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however, the germ theory indicates that the means for arresting the spread of contagious diseases aud diminishing their occurrence consist in preventing the spread of the germs from an existing case of disease. E. of Antwerp, in a comparatively fertile spot, in the midst of an extensive sandy waste, called the Campine. About 1,300 insane persons are lodged with the citizens of this community, and are controlled and employed by them, and this without recourse to walls or other asylum appliances, and with little coercion of any kind. The quieter sufferers reside generally one in each family in the village, the more excited in separate farmhouses at some distance on the confines of the commune, while those requiring medical treatment are temporarily accommodated in the infirmary in Gheel. The support ot the patients is in most cases guaranteed by the State. Pop. 12,026. Ghent (French, Gand; Flemish Gend or Gent), a town in Belgium, capital of the province of East Flanders, at the confluence of the Lys with the Scheldt. It is upward of 6 miles in circumference, and is divided by canals into a number of islands connected with each other by bridges.