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2588 INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNE 21, 1926. of aix 131 five days shall not begin for this section until the day on which tbfl lut ease was discovered. ARTICLE 141. tl!d~\~=: to E~ In the ease contemplated in the precec:li.ng article, the Egyptian pilgrims shall be subjected, besides, to an additional observation of three days. ARTICLE 142. fec~~h4! i~rTo~~ln- If plague or cholera is not found to exist either in Hedjaz or in the port from which the vessel hails, and has not been known to exist in Hedjaz during the course of the pilgrimage, the vessel shall be subjected at Tor to the rules adopted at Camaran for uninfected vessels. The pilgrims shall be landed and take a shower or sea bath, and their soiled linen or the parI; of their wearing apparel and baggage which may appear suspicious in the opinion of the health authority shall be disinfected. The duration of these operations shall not P b bS exceed seventy-two hours. C~qTarmstroBot (talk)ine~ez However, a pilgrim ship, if it has had no plague or cholera J>atients during the course of the voyage from Djeddah to Yambo or Tor and if the individual medical examination made at Tor after debarka- tion establishes the fact that it contains no such patients, may be authorized by the Sanitary Maritime and Quarantine Board of Requirements_ Sanitary tu. Return to Tor If sus- picious C888 on board. Transsbipment re- strlctloDS_ Egypt to pass through the Suez Canal in quarantine even at night when the following four conditions are fulfilled: 1. Medical attendance shall be given on board by one or several physicians graduated and duly accepted' 2. The vessel shall be provided with disinfecting chambers in good working order; 3. It shall be shown that the number of pilgrims does not exceed that authorized by the pilgrimage rcgu}ations; 4. The captain shall bind himself to repair directly to the port which he names as his next call port. The sanitary tax to be paid to the Quarantine administration shall be the same as the pilgrims would have paid had they remained in quarantine three days. ARTICLE 143. A vessel which has had a suspicious case on board during the voyage from Tor to Suez may be sent back to Tor. ARTICLE 144. The transshipment of pilgrims is strictly forbidden in Egyptian }lorts except by special permit and on the conditions laid by the Egyptian Sanitary authority in accord with the Maritime Sanitary and Quarantine Board of Egypt. ARTICLE 145. Pilgrims for African VII . Hd' dh' bdil' h sboreolHedSea. esse s eavmg e Jaz an avmgon oarpgnmsw0are bound for a port on the African shore of the Red Sea. shall proceed directly to the quarantine station named by the territorial authority to which that port belongs, where they shall subInit to the same quarantine procedure as at Tor.