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SIR GEORGE BUCHANAN gave a valuable address upon the above subject at the conference of Port Sanitary Authorities during the recent London congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute. He had recently attended on behalf of the British Government the fourth International Sanitary Conference at Paris, at which seventy nations were represented; and he considered that some good results had been achieved. The conference was held with the object of revising and bringing up-to-date the International Sanitary Convention, 1912, under which the various signatory governments agreed upon mutual action and common standards for dealing with the diseases liable to be carried on ships, including cholera, plague, typhus, smallpox, and yellow fever. The conference laid down some new lines of international action which are of great importance to British port sanitary authorities, on whom rests the daily burden of protecting their ports, as well as the rest of the country, from the risks from the importation of these diseases.
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International Agreements affecting Port Sanitary Work. Nature 118, 537 (1926). https://doi.org/10.1038/118537a0
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