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221 
February 10, 19 
DANISH WEST INDIES. 
lessels a'riving from)i Barbados seuject to sanitary nspect'ion. 
The following is received from Minister Swenson at Copenhagen, 
through the Department of State, under date of January 12: 
The Danish foreign office has informed me that the governmentt 
of the Danish West Indies, under date of December 13, 1904, has 
revoked the order prohibiting the importation of all wearing apparel 
and bedclothing not imported as personal baggage. 
Ships, however, arriving from Barbados will, until further notice, be 
subject to sanitary inspection. 
ECUADOR. 
Report from G ayaqu il-Sm allpox and yello w fev:er--fIspjecti'on of 
vessels--Detention of passengers to complete ten days from la&st 
posSi- 
ble exposture to plague itfection--Sanittary 
rep)orts fromJ Ba/ia 
de 
Caracquez and Esm eraldas. 
Acting Assistant Surgeon Gruver reports, January 13 an(l 20, as 
follows: 
Week ended January 11, 1904. Present officially estimated popula- 
tion, 60,000. 
Mortality from all causes, 52, as follows: Yellow fever, 
4; pernicious fever, 2; infectious fever, 2; fever (without classifica- 
tion), 6; smallpox, 1; grippe, 1; anthrax, 1; tuberculosis, 7; enteric 
diseases, 6; from all other causes, 23. 
During the week 1 vessel was fumigated, 8 passengers and 14 pieces 
of baggage were inspected, and 1 immune certificate and 3 bills of 
health were issued, as follows: January 5, steamship 3lexico, from 
Chilean and Peruvian ports, cleared for Ancon, Canal Zone, with 2 
cabin and 2 steerage passengers from this port. One cabin and 3 steer- 
age passengers from ports south infected or supposed to be infected 
with plague were placed in quarantine to complete ten days from last 
possible exposure to infection. 
January 11, steamship ilEanact,i, a coast- 
ing steamer, cleared for Panama, Republic of Panama, and Ancon, 
Canal Zone, taking a bill of health for each place. 
Crew, 45; cabin 
passengers, 18; steerage passengers, 24; all told. 87. Vessel not fumi- 
gated. 
Crew and passengers not inspected. 
Ship's surgeon certified 
that all were in good health. 
The following reports have been received from the American con- 
sular agents at Bahia de Caraquez and Esmeraldas by Hon. H. R. 
Deitrich, American consul-general here: 
Sanitary report from Bahia de Caraquez, January 4, 1905. 
Referring to your remark that the local papers report many cases of deaths from 
smallpox and other diseases from this province (Manabi), I beg to state that it is 
true that there have been such cases of the above-mentioned 
disease, but I do not 
think that I should mention them, as they are not in my consular district. 
Small- 
pox has been epidemic in Santana, Jipijapa, Portoviejo, Charapoto, and Rocafuerte, 
and all of these places belong to the consular district of Manta. 
The province of 
Manabi is as large as any of the New England States. 
The towns, or rather villages, 
are scattered in this large area without any means of communication-no 
roads deserv- 
ing the name, no mails. 
We do not know in most cases what has happened in the 
nearest village until a fortnight has passed.