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in
these seas, to furnish this Government with prompt information respecting... Cholera or other infectious or contagious diseases which may manifest themselves
in an
epidemic form at the ports __ where they are resident. Vessels from __
these ports where sporadie cholera
generally
occurs
every
summer,
constantly come into this harbour. To quarantine them would interfere in
a most serious marmer with
business, and it is not considered
necessary on sanitary grounds, unless the disease has become epidemia:
2.
2.
If this Government
were
assured that reliable information would
be at once furnished when cholera became
epidemie
disregard reports
it would be able to
that
come in an
indirect manner and which sometimes
072
enquiry prove to be without.
foundation.
I have the honour to be
My Lord, Your Lordship's Most Obedient
Humble Servant,
Mush
Administrator.
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