Show Sanitary Keguliitlons WASHINGTON March 1The PanAmer ican congress has adopted tho report of the committee on the subject of sanitary san-itary regulations The report says in part The committee carefully examined the work of special conferences and congresses con-gresses which have met at different times and in several parts of tho world and has reached the conclusion that it has duly discharged dis-charged its duty by making a selection from among those works which are the result re-sult of exhaustive studies made by men eminent in the study medicine in Europe as well as in America Complete isolation which theoretically apneirs to be the most effective prophylactic against invasions of epidemic diseases does tot afford in practice satisfactory results as a sanitary san-itary measure but tends on the other hand to notably injure the commercial interests of countries But if absolute isolation as a prophylactic is nothing more than an illusion the same may not bo said of the sanitary means that modern science has placed within our reach for tho disinfection of infected localities as well as to prevent the introduction and development devel-opment of contagion in those which remained re-mained in a state of health The Rio do Janeiro convention and the draught of tho congress of Lima are works which may servo as a model with respect to tho form and general idea for sanitary conventions The greater parts of South America on tho Atlantic arc guided and oem o-em cd by the decision of the International Sanitary convention of Rio do Janeiro of 1SS7 and although it does not appear that the plans of the sanitary congress at Lima 0 ISSJ have passed into tho category of international complaints the committee hopes they will be accepted by the governments govern-ments that participated in said congress The sanitary conventions of Rio Janeiro and Lima agree in essential provisions I Jicir rules and regulations were duly observed ob-served in all America they would prevent under any circumstances tho conflict which usually arises between the obligation obliga-tion to care for the public health and the principles between countries of freedom of communication |