Quarantine : return to an Address of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 22 May 1860, for : copy of abstract of regulations in force in foreign countries respecting quarantine communicated to the Board of Trade.

  • Great Britain. Board of Trade.
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1860
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    QUARANTINE RETURN to an Address of the Honourable The House'of Commons, dated 22 May i860;—/or, COPY of Abstract of Regulations in force in Foreign Countries respecting Quarantine, communicated to the Board of Trade. (iV.B.—This Abstract was communicated to the Board of Trade by the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.) Sir, 3, Waterloo-place, 16 May 1860. I HAVE the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, that I am desired by the Quarantine Committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, to state, that a large amount of vaKiable matter, illustrative of the practice and results of Quarantine in all parts of the world, and which, in their opinion, is calculated to be highly useful to the public service, has been collected by them, in answer to tiieir queries on the subject, a copy of which is herewith annexed. These queries were, in April of last year, submitted by the Earl of Shaftes- bury to Lord Malmesbury and Sir E. B. Lytton, then Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs and for the Colonies, and were, by order of these Ministers, sent to all Her Majesty's Consuls abroad, and to the Governors of all British Colonies, with instructions to further the object in viev;. They were like\\ise addressed by the Directors General of the Army and Navy Medical Departnient to the principal medical officers of both services on foreign stations. Between one and two hundred replies have been received from these different channels, many of them being accompanied with valuable statistical and other . details. The Committee having prepared, with much labour, abstracts of this exten- sive documentary evidence, are desirous of bringing them under the attention of their Lordships ; and I am instructed to transmit the accompanying part which relates to the existing regulations respecting Quarantine in different countries. I have, &c. (signed) Gavin Milroi/, m.d., Honorary Secretary to the Quarantine Committee of the National Association, &c. „ The Secretary to the Board of Trade. 568. A - yrr-