Minutes of the proceedings of the Quarantine Convention : held at Philadelphia by invitation of the Philadelphia Board of Health, May 13-15, 1857.
- Quarantine Convention (May 13-15, 1857 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Date:
- 1857
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Credit: Minutes of the proceedings of the Quarantine Convention : held at Philadelphia by invitation of the Philadelphia Board of Health, May 13-15, 1857. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![[Mr. Franklin, from the New York Board of Health, remarked that as the medical profession of the city of New York was not represented in the convention, he would offer a paper relative to the subject of quarantine laws, by Dr. John W. Ster- ling, formerly Physician-in-chief of the Marine Hospital, Staten Island, and requested that the same should be read by the Secretary. It was referred to the Committee on Business, and, in accord- ance with the discretionary power given by resolution of the Convention, was, by them, ordered to be published, as matter com- municated, but not acted on, by the Convention.] DR. STERLING'S PAPER. The utility of quarantines depends upon their capability of protecting communities against the ravages of pestilential and malignant diseases, usually considered contagious or infectious, when introduced by vessels arriving from a foreign port; or rather of preventing the introduction of infectious or contagious dis- eases from abroad. With these establishments, hospitals for the sequestration, care, and sanitary treatment of the sick with such diseases, are connected, which, instead of being regarded as 4](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21013081_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
