2606 IndIa. Finland. lapan. LIthuania. The Netherlands. INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNE 21,1926. official information it ma.y receive concerning the existence of the diseases in foreign countries. The Delegate of India declares that he is authorized to sign the International Sanitary Convention under the :reservation that on grounds of a practical'nature India is not in a I-'osition to assume the obligations resulting from article 8 in so far as it has to do with the' o~tory' declaration of the diseases named in said article, ,except m large cities or in cases of epidemic. The British Plenipotentiaries declare and wish to have it made a record that the reservation of the Plenipotentiaries of Persia about article 90 cannot in, any way modify the present status quo pending an agreement to be arrived at between the Persia.n and British GoVernments. The Plenipotentiaries of the Finnish Republic declare that im- munization from cholera does not oonstitute a sufficient guarantee and that their Government reserves to itself notwithstanding the provisions of article 30, ,the right to make, if the occasion arises, munune persons undergo observation. On the other hand, considering thEl.t the tr&ffic of the Finnish bor- der could only I{O over two railways in the east very close to each other and a smgJe' raiIwayin' the west which does not make it per- missible to contemplate a partial closing of the frontier, Finland in order to avoid the complete closing in case of epidemic reserves to itself the right to set up observation if occasion arises notwithstand- ~the provisio.ns in article 58. The PJeni{>otentiaries of Japan declare that their Gov6.l"'JllD.ent reserves to Itself the right: 1. To forward through the Eastern bureau of Singapore the ,notices and in:formation, the m~ of which to the International Office of Public, Hygiene is req' br the Convention; 2. To take such measures' as the sanitary authon- ties may deem necessary with regard to carriers of cholera vibrios. The Plenipotentiaries of Lithuania declare that though adhering to tha Convention, they make special reservations as to its being put into practice between Lithuania and Poland as long as normal relations between the two countries shall not have been restored. These reservations are of particular importance with respect to the provisions in articles 9, 196,57 and 66. The Plenipotentiaries of The Netherlands declare in the name of their Government. that it reserves to itself with r~ard to the Dutch East Indies to enforce the measures provided in artIcle 10, sub-eection 2 in the same degree to arrivals from districts afHicted with murine plague. They further dedare that their Government reserves to itself with respect to tha Dutch East Indies the right to put on article 27-2 a construction to the effect that the destruction of rats referred to in that article may be applied to vessels taking a cargo from a district affiicted with murine plague when the sanitary authority believes that the cargo is likely to carry rats and is stowed in such a way as to make it impossible to affect the search provided in the last sub-section of article 24. The Plenipotentiaries of Persia declare that there is nothing war- ranting any special provision concerning the Persian Gulf being retained in the Convention. The fact that there is in the Convention article 90 constituting Section V of Title II, prevents their signing without making the most express reservations. The Plenipotenti- aries of Persia further declare that the status quo could not in any way bind their Government. Again they reserve for their Gov- ernment the right not to apply the ;provisions of article 8 relative to the obligatory declaration of the diseases coming under the said article.
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