The New York herald., 1870-07-26

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they may send their children to be ''out of tht
way" may possibly wish that the vacation wal
not so long. They forget, however, not only
the blessings which the summer vacation con-
fcrs on their children, but those which the pa
tient, overworked teachers may derive from It.
AT the beginning of tho next term both teach
ers and children will return with fresh vigol
to their respective duties in the schoolhouse.
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Evading observation-disclosures to the City
Our readers may remember the manifesto oi
Solomon Grundy, a so-caled Health Officer
who 6ourishes somewhere on the Jersey coast as
sort of aois 10 the governor of Coney Island,
and who is not unlike that great official in his
pomposity, though he seems likely to be rather
more mischievous. Solomon, by his pronun-
ciamento, defiance, or whatever else 1t may be-
addressed to the Health Officer of the Port of
vessels were entering this port on the authority
of the certificates Of this fustian official and
without in any way submitting themselves to
the quarantine laws of this State. Such fact
could not be accepted on the credit Of such
person, and we have therefore inquired into the
subject We find that within a short time past
at least six vessels from infected ports after
having anchored at the quarantine anchorage,
have left it without the authority of the Health
Officer, Dr. Carnochan, and gone to Perth
Amboy where they have had their cargoes re-
moved wholly or in part, and whence in some
cases the ships have been brought directly to
the wharves of this city and Of Brooklyn. The
barks Contest, Signal and Elizabeth, and the
briggs Dauntless, Typhoon and Calson Steson,
have thus violated tho laws. At Perth Amboy
no attempt is made to carry out any quaran-
tine regulation, and the ships are unloaded by
stevedores that coHe directly to the city when
their work is done. Every one of these ships
had yellow fever on board. Tho Contest had
five men in hospital at Rio with the fever, and
one of her crew died with it on the voyage
either lost men at Rio or on the voyage with
yellow fever.
We find, therefore, that we are at this port
practically without quarantine. Yellow fever
is raging with such virulence in Rio and other
tropical ports that not vessel sailing. thence
but carries the disease, and all these infected
ships may enter the port of New York. come
straight to our wharvcs, unload their infected
cargoes in cur warehouses and scatter their
sailors with trunks of infected clothing in all
the boarding houses Of West, Water and Cherry
streets. In what condition is the city in view
of the possibility of an epidemic of yellow
fever breaking outp In the worst condition 1t
is possible for city to be. We are in the
midst Of season of unusually oppressive
heat, and the influence of this heat renders the
disease. Indeed, the element of great heat,
which Is condition of the activity and wide
dissemination of the yellow fever poison, was
never more favorable in any tropical city than
it Is here now, and if the fever should break
out it would decimate the population.
How comes 1t, then, in view Of the possibility
of such evil, that we arc without the protec-
ton of quarantine regulations at this port,
despite all the money the State has spent in
organizing quarantine establishment, and
despite the many and stringent laws made for
the enforcement of quarantineP 1t Is through
piece of effrontery that would be laughablo
If it did not cover 50 grave public danger.
The vessels enter at the quarantine anchorage,
thence they steal over to Perth Amboy,
where there is kind of bogus quar-
antine and health officer. At Perth
Amboy the ships discharge their cargoes, and
thence they steal up at night by way Of the
Kills and come to the wharves here, and the
owners or consignees, we understand, pretend
that the certificate issued to them at Perth
Amboy exempts them from quarantine ex-
animation in the port of New York. How
does 1t? Would certificate issued at Rio be-
fore they start exempt them from quarantine
herep We fancy not. Yet such a certificate
would be of just as much authority as the
Perth Amboy certificate. What Is there In
common between the ports Of Perth Amboy
and New York that should make the quaran-
tine certificate of one good in the other. The
fact is this certificate issued in Jersey Is Of no
more validity before our quarantine law thar
the ruse of Barnegat pirate. And The
owners Of these ships know this. They know
that they stand, without any defence or excuse
az men who have assisted and encouraged a
defiance of the quarantine laws that might a
any moment start destructive epidemic o
yellow fever in this city and Brooklyn. GU
own view Is that the Health Officer shoul'
before this have seized every one of thes
ships, and that they should have been fined t
an extent that would amount to confscation
for they are simply 1agrant law-breakers.
is we'll, no doubt, for the Health Officer t.
move with some gronnd under him, bu
certainly he will be delinquent If he permit
this impudent defiance to the laws that he i
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