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a condition, wherever sanitary and proper 

 quarantine regulations are efficiently carried 

 out, to largely prevent the access of the dis- 

 ease to our country, to stay the progress of an 

 epidemic at its very outset, and to promptly 

 allay the panic which the advent of a mysteri- 

 ous and deadly scourge is so prone to incite 



