The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1879-07-21
Last NIGHTS Dispatches.
The Yellow Fever .


establishing quarantine against Memphis,
the following from the Post and NeoS of
to-day fairly represents public sentiment:
I'VE cannot afford to go back on our
humane and sensible record Of last year
and there is now no reason to do so, but
it would be we'll for some system to be
adopted by which officers should be sta
toned at''some point down the road with
strict instructions and full authority to
stop the bringing of suspicious baggage
into our hotels and boarding houses and to
turn every case of disease which could
possibly be regarded as even incipient yell
low fever aside to a yellow fever hospital.
That would be enough. While the city of
Memphis Is not under the epidemic cloud
nor suffering from more than dozen cases
and these not caught one from the other,
it would be an unnecessary hardship to
put the wives and children off the train
outside the city. We must keep the yell
low fever out, but we must let the healthy
people come and this is not impossible, it
seems to us. We must not let fleeing
families with bundles of bed clothes and
other domestic rubbish into the city, but
when men and women in perfect health
with change of clothing wish to come
they must be permitted. 1t would be folly
to try to prevent them. We can be more
careful than last year aud still lose none of
cur good name for humanity"
LOUISVILLE, July l9-At meeting
OF -the Board of Health this afternoon
the rules and regulations of the SAM
tary Council of the Mississippi Valley
were adopted. The rules relate to the
inspection of eamboats carrying pas
sengers or freight from river and Gulf
ports to the interior and the more ef-
tective quarantining of railroads. The
regulations touching railroads request ex-
treme sanitary care of depots, stations,
round houses. car shops, grounds, water
closets and prlvIes, which must be daily
| inspected by the local agent or official. who
is to use disinfecting material eyery where
it is necessary. The points relating to
quarantine are important and as follows.
Whenever a railroad train departs from
an infected station, no person with fever
shall be allowed to take passage on such
trains The baggage from such infected
station shall be thoroughly disinfected
| before leaving such railroad station, At
point not less than fifty nor more than
seventy-6ve miles from the point of de-
parture from an infected place there shall
be an entire transfer of passenger and
baggage TO another train of ears, which
train shall never enter an infected dis
trict. This transfer shall be made under
the supervision of a medical officer, and
no person with fever shall be allowed TO
proceed on this train, but shall return to
the point Of departure or be treated in Ii
hospit at the place of transfer. The
cars which carry freight without breaking
bulk may pass without transfer if the
freight cars are ventilated in such a way
| that constant current of air passes
| through the whole length of the car during
transit, Way freight shall be transferred
at point DOT exceeding fifty miles from
the point of departure, and the cars from
which such freight has been transferred
shall not proceed further on the road bu,
shall be returned to the point of departure
during the existence of an epidemic oil
yellow fever. The freight cars after un.
loading shall be thoroughly cleansed BY
scrubbing and sprinkling with carboiic
acid, or fumigated and disiniected and
then painted.
These regulations were fully discussed
before adopted They embody very eff
fective remedy against the transportation
/, of disease and impose comparatively little
trouble upon railway companies.
Fred Eckers died this afternoon. Mrs
Robert Hester and Chief Of Police Athey
son are both in critical condition.
Z Mrs. Robert Hester died tonight at
clock. The remainder Of the family ar,
progressing favorably Nearly all small
| towns adjacent have enforced the quaran
tine against this city.
) HALIFAX, July ia sailor of H. NJ S
: Bellerophon was buried to-day from yellow
fever contracted at Jamaica
New ORLEANS, July 19-The Auxil
liary Sanitary Association sent a dispattl
to the Governor Of Texas and to the Presi
dent of the Board Of Health at Galveston
suggesting the resembling Of the quaran
I tine against New Orleans and declariu
that there has not been case OF yelloy
) fever in New Orleans this season. Tn
Q Board of Health now enforce strict duarau
+ tine against Memphis DR.. Chapin wa
q instructed to telegraph to the Presiden
!. of the Galveston Board of Health that
: rigid quarantine against Memphis is 10 ful
force; that no cases of yellow fever existe
: in the city
;. DIR. Rutherford, medical agent of Texas
photographed DR.. Chaplin that Galveston
quarantine against New Orleans was III
warranted and precipitate and he sent
protest to the Governor and requeste
: him to suspend his official sanction c
the Galveston quarantine against Ne
lOrleans