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BULLETIN 



OF THE 



ESSEX IlTSTia?TJTEI. 



Vol. 14. Salem: Jan., Feb., March, 1882. Nos. 1, 2, 3. 



A PAPER ON THE 

 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



BY ROBERT S. RA^fTOUL. 



.To Ja^ies L. Cabell, LL. D., of Yirginia, 



President of the National Board of Health, and, 



Stephen Smith, M. D., of New York, 



Chairman of Committee of the same, on the Quarantine 



Systems of the United States : 



Gentlemen : 



You ask me for some account of the pre- 

 cautions taken by the people of Salem, from time to 

 time, to protect themselves against the importation of 

 foreign disease. You will naturally expect that such an 

 account will make rather a long story, but I must preface 

 it by saying that, from the date of the settlement to a 

 recent period, there have rarely been any special precau- 

 tions taken here against imported contagion, aside from 

 the ordinary preventive measures made necessary by epi- 

 demics, so that the account which I have to give will nat- 

 urally include not only what you ask for but a good deal 

 more. Now and then, as you will see, the cargo of an 



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