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1767 S. T. Janssen Let. Lord-Mayor 63 Our Assembly, at their last Meeting, enacted a Quarantine Law, which will probably..save the Lives of Thousands.

1799 W. Eton Surv. Turkish Empire (ed. 2) 498 It may be necessary to examine a little more narrowly how far our quarantine regulations secure us at present from the plague.

1804 in Naval Documents U.S. Wars Barbary Powers (U.S. Office Naval Rec.) (1941) III. 522 You will..retire to Quarantine Quarters.

1835 J. E. Alexander Sketches in Portugal xi. 265 After some delay before we could get our yellow quarantine-flag struck, we were allowed to land.

1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 195/1 A quarantine station on a land-frontier.

1852 G. Coggeshall Second Series of Voy. xiii. 82 We were requested to proceed immediately to the quarantine ground.

1861 G. A. Spottiswoode in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 87 Accommodation..for the director or quarantine-officer.

1867 ‘M. Twain’ in Daily Alta California (San Francisco) 18 Oct. 1/4 This kind of conversation did no good, further than to give a sort of dismal interest to our quarantine-breaking expedition.

1916 J. B. Thoburn Standard Hist. Okla. II. 702 A comprehensive banking law; a general election law;..and a general live stock quarantine law.

1976 T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die i. 11 All dogs coming in to Britain had to spend six months in quarantine kennels.

1991 A. Nikiforuk Fourth Horseman iii. 40 Italy turned its asylums into quarantine stations for plague victims.

1993 Mycotaxon 48 389 Mycologists, plant pathologists, quarantine authorities and future monographists should find this paper useful.