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Disease Control and Prevention

North end of the disinfecting wharves at the quarantine station on Blackbeard Island, Georgia. This station for the detention and treatment of infected ship crews and cargoes, together with another quarantine station on Sapelo Sound in Georgia, were established in 1883 as part of a national quarantine system. They constituted part of the South Atlantic Quarantine region.

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