The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-09-05
HOUSTON QUARANTINE.

element. she has quarantlneu
against the whole Woriu exceptsleN-
as. On september the hrst, inc loI-
lowing pronunciamento was issued.
Z "a HousroN, Texas, Sept. /, rs.
From and after the Sd day OF Sep
ea;. ioao, ~ pa;s s, ~ empscss,
enter The county Of Harris from he
yond the state lines. until the Esd
day of September, 1873. :,
N9tice Oh extension OIL anhc WIN
~ II RuTYrpEopn NJ n
Health Officer CITY of Houston and
Harris Co. \
In Justification of the above extra
ordinary and unprecedented step, 1t
is said to be necessary to make the
quarantine against New Orleans and
other infected places effective, from
the fact that clothing, goods &c from
those places come 10 Houston under
cover of st. Louis, Chicago nc. tits
also said to be matter of Authentic
I a
information that yellow fever exists
in St Louis, twenty cases having
already occurred.
On those grounds therefore Hous-
ton shuts down her doors to the
world.
The step is a good one, IN view of a
quarantine being in existence. A
city may reasonably hesitate about a
quarantine at all, but that having
been adopted IL should be madc ell
fective by any means. The lives of a
city are in the hands of the health
officers, and II is right they should
be vested with extraordinary pow
ers, and be supported in the exercise
of them. Gov. Hubbard has declar-
cd that the power of quarantine be-
longs to cities and counties, and that
while having no power TO declare
quaraL,ine over any OF them, he can
and viii support the cities and towns
which have adopted At. q rotss5ia
Quarantines are frequentiy-not on
ly ineffective, but OF positive injury.
Once having been established feel
ing of security leads to a relaxation
of those individual cautions, and OF
personal efforts to avoid or prepare
for the advent OF the infection, while
Il Il Il
due precautions demand uhrehiittihg
care on the part OF both citizens ana
officers.
But such a quarantine as that OF
Houston and Galveston exhaust
every means OF warding from those
cities the dread disease. Ihe ofiicers
seem imbued with deep sense OF the
seriousness OF the sitnation,their vigil
ience Is unremltting, as that OF men
VINO reel that the hves OF men, Woih-
en- ana children among whom are
their own 1amiiles are placed IN their
hanos' Inc citlzehs support .ie Oh
ncers, bearing al those losses anu
discomiorts incident 10 such risio
quarantines win equanihily, wmie
using all eSertiohs lhViuuaiiy 10 aiu
m disiniee.lni9 raii f'eaiis'''U --i,r''7'
1oose loin'eo quarah'ihes are ,hore
dangerous thah none, whiie such as
those carried OH III 'hose TWO ci'les'
even II they IAN IN preventing the IN
troduction oil the scourge, strip ~ OF
It's power ana terrors. for thc con-
seriousness among the citizens, that
around the city ana MONIES are sehti-
neis who never sleep, that they are
guarded on every mana by tireiess
vigilance, that every avenue Dy
which the insiduous pestiience might
steal in, is closed, that ITS progress
from place to place is watched with
Argus eyes, ana the nearer It's APP
proach, the more rigid and unrelent-
ing the quarantine Is made, that each
individual citizen Is working III his
own sphere with unremitting exer-
ton, the consciousness OF all these,
we say, is calculated to indnce
state OF confidence and composure III
the minds OF their citizens, than
which no better preparation Is to be
found, neither in disinfection nor
absolute cleanliness, and should all
this vigilance be futile, and the terri