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Conference which was held at Vienna in 1872. A large majority of the delegates, mincluding those from every state of the first rank except France, declared in favour of the forner system. muiority, while adhering to quarantine, agreed to a system which would considerably dinunish its stringency as heretofore practised. The proceedings of this Conference and its results are of considerable importance in respect to the subject of this Memorandum, and an abstract of its proceedings is
appended. (App? 4.)
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9. A theoretically perfect quarantine, a quarantine which it should be umpossible to breals on any point, and which must of course uiclude the full. period of nicubation of the particular disease quarantined against, would doubtless
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if practicable ufford a certain higher degree of security against the introduction of disease than can be attained by mere inspection on arrival as to actual
existence
of
disease, but where are the conditions for a perfect quarantine to
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be found? and at what cost is the experiment carried on? On these points
I cannot do better than quote the observations of my distinguished predecessor
"A quarantine which is ineffective," says Me Sumon, " is a mere virational
derangement of commerce, and a quarantine of the kind which ensures success is more easily minagined than realised. Only in proportion as community lives apart from the great highways and emporia of commerce, or
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ready and able to treat its commerce
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