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treatment, all others who show no signs of illness, as tested by 
caution that each should be stripped of his clothing and take a 
general bath. The clothing, in the meantime, should either be 
ith proper 
hygienic measures at home, we need not fear the importation of 
disease from abroad.” 
Gentlemen, although I cannot say that we should be prepared 
to quite accept the last sentence as infallible, yet, nevertheless, I 
y recognize what a world of wisdom it contains. » 
I think that I have said before that the geographical position of 
England deprives it of the advantages to be derived from a com: 
sary, the history of the manner in which a United States frigate 
conveyed cholera to Japan, causing, it is said, 200,000 deaths from 
that disease in the city of Yeddo alone—or that of the shocking 
epidemic of measles in Fiji, in which, if I mistake not, 50,000 oF 
more persons are said to have died, and which is said to have been 
the result of a visit of one of our own ships of war—would suffice. 
