Undoubtedly the object should be accomplished in the most practicable way. It can be lteached either by the exclusion of all immigrants coming for settlement or by the abolition of all steerage passages. It is a fair question between the two methods. But if you were to abolish all steerage passages. then you would not allow your own citizens abroad to come home in the steerage. There are these two methods. one or the other of which I think ought to be adopted. and as I have studied the subject. it seems to me that the most practicable and feasible method is to suspend the coming of all immigrants for settlement. Dr. Joseph D. Bryant says. after having stated the.quarantine measures which he thinks ought to be adopted : If. however. for any reason. the preceding propositions be not feasible for the present or for the future time. then the only remaining one Is the adloption of the second method. which is the exciusion for a proper time of the infectionbreeding and infectioncarrying agentsthe immigrants themselves. Dr. Lewis A.
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