The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-25
FROM PASCAGOULA.

| We take the following from a letter from .
well-known and highly esteemed citizen o
New Orleans, now resident at Pascagoula
| Some fifteen days ago this place was visited
by species OF malarial fever, purely local il
its influences, and which, from imprope,
medical treatment and special causes, termi
mated fatally in five cases, at one residence
Since then the cry of "yellow fever" and its
"panic" has been rung from one end of the
country to another, until the infection has
caught all the doctors and strangers of both
New Orleans and Mobile, and the result is that
this locality has been quarantined out of the
world by Caius Caesar and Don Alfonso. As
a specimen of how some do it, 1 furnish here
with permit issued to sick nurse sent here
from Mobile, and who for the past five days has
been awaiting (after application the privilege
of going to his home:
OFFICE BOARD OF HEALTH,
Mobile, Ala, Aug. 20, 1875.
Mr.. H, Scranton
am instructed by the Board of Health to
inform you that you can come as far as the
Quarantine Station, where you will be de-
tanned sufficient length of time to have per-
son and clothing properly disinfected. You
had better write home for suit of CLOTHING
to be sent you at Quarantine Station on the
railroad. You will be required to take tepid
bath, subject all the clothing with you to the
effect OF boiling water for several hours, and
then you will be allowed to come to the civ.
By order OF Board of Health,
--, M. D., H.O.
Shades OF the Drs. Stone, Hunt, MacFar-
land, ETC., where are you, when quarantine
officer SMOKES you in one place and boils YOU
in another
The New Orleans and Mobile Railroad
trains have been shooting by us for ten days
at the rate of twenty miles an hour, and, as
consequence, have aroused much indigna.
ton. Yesterday, quite a large number of
citizens OF the country assembled and passed
a series OF resolutions. After "denouncine
the interference with travel of the people of
Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama in the |
prevention of railroad communication be-
tween Pascagoula and other points in this |
State, they demand from the officers of the |
Mobile and New Orleans Railroad that trains
resume their stoppages at East Pascagoula, |
Under penalty, after to-day, 23d, (unless COM
piled WITH refusal on the part of citizens to |
permit any trains to pass either way this sta
Ion, and appoint committee of eight prom
nent persons to carry out the decision of the
Meeting" This committee last night tele-
,raphed both New Orleans and Mobile to the
abroad authorities, and also to the Governor
= eH0 o'"oo "a HAiSoiSoIPpt GuclT dcllOu. lQeI re
s to be meeting held to-day to hear the
esponse of the railroad company; and. if
lot complied with, to act upon the stoppage
# all communication between the two
titles.
This appears to be q summary way to re-
lress the great wrongs which are suffered
ere, but it also seems to be the only way.
The arrogant action of two conceited boards
t health, without any prior examination or
nvestigation, of shutting off all travel to or
ron! suspected locality and turning deaf
ar to all application for relief, renders .for-
earance" no longer ''virtue," and cries
loud for action on the part of the agrieved.
The lucid report of DIR. Herrick, who has
list left here, will give you a good idea of
ow much yellow fever we have had can
My add that all the sick of every class and
isease are getting well and no new cases
ave appeared.
The advocates of quarantine have strained
ard to make an argument in their favor, but
ave had to catch at straws at best in the
enfield cases, and have skipped entirely the
sse of the captain of the Oloff, who came
ere from New Orleans on fifteen-day trip,
I'D who had not been Tightening in the bay.