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result that they claimed to have found differences
of degree in the diseases of the eyes which they
observed amongst the Chinese immigrants;
International Sanitary Police in all countries, that
Health Officers have the right to examine not only
differences
which are explainable by the symptoms which trachoma
presents in its various stages, for the above mention-
ed Doctors only regarded those immigrants as affected
with trachoma in whom the disease had reached its final
stage, at which period it cannot be confused with other
diseases of the eye, even by persons possessing no med-
ical knowledge. In any case, however, the Certificate
of these Doctors states that they found 127 of the immi-
grants to be affected with diseases of the eye.
It is absolutely necessary to take into consider-
ation the above fact, as declared by Drs. Buhot and
Vallarino, in order to dissipate another objection rais-
ed by the complainants, which is this: that if Dr.
Grone, (the supposititious Delegate of the Board) de-
clared that all the immigrants who embarked on board
the steamer "Suisang" were in a healthy condition, the
Sanitary Authorities in Mexico are not entitled to
examine them on their arrival at a Mexican Port. This
assertion is unsustainable, for it is an axiom of In-
immigrants, but also all passengers and crews of
vessels arriving at their Ports, when there is reason
to suspect that they are carriers of infectious di-
seases. This right is indisputable, but in rela-
tion to the case in point it is sufficient to remember
that after so long a voyage as that made by the Em-
migrant Steamers which arrive at Salina Cruz, per-
sons who started in good health might easily have
developed some disease en route, and for this reason
alone they should be re-examined on their arrival
in port. On board the steamer "Suisang" according
to the declaration made by Drs. Buhot and Vallarino,
there were 127 immigrants suffering from diseases
of the eyes, some of them from trachoma (say they).
We say that there were 403 trachomatous immigrants
on board. In any case, if there were persons affect-
ed with trachoma, even though few in number, they
could not have contracted the disease except by con-
tagion, and this contagion could only have been con-
vected by other sick persons who were already suffer-
ing