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off the port, then the passengers

and crew not under treatment or

observation should be taken to

(no case I

quarantine ship, and if

cholera appeared amongst them "within forty-eight hours they should be permitted to land or "disperse. One

One of the speakers at the meeting of the British Medical Association referring to the paper

by Dr. Pringle which had just - "been read, said "There was at

present no power to deal with on board infected ships persons on "who were not actually ill. The

thought power ought to be given to detain these for forty-eight hours

or

Inne

or three days to guard against the

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possibility of danger.

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At the Conference held

June 1885 recently at Nome a

- proposition

imposing the detention of passengers and crew for a definite period of

five days, quite irrespective of _

even s

page 24 their being either affected with suspected of suffering from Cholera, was opposed by the British Delegates, but was carried by a

majority of one vote; but with a - subsequent qualification to the effect that if it were medically vertified that there had been no

Case

of cholera on

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board

for

ten

Should

days the period of observation

or