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the Eastern cities, might be landed in our midst. Cholera might 
reach us by one of two routes, leaving China or Japan, and 
coming down the Queensland coast, or taking its rise in the towns 
bordering on the Red Sea or Suez Canal, it might creep round the 
western coasts of our continent and spread throughout these 
Colonies. We must be prepared to establish two Federal Quaran- 
tine Stations: one on an island adjacent to the north-eastern por- 
tion of Queensland, and a second in the neighbourhood of Western 
Ausiralia. He felt certain that the members of the Section would 
diseases invading these Colonies from foreign ports. 
MacLaurin had listened with great pleasure to Dr. 
against the spread of disease ; secondly, i 
or in other words that equally good results could be obtained from 
less irksome means of prevention. Menerce 
As to the first of these objections, it must be borne in mind tha 
quarantine had, as a matter of fact, only been strictly carried out 
oriental plague in Europe. How completely successful quaran- 
tine had been with respect to small-pox in Australia it ir 
unnecessary to state, as every one present was well pe gee 
with the facts. That it had been equally successful in the 0 
case was evident from the most cursory study of history. battle 
After the Turkish naval power had been broken by the on 
of Lepanto, the sea-borne traffic between the west of Europeand 
remote port like Leith half the population are said to have “ee 
in one year (1645) from this cause, 
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