Taese has never been, so far as we know, any attempt made to plish em of quarantine in Shanghai, And wisely 80, for few delusions have done more mischief than the once widespread belief that artificial obstnoles will pre. vent the invasion of an advancing wave of epidemic disease, Sanitary cordons are effective only in creating panic and paralysing trade, They are cessurily inefficient on a continent, experience has shown that they are equally useless oven when drawn round islands. They roprosont. the 1 of @ principle good and itself, and like all exaggera-they fail when brought to any prnoticnl test, They give the imprese sion that protection can come from outside, and suggest the uecdlossuess of those internal measures in whioh alone safety can be found, Clearly, it is not only advisable but necessary to keep out the intruding germs so far as may be, but this must be accom~ plished by rendering the soil une propitious to them, by examining arrivals from infected localities, and by the reasonable treatment of income ing persons and things that colour ably may be suspected of being poi carriers, years been in operation at the Huglish coast ports, and so far the been admirable, Thus, during the half. year ended 80th June, 1886, 12,143 vessels of all classes were examined in London, aid of these, 872 bad to be disinfected under official supervise Something of the same kind was carried out for several years. in Shanghai the case of foreign vessels arriving from infected places, but for ove reason or another the practice has been allowed to fall into oblivion. While it was followed there war, we believe, no: instance of disease spreading from an imported centre of infection, and, on the other Land it is equally true that since inspection of suspected -voaselg
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