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quarantine was maintained. And finally, the fact that bad hygienic 
and general insanitary conditions predisposed places to virulent 
epidemics of cholera when once it was imported, was very generally 
agreed to 
locality, but by the personal effects of thuse who have been 
ected ; and it was, by a majority, resolved that it could be pro- 
duced in a variety of other ways, which I need not now enume- 
te. The second question was divided into two parts, quarantine 
by land and quarantine by sea. nd quarantine was by a 
its approval of the measures recommended by the previous Con- 
ference held at Constantinople, as regards sea quarantine, and 
especially with reference to the Red and Caspian Seas. However, 
they provided an alternative measure to be adopted should cholera 
Like cholera, yellow fever has what may be called a So 
- curred in Monte Video, while in 1873 it ravaged the Southern 
States of America. Clearly all these cases were first imported 
by the very ri id inspection of ships they enforce in the Southern 
 Riates. “td i oe however, the manner in which yellow 
