The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-06-19
THAT FARo1oAL QUARANTINE.

from outward indications as mild
hammered a gentleman as ever carved
a cold corpus at n post norton exam
ination or sawed the leg of living
subject, has given vent to some very
emphatic language respecting the
comments of the CHIEF and other
country papers upon the fraudulent
quarantine now in operation under
the direction of the distinguished
body IF which the Doctor is presiding
officer. The good Doctor has even
gone 30 far as t. characterize these
structures as falsehoods" and lies,n
and some Of the New Orleans papers
have feebly backed up the indignant
gentlemen's structures by referring to
tile newspaper ISLANDERS Of our city"
uttered by the wicked country press.
If DR.. Jones will kindly cool his ex-
cited system and cork up the Walls Of
his wrath, We should like to job him
gently in the region of his abbreviated
ribs with few plain points in con-
nection with this controversy:
The CHIEF has indeed criticised the
SO called New Orleans quarantine "a a
delusion and fraud, conceived and
carried out in open disregard and vi
olation of the law which its origina-
tors and manipulatOrs are sworn to
obey. Does DR.. Jones presume to
risk his reputation for verucity and
good breeding by denouncing this
charge as untruthful z m..-..
The first evasion Of the law appears
in the proclamation issued by Gov.
Wilt on the 4th of May. We quote
from the instrument:
Whereas, Section 3O49 of the Revised
Statutes of the State of Louisiana, APP
proved March Ia, 1870, provides that the
Governor shall issue his proclamation,
upon the advice Of the Board Of Health,
declaring any place where there shall be
reason to believe u pestilential, conta-
gious OF infectious disease exists, to be
an infected place, stating the Number of
days quarantine Is to be performed by the
vessels, their passengers, officers and
crews, coming from such place or places.
Now, therefore, in pursuance of the
provisions OF the statute aforesaid and
on the recommendation Of the Board Of
Health, I, Louis A. Wilt, Governor of
the State OF Louisiana, have thought
proper to issue this my proclamation, de-
claring that all vessels arriving from and
after the 10th day Of May, 1880, from the
following ports known to be infected
with yellow fever, viz: Havana, Vera
Cruz and Rio de Janeiro, and the officers,
crews, passengers and cargoes arriving
from tue above named places or having
touched or stopped at any Of them shall
be subject to such detention and quarantine
as the Board Of Health may direct.
After citing the statute which COM
mands him to specify I" the number of
days quarantine is to be performed"
the Governor, who is specially en-
trusted will, the duty Of seeing that
the laws are faithfully executed, pro-
cecds to declare that vessels aud per
sons from infected potts shall be sub
ject to such detention aud quaran.
tine as the Board of Health may d.
rect!"
The next provision Of law violated
is the ten days clause of sec. 3O45 Re-
visel Statutes, to-wit:
SEC. 3O45.-Vessels out ten DAYS from
infected ports, presenting clean bills of
health, not having nor having had sick
ness on board, and which are not in Il
foul condition, shall be permitted to pnss
to the city after thorough fumigation.
Iii our issue Of the 29th ult., we ci-
ted several instances where vessels
only two, four, five and eight days
out from infected ports were permit
ted to land at the wharves of New
Orleans. To show that this unlawful
practice has been steadily pursued
and is still in vogue, we append few
instances Of more recent date, which,
may be verified by reference to the
marine columns of any Of the city
dailies:
Entered May q: British brig Pride
| of Chaleur, Kern, days from Havana,
with asphaltum. Spanish bark Eugenia,
Barrau, days from Havana, arrived at
| quarantine station May %; entered New
Orleans May 81.
Entered May 81: British Steamship
Commander, Ellis, 3 days from Vera
! Cruz, with general cargo. American
steamship Morgan, Staples, 3 days from
| Havana, with general cargo. American
steamship City of Mexico, Mcintosh, 5
| days from Vera Cruz with general cargo
| and "a passengers.
The Morgan arrived at Port Eatis again
on the 18th of June, ) days from Havana.
and entered New Orleans June l6.
Entered June IA: British steamship
Amazonian, Holsate, : days from Hav-
| ana.
Entered, June Is: American steam
| ship Margaret, Otteson, days from Hav-
| ana.
ln his report of the condition of
Quarantine Station, submitted to the
Board OF Health June Is, DR.. Jones
says:
All vessels from infected ports, even
though they may bring clean bills of
health, are detained not less than seven
| ty-two hours for inspection, observation,
publication, .iisiDfection and ttlmigation
| Examples are not wanting where
the published reports of the arrival
of vessels from infected ports at the
Passes and their entry at Kew Orleans