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which have very large commercial interests at stake, and at the 
same time such a geo ical position as renders efficacious 
quarantine in their case impossible, at times decry the beneficial 
influence to be derived from its imposition. 
short time ago I had placed in my hands by the Government 
a letter written by Dr. Sedgwick Saunders, the Medical Officer of 
Health for the city of London, and addressed to the Eastern and 
Australian Steam Navigation Company, wherein the following 
inconvenience upon healthy persons.” And further on in the sam 
document a very important statement is made, as follows :— 
“Th 
published in the ‘Supplement to the Ninth Annual Report 
of the Local Government Board, 1879-80, in a paper by Mr. 
J. Netten Radcliffe, where we find the following :—‘ Quaran- 
tine rests upon the traditions of medicine,—not upon the existing 
countries in which quarantine is held to be an essential element 
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in the prevention of certain spreading diseases. 
= quarantine may be summed up in the inconvenience and thraldom 
