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than in mbar districts ?—I a..
aware that it makes more ravage
You are aware of the methods b,
chiefs at &eyries %tidally rodeaver
Perfectly; by abutting themselves
Are you aware Olt there are sae,
caution being found fruillese.asid out to prevent
—I unslerstaust it is stmielimes &witless. hut that it is
Peppered to lend to prevent it ; and t Where, %glib truth,
slot by gnarthog Arnold contagion lu my °pile**, hat the
Vicissitudes of the at naos-phere.
lo what MllOlllllllO you :steam: for an epidemic disorder
being prevented; by simply shultiee a honor in an infeetitius
place ?—I have, in a parr which I presented to toe Cows.
mite?, entered at lame into the ettplauatiuu of those cur.
consols's:so. I understand that at Malta, *here limos pie.
Cautions were taken, they were generally succelsoful; hot
that at Gibraltar, where the same precautinas were taketi,
they were generally imam:maul.
Are you acquainted with the state of Arnyrne—Kul ac
cording to my ideal; of the subject, the beiteet to tie deemed
from shutting up must entirely depriCi %I nn the sir va
which the house is situated, and she miteo inert-Mentes to.
japed, and ils degree of efeentive Aunt the groilluth On
those circumEauces prueipelly, sad epou elintliug Ale
windows at the must dangerous periods of the day, MO 1.4 not
to allow a tlttwough draft of lit dns.sg ilw pratileetia/
season in the town-, depeude the prevention not of cents•
glum but of sl!e entr ince of the pestilential bleats whirls
cause the malady. English sedum are foniinunly
from the duerser, and Less tidily In it then oti,nra.
You say Zile sailers ate less liable ; are they not exposed
to those blasts ?—Yrs. when they arc ashore ; but their con
stilut are better aisle to bear it, and they sleets es better
air on shipboard.
Did you ever hear of inoculation fur the plague
hare.
Willi what success ?—I have heard of a Cenfholan inocn-
Wing himself three times and IRA ISLIIIC tile die aw the
two first times ; but the third tone being seir-d oath the
malady, by a cinucirience, a recall as I cocceivr which weed
have equally happened whether he lied been illtorlll3ted
ear
1101: 11w case I allude to particularly, its the case of
Whist., ales died in Ellept•
Have you heard of any patient being inoculated again
and again for the small-pot and nut taking N. mid atter.
wards taking it by infection ?-1 du nut know of any facts
I can speak to.
Du you know the opinion of Dr. White on the suLject of
the plague?—His opinion was, that it leas nut contagiusi•;
Le attended several palieot• ill of what i.e suppnsed in be
the plague; but one in particular, Awn whom he trek emit-
ter, suit rulthed himself without any injei ions flirts bemg
!traduced; and this statement is certified by the ti.tet *gent
of transports and v pains of crania on she NMI.
0.. you use the words contagions and MA ctious as sy nO-
- ?—I am not aware that I have used the %surd
uutct
lino at all; if I hare, it is *yucca unit. I-0211(11114
that to he she way in which it is gents ally employed.
Have. you understood the Americans are (tong to Anthills
their quarantine laws b.—l undirstsorl tlw people of Hale •
mute hate either pail ially or wholly abolish!, el it; hot 1 Lave
no ether authority than the newspapers.
Do you consider the eidablislimeut of one owe quaran-
tine laws of any use !—Not of the smallest use; if it be
tine that there never has airived at any one period of tone
any one pewit from the Levant, ur ally suitor plate, actually
labouring smiler the plague ; and if it he ter, at, opting to
the advocates fur vontagion. that goods, wares, and niercben
dist can retails infectious Air *even, fourteen or twcioy years.
it must be apparent. that with neglect to Vida* A. alit 13
with scare* to persons, a quarantine of forty can in
such cases be of no curt of use.
Who ate Ow advocates that maintain that she infection
could tw' retaim4l for SO stool ran mrdtral Wriler4.
noon whose works lute gum:mime laws wile oilman!
founiled.
Are not the regulations of the Lazaretto system, adopted
in Italy, founded upon the idea that the plague i 3 %ima-
ging* ?—Cerlaraly.
Are they found effectual fur pnerntior infertioss ?-llr no
means. In my work mina the subject I hate waled whit
happened recently at the town of Nays, which was am
rounded by lines of circumvallatiun, ditches, aud coition' u
stoops. and every mode of restriction imposed upon she M.
habitants ; and the disease command as it has thine at idiot-
plares subject to plague pollee, its usual retiree, and rusted
at the usual time.
Did the circumstantial that °crooned at Noya begin in the
latauetto?—lt do not at this m 00000 ent r.c.•llrat the cc -
cumsianee ,• but I have got an account by ale which tai
ascertain that point, if St should Ise deemed of any cotes.

epietice.
In the cases where the iafection has been communicated,
notwithstanding that system, have not the cases that liar..
orcurred tumidly uccorred in the homely) !—Nii. lu MAL,.
according to the evidence of the Pretideno of the Collier .•f
Physicians, who ',Mended the lazaretto hospital for I 5 yea...,
no person employed as en expurgator of goods was ever
affected during the whole of that period with the malady
nor in the plague of 11413 was any one of those pi moil, 47-
retied; they enjoyed therefore a greater exemption from lite
disease than the community at large. 'Slits I mare Crisis
(siderite of Dr. Caruhantia, prom, medico of the college, DEA
Dr. Grieves, su pain brigand of quern oat
Did you ever hrnr the plague had then at Marseilles siure
the great ►laggaev—l have not heard of it ; but 1 make P. 3
doubt it has been there partially.
Dow do you suppose the p'serie gut into the Intarettei t
I am snowshoe peuple to base arrived there taboos lug nailer
it from the Levant.
Not bronchi by gnools?—No ; I conclude they mind two
arrived with the disease upon for in, preidioted by th►
whirls Owl had left, or that of the ship, or site gussis, or the
lazaretto iteelf.
%uppoaiog persons brought into the country, irifecieil
with the disorder, do yoga think the disorder would a ire
have nut the smallest apprebenaiuu of that on the
teary, I should cheerfully expose myself to erudite& with alt
prisons lahouraig moiler disea;e, or with bales of gmoihi ar-
rivine from the Medi rrrrr neau, or any other quarter, in
which plague or other epidemic diseases are supposed to
prevail; assured that I could nut, (sum wire contact, take
the disease.
Slow du ion account for one person coming iufectid to
one place, beatir,, capable of giving it to ushers I—'l leas is
assuming the fart the Committee are impairhog into, mid
which 1 du not admit ever to have bappehed.
Have you ever known cases in which the plague has pre_
vatted in a laseretto,aad not ou the tows or disortht where it
was situated 4-1 think it was stated to have prevailed at
Marseilles its the lazaretto and not its the luau.
You Gave nut seen that yourself?—Nu.
now du you arenent fur its introduction Into the I:11-
wits ?-14y persons aiming with the illsente upon' them, or
leaving a port at ems with it upon theta, or coining (ruin the
sir that eccamuned at.
Do you meats to say that other prisons gat it frcen the
person who arrived '—tai 1 du mut mdmmt that Otte lo

Imporn.
You do not .tale that of rue own Isnouremlge )-1 Ir.•••
outittog of Mr lasAreilos at Marseates (rota My„.01110 k.re-
lithe, only Ovum. of Melts.
No that if to the tat 'refloat Mareeides there lad .strteti
CIVAVI of the plaque. you itemise tbst itotisiousiu I..thoor.sog
under the consplatut must have move Otto ot wash tbe .14611
plaint upon them !—lt to very difficult to anonym that woe.
tet, because the pilots may be oesfounded with ao matte
other maladies ; but costisise to the obugue, sus not
aware obit such ease* hare occurred ; that cases base u,.
coned is which it is suppueed to be ate plague, hod suited
as such, sod hot spread, is certainly true.
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ravage near the distvict Tontines.
noise& by winch the Frank stel,.•
endeavour to avoid the phypee— 1
toterlitur op in their houses.
ere are nasty tos!asent of Mot Ott -
ItaNttutil nut to prevent the peepte?
Nitres fruitier.. but that it Is also