Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-05-25

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They are beginning already to have the
usual trouble with outsiders about quar-
antine down at New Orleans The Gov
ernor Of Texas leads of by inquiring,
with some degree of petulance. whether
the local authorities are going to insist
on admitting vessels from Vera CRUZ
The answer is, that the Vera Cruz
steamers do not come up the Mississippi
river to New Orleans, because they
would have to pass quarantine station
but of this fact the Texas Executive
appears to have been ignorant. The
Louisiana State Board, as if by
way of offset, improves the oppor'
tunity to ask him what Texas has
done as yet to improve upon the
old quarantine system handed down
from the dark ages Also, why ships
are simply detained at quarantine a
certain space of time, when it is well
established that vessels may bear infec-
ton through a six months voyageY
They ironically suggest that there is not
on the Texas coast single warehouse
where the cargoes can be discharged and
the vessel fumigated; while, on the other
hand, they are reminded that Louisiana
has supplied all the facilities for unload
ing and purifying vessels of the largest
size with dispatch, ard that its
health authorities are keeping pace
with the most advanced sanitary sys-
TENS adopted in Europe and at the
North Atlantic ports. Perhaps the most
striking feature of the situation. how
ever, is an appeal from the New Orleans
Medical and Surgical Association and
the Louisiana Board of Health to the
National Board to protect New Orleans
against infection from the North and
West "Typhus fever. smallpox and
other contagious diseases, we are told,
care now prevalent in the Northern and
Western cities, and are claiming more
victims than the yellow fever ever
did during the seasons when it
prevailed epidemically." AS New Or.
leans is free from these dangerous dis
eases, that city asks to be protected
against their introduction by the Nation
al Board. Not only this, the health au-
thorities request that "a system of rail
road and vessel inspection be at once put
in operation at New York, Chicago, Gin
cinnati and other large cities that are
thus dangerously infected" for the bene-
fit of New Orleans. The Picayuns there
upon declares, with a show of indigns.
ton, that 1.-The National Board will fail
to perform its whole duty if it neglects
to comply with this very reasonable re-
quest"
This demand of New Orleans
health authorities for protection against
infection from Northern and West
ern cities is regarded as utterly
absurd by the press of those cit
les. Speaking for New York, the
Commercial Bulletin of Monday says
eve do not know how it is at Chicago
and Cincinnati. but we have Official au
thorily for the statement that last week
but few cases of typhus fever were re-
ported within the city limits; and as re
CARDS smallpox and other contagious
diseases, these are so rapidly on the de
cline as to occasion no apprehension
whatever. During the first three days
of the week but seventeen cases in al
had been reported to the Board Of
Health; and what is there in that, among
a million and a quarter Of people, fol-
the New Orleans Medical Association
and the Louisiana Board of Health
to make an ado about? The truth is, We
suspect, their credulity has been prac
ticed upon by the journalistic outcry here
about the dirty streets. The motive be
ing to some extent a political one, thu
language employed by our contempora
ries was sometimes more jealous thar
discreet, and hence the mlschievous i'm
preston has gone abroad that New Yorl
is in so desperate condition as to require
other communities, as a matter of self
protection, to place her in quarantine
If the thing is seriously meant, nothing
could be more preposterous or silly"