The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-04-27

atmosphere OF the densely populated cities of
the East. It is not at oil surprising, there
fore, thet fatal sicknets, attended with great
mortality, was generated on bosrd of the
ships Enqldnd and VirgtniG They were
literally floating nurseries of pestilence and
death, sent hitbeI ward with s1 Almost posi-
tive certainty OF Giscemirlt,ngihe seeds of dis
ease in this county, aud spreading panic and
desolation throughout the whole land. Those
who, for the sake of mailing onev, thrust
more than thousand IeT- ops, of all ages and
sexes, into The hold of q merchant vessel.
where they wellow like Pigs in stye, and
breathe the bison emitted fom the'- own
bodies, are guilty Of something verse even
than deliberate murder. 1hey subject human
beings to suHerings only comparable in Kind
and degree to the iamoUs horrors OF the
middle passage" on board OF savers, eud, in
addition expose whole communities to the
ravages of fea, .ul epidemic imporod into
their midct f:cm foreign shores. Criminality
of th'7 a'goa;ous che"a9tSr should b pre-
vented by muricips, regu,Stiors enforced at
all the porte OF the world, aud or7ider.tions
of self-de,ensc should induce eve y civ''zed
Government to insist that emf ant ch'rs
especeliy shs" not entcc tbeir pol,"i i cav
rying more tt"n a &C ta'a complement of
pa senge-s in pror orsion to the'r capacity.
New York Is Indebted II hec quarantine
laws entirely for being thus isr protected
against a cargo of deadly disease recently
tr0ught almost t) her veiy wbe,7es. 1t is of
the lvsG imr ol lance that every American sea-
board city shall e-ze'cige the u5mc It vigilance
ald employ the mosG stl Dgent measures for
the next few month, 70 prevent the intro
duct,on, II possible, of cholera in the vessels
sailing hither from eny quqrtor in which that
tcIlibie scourge prevails. But it must be con-
iessed that neither IN our health laws nor our
quarantine a"rangemenfT do we exhibit a
wise providence against the insidious az
proaches Of pestilence. The cleansing of our
streets, upon which DEP 5DdS in great mea-
sure our freedom Iom epidemic disease, has
hitherto been tc much regarded as a job by
which CONTRACTOR may Pocket mC4.ace1t
profto without per orming much work. Re-
foIn in th:s mater is gleat'y needed, and
we shall hope 10 see it effected by
those who are now slhTst.d with
the business Of purifying our highways and
keeping them in Wholesome state. AS
regards the qu",~ntine, 1t 10 potM.ors that
diveiCity in the regJ'ltio,s of t;le vt,ious
cities rot Only ccuse" a great de-, Of { f.
Guilty among the owners and meJtc1- of ves-
sels, but that it orc ats against The object
for which al qrc1-ntine laws are iri.,red.
Our p-eGont syst"m if such it can r. cclled,
does not eld cannot effectul,ly p. event the
Introduction of contc 1ior1 or .rfectious dis
eases 1t hs1 been repeatedly demonstrated
that the attempt to carry the regulations into
execution has fciled to afford the desired
security, in spite of the caution and energy
of the officers and agent, employed lor the
purpose. The reason is apparert. If, or
example, Cno-leston, Nor ok, Baltimore,
New York, or Bo.ton be sfflic' with
cho,era, yet while the quaralti1e laws
of each Of the seid places are quite s.ugent
in reference TO the admission OF vessels from
foreign port, they can give rs no security
against the sailing of vessels rom their own
waters to those Of the Delaware at PGi'adel
phia. A Uniform system which would be
publoI ed, known to az, s;.,ct in its require
meuts, u2iveOsily applicable under Fedora,
authority, and capable of icing islly carried
out would prevent the evil il question, be
more satisfactory to the owlers of shipping,
and be indeed wice and SALUTE, practice
reform in ou" sanitary police. An approach
to this idea has been ncdo by the order
directing certain numt OF our national
vessels to cruise or lie OF the hert rs oe oar
principal Atlantic port, to intercept and
exem'ne foreign ships suspected of having
pestientia, digec-e on bo2-d. Ir:s one step
is in the right direction end it might conduc,
to the orgs1izHtion by Congress of complete
and uniform national quarantine system.
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