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The British innovation and reorganisation of the old lazarettos (a quarantine system for maritime travellers), the new marine sanitary procedures, the determination of quarantine duration for major infectious diseases along with the introduction of the vaccination system resulted in a satisfactory defence against epidemics in Greece during the 19th century. The British military physicians applied and established West European medical ideas, as well as the principles of preventive medicine, for the first time in the Greek territory and this is a historical example of a successful sanitary campaign based on the experience of military physicians and their collaboration with civilian physicians.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1136\/jramc-2013-000037","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,23]],"date-time":"2013-03-23T20:13:05Z","timestamp":1364069585000},"page":"247-254","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Infectious disease control in the Ionian Islands during the British Protection (1815\u20131864)"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"159","author":[{"given":"Costas","family":"Tsiamis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of History of Medicine, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"E","family":"Thalassinou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"E","family":"Poulakou-Rebelakou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of History of Medicine, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"D","family":"Anogiatis-Pel\u00e9","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Historical Demography, Faculty of History, Ionian University of Corfu, Corfu, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"A","family":"Hatzakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Athens Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,3,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025081307294802000_159.3.247.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gallant T . 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