the High Contracting Parties may regulate the procedure which may be applied to aircraft.
It is for each High Contracting Party to determine whether measures should be applied, within the limits of the present convention, to arrivals from a foreign local area or aerodrome.
Post, p. 3302. In this respect, information received and measures already applied shall, in accordance with article 54 of the present convention, be taken into the fullest possible account.
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Local infected area construed.
Vol. 45, p. 2558.
For the purpose of part III of the present convention, a local area is considered to be infected when the conditions specified in the International Sanitary Convention of June 21, 1926,[1] are applicable to it.
CHAPTER I
SECTION I
Measures on Departure
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Measure on departure. The measures to be applied on the departure of aircraft from a local area infected by one of the diseases mentioned in this chapter are the following:
- ↑ According to the terms of the International Sanitary Convention of June 21, 1926, art. 10 and the first paragraph of art. 11, a local area is considered “infected” by one of the diseases in question in the following circumstances: For plague and yellow fever, when the first case recognized as nonimported is reported; for cholera, when forming a “foyer”—that is, when the occurrence of new cases outside the immediate surroundings of the first cases proves that the spread of the disease has bot been confied to the place where it began; for exanthematous typhus and smallpox, when they appear in epidemic form. [Footnote in the original.]
