Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-13
QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS.

Drs. Cluness and Hatch, of the State
Board of Health, returned last evening from
a trip to San Diego, Yuma and Tucson, where
they have been for the purpose of perfecting
the quarantine arrangements established on
the frontier last summer to prevent the in
PRODUCTION Of yellow fever from Guaymas
and other points in Mexico connected with
California by railway They advise that
strong quarantine regulations be established at
San Diego, which is a seaport into which
coasting vessels from the Mexican porte, and
also freight from the interior of that
country, pass during every month in
the year The physicians and the
Chairman OF the Board of Supervisors
of that city approve of this suggestion.
At Tucson they were informed that quite a
large number had come there from Hermo-
sillo for treatment, by way Of MsgGslena and
NOgales, on the Sonora Railroad A promi
nent physician Of Tucson denies that yellow
fever ever existed in that place, as that dis
ease is not supposed to be contagious at 2, 800
feet above the sea-level, and Alsgdslena,
through which they passed, is 200 feet
above the sea. DIR. y. II. Matas, resident
of Tucson, who went to Hermosillo and re.
manned during the epidemic, main
tains strongly that it is yellow fever,
and not malignant type of
malarial fever. as few contend. He last
year was in Brownsville, Tex, during the
prevalence Of yellow fever there. and declares
the epidemic in HermosillO to be Identical
with the disease which prevailed there. The
disease yet continues in the infected localities
in Mexico, and quite number who have viz
tied the country since the abatement Of the
plague have been taken down, and recently
seven died at Hermosillo. The fatality of
the fever was principally confined to the for
eigners, OF whom fifty per cent. are said to have
died, while of the native population but
four or five per cent failed to recover.
This, they understand, Twas owing to the ina
bility Of the strangers to procure suitable
nurses and the proper medical attendance.
DIS. Hatch and Cluness made such arrange.
ments at Tucson, Yuma and San Diego, In
view of the probable temperance of yellow
fever in the infected localities next summer,
as it is thought will best prevent the intro
ductiou Of the disease from Mexico into Cali
foruia. They fail to see any especial reason
why the valleys Of Sacramento and San
joaquin should escape the plague, or
why its passage into California should
be an impessibilitv. If the fever germs
could pass over >, 700 foot elevation and ex-
ist at Tucson. which is ?, 403 feet above the
sea, it certainly could pass from the latter
point to Yuma, between which places the
road does not reach an altitude greater than
], $50 feet, while between Yuma and Los An
eeles part Of the road is below the sea level.
They consider that as this State becomes
more connected with the fever lands on the
south by the different railroads, her chance Of
escaping the disease and its rsvages grows
less. The atmosphere Of these valleys during
the hot months are well adapted, they say
for germ propagation, and that it behooves
the people to see that all lines Of communi-
cation between us and our =ister republic sre
properly guarded during the yellow fever
term, FOR only in this course is there any as
surauCe Of safety.