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. Le gouvernement qui sans doute comptend qu'il nous doit plus dans les conjonctures présentes qu’en temps ordinaire, prendra en sa sérieuse considération la suggestion de mon honorable collègue le Dr. Coderre, et autres pour l'organisation de conseils d’hygiène, et celle du Dr. Marsden, de Québec. Son plan de quarantaine me parait le meilleur que l’on ait suggéré jusqu’à présent. De semblables cordons sanitaires devraient se fuire en plusieurs lieux où les courants de vent et l'émigration portent les miasmes. La marine, le commerce, et les assurances devraient apporter leur concours d'instances auprès du gouvernement afin qu'il entre- ‘ prenne ces utiles réformes.

Nous lisons dans le Boston Courier :

€ Dr. Wm. Read, city physician, in a communication on the subect of cholera made to the Board of Aldermen 2nd of Oct. 1865 expressed the opinion that « Epidemic, or Asiatic Cholera is neither infectious or contagious,» which was concurred in by the consulting Physicians. In another communication to the Board of Aldermen, yesterday, after stating his former opinion and the reasons for it, he says that within the last three months evidence has been accumulating s0 direct in its bearing upon this point and from source so reliable that he has been compelled to change his opinion and gives the evidence upon which that change is based.

The source from which this evidence is drawn are the medical journals of this country and Europe, especially the London Times and Gazette and the Archives Générales de Médecine of Paris in which are to be found reports and papers upon the disease and its progress from the earliest history of the present epidemic, many of them written on the spot while the epidemic was raging, and accepted by the profession at large as entirely creditable authority.

In coming to the conclusion that the cholera is contagious, he says it is not s0 in the ordinary sense of the word, as small pox or wbat is termed the eruptive fevers are, but in the sense of inoculation by the introduction of the germs of the disease into the alimentary canal. Avoid this and infection and the spread of the disease is impossible, it will expire by limitation. The public should be thought to fully appreciate this fact, for with a true understanding of the mode of its propagation, there comes at the same time a knowledge of the remedy. (Cleanliness, scrupulous, exact and complete cleanliness, is the perfect antidote, and impenetrable shield of safety.)

For want of this, the poor, the squalid, and the careless imbibe the seeds of the disease which are found in the clothing saturated with the poison, the unwashed person, the unclean vossel, and in the unventilated rooms impregnated with the exbalations from their crowded inmates, and where the air is full of death. For want of this, also, those who are themselves clean suffer by contact with others who carry about them the poison of the disease, and death comes in a most mysterious way. It also follows, and with the certainty almost of a mathematical demonstration, that if the first foothold of others can be prevented, a community may be kept in perfect immunity.

Às a means of'avoiding the introduction of the cholera, quarantine regulations are advocated, with good drainage and cleaniiness. Accompanying the report was a well defined map of the city showing the districts where the greatast amount of disease prevails, which springs from bad location, bad drainage and overcrowding, and also those portions of the city which suffered most in the epidemic of 1849. Other important documents are appended to the report which was laid on the table and 10,000 copies ordered

to be printed.

Ceci montre qu'il ne faut pas abolir les quarantaines, mais les

améliorcr.

Avant de terminer, n'oublions point les inspecteurs de prisons, hôpitaux, ete. Ils auront, sans contredit, champ libre, pour servir. le public par toute la province, en prévision du danger. Nos coofrères inspecteurs savent que nous serons avec eux.

Messieurs, ajoutèz ces quelques considérations, dites sans apprêt, aux informations et connaissances que vous trouverez—et en grand nombre—chez les écrivains instruits et pratiques, de toute part, dont vous.suivez les préceptes. À plus tard la considération du traitement purement médical, jusqu'où la science l'a fait progresser.

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