Excerpt from Proceedings and Debates of the Fourth National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention: Held in the City of Boston, June 14, 15, and 16, 1860 Tiie transactions of no Association, recent in origin, voluntary in charac ter, and changeable in composition, have attracted more general interest, or been productive of more beneficial results in their effect upon public sentiment and upon legislative action, than those of the National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention of the United States. The fourth session of the Convention, held in Boston, in June, 1860, though its debates and essays were less voluminous than those of some of its predecessors, was animated by an unabated interest in the cause of Sanitary Reform, and reached con. 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.

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