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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 21, 1882

Quarantine.

The San Francisco papers, or some of them, manifested considerable feeling over the inquiries made by the United States authorities concerning the small-pox quarantine. We should only find fault because the United States authorities do nothing in the matter. To shut up a ship-load of people in an old hulk, or on any vessel, with a contagious disease on board, is a disgrace to our civilization. The Government owns several islands in the bay, on some one of which a quarantine station could be located, where the sick might be properly cared for, and the others made at least comfortable, and protected from further danger. Now that the yellow fever is prevailing in some sections, this subject ought to be considered.