File No. 822.124/190.
The American Chargé
d’Affaires to the Secretary of
State.
No. 57.]
American Legation,
Quito,
February 10, 1912.
Sir: Referring to my despatch No. 56 dated
February 6, 1912, I have the honor to enclose herewith copy of note No.
174 from the Ecuadorian Foreign Office, dated February 8, 1912, together
with translation, transmitting to this Legation a memorandum, copies and
translation enclosed, of proposed bases for a convention or protocol for
the sanitation of Guayaquil.
I have [etc.]
[Page 424]
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to the American
Minister.
No. 174.]
Ministry for Foreign Relations,
Quito,
February 8, 1912.
Excellency: In accordance with the
understanding in the conferences which I have held with your
excellency touching the necessity of procuring as soon as possible
the sanitation of the city of Guayaquil in respect to the yellow
fever and the bubonic plague, it gives me pleasure to send to your
excellency the bases for a convention between my Government and that
which your excellency so worthily represents, in order to
satisfactorily arrange for this pressing necessity.
I renew [etc.]
[Subinclosure.—Translation.]
Proposed bases for a convention or protocol for
the sanitation of Guayaquil.
The Governments of Ecuador and of the United States of America,
animated by the desire that there be extinguished as soon as
possible in the city of Guayaquil the two principal diseases that at
present make that place dangerous, isolating it in a certain manner
from universal commerce and preventing the flow to it of immigrants
and travelers to increase its wealth, have agreed to celebrate a
treaty, for which purpose they have named their plenipotentiaries,
to wit: H. E. the President of the Senate, in charge of the
Executive Power of Ecuador, Doctor Carlos R. Tobar, Minister of
Foreign Relations; and H. E. the President of the United States of
North America, Mr. _._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _; who, after having
exchanged their respective full powers which were found to be in
proper form, have agreed to the following articles:
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Article 1. The Government of the
United States of North America agrees to take charge of all
the works looking to the extinction in the city of Guayaquil
of the two diseases yellow fever and
bubonic plague, under the direction of Colonel
William C. Gorgas, with which object the Ecuadorian
Government authorizes it:
- (a)
- To bring to Ecuador a corps of doctors,
assistants, foremen of gangs, etc., who will take
charge of all cases, without exception, of yellow
fever and bubonic plague, of the prophylaxis, and of
everything concerning the extinction of said
diseases;
- (b)
- To formulate, with reference to the two mentioned
diseases, the regulations and ordinances concerning
sanitation that must be obeyed by the inhabitants of
Guayaquil and even by the authorities; which
regulations and ordinances will be approved by the
Executive Power of Ecuador.;
- (c)
- To exact proper compliance with the mentioned
regulations and ordinances; and
- (d)
- To construct two hospitals, one destined for cases
of yellow fever and the other for bubonic plague;
and to make the other expenditures necessary, as
disinfectants, drugs, instruments, wire netting,
tools, fixtures, materials, etc., appropriate for
combating the diseases referred to.
- In case of the disability of Colonel Gorgas, the
Government of the United States will designate an equally
competent person to replace him.
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Article 2. The period of time that
the Government of the United States shall have for the
sanitation of Guayaquil within the terms of the previous
article is three years.
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Article 3. For the expenditures
that the before mentioned works and constructions demand,
the Government of Ecuador will put at the disposal of that
of the United States the sum of five hundred thousand
dollars; three hundred thousand dollars the first year and
one hundred thousand dollars each of the two following
years.
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Article 4. This convention does
not include the execution of any work concerning the
increase of the water supply, the sewerage or the paving of
the city of Guayaquil, but, as has been expressed in the
previous articles, the extinction of yellow fever and the
bubonic plague. The sanitation of the city with reference to
other diseases that are not those mentioned will remain in
charge of the Government of Ecuador.
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Article 5. The present treaty will
be ratified by the Governments of the two contracting powers
in the form that their respective laws provide, and the
exchange of ratifications will be effected in Quito or in
Washington within the shortest possible time.
