A 19th c. illustration from Harper's Magazine: "The Quarantine Question. Death, rising from the iron scow, and scattering pestilence among the people. 'While the Angel of Death rides on the fumes of the iron scow, and infected airs and wafted to our shores from the anchorage, we shall have no security against these annual visitations of pestilence' - Dr. Anderson's speech."

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