Dakota. respectively. Within t onlyfour honrp after the poison particles were liberated the first cases of the disease appeared. and thennfortunateswere almost literallyswept from the face of the earth. If the health officer at Necw York. for instance. had been aware of the facts Which were sbasquently ascertained concerning the emigrants from Holland. Sweden. and Russia. there is no reason to doubt that such measures would have been resorted to on the arrival of these people as would have effectually prevented the transportation of the cholera poison in their effects halfway across the continent. Section 2 of the bill provides for the acqnisition of the necessary information and section 4 provides that such information shall be promptly communicated to the ports an localities exposed.
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