Thus advised. the threatened community would have amplie for preparation. and the publicity given to the warning would be the moat efficiontnienn of insuring proper precantionarymeasure. in. ternalional sanitary action is too remote. and the steps toward it have been to vacillating in the past to admit of much hope from itfr the near tuore. B ut the acquisition enad diffesion of general eanitary Icnowledge is amattor in which each nation far ittself may engage. and when such knowledge becomes sefficiently widerced all ehe tnyho safely left to local fnd individal effort. lctthe General towemnent do ito share in collecting and publishing the informaiona worlc which it niece can doand the rarios and varying details of inspection. disinfection. isolation. &e.. will he meat elliniontly. economically. and eatisfacterilyperformed by tbeosc meet directly and vitally interestedthe people themeshrea. As it is ho custom of emigrants bound for America f rem tho continont of Europe to embark at healthy ports when cholera prevails on the continent. this country is exposer to the introednotion of this disease through the personal effects of such emigrants. sailing on healthy vessels from healthy ports. In 1873 three distinct outbreaks of th disease occurred at widely remote points of the United States from poison packed and transported in the effects of emigrants from Holland. Sweden. and Russia. These people and the vessels in which they were parried had been perfectly healthy and the people remained so until th~ir goods were unpacked~at Carthage.
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