The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-08-17
YELLOW JACK.
DIR. Minor Establishes a Quarantine

as much as possible the importation from
the South of yellow fever cases. has issued
the following:
CINCINNATI Aug II, 1878.
From and after date every steamboat from
a Southern port before landing at the Port
of Cincinnati will remain in the stream five
hundred feet below Keck's Landing, on the
Ohio River, until such time as the Quar-
anline Physician and Sanitary Inspectors
shall have visited and examined as to her
sanitary condition. If such boat shall have
on board any yellow fever or any sick per-
son whose symptoms may cause suspicion,
no landing of said vessel at the port of Gin
cinnati shall be allowed If the boat is
found to be in good sanitary condition a
Certificate of Health will be furnished, al
lowing her to land at the city wharf or pro-
ceed on her journey.
No master, charterer, owner, part owner
of any vessel, or any other person, shall
bring to any dock, pier, wharf or landing
within the corporate limits of the City of
Cincinnati any skins, hides rags, or similar
articles or materials conveyed or shipped
from any point south of Louisville, Ken
lucky, without written permit from the
Health Officer of the Port of Cincinnati.
No Captain, officer, consignee, owner, or
other person in charge of a boat TOR having
the right and authority to prevent the
same) shall remove or aid in removing
from any boat to the shore (save as legally
authorized by the Health Officer of the
Port of Cincinnati and into quarantine
grounds or hospital only any person sick
of or having symptoms of yellow fever, or
liable to develop said disease nor to remove
or aid in removing any articles that have
been exposed to the contagion of any such
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Officer of the Port of Cincinnati.
That no owner, part owner, charterer
agent or consignee of any boat, nor any
officer or person having charge or control
of the same shall allow to be cast there
from, and no person shall cast therefrom
into the public waters of the City of Gin
cinnati, or within one thousand feet thereof
any straw, bedding clothing, or other sub
stance, from any incoming vessel south Of
Louisville, KY, without permit from the
Health Officer of the Port of Cincinnati
All railroads are forbidden to deliver at
the Port OF Cincinnati, during the term of
quarantine, any sick passengers, or baggage
or any baled goods, such as bagging, rags
feathers, wool, moss, hair, &c, shipped or
consigned from points south of Louisville
KY This rule does not apply to healthy
parties, without baggage, passing north.
ANY NlUldllOu Ol lllpSc TuleS anu TppUld-
tions will render parties so offending liable
to prosecution for violation of city ordi-
nance to that effect, passed November Sd,
1865.
7. G. MINOR, MD, Health Officer.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO OWNERS AND CAPTAINS OF
BOATS.
All boats ascending Jhe Ohio River from
ports below Louisville, KY, including
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fled to stop in mid-channel at a point five
hundred feet below Keck's Landing, and
await the sanitary inspection of boat by
quarantine officers.
Captains and owners of boats, including
Louisville and Madison packets, are also no.
titled that no rags, hair, hides, baggage or
sick passengers from suspected points below
Louisville shall be reshipped at that port
for the Port of Cincinnati.
The day signal at Quarantine Station
will be an orange-colOred flag waved three
times from left to right.
The night signal will be the burning of a
red Bengal light and a red lantern waved
three times from left to right.
On receiving such signals the pilot will
stop his boat in mtl-channel.
Any violation of these orders will be con-
strued as violation of the ordinance
passed by City Council November Sd, 1865.
T. c. MINOR MD, Health Officer.
A resolution was offered in Council last
night to appropriate $2,500 from the GEN
eral Fund to reimburse DR.. Minor for his
expenses but not enough members being
present 10 pass it the resolution had to be
laid over.
The Golden Rule passed Cairo last even
ing bound for this city. There are two cases
of yellow fever on board.
The John A. Porter has passed Ports
mouth, Ohio, where she was not permitted
to land.
Yesterday car load of passengers came
up over the Ohio q Mississippi Railroad
from Memphis via Louisville. and took lodg-
ings at the,various hotels 1t is feared that
the plague will be spread here by some of
these Southerners.
Secretary Elliott, of the Health Board,
left the city this morning for the quaran-
tine station, accompanied by Drs Muscroft
and Culver and Sanitary Officers Mehan,
Ostendorf, Knappe and Bradley, and will
have charge of the station, part being on
duty during the day and part at night.
They are supplied with tent and all the
necessary articles for camping out and also
with flags and lights for hailing passing
steamers.
Each boat will be stopped in the channel
and thoroughly examined. If there is no
signs of fever on board, a certificate will be
given to the Captain and the boat allowed 10
land when she arrives at the city. If fever
be found on board the necessary steps to re-
lieve it will be taken and the boat will be
obliged to pass the city without stopping.