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And the cargo and passengers' effects were unloaded,
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turned in the sun, fumigated and aired.
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And only at the end of forty days were goods shipped
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and passengers released to enter the city at will.
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The theory was that by strict quarantine
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any pestilential vapors would be given time to disperse.
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And so the city might be spared.
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Well, let's look at a couple of lazarettos.
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This is at a port called La Spezia.
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And the point I'm trying to make
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is that these were very complicated
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and authoritarian institutions.