The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-08-13
PROTESTING AGAINST THE ouAnANrrNE.


PROTESTING AGAINST THE QUARANTINE
New ORLEANS. August IL. 1879.
The City Council has adopted preamble and reso-
lutions declaring that there is not case of yellow
fever in the city and protesting against TIE unjust
quarantines established by the Southern cities ana
towns against New Orleans.
TERRIBLE EPIDEMIC AT TAMPIco IN MEXICO.
THE FOREIGN HEALTH DETAIL.
wAsHIsGros. August -. 1879.
The National Board of Health has received through
the Department of State the following despatch from
Warner p. Sutton Consul at Matamoras. under date
of Brownsville Texas. August TO-
Reliable information from Tampico to August
says 1--WE have yellow fever epidemic worse than
Quarantine ut Bagdad against Tampico still eff-
Gent
navy to in foreign ports under the National
Board of Health has been revoked. neither Surgeon
Thomas Inland nor Surgeon Walker X. schoheld
having had ire fever. Medical Inspector Somerset
Robinson, of the navy, and Dr. Daniel NJ Burgess.
for several yen resident of Havana will perform
the duties OF inspectors prescribed by the
set Of Congress. DR.. Robinson has been assigned TO
duty at Matanzas aud DR.. Burgess at Havana.
ALL CLEAR AT QUARANTINE-INFEcTEDv VESSELS
BOUND FOR NEW YoRK-EPIDEMIc AT TAM
PIco-RIGID ENFORCEMENT OF QUARANTINE
The only case of sickness at Quarantine Hospital
yesterday that of the old sailor. Noonan. from
the steamer Claribel. and he will be discharged
cured soon he gathers some physical strength.
He not yellow fever patient.
\ The utility Of the regulation established by the
National Board of Health relative to the reporting Of
infected vessels In foreign ports by the American
consus or United States commercial agents in those
ports was manifested yesterday by the receipt OF
bv nr Van ehe
of the Board. notifying him that the Norwegian
bark Emerge and other vessels including the Eliza
McNameny, Ortolan and Norton Slower, bound for
New York, were loading at Havana. bad sickness on
board and probably infected. This information
will put the officer in charge at the hospital ship
his guard. that when the vessels named arrive he
can dispose of them cxpeditiously than if he
ignorant of their condition at the time OF their
departure from Havana.
From the same source the Health Ofacer has been
Motif ed that the yellow fever is reported epidemic
ut Tampco. This information will also occasion
unusual vigilance on the part OF the Quarantine OFF,
GERS concerning vessels coming from that drec
ton. The port Of New York is at this time compar-
atvely II not positively clear Of active injected
terial and the object is to keep it SO:
The bark Samuel Welsh OF Philadelphia. Captain
Kreli has discharged cargo at Upper Quarantine anu
ready to take board fresh one. Captain Krell
called on Dr. vanderpoel yesterday. and represent
ing his vessel to have had no sickness board, and
that she lett AIatanZas before the fever broke
there desired permit to come up to the city to
would to be thoroughly cleansed and
fumigated before he could depart from the rule,
he had established not to permit vessels from in
fected ports to 90 up to the docks of the city, no
matter what interval OF time had elapsed since their
departure and arrival here. The same decision was
given regard to the brig Akbar. of Machias Captain
Donald which had sickness on board on her passage
from the West Indies. She also had discharged and
was prepared to take in her return cargo; but the
rule applied to the Samuel Welsh was applied to,
her. She must be cleansed and purified, or she,
like all the others similarly situated. will not be en-
titled u clean bill OF health on leaving port. The
Health Officer has been overrun with applications OF
the character particularly from the masters Of
Spanish vessels who do not seem to comprehend
the bearings of New York's quarantine regulations
and make repeated applications for permits to go up
to the city without complying with the required
rule which, it may be repeated. Is inhetibe so far
as the Health Officer of the port has the power to-
enforce it.
REFUGEES FROM MEMPHIS.
Two young girls whose parents died OF yellow
fever in Memphis. arrived in Brooklyn . few days.
ago. The fact reported to the sanitary authors
ties and the refugees who are stopping at the house
of a relative in South Brooklyn, are kept under y
close inspection by the Health Department. They
are in good health. and though the precaution Of
visiting them daily taken, but little fear OF their
developing the dread disease is entertained.