I have just returned from a trip to the State of Florida. as a member of the subcommittee of the Committee on Immigration. The subcommittee there learned much upon the subject we are now discussing from the State officials of Florida. who provide the means for resisting the approaches of contagious and epidemic diseases. The statement made to me by Dr. Porter. who is the principal officer of the board of health of that State. was that it had taken that board nine months to prepare the very excellent quarantine station which now exists on an island near Tampa. that is provided with all the facilities for disinfecting vessels by the use of the bichloride of mercury and by the use of the gases from the burning of sulphur. so as to apply these remedies directly from the wharf to the ships.
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