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of disinfection, &c., at Ormuz; and infected vessels will,
after landing their sick, together with those persons who
have been in actual contact with them, and after disinfection
of that part of the vessel deemed to be infected, likewise have
permission to proceed on their voyage in quarantine. The
final arrangements as to the sanitary station at Ormuz are
to be a matter of agreement between the Turkish and Persian
Governments, and until these arrangements are completed,
a temporary sanitary station will be established on one of the
islands in the Straits of Ormuz.
9. The second chapter of the Regulation deals with the
measures to be adopted by the European Governments who
have assented to the terms of the Convention. The provisions
relating to notification have been mentioned in paragraph 4
above. Allusion has also been made in paragraph 3 to the
Regulations regarding the importation of merchandise.
(a) This matter requires some further notice. The
following are of the commodities which are classed as sus-
ceptible and the import of which may be prohibited:-
(1)  Used body linen, clothes, bedding and other per-
sonal effects.
(2)  Rags, including  rags  compressed by  hydraulic
pressure   and  transported   in  bales   as  mer-
chandise.
(3)  Used sacking, carpets and old embroidery.
(4)  Green and untanned hides and skins.
(5)  Animal refuse,   claws, hoofs,  horsehair, hair  of
animals generally, raw silk and wool.
(6)  Human hair.
The prohibition of import is only to be enforced at the
option of the Government concerned. The only articles
which must of necessity be subjected on arrival to any pre-
cautionary measures, such as disinfection, are clothing, bed-
ding and similar articles, which have been actually worn or
used, and which are carried as ordinary luggage, if they have
been brought from an infected area and are considered by the
local sanitary authority to be contaminated. The Govern-
ment of India do not consider it necessary to add to the list
of articles, the import of which by sea from infected ports
into other ports in British India is prohibited in Home
Department Notification No. 513, dated the 17th February
1897, and the bringing of which from the Bombay Presi-
dency and Sind into other parts of British India is prohibited
in Home Department Notification No. 1033, dated the 22nd