Office International d'Hygiene Publique Application of the International Sanitary Convention of Paris, 1926 International Quarantine Directory (giving Information on the Equipment and Organisation of the Public Health Services of the Ports of Different Countries)

Abstract

A WHITE Paper published a few weeks ago (Cmd. 4650), giving the text of the International Sanitary Convention for Aerial Navigation signed at the Hague, marks a notable extension to air traffic of quarantine measures which in one or another form have been imposed for centuries on arrivals from foreign countries by sea and land. Drawn up by the International Office of Public Health in Paris in consultation with representatives of the air services, the Convention provides the adhering countries with a practical code of action, defined in terms of maximum permissive action, which can be applied at aerodromes to foreign aircraft likely to be bringing exotic infections. An obvious example of the risk is the case when an air route enables persons or mosquitoes to be brought within two or three days from the West African countries where yellow fever has long been endemic, to East Africa or regions farther afield, which have never yet known yellow fever, but possess the necessary insect carriers as well as human populations which are all too liable to develop the disease in epidemic form, if once the infection is introduced.

Office International d'Hygiene Publique. Application of the International Sanitary Convention of Paris, 1926. International Quarantine Directory (giving Information on the Equipment and Organisation of the Public Health Services of the Ports of Different Countries).

Pp. xxxviii + 1039. (Paris: Office International d'Hygiene Publique; London: Dr. M. T. Morgan, Ministry of Health, 1934.) 21s.