New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-12
OR QUARANTINE STEM.

Our City Ike sll great seaporSs, lie liable though
seldom actually subjected, to the ravages Of epi-
demc diseases The desOlating YellOS Fever fire.
quently decimstes the population of her Southern
sisiers AID has at least once within the expert
epce of the present generation, scourged orr
OVID New York. To guard against this and kin
bred yisitsti we oHcht to secure emphatic
clesnliuoss within our City but that hss hith-
e1to seemed moral in possibility )-sni then
protect 1t from imported cont4giOn By Quarantine.
The form err appears to Us By far the more mpor
tant and Elective safeguard; but the latter is
simB err, more easily secured, aud is the usual re-
course of barbarOus and semi barbarous cOmmu-
mites. Whatever the future may have 10 store
for us, we are not yet in q condition to dispense
with il.
Our Quarantine establishment on Staten Island
has grown up from small beginnings ato gigau-
tic establishment, aiiordine princely revenue to
ia director fat pickngs to several subordaates,
and very dubious protection to our City. We say
dub.ous-thoUgh the facts would Justify stronger
expression. lts obvious defects are as follows:
l. 1t is too near our City-hardly half an hours
ride from our crowded wharves aud dwellings,
with ready and unquestiOned communication al
oil times by steam ferry bouts.
,. 1t has gradually been surrounded by dense
and stirring population, most of them doing bust
ne,s in our city and passing daily forth and back,
afIordiDg ample facilities for the communication
Of confac'oD.
g. Il fling. together and treats almost indis-
cyiruinateIy two radically d lcien. classes-ndne-
Is those .unsrinI fran, a.."tssisus and dangerous
ds eases and those suffering from nOn-coltagi0us
malsdies Ike cousump tIon, inhamnations. sc.
4. Iii, a nuisance to the poPulous neghbOr-
hood in which IL is located, which comfy requces
us 70 remove 40 soon as practicable.
For these and other reafOns, il was lodg since
resolved that tie Quarantine shouldbe removed
but whittier Necessity seemed to desi gnste
Sandy Hook IS the oaly resort; but tia, barren
spot Is too dstsnt, Is difficult Of approach by in
coming vessels, and il part of the State of New
jersey whose Legi-l4ture will expect to be lib
orally brbed and fudlled az an iuilcement to
cede VI the wretched sand bank-net because il
is of tie least possible use to them or their State
but because i. is supposed to be indispensable
TO US.
In this dilemma, Mr John T. Raymond the
intelligent and energetic Member Of Assembly
from Staten Island, has hit on plan which seems
to Us decidedly preferable 10 any previously sBg-
gestcd. It's outlines are as follows
l. Separate entirely the care of incoming sea-
men or passengers who are suffering fromo or liable
TO develop contagious disease from that Of those
who are otherwise afflicted, and let the latter bs
taken - steamboat imneiistely on their arrival,
TO the hospital Of the Commissioners Of Emigra-
ton on Wards Island. This will cut down the
Quarantine establishment 70 one-fogrih .s pres
eBt extent, aud considerably reduce the heavy
drafts now made OF the Commssoners Of RI
grafton for The treatment and ,ustenaLce Of their
sick.
?. Contract Floating Hospital for The re-
duced Quarantine establishment. and anchor i. in
the Nsrrows or lower Bay where each vessel
striving in the Quarantine season may come along
side Of it, AID, after inspection, deliver it. H.
mates suffering from contagious disease without
the exposure and rough handling TO which they
are now Becesssrily subjecte in thsr trans.tf:om
the sap TO the hospitsl-e1posure which some
tines proves fatal. This Flostirg Hospital. COZ.
suucied Oh purpose sni repiete with ever con
yenieuce, is nor to be confounded WIKI the old
hubs Ofsen employed for Ike proposes sod
which are IS INF. as they well can be- Bat
toIi'a constructed or purpose srd easily kept
c.eaD aud wholesome. located il tie NOE. Avian
tageous position, would su5serve every purpose
i4r better than any estaoli.hnel. OF lard car
possibly 90.
3. Now sell of the present Q.aran,ile build
irgs and grounds 70 the Zee, advantage; aud, II
tie proceeds be not stolen, they can hardly iall
below $500 600 which Will construct the new
TloatiDg Hospital, an additional hospital building
Of generous capacity OF Wards Island. and leave
considerable surplus TO the state And there
after he Quarantine tax need not be % heavy as
i. has hitherto been, while the immunity f Il
coniagion secured 70 our City will be far greater
than it has ever been.
Such are the outlines Of Mr.. Rsymonds plan,
as We have apprehended il in the course of repeat
ed Conversations and We believe il il judicious and
practicable. At III events, We trust the present