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represented in Connoil by Major General Cameron and Mr Price,
3.
the Surveyor General.
The Excontive Council
and the Commodore unanimously decided that, whilst retaining those provisions of the regulations subjecting to Medical Inspection -vessels arriving from places which had been proclaimed account of the existence of contagious or epidemic disease,
on
it was expedient to reduce the period of Quarantine
from- five
five days to three as Cholera. They
were
regards
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influenced,
on
this occasion by the opinions of The several Medical Officers consulted and by the belief that the shorter period would make it hardly worth, while for agents of Passenger Ships to evade the law by sending them
now
fixed
to Whampoa and Canton to land
no
their passengers where Quarantine laws were in
existence. This, in
was one
my opinion,
of the great risks to
whin
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