Catania, Italy. Cayenne, French Guiana. Cebu, Philippine Islands. Ceiba, Honduras. Cette, France. Ceylon, India. Champerico, Guatemala. Charleroi, Belgium. List of consular offices-Continued. Danzig, Germany. Dardanelles, Turkey. Dartmouth, England. Deloraine, Manitoba. Demerara, British Guiana. Denia, Spain. Derby, England. Deseronto, Ontario. Desterro, Brazil. Dieppe, France. Geneva, Switzerland. Georgetown, Prince Edward Island. Gera, Germany. Gibara, Cuba. Gibraltar, Spain. Governors Harbor, West Indies. Granada, Spain. Grand Canary, Canary Islands. Grand Manan, New Brunswick. Grao, Spain. Greenock, Scotland. Green Turtle Cay, West Indies. Guadeloupe, West Indies. Guanajuato, Mexico. Guantanamo, Cuba. Guatemala, Central America. Guayama, Puerto Rico. Cockburn Harbor, West Indies. Falmouth, Jamaica, West Indies. Guayaquil, Ecuador. Guben, Germany. Guelph, Ontario. Guernsey, Great Britain. Habana, Cuba. Haida, Austria. Haifa, Syria. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Hochelaga and Longueuil, Quebec Hodeida, Arabia. Holyhead, England. Honda, Colombia. Honfleur, France. Hongkong, China. Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands. Horgen, Switzerland, Huddersfield, England. Jacmel, Haiti. Jaffna, Ceylon, India. Jaluit, Marshall Islands. Jeres de la Frontera, Spain. Jerusalem, Syria. Kahului, Hawaiian Islands. Kalamata, Greece. Kanagawa, Japan. Karachi, India. Kehl, Germany. Kempt, Nova Scotia. Keneh, Egypt. Kidderminster, England. Kiel, Germany. Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston, Ontario. La Union, San Salvador. Leeds, England. Leghorn, Italy. Leipsic, Germany. Lethbridge, Manitoba. Levuka, Fiji. Libau, Russia. Licata, Italy. Liege, Belgium. Lille, France. Limerick, Ireland. Limoges, France. Lindsay, Ontario. Lineboro, Quebec. Lisbon, Portugal. Liverpool, England. Liverpool, Nova Scotia. Livingston, Guatemala. Llanelly, Wales. List of Consular Offices—Continued. Lorenzo Marquez, Africa. Lubec, Germany. Lucerne, Switzerland. Luxemburg, Grand Duchy of. Luxor, Egypt. Lyons, France. Macaome, Honduras. Maceio, Brazil, Macoris, Santo Domingo. Magdalen Islands, Canada. Mahukona, Hawaiian Islands. Majonga, Madagascar. Malmo, Sweden. Malta, Malta Island. Marseilles, France. Mathewtown, West Indies. Mazagan, Morocco. Mazatlan, Mexico. Moncton, New Brunswick. Monganui, New Zealand. Monrovia, Liberia. Monte Christi, Santo Domingo. Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies. Monterey, Mexico. Montevideo, Uruguay. Montserrat, West Indies. Morrisburg, Ontario. Mytilene, Turkey. Nagasaki, Japan. Naguabo, Puerto Rico. Nanaimo, British Columbia. Nantes, France. Napanee, Ontario. Naples, Italy. Nassau, West Indies. Natal, Brazil. Neustadt, Germany. Nevis, West Indies. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. Newcastle, New South Wales. Newcastle, New Brunswick. Newport, Wales. Ningpo, China. Niuchwang, China. Nogales, Mexico, Norfolk Island, New South Wales. Old Hartlepool, England. Me Adam Junction, New Bruns- Orotava, Canary Islands. wick. Medelin, Colombia. Megantic, Quebec. Melbourne, Australia. Mentone, France. Mersine, Syria. Mollendo, Peru. Loanda, Africa. London, England. London, Ontario. Londonderry, Ireland. Monaco, France. Oran, Algeria, Africa. Orillia, Ontario. Osaka and Hiogo, Japan. Oshawa, Ontario. Ottawa, Ontario. Owen Sound, Ontario. Padang, Sumatra. Paita. Peru. Palma Majorca, Spain. Palmerston, Ontario, Panama, Colombia. Para, Brazil. Paramaribo, Dutch Guiana. Paris, Ontario. Paris, France. Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Parry Sound, Ontario, Paysandu, Uruguay, Peterboro, Ontario. Petit Goâve, Haiti. Picton, Ontario. Pictou, Nova Scotia. Piedras Negras, Mexico. Piræus, Greece. List of Consular Offices-Continued. Rheims, France. Richibucto, New Brunswick. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. many. Rodi, Italy. Rome, Italy. Ronne, Denmark. Rosario, Argentina. Sierra Mojada, Mexico. Smyrna, Turkey. Sohag, Egypt. Ger- Solingen, Germany. Rostoff and Taganrog, Russia. Rouen, France. Sagua la Grande, Cuba. Port Antonio, Jamaica, West In- Salt City, West Indies. dies. Port Arthur, Manitoba. Port au Prince, Haiti. Port de Paix, Haiti. Port of Marabella, Spain. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Port Hawkesbury and Mulgrave, Nova Scotia. Port Hope, Ontario. Port Joggins, Nova Scotia. Port St. Mary's, Spain. Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Port Stanley and St. Thomas, Ontario. Saltillo, Mexico. Samana, Santo Domingo. San Benito, Mexico. San Cristobal, Venezuela. San Felin de Guixols, Spain. San Jorge, Azores. San José, Costa Rica. Sorento, Italy. Souris, Prince Edward Island. St. Anns Bay, West Indies. St. Christopher, West Indies. St. Eustatius, West Indies. San José and Cape St. Lucas, St. Malo, France. Mexico. San José de Guatemala. San Juan de los Remedios, Cuba. Santa Cruz Point, Mexico. San Sebastian, Spain. Santo Domingo, West Indies. Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Seville, Spain. Setubal, Portugal. Shelburne, Nova Scotia. St. Marc, Haiti. St. Martin, West Indies. St. Petersburg, Russia. St. Stephen, New Brunswick. St. Thomas, West Indies. St. Vincent, Cape Verde Islands. Stuttgart, Germany. Suez, Egypt. Summerside, Prince Ed'wd Island. Sunderland, England. Sutton, Quebec. Swansea, Wales. Swatow, China. Sydney, New South Wales Sydney, Nova Scotia. Tahiti, Society Islands. Takao, China. Talcahuano, Chile. Tamatave, Madagascar. Tampico, Mexico. The following correspondence is inserted, showing the efforts made to annul the Treasury Regulations, which now require disinfection of all rags prior to their shipment to the United States. It may be remarked that the United States Government was not represented in the International Sanitary Conference at Dresden in 1893, and that the conditions concerning the rag trade are entirely different in the United States from those existing in France-the latter country being a large exporter of rags, the United States exporting none, but importing large quantities: CONSULAT-GÉNÉRAL DE FRANCE À NEW-YORK, New York, August 23, 1895. DEAR SIR: Although I have not the honor of your personal acquaintance, may I apply to your courteous assistance which may, I am sure, be of great service to the trade of both countries, yours and mine. This office has received a great many applications from dealers in drills and rags for either paper stock or shoddy. They complain that their trade is much impeached by such regulations that make it obligatory for them to have the stuff they need over here treated in France by methods of disinfection that put them to a great deal of trouble and a great layout of money. They claim that with the system of packing now in use, with iron hoops under hydraulic pressure, the danger of spreading any contagious disease does not exist. I have submitted the matter to the attention of the French Government, and I was glad to learn, in an official communication that I received yesterday, that after due consideration of the subject, it has been decided by the French custom service to do away with the inconveniences complained of. It has been found that such methods of disinfection by dipping in boiling water, by exposing to steam water, or to the fumes of "acide sulfureux or sulphydrique" are more detrimental to the trade than useful to the public health, and have for effect the destruction of the trade, in preventing the shipping of the goods or in making them too obnoxious or too expensive. The French national board of health, to which the question was submitted, think that seldom diseases are spread by rags and drills. Only two or three instances of transmission of cholera were ever quoted, and even then Dr. Robert Koch has proved that said instances were not clearly established. So much so, that the International Sanitary Congress, held at Dresden in 1893, did not find any objection against the free circulation of drills and rags compressed by hydraulic power with iron ties. Of course, there is not even the least question about drills and waste, all new, coming directly from factories. By a proclamation, dated June 22, the President of the French Republic has decided that hereafter such drills and rags as are packed under hydraulic pressure with iron ties would be admitted freely in our ports and harbors without any previous disinfection, and the same freedom is granted to fresh waste, in any form of packing, coming directly from the factories. You will find herewith inclosed said regulation as printed for the use of our customs service. Under such circumstances, would you not feel at liberty to study, take, or suggest to the proper authorities any measure that would help the American dealers in this country as they are now helped in our own? Our Government has done its best to serve the interests of that important line of business. The manufacturers of shoddy, the paper mills would be most grateful to you if you could allow them to bring in at the least possible expense and trouble raw materials which are much needed over here and which would increase the present activity of the mills to the advantage of laboring classes. Hoping to hear of you at your earliest convenience, and most willing to do anything you would suggest to the aim the French Government and I have in view, I have the honor to be, sir, with kindest regards, Your obedient servant, EDMOND BRUWAERT, French Consul-General. WALTER WYMAN, Surgeon-General Marine-Hospital Service, Washington, D. C. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE SUPERVISING SURGEON-GENERAL, M. H. S., Washington, D. C., August 25, 1895. SIR: In reply to your letter of the 23d instant, inclosing a decree of the French Republic, permitting the admission, without disinfection, into all the ports of France, of rags compressed by hydraulic force and packed according to regulation, you are respectfully informed that no change will be made in the requirements for disinfection of these articles in the quarantine regulations of the United States Government, a copy of which is inclosed for your information. Respectfully, yours, WALTER WYMAN, Supervising Surgeon-General Marine-Hospital Service. CONSUL-GENERAL OF FRANCE, 35 South William street, New York, N. Y. QUARANTINE SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES. In discussing the quarantine system of the United States as it at present exists, it will be pertinent to refer to it (1) as a system in comparison with that of other Governments, and (2) as a system in its relation to the home Government. In very recent years the principle and practice of quarantine have been attacked from time to time both in the |