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Article 9.—A local area shall cease to be regarded as infected when—
(1) No death from, nor fresh case of, plague or cholera has occurred
within five days following the isolation, or death, or recovery,
of the last case of plague or cholera.
(2) All measures of disinfection have been carried out, and, in case of
plague, measures have been taken against rats.
Chapter 2. Prescribes measures of defence against territories that have
been declared infected.
Section I.— Publication of Measures prescribed.
Article 10.—The Public Health Act, 1904, has been passed enabling the
Local Government Board to make regulations embodying the results of this
Convention. These will doubtless be issued at an early date.
Section II.—Merchandise Disinfection.
Article 11.—No article of merchandise is in itself capable of conveying
plague or cholera. Merchandise becomes dangerous only when contaminated
by plague or cholera products.
Article 12.—Only such merchandise and things as the local sanitary
authority considers infected may be subjected to disinfection. Provided
always that the merchandise or things hereinafter specified may be
subjected to disinfection, or their importation may even be prohibited
irrespective of any evidence as to whether or not they are infected:—
(1) Body linen, wearing apparel and bedding that have been in use.
(2) Rags, save, as in the case of cholera, rags compressed and carried
in bound bales as merchandise in bulk.
Articles 13-14.— Transit shall not be prevented if packed so that they
cannot be manipulated on the way, and importation of articles 1 and 2 of
Article 12 shall not be prohibited if it be proved that they were despatched
not less than five days before the epidemic commenced.
Article 15.—It rests with the authority of the country to which the
merchandise and things are consigned to decide in what manner and at what
place disinfection shall be carried out, and what shall be the methods adopted
to secure destruction of rats.
Tariff of charges for destruction of rats must be made beforehand, and
sanitary authority shall derive no profit therefrom.
Article 17.—If articles of merchandise known to be infected with plague
cannot be disinfected, the destruction of the germs may be secured by storing
the merchandise during a period not to exceed two weeks.