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of recommendations by the Public Health Committee of the Council of Europe. They are intended
to increase the safeguards against the importation of smallpox into the " excepted areas " and as a
result, national health administrations should normally require from travellers from locally infected
areas and " endemic areas " a valid International Certificate of Vaccination. The " endemic areas "
are now defined as consisting of Africa, Asia and the Americas (excluding Canada and the United
States of America). During 1964 one hundred and four travellers from such areas who had arrived
in the Borough without valid International Certificates of Vaccination were seen and kept under
surveillance.
Bacteriological Examinations.
Table 26, page 39, shows the number of specimens examined for the purposes of diagnosis and also
indicates the organisms in relation to which the examinations were made.