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their essential decisions have met with the approval
of the Board of Health and of the Ministry of the
Interior.
VIII. When the Delegates have recommended the
adoption of measures tending to modify existing Regu-
lations (as, for example, the prolongation of the per-
iod of ten days during which the immigrants are placed
under observation in the barracks) the Board has com-
pelled them to adhere strictly to the sanitary regu-
lations in force.
IX. On all occasions when the Board has felt
doubtful respecting the number of trachomatous subjects
that were stated by the Delegates, to exist, they have
requested that further inspectionary visits should be
made for the purpose of confirming, or if necessary
correcting, the figures which appeared, in the eyes of
the Board, to have been exaggerated.
X. In the case of the steamers "Suisang" and
"Landrat Schieff" the attitude adopted by the Board to-
wards the China Commercial Steamship Company has been
carried to the extreme limit of complacency, inasmuch
as the Delegates were instructed to repeat their visits
of inspection to these vessels as often as the Re-
presentative of the Company requested that this
should be done.
XI.
The detention suffered by the Steamship
"Suisang" was not the result of any rectifications
requiring to be made by the Superior Board of Health
or by the Ministry of the Interior. The delay in
the departure of this vessel took place in the in-
terests of the Company, who were doing what lay in
their power to avoid the necessity of carrying away
the whole number of immigrants who had proved to be
infected with trachoma, and who were also anxious
to ship on board this vessel a number of Chinese who
were waiting in Manzanillo to be repatriated.
XII. The orders issued for the withdrawal of
the "Suisang" from the Port, and for keeping a close
watch over the "Landrat Schieff" arose from the
paramount necessity of preventing the spread of a
terrible and contagious disease throughout the Re-
public, and in the case of the "Suisang" in order
to preclude the escape of more infected persons,
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