Quarantine : return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 August 1861, for : copy of the papers relating to quarantine, communicated to the Board of Trade on the 30th day of July / Edgar A. Bowring.

  • Edgar Alfred Bowring
Date:
1861
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Credit: Quarantine : return to an order of the honourable the House of Commons, dated 5 August 1861, for : copy of the papers relating to quarantine, communicated to the Board of Trade on the 30th day of July / Edgar A. Bowring. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    QUAR ANTIN E. RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, dated 5 August i86l 'y—for, COPY of the Papers relating to Quarantine, communicated to the Board of Trade on the 30th day of Ju'v ]861. Board of Trade, 1 EDGAR A. BOWRING, 6 August 1861. j Registrar. Sir, 3, Waterloo-place, 30 July 1861. I HAVE the honour, in the name of the Quarantine Committee of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, to transmit for the consideration of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade the accompanying- document relating to quarantine, and which forms the* complement to the two papers communicated last year to the Board and ordered, by the House of Com- mons, 22d May and 18th August 1860, to be printed. It contains,— I. Additional abstracts of information from the Despatches of Her Ma- jesty's Consuls, and from the Governors of British Colonies, addressed to the Foreign and Colonial Principal Secretaries of State. H. A detailed Report on Quarantine, founded on the extensive informa- tion derived from official sources, with an Appendix. Vide p. 2. Viile p. I o. The Secretary, Board of Trade. I have, &c. (signed) Gavin Mihoy, m. d., ^ Honorary Secretary of the Quarantine Committee. 544- A