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• Minister at Peking ( Sir Harry Parkes,)

in a despatch dated on the 5th iwtaut,

has written to me as follows:-

"I should take this opportunity of stating to Your Exetterey that the

Excellency

instructions I received last year from the

Foreign Office

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the

subject of quarantine,

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"

and which I have been directed to

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communicate to the Chinese Sovernment,

are not in favour of the adoption of that

uscasure. I take from these instruations

"the following passage:..

"". Much as scientific

men may

" have differred upon the "Contagion" of

cholera, there is a complete agrument

among

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" among all who have a practical acquaintan

}

"

with the subject either in India,

or in the

" United Kingdom, that the generally

" received

6 theory.

and practice of quarantine

"is not only useless, but also hurtful.""

"

The

The custom

of imprisoning.

"the healthy with the sick, is calculated,

"

for

خو بصور

"

are

· physical reasons which

: moral and physical,

easily understood, to increase the

"number of the persons attacked, to

" intensify

the virulence of the disease, on-

" and to convert the prison

"

"

"nidus,

dues of infection;

into a

while the

"unfounded belief by the security given

"by quarautive discourages the n

"adoption

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