It means that quarantines need no longer be established when yellow fever breaks out in a district; quarantines which have inevitably caused the loss of millions of dollars to the world of commerce.
Believes that the quarantines are now unnecessary.
I've seen quarantines before," said Calhoun, "but never one like this!
There have been ships and houses burned to drive out plague, and quarantines which simply interfered with human beings were countless.
Seven years and seven quarantines on the minor feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Five years and five quarantines daily, if a visit be made to any church and five Our Fathers, five Hail Marys and five Glorias be said.
I was more inclined toward some of the South American countries, till I happened to read in a despatch that yellow fever had broken out there, and I knew that those quarantines were something to be avoided at all hazards.
Thinking of quarantines suddenly brought back the memory of a trip I had taken three years earlier to the Windward and Leeward Islands, where I had been detained in the most comfortable quarantine station in the world--the one at St. Thomas.
It may not be uninteresting to mention here, that there are no quarantines and no choleras in Bohemia or Hanover.
The absurdity of cordons and quarantines is becoming daily more evident.
Three of them have already declared against contagion; so it may be presumed that the day is not far distant when those true plagues of society, cordons and quarantines against cholera, shall be abolished.
The other circumstance to which I allude is that, like Russia and Austria, Prussia has found that quarantines and cordons do not check the progress of cholera.
The King of Prussia makes a similar amende, and the Emperor of Russia convinced by the same experience, abolished or greatly relaxed his quarantines several mouths ago.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "quarantines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
