At the same congress, it was resolved that the three diseases plague, yellow-fever, and malignant cholera, should be held in an especial manner as demanding the use of quarantine measures for the protection of a country against their introduction from abroad.
The resolution with regard to cholera was not adopted without much opposition. Dr. :Milroy, in his paper on the subject of the couvention, reprinted in the transactions of the' National Association for the Promo tion of Social Science' for 1859, says, " The convention based upon, and embodying the results of their deliberations, has hitherto been adopted by only a few of the represented powers, namely, by France and Sardinia iu the first instance, and at a later period by Portugal, Tuscany, and Turkey. This country, among others, has most wisely, I think, declined to follow the example ; for there is certainly much in the proposed restrictions upon freedom of intercourse, on account of the apprehended rink of imported disease, that appears to me to be un necessary, and therefore objectionable. And it is a fact not undeserving of notice, that in more than one of the countries which took part in the conference, the quarantine system pursued since 1851 seems to be ' now actually more vexatious and oppretiala•e than it was before."
The National Association for the Promotion of Social Science ap pointed a quarantine committee in 1858, who issued a series of queries for transmission to governors of colonies and British consuls in foreign countries, on the subject of quarantine. Replies to these queries have been received from above two hundred different channels, and abstracts of these returns have been published by the Beard of Trade. The first abstract, published May, 1860, consists of an "Abstract of the re gulations in force in foreign countries respecting quarantine." The second paper consists of " Returns of information on the laws'eff quaran tine," published August, 1S60. These papers contain by far the largest amount of information to be obtained at present on the subject, and it is hoped that their publication will lead to permanent changes in the present laws of quarantine.