Quarantine laws : return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 18 August 1860, for : abstracts of returns of information on the laws of quarantine which have been obtained by the Board of Trade / Edgar A. Bowring.

  • Bowring, Edgar Alfred, 1826-1911.
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1860
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    n Z^y ^^^^^^^^^ QUARANTINE LAWS. RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 18 August i860;—for, 7 / ABSTRACTS of Returns of Information on the Laws of Quarantine which have been obtained by the Board of Trade.* Board of Trade,! 20 August 1860.J EDGAR A. BOWRING, Registrar, * These Abstracts have not been prepared by the Board of Trade, who are in no way responsible for them, but are presented in the shape in which they have been transmitted to them by the Quarantine Committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science. E. A. B. Sir, 3, Waterloo-place, S. W., 30 July 1860. I have the honour to transmit, in the name of the Quarantine Committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, the accompanying Abstract of Reports, &c, respecting the working and results of quarantine in foreign countries, for the information of the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council for Trade. This Abstract is derived from the replies received from Her Majesty's consuls to queries Nos. 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 16, and to the appended Observations in the annexed printed series, and is a complement to the Abstract of the Regula- tions respecting Quarantine in force in Foreign Countries, which I had the honour to forward to you on the 16th of May. I have, &c. (signed) Gavin Milroy, m. d. The Secretary of the Board of Trade. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF SOCIAL SCIENCE. Department of Public Health. President—The Right Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury. Sub-Committee on Quarantine. B. G. Babington, m.d., f.r. s., President of Epidemological Society. Thomas Bazley, Esq., M. P. Walter Buchanan, Esq., M. p. A. Bryson, M. D., f.r.s., Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets. Sir James Clark, Bart., M.D., f.r.s., Physician to the Queen, &c. John Davy, M. r>., f. r. s.l. & E , Inspector General of Army Hospitals, &c. W. Farr, M.D., f.r.s., Registrar General Department. J. Gibson, m.d., c. B., Director General, Army Medical Department. T. B. Horsfall, Esq., M. p. Sir John Liddell, M.b., f.r.s., Director General Navy Medical Department. Sir J. Ranald Martin, C.B., f. r. s., Physician to the Secretary of State for India in Council. J. O. M£William, m.d., C.B., f.r.s., Medical Inspector Hon. Board of Customs. Gavin Milroy, m.d., f.r.c.p., late Medical Commissioner in the West Indies, and in the Crimea. Richard Owen, f.r.s., Member Institute of France, President of the British Association of Science, &c. Sir William Pym, M. D., Superintendent General of Quarantine. T. Southwood Smith, m.d., f.r.c.p., Member of late General Board of Health, &c. T. Spencer Wells, f. r. c. s., late Surgeon Civil Hospital at Smyrna and Renkioi, &c. John Wiblin, f.r. c. S., Medical Superintendent of Quarantine at Southampton. 568-1. A Queries,