Arrêté of 29 August 1944 prohibiting the creation or extension of marshy zones

Présidence de la République d'Haïti • 1944-08-29 • 2 pages

Summary — A malaria-control instrument: drainage works near towns may not be degraded, rice and mounded food-crop fields near large towns must be declared and licensed, standing irrigation or rain water may not be left more than forty-eight hours, and rice growing is prohibited outright in named corridors around Petit-Goâve, Les Cayes and Port-au-Prince.

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Key Findings

Rice fields and mounded food crops near large towns need a licence from the Service National d'Hygiène, on a favourable agriculture report.
Standing water may not remain more than forty-eight hours.
Rice growing is prohibited outright from Petit-Goâve to Curtice, Les Cayes to the Gabions, and Port-au-Prince to Carrefour within 7 km of the national road.
Penalties run from 50 to 100 gourdes or 15 days' imprisonment.

Full Description

The arrêté of 29 August 1944, reproduced in the Code d'Hygiène Publique of 1954.

Article 1 forbids degrading, altering or destroying in any way the irrigation-water distribution works and the drainage works established near urban zones for malaria control. Article 2 requires owners of rice fields and of land under mounded food crops in the immediate neighbourhood of large towns to declare them to the Service National d'Hygiène in order to obtain authorisation to continue or establish the cultivation. Article 3 makes that authorisation conditional on a favourable report from the agriculture department on the cultivation methods to be used. Article 4 requires owners not to let rain or irrigation water stand more than forty-eight consecutive hours and to drain it completely thereafter, to prevent mosquito larvae forming; Article 5 exempts naturally submerged zones and zones beyond the urban areas. Article 6 prohibits rice growing from 1 September 1944 in three named corridors under sanitation works: from Petit-Goâve to the Curtice habitation, from Les Cayes to the Gabions, and from Port-au-Prince to Carrefour on land either side of the national road within a 7-kilometre radius. Article 7 sets a fine of 50 to 100 gourdes or 15 days' imprisonment. Article 8 puts enforcement with sanitary police officers, rural and agricultural police agents and the Garde d'Haïti.

The instrument is where public health, irrigation and land use meet, and its named corridors are now built-up parts of the metropolitan area.

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Geography

Time Coverage

1944 — 1944

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Arrete du 29 AoOt 1944 defendant la creation ou !'extension des zones reputees marecageuses Code d'Hygiene Publique de 1954 Arrete Article 1er. II est formellement defendu de degrader, modifier, detruire d'une maniere quelconque les ttavaux de distmutlon des eaux d'arrosage et 1es ouvrages de drainage destines au contrOle de la malaria qui sont ou se sont etablis dans le voisinage des zones urbaines. Article II. Les propriotaires de Riz.leres et de terrains affedes ala culture 'en buttes" de plantes vivrieres dnas le voislnage immediat des gnindes villes devront faire une declaration obligatioire de !'existence des dites cultures au Service National d'Hygitne dans le but d'ot,tenir une autorisation pour continuer ou etabtir ces cultures. Artid• Ill. c.tt. :autoriH.tion ne pourra Mr- acordM qu• moyennant p,19Mnbtion au S.n,n National d'MY!JLiln• et d'As11i!ltanr.oo Publw:,,,. d'un r:aJ)j'IOl't favorable, quant aux procedes de culture qui seront employt!,s, 6manes du Departement de l'Agricultl.lre. Article 4 En vue d'emptcher la formation des larves de mousliques sur leurs proprietes, ii leur est prescrit de ne pas laisSer s6joumer des eaux pluviales ou d'arrosage au- dela de quarante-huit heuies consecuttves et d'en assurer l'evaaaation comp!Me a !'expiration de cette penode de temps. Article 5. Cette demiere piucription ne vise pas les zones naturellement submergees ni celles qui sont situees a(Mje!A des zones urbaines. 271 Article 8 A partir du 1er seplembia 1944, les cultures dites rizi6res seront prohib6as dans Jes zones suivante en voie d'assainnissement, de la ville de PetitGo.tve a !'habitation d6nomm~ "CURTICE", de la ville des cayes aux Gabions et de la ville de Port-au-Prince II Canefour, sur les terrains situ6s des deux c6tes de Route Nationale, sur un rayon de 7 kilometres. Anl<!;lo 7. Toute oontnlvention •ux di:119011itlon:11 du pnltaent Arr6t6 aora punie d'une amende de 50 gourdea au moino, do 100 gourdoo au pluo ou d'un emprisonnement de 15 fours i prononcer par le Tribunal de simple Police competent. Article 8. Les Officiers de la Police Sanllaire, Jes Agents de Police Rurale et de la Police Agricole ainsi que les Officiers et agents de la Garde d'Halti veilleront .!I la stride application des dispositions du present AfT6b!I 272

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