Doe. N°2
TRANSLATION.
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128
SANITARY PREVENTIONS in force relative to Immigrants from China aitỹ
Japan.
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1. Every immigrant proceeding from China shall, before embarking,
repair to a doctor to be examined and his state of health certified to.
This certificate shall be legalized by the Mexican Consul of the Port of
embarkation, and should there be none, by that of the United States of
America. The date of issuance of these certificates shall not be more
than two months previous to the arrival of the ship in the Republic.
2. On arrival at the Mexican port of disembarkation, the immigrants
shall be disinfected: the ship, the cargo and the baggages to the satis-
faction of the Delegate of the Superior Board of Health, and the immigrants
shall be subjected to the measures of vigilance, isolation and quarantine
for observation provided by law, they to be fed by the Companies that
transported them, during the time necessary in carrying out such measures.
The disembarkation shall be made precisely at the port of
3.
Salina Cruz when the bumber of immigrants exceed ten. With due anticipa-
tion the Companies that transport them shall construct in said port, to the
satisfaction of the Superior Board of Health, barracks of observation of
a capacity proportionate to the maximum of immigrants which they can bring
each time.
When the immigrants do not exceed ten, or when, in special cases
Health may and under the precautions agreed to, the Superior Board of
permit same even when exceeding this number, they shall disembark in
Acapulco, Mazatlan, Guaymas, Tampico, Vera Cruz or Coatzacoalcos.
5.
Besides the above mentioned, all other measures of precaution
that the Superior Board of Health may dictate, if deemed necessary, shall be observed, taking into account, in each case, the annotations on the bills of health of the ships, the health condition of the port of embarka- tion or those which they may have called at, the accidents occurred during the voyage, the state of cleanliness of the ships or of the passage and the
sanitary conditions on board, and
6.
The Superior Board of Health and its Delegates shall detain the ships for the time that may be necessary for carrying out the measures to
be provided.
Mexico, April 12th, 1907.
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