...whether even these can be brought under federal control, and yet the recent passage by Congress of " An act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States," encourages us to hope that something may be expected from that quarter. It is true that the act referred...

...exertions of our own representatives, in having enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, a law " to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States.1'' This law, devised by some of our best men, provides only thus far : " that vessels or vehicles...

...and reporting of such statistics, with a view to securing agreement upon this subject. 5th. That the act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States, approved June 2, 1879, should be x> amended that in order to enforce the penalties provided in that...

...municipal boards of health, in the execution and enforcement of the rules and regulations of such boards to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States from foreign countries, and into one State from another." A code of rules and regulations was also...

...transactions, together with a plan for a national public-health organization. By section 4 of tho act of June 2, 1879, entitled " An act to prevent the introduction...contagious and infectious diseases into the United States," said board is required to make to the Secretary of the Treasury an annual report of its operations,...

...United States, State and local authorities engaged in the preparation of such statistics. 5. That the Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States should be so amended, that, in order to enforce the penalties provided for vessels which shall enter...

...United States, State, and local authorities engaged in the preparation of such statistics. 5. That the Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States should be so amended, that, in order to inforee the penalties provided for vessels which shall cuter...

...United States, State, and local authorities engaged in the preparation of such statistics. 5. That the Act to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States should be so amended, that, in order to inforce the penalties provided for vessels which shall enter...

...Marine-Hospital Service, Washington, DC, June 4, 1879. The following extract of an act of Congress approved June 2, 1879, entitled " An act to prevent the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States," is hereby published for the information of all concerned:...

...insisted upon the necessity for national quarantine. Accordingly, an act was passed, approved June 2d, to prevent the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases into the United States — in other words, a National Quarantine Act. Besides its quarantine features, however, this act authorized...