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(C.) It subjects the healthy on board.

to detention only for suck bigthe of time as admits of their state

their state of healthe being determined by medical examination. The measures for dealing witte the

such under this Order, are but aw- adaptation to a particular exigency of the priciples of sanitary administration, with regard to infectiono diseases which are in force under the general sanitary law

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41. But through quarantine has no practical existence un this country except as regards yellow fever, and all other infectious diseases are dealt witte litter under the General Sanitary Law of the boultry, or such modification of it as has been just described witte regard to bholera, the machinery which is maintained

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information as to the existence of infections diseases ou board foreign coming stups, is made available for dealing witte all diseases of theat kind, whelter they are quarantinable or not. The Quarantine

questions, as they are termed, which it is the duty of itre bustours to put to the Masters of all such Vessels, embrace all infectious diseases, and, in the event of any such disease not of a quarantinable kuid being found to exist on board, or to have existed in the course of the voyage, the Quarantine Officer is required to detain the vessel, and to forward the information witte the least practicable delay to the Sanitary authority of the~. Port. In regard to bholera, moreover, botte the bustours and the Sanitary

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