The Powers, signatories to the Convention, shall finally arrange with the Government of the Sublime Porte the details for carrying out in common this measure. CXXIX. The doctors appointed medical officers shall be classed as central doctors and ordinary doctors. The ordinary doctors shall be distributed according to the plan annexed to these regulations. CXXX. There shall be a central doctor in each of the cities of Constantinople, Smyrna, Beyrout and Alexandria. CXXXI. Without having any supremacy over his colleagues, the central doctor shall have-besides his duties as medical officer-to unite and arrange in a general report, the several reports of his district. That report shall be sent once a month in Turkey and twice a month in Egypt to the local consular body and to the Council of Health. CXXXII. In case of absence on leave the central doctors shall be selected according to seniority from among the ordinary doctors of the same district. CXXXIII. The European doctors appointed medical officers in the East shall be entirely independent of the local authorities, and shall only be responsible to the Governments by which they have been appointed. CXXXIV. The duties of the medical officers shall be as follows:: 1. To study in relation to the public health, the country where they are, its climate, its diseases, and all its characteristics, as also the measures taken to combat with those diseases. 2. With this object to make tours of inspection of their respective districts as often as they may think it advisable; in Egypt as often as possible. 3. To communicate everything relating to the public health to the central doctor of the district, the consular body, and, if needs be, to the local authorities of the country twice a week in Turkey and every week in Egypt. In case of an epidemic or any other suspicious disease, as also in all extraordinary cases, the medical officer shall send without delay a special report to all the above-mentioned authorities, and to all the medical officers and consuls of the neighbouring districts, and, if necessary, to some doctors and consuls more distant to whom such information might be useful. They will furthermore have to follow in matters of detail, the directions annexed to the present regulations. CXXXV. Where a contagious disease is suspected the medical officers shall immediately acquaint the health officer and vice versa, and thereupon a medical consultation shall be held, the result of which shall be forthwith communicated to the above-mentioned authorities. CXXXVI. At the same time, the health offices, stations, deputations, committees, &c., shall be bound to furnish the doctors with correct written particulars of everything relating to the public health, and they shall admit the doctors into the offices of the health administration every time that the latter shall see fit to go there to obtain information or verbal explanation. TIT. X.-PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO AMERICA. CXXXVII. In the countries liable to yellow fever belonging to the Powers, signatories to the Convention, and where there is not already a regular medical service, the respective Governments shall appoint medical officers to study that disease, its source and propagation, to seek the means to prevent it, and to combat it, to notify its presence to the authorities, and verify its cessation; to fulfil, in a word, officially, with respect to the yellow fever, the duties performed in reference to the plague by the medical officers in the East. TEMPORARY ARTICLE. When the medical service of the East, as specified, shall have been regulated and distributed between the Contracting Powers, each of the Powers shall make appointments to the stations which shall be assigned to it, and of which it will take charge. Nevertheless the medical officers at present appointed by France, shal Icontinue to occupy the stations they now are at, and shall only be replaced by doctors of other nations on a vacancy occurring. France also reserves the right to make such changes among the existing doctors as she may think expedient. The sanitary provisions in the countries of the High Contracting Parties, which are not at variance with the Convention of December 19th, 1851, and the present regulations, shall continue in force. Signed at Paris on the day, and in the year, above written. The Minister of Foreign Affairs for France, (L.S.) MARQUIS ZURGOT. Plenipotentiaries for Sardinia, (L.S.) G. MAGNETTO. (L.S.) D. R. ANGELO BO. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, of His Majesty the Emperor of the French, (L.S.) DROUYN DE LHUYS. Plenipotentiary for Portugal, (L.S.) JEAN MOUZINHO DE SILVEIRA. The Ambassador for the Sublime Porte, The Minister Plenipotentiary for Tuscany, |