The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1853-10-06

a point some distance above or below
the city. Persons detained at the sta.
tion should be prevented from proceed
ing TO the city until permitted so to dc
by the authorities of the quarantine.
No communication should be allowed
between the inmates of the station and
those from without. The quarantine
regulations should be rigidly enforced
the fines for refractions of these regula-
tions should be heavy, and should ope-
rate as first privilege against the YES
sells that incurred them The principal
official should be invested with authori-
iy to administer oaths; and resist
ance of their legal commands should
subject the offenders 10 fine and impris-
onment.
There should also be established a
quarantine station upon a smaller scale,
near the entrance Of the Rigolets, to be
in operation from the lst of May TO the
1st of November, and TO guard against
the occasional introduction of disease
in that direction, as in the year 1929.
Such an esta ablishment would be essen
tial until Mobile adopted sanitary pre-
cautions similar to those proposed here.
The first cost of such an establish
ment would not be much less than $3.50,
900, and the annual expense from $50,
coo 10 $4,000 1t must be borne in
mind, that the proposed institution
would relieve the Charity Hospital OF
all lis patients who are now sent there
direct from shipboard, sick with infec-
tous maladies-these being estimated
At nearly one half of the number that
are received within its preeincts-and
hat the amount thus saved from the
present expenses of the one institution,
would contribute to the support Of the
other.
"The advantages and Disadvantages
of quarantine to the city of New Or
leans" are SO forcibly yet conclsely
stated by DR.. Carpenter, that they may
be given here in his own words:
Quarantine is intended 10 facilitate
the operations of commerce; and its re-
strictions, operating 10 the Temporary
Inconvenience of but small number,
have the effect of permanently benefit
ing the whole The interruptions OF
commerce, resulting from the establish
ment of quarantine at New Orleans,
would be confined to few vessels, and
these generally of the smaller class, en-
gagged in trade with the West Indies.
Even these would be interrupted only
in their summer voyages to some tropl-
cal ports; not being allowed to ap-
proach the city nearer than the quaran-
line ground, and causing them to dis
charge their freight there. for which
every facility should be offered. 1t is
very doubtful, whether on the part of
the vessel, such an arrangement would
cause a moments delay and therefore
the delay would only be on the part of
the consignees, whose freight would be
detained from three to seven days, it It
were deemed necessary 10 ventilate it,
before It's entrance into the city. Quar-
anline for New Orleans, by rendering
the city healthy, would obviate the ne
cessity which now exists OF enforcing
quarantine against our vessels during
the summer in New York, Philadelphia
and other ports where there are sani-
tary regulations. And these delays
are more injurious, perhaps, to the COM
merce of this city than would be the
entire destruction of our West India
trade By rendering our city healthy,
il would become a permanent abode,
instead Of the mere winter quarters OF
its citizens, and millions of dollars now
expended in travel abroad would be
saved the city. Changes would be
gradually effected, and very soon we
Should have introduced all the modes
of recreation adapted TO the summer
season, and our city would become a
a place of resort in summer instead OF
the habiiation of pestilence. Now,
who is so blind 10 every sense OF justice
and humanity, as to compare the trivial
inconvenience resulting from delay OF
a few persons, or small quantity of
freight, for only few days, 10 the desc
lating catastrophe, the great public ca
lamiiy of an epidemic Of yellew fever :
Who is there that will confess himself
the advocate of a system that values at
so insignificant price the lives OF our
citizens? The unimportant inconven-
ience to which very small portion of
our trade would be subjected during a
few months of the year, wonld be much
more than counteIbalanced by the I'M
mense advantages which our commerce
with the important mercantile portions
of the world would derive during the
same period from the arrangement.
And it can scarcely be doubted by the
rehecting mind, that the prosperity and
pecuniary interest of all would be ad-
vanced by the exemption of our city
from the great public distress, the ir-
disasters and terrors OF pestl-
lence. But this protection would not
be confined to New Orleans, or It's citi-
zens. Every town on the banks Of the
every village in our State,
and every person trading with, or visit
ing these towns, would feel its happy
influence in certain security from the
Iuvasions, of this foreign pestilence.
y +
sThe expense of the quarantine es-
adjustment would be but trifilng com
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