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General terror being spread in this way throughout the whole 
of Europe, the most rigid measures for separation by quarantine 
were gradually ad t to 
unknown disease in the west, but the measures taken to prevent 
its spread by the countries on the seaboard of the Mediterranean 
are still of a very stringent character. 
impossible to tell whether or not a person who had been exposed 
to infection has really taken the complaint ; and therefore, the 
further consideration. 
The speaker again expressed his entire concurrence with every- 
thing stated by Dr. Mackellar in his paper. 
to Dr. Mackellar for the interesting and important paper just 
read. The question raised in it was of as much importance to the 
people of every one of the Australian Colonies as to the inhabi- 
tants of New South Wales. 
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