The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-08-23
CAIRO AND THE FEVER.
JR. RAUCHS OPINIONS AGAINST
CONCEDED FACTS.
A FEW TRUTHS AND MANY SANDERS.
Chicago Times, Wednesday.


DR.. j. II. Rauch, Of the state board Of
health, has been down in Egypt during the
past week assisting the authorities Of Cairo
in preventing the introduction of yellow fe-
yer into Illinois. He returned home last
Monday, and on last evening a reporter of
the Times called upon him at the Avenue
house. The doctor was stretched ont on a
lounge at full length, and looked somewhat
worn out after his arduOus services at the
Illinois entrepot for the yellow scourge.
How did YOU find things in the locality
from which you have just returned asked
! the reporter.
The situation at the outset was alarm
| ing. There was q general stampede from
the south, and during last Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday the rush from the infect
ed districts was perfectly fearful Then,
women and children came mp on the rail
roads, STEAMBOATS,. and in any possible CON
yeyance from Memphis and points further
south.
THE BOATS AND CARS WE'RE CROWDED
what were the destinations of most of
the passengers p
They were going to st. Louis, Chicago,
and points in Wisconsin where they had
either friends or acquaintances, and, in or
der to get through, were willing to do
almost anything
"What steps did you and the authorities
take TO prevent them from landing
I'VE disinfectcd their baggage, etc, and
then locked them up in the cars, not allow
ing them 10 land, but allowing them TO pro-
coed, for the further north they got the less
the danger Of their spreading the disease
AT what do you estimate the number OF
those who were northward bound'
During last week, from Monday to Sat
urday night, should Judge there were no
less than 1900 passengers on the cars that
passed through Cairo
"IIow many did the boats bring up"
~ suppose they must have carried fully
AS many as there were on the cars
AT what points north were the allowed
to landl"
"They were allowed to land principally
at Louisville.'
"IIow comes it that Louisville permitted
them to come in their midst"
"Well, Louisville has always been nearly
free from yellow fever and the authorities
there had an idea that they were proof
against it, They consequently did not cs-
tablisha quarantine, but on the contrary
invited all to land or pass through
WAS it because Louisville pridcd itself
on its cleanliness, and the impossibility of
the fever spreading on that account
no; it was because Of their position that
they imagined themselves tcver-prOOf, but
the results do not show that they have en-
tircIy escaped. Cincinnati seemed the great
point Of refuge, but after several cases of
yellow fever were discovered they at once
established quarantine. AT Cairo we disin-
icCtcd all who came by rail, and the quar-
antnc physician examined every passenger
that came by rail-
"Was this your first visit to Cairo since
the breaking out of the epidemic"
mo, it was my second visit. For the last
two weeks half my time has been given to
the work at Cairo
Have you had any cases there
mo; we had one death, but the deceased
came up ON the towboat Porter, landed he.
low the city, and got into the city surrcp.
tiously. The atmospheric conditions there
are, however, very favorable for the disease.
1t is
AS HOT THERE As IN NEW ORLEANS.
After Memphis, Cairo is the most exposed
p5int in the Mississippi valley. If it had
got start it would undoubtedly spread
into Illinois,
do you apprchend any danger to this
city,"
mo; | do not. A few eases may acct
dcntally come here Parties coming may
be taken sick and die, but beyond that /
have no fears"
but are not the atmospheric conditions
here against the introduction and spread of
the diseasci'
"Wcll, not exactly. Yellow fever will
I'VE AT u mean temperature Of - degrees.
1t has been said that you can't find yellow