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to refer to it on medical questions.-
2. So far
as regards Quarantine itself, I would further observe that although the Quarantine Act provides for laud quarantine and the quarantine of inland waters, as well as for maritimme quarantine
(internal and external quarantine so to
speate), it does not appear that internal quarantine has ever been enforced in this bountry suce the Act was passed. Maritime quarantine alove has been practised, and this has been applied to three diseases only: all of them infectious diseases of foreign origine, vez: - Plague, bholera and Yellow fever. Of Plague there has been no question in Eugliste Porto for the last thirty years or thereabouts. Ayamit bholera, quarantine has not been enforced suice 1858, its futility
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precautionary
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precautionary measure in this bountry having been abundantly manifested. Yellow fever is the sole disease at present subjected to it in our ports, and this as already stated, not from the Medical necessity, but from the commercial exigency of the case. The only quarantine establishment now remaining in Eugland, that at the Mother bank, is manitamed in respect of this disease. Infectious diseases habitically current in this bountry, sude as Small Pox, Scarlet Lever &, notwithstanding that the phraseology of the Quarantine Act-covero
any "infectious diseases or distemper"," have always been in practice exempt from Quarantine, and dealt with under the general sanitary law of the Kingdow.
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It appears to have been recognized theat
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measures