893.12/43: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Consul General at Shanghai (Cunningham)
Your September 10, 1930, 5 p.m. United States Public Health Service permits quarantine authorities at American ports to accept duly authenticated fumigation certificates issued by medical officers of foreign Governments which are parties to International Sanitary Convention 192636 which however China has not ratified. Pending settlement of the question of proposed new quarantine regulations you should not authenticate fumigation certificates issued by officers of the Chinese National Quarantine Service but should request United States Public Health Surgeon at Shanghai to issue fumigation certificate under Article 104, quarantine regulations, after satisfying himself regulations complied with. This certificate should carefully avoid assigning any official character to the establishment actually performing the work. You should telegraph Manila opinion of United States Public Health Surgeon at Shanghai as to adequacy of Tjikarang fumigation and its compliance with United States Quarantine Regulations.
- Signed at Paris, June 21, 1926; Foreign Relations, 1926, vol. i, p. 177.↩