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quarantine are allowed to hold conversation 
with their friends in the town. It is a 
very long narrow building, divided into 
three parts by two low walls running length¬ 
ways, and about six feet apart, so that the 
healthy and suspected parties have that 
space between them, which effectually pre¬ 
vents any contact. In the middle division 
a guardian is stationed, partly for the purpose 
of handing over any article which those in 
quarantine may buy from the people on the 
healthy side of the house. Here there are 
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generally a number of boys in waiting to 
execute any commission for us in the town, 
for which purpose they are provided with 
small slates, on which we write the name of 
any article we wish to procure, or we can 
send a message to our friends in this man¬ 
ner. There is a Parlatorio on a much smaller 
scale at the lazaret. 
