remaining one was detained in consequence of suffering from mumps, as were also 8 of the immigrants suffering from the same disease. The destination of all the individuals set at liberty was noted, and in some cases also the house in which they were going to reside. This was especially done in the case of four of the second class passengers in whom trachoma had shewn itself in an advanced stage and very serious form. There are at present on board the above-mentioned steamer 399 definitely rejected immigrants suffering from trachoma, and 14 more who were rejected from the Steamship "Marie".
(Signed) F. Valenzuela.
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