?414 Regulations against arrivals from [CHAP. XIV.
In the Venice
Convention,
1897.
reserved this portion of the regulations from assent. The Venice
Convention of 1897 also contains regulations for the control of quaran-
tine in the Persian Gulf, which differ considerably from those
prescribed in the Paris Convention and remove the main objec-
tions. Under the Venice Convention regulations healthy vessels
reaching Ormuz before the expiration of ten days since they last
touched at a port infected with plague must either complete that
period at Ormuz or may, after medical inspection, continue their
voyage up the Gulf or the Shatt-ul-Arab, provided they do so in
quarantine for such term as is required to complete the ten days.
The same provision will apply to suspected vessels, that is, vessels
on which there has been a case of plague, but no fresh case for
twelve days, subject to submission to certain processes of disinfec-
tion, etc., 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 is to be established on one of the
islands in the Straits of Ormuz.
CEYLON.
Owing to its proximity to the infected area and its peculiar
position as a general port of call, the Government of Ceylon consi-
dered it necessary to adopt very stringent precautionary measures
with respect to arrivals from India.
Fifteen days'
quarantine.
Tuticorin, in the extreme south of the Madras Presidency, is
the port in closest and most constant communication with Colombo,
but there is also frequent communication between Colombo and the
principal ports on the West and East coast of India. Early in the
epidemic fifteen days' quarantine was imposed on all arrivals from
Western Indian ports. On the 2nd of March a set of general
quarantine regulations were issued by the Colonial Government
under which the fifteen days' quarantine was still maintained.
As an additional precaution, passengers recently arriving from
an infected district on a steamer from a healthy port were not
permitted to land, though the vessel herself was not quarantined.
An account has been given in Chapter XI of the measures adopted
by the Madras and Ceylon Governments in co-operation to prevent
infected persons crossing from Tuticorin to Colombo. The Colonial