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hardly avoid the
very
natural
tendency under the circumstances
of overlooking certain risks, when
commercial interests are at stake.
9.
011
In legislating therefore.
the subject, it appears
to
Ine
that, though careful of those all important interests, our
duty is
to act as we think most conducive
to the safety of the European
mmunity at large, including
"Her Majesty's Naval and Military Forees, and that of the large and if passive Chinese population, where
publie
public opinion in these matters can
seareely
10.
be said to exist.
It must be remembered
too that in the great majority of
cases other nations are in favor of
rigorous quarantine regulations the best or at all events the easiest and simplest means of
-preventing the importation of
Cholera,
more
especially under
similar local circumstances to
ourd,
and we
reasonably
may therefore
-assume the whole
question to be still in a
very unsettled
as