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commonly received sense of theat termo) forms

an extremely small part, if indeed. it may not be said to be abandoned,

au altogether different system, called the

systers of Medical dispection, having for some time past been employed. It

is true that to a limited extent, and

as regards a suigle disease (yellow fever); Quarantine, as regulated by the Quarantine Act (6 400: IV, cap. 78), is still practised; but its practive as regards the's disease

is not really with any sanitary object, but solely with the view of relieving our maritime commerce from disabilities which would also be imposed upon it by other Countries, in which quarantine is regarded as an essential part of - their public health administration.

The regulation, moreover, of quarantine

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function of theat

in England, is not a Department of the government which

is concerned witte Savitary Administration (the Local Government Board ), but is a function of the Privy Council Office, which aided by the Board of Trade, deals

witte it as an international commercial

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question. Certain duties whice, under

itte Quarantine acts and some subsequent acts referring to it, are assigned to the Local Government Board, are not really for purposes of Quarantine, properly! so called, but of the system which is ~ in this country substituted for it, and the only duty which the Local Government

Board actually perform in respect to

quarantine proper arise's when, in ~

the administration of the Quarantine

Act, the Privy bouncil office has occasion

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