The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-05-30
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yellow Fever JEovCnscntS.
New York papers report that nun
Der of vessels have arrived at the qua
rautine station there, direct from ports
Of the West Indies and South Ameri-
ca. now infected with yellow fever.
The vessels are subjected to thorough
disinfeciion before they are allowed
10 pass up TO The city wharves, but
after Thursday they will be detained
q longer time. The H'orid advises
very stringent sanitary measures, and
says:
THE neigbborhood Of New York
was com arativeiy exempt from yelio"
fever after 1923. There was an cpl
demie in 1856. beginning on Govern
or's Island aud spreading down the
Long Island cosstto Bay Ridge and
across to Staten Island. The last
endemic Of last summers cases at the
navy yard are not TO be counted
Endemic began at Governors Island
again in 1870 and extended TO Bay
Ridge ana 10 some parts Of the lowe,
end of MaDbauen Is,nod. During the
long period Of exemption the people Of
New York had been lui.el into a feel
ing of security. But that feeling had
n solid basis unless the stric,est qua
r6ntines and sanitary measures were
adopted aud enforced At least that
was the opinion Of the best authori-
ties on the subject. Although cities
outside OF the yellow fever zone proper
have been more exempt than those
within, yet It's yieitaions, sooner or
later, In the Northern cities have been
lust a. certain. Ia 1886, during the
mouths Of July, August aud Septem
Der, there were sixty four cases OF
Governors Island alone, best les sew
eral hundreds along the shores o
Long Island and Staten Island. i
1870 tie Governors Island fever wa
very malignant, but Why il shou!
have chosen that small we'll veniilate,
spot instead Of the ueighborh0od O
Fulton market, for instance, no on
could tell. At that fine the popuia
ton of Governors Islaud vas 77I
made az Of United States army officers
soldiers, employees, together With few
families, WasherwOmen, etc Th
epidemic lasted about two months anI
half, taking its origin in an Oh,
barracks building called "R3ttel
Row, ana situated near the water
edge The whole number Of case
was $50, Of which City two died. Ca
October first all the sick were Temog
ed to quarantine and the spreading 0
the disease was arrested. Eleven per
sons died ia this city, but i; was goun,
that they had ell been exposed TO til
poison by visits to Governors Island
In his repor; 10 the Board Of Healil
on the Governors Island epidemic o
1870, DR. J c. Mott gave the follow
ing sufficient warning: "1ellow feve
after n long absence never makes "a
reappcarauco in our Northern elite
without a warning from the Gulf o
Mexico. Il is seen not only f.
months but often for several years il
vigorous action in its native habits bc
fore it leaps over its accustome
bounds, but when once on the tram
it may traeei from Buenos Ayers +
Quebec, leaving more graves in it
track than As;aiic cholera. There
reason to fear that ono Of these erupt
ions is now marzhaling lis forces '
Iris is unusually early in the sea
son for vessels to bring the disease /
New York, and the argument in fay,
OF unremitling sanitary pyeeaUL.oI
for that city is equally forcible for ii
Mississippi valley. The New Orlea,
people are using every preceu'ioa an
quarantine is very vigorously min
tanned. Other Southern scaPor
should be closely watched Ii woul
have been wise for Congress 10 hay
passed the National Board Of Healt
in the early days Of the session. I'll
bill gives the National Board {
Health some additional power, an
the clause comforting it has been bi
terly opposed by Eastern Senators an
congressman, OF the selfish groun
it win "interfere with business" III
section objected to has been amenle
aud it now reads as follows:
"SEc. , The National Board
Health shall CO operate With, and,
FAR as it lawfully may, shall aid, Sta
and municipal associations in the ex
eutiou ana enforcement of the ru',
and regulations Of such boards and a
-soeiations to prevent the Introduction
contagious or Infectious diseases in
the United States from foreign coul
tries, and into one state from arothe
Aud in regard to such ports and plac
within the United States as have d
quarantine regulations under State al
thority, aud where such regulation
in the opinion OF the National Board
Health, are necessary to prevent Il
introduction Of contagious or infectio,
diseases into The United Stat
from foreign countries, or into OF
state from another, aad parts au