SANITARY CONVENTION (INTER-AMERICAN)
- Convention signed at Washington October 14, 1905
- Senate advice and consent to ratification February 22, 1906
- Ratified by the President of the United States May 29, 1906
- Ratification of the United States deposited at Washington May 29, 1906
- Entered into force April 30, 1906;[1] for the United States May 29, 1906
- Proclaimed by the President of the United States March 1, 1909
- Replaced by convention of November 14, 1924,[2] as amended, as between contracting parties to the later convention, except that provisions of articles V, VI, XIII–XVIII, XXV, XXX, XXXII–XXXIV, XXXVII–XLV, XLIX, and L continued in force insofar as they did not conflict with provisions of 1924 convention; replaced by International Sanitary Regulations (World Health Organization Regulations No. 2) of May 25, 1951,[3] as amended, as between states bound by the regulations
Convention
The Presidents of the Republics of Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, United States of America, and Venezuela:
Having found that it is useful and convenient to codify all the measures destined to guard the public health against the invasion and propagation of yellow fever, plague and cholera, have designated as their Delegates, to wit:
Republic of Chile, Sr. Dr. D. Eduardo Moore, Professor of the Medical Faculty, Hospital Physician;
Republic of Costa Rica, Sr. Dr. D. Juan J. Ulloa, Ex-Vice-President, Ex-Minister of the Interior of Costa Rica, Ex-President of the Medical Faculty of Costa Rica;
Republic of Cuba, Sr. Dr. D. Juan Guiteras, Member of the Superior Board of Health of Cuba, Director of the "Las Animas" Hospital, Professor of General Pathology and Tropical Medicine of the University of Havana, and Sr.
