Proceedings and Debates of the Fourth National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... As all these points under the second head are connected with the general question of quarantine docks and warehouses, --their location, capacity, and special adaptation, --it is manifestly right, and eminently proper, that the interests and requirements of commerce should be provided for, and made perfectly consistent and harmonious with all the conditions and provisions which are necessary for the protection of the public health. These points include the grounds upon which objections are made respecting deficient facilities as well as burdensome restrictions of quarantine establishments. We propose to make a fair and full statement of the points, without attempting their discussion. But we feel warranted in making the following general statement, involving all these points incidentally, and at the same time affirming what is conceded to be necessary to the arrangement of a quarantine establishment. I.--THE SICK. Humanity and public policy alike demand that, wherever there is a quarantine establishment, or wherever and whenever there is any detention of vessels and the sick, in the nature of quarantine, there, in the immediate vicinity of the quarantine anchorage, should be provided ample facilities for the proper care of all such cases of disease as may not, with safety to the public and to the patients, be removed to more suitable places. The nature and extent of hospital provisions required at any quarantine station must be in no small measure dependent upon the nature and extent of hospitals, and the internal sanitary arrangements of the city or place requiring a quarantine establishment. For the welfare of the sick it is required that the location of the hospitals should be within a convenient distance of the quarantine station, and that the facilities.