356 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECTIONS. 
Health Officer was then in a position to order the release of the 
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vessel ; and in this course the Board of Health would have con- 
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defer discharging the vessel for four-and-twenty hours; and she 
was released at last on the fourth day after her arrival, at 1 p.m. 
These are the undisputed facts of the case. Two questions arise 
in them—First, why was the vessel treated as infected at this 
port, when she was treated as clean in Victoria? And secondly, 
if she were infected, why were her passengers not detained during 
the usual incubation period ? 
ealth authority of whatever country, that careful, thorough disin- 
fection had been done. No doubt, a vessel which, ing carried 
ge, could produce a certificate 
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