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Excerpt from Transactions of the Seventh International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, Vol. 8: London, August 10th-17th, 1897; Section VIII, Naval and Military Hygiene The word quarantine has been retained in use from habit and for convenience of expression. As applied to our seaboard protective establishments against the introduction of infectious disease from abroad it has, however, long ceased to imply the idea of a routine time of detention. Medical inspection to detect actual cases of illness; and what is known as maritime sanitation to destroy the micro-organisms of disease in vessels, clothing, &c., with, in some cases, the detention under quarantine of observation of suspects for a term varying with the period of incubation of the particular disease, constitute the practice covered by the expression maritime quarantine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.