The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-15
TIGHTENING THE GORDON
THE ENTRANCES TO THE CITY
CLOSELY GUARDED.


CLOSELY GUARDED.
inspectors Sent Out on the Centre
Railroad to Macon - The Healt
Departments Forces Actively a
Work - What the Railroads Ar
Doing-A Fumigating Station a
Southover Junction-Supplies for tn
Quarantine Camp at Boulogne-Th
First Florida Mail Since Frida.
Received Last Night-The Benevc
lent Associations Helping Hand.
Savannah is tightening its quarantine
against the fever infected districts in ever
possible way Four additional sanitary in
spectors were appointed yesterday anc
we're sent out last night on the Central rail
Dad. They will watch every trail
between Macon and Savannah, anC
will guard against the entrance o.
,tragglers from the infected territory by
Macon and points along the Central The
inspectors are under orders to rigidly en-
force the quarantine regulations and see
that no one enters the city without health
certificate.
THE DIsINFECTING FORCES
The health department had over 100 men
At work Yesterday. City Marshal Wade, IN
charge Of the sanitary inspection, COM
pleted the disinfecting of the district b.
tween CASTOR ami Perry reefs last night,
and to-day the disinfecting forces Will work
north from Perry street to the river.
Over 10 barrels OF lime were used
Yesterday, and over 1000 bottles of chloride
we're distributed ct the city exchange To-
morrow the dlst-i south Of CASTOR street
will b. inspected, and then the suburbs and
east of East Broad and west of West Broad
streets. The inspection, the marshal says,
is a thorough one, and every crack and
corner that needs it is dlsinfecte1
HEALTH FORCES AT WORK.
The activity in the city continues in
Increased sanitary measures locking to the
very highest standard OF sanitation Brig
AIDES were distributing lime yesterday.
Neglected cellars were eng cleanei up and
dist fected, and Chief Fernandez, of the
fire department had 700 feet Of hose and
the No. 4 engine pumping out the basement
Of the new Parsons building, at Price
and Liberty street. The water was very
offensive and was carried in the long line OF
hose into the East Broad street sewer. Two
bows had been in swimming in the water
Deputy Marshal Kelly. Chairman Reid,
of the health and cemetery committee Of
Council, was on the qut rice for anything
needing attention in bis departments, and
superintendent the pumping at the Parsons
building, which was finished at midnight
last night. Health Officer Drummer was
kept busy all day, and among other duties
performed be found time 10 condemn 100
cans of unsanitary camel oysters, which
will be taken to Tybee to-day and dumped
into the sea. The cOllapsing condition Of
the cans showed that ali unhealthful agency
was hidden in them.
The Georgia medical society held meet
ing last night and tine general feeling was
one of security. Il is safe to say that the
feeling is now shared by nearly every
citizen. A fumIgation shed has been
erected at Southover junction on the Sa-
vannah, Florida and Western aud Carries
ton and Savannah railways, and delayed
baggage has been tumigated there, as will
be any doubtful PACKAGES that are sus-
pectei of escaping the vigilance of the
more remote stations
ONE WHO WAS HERE IN 1876.
Sergt J. B. Killourhy, who went through
the epidemic III 1876, being in the saddle
from Ang. %, when the fever was declared
epidemic until he Was stricken down Oct.
W
reporter last nIglt, gave very practical
reasons why be though. no danger is to be
npprehended Of a visitation of the fever
lere. He said that the conditions ore
widely diff rent from those of 1876
In that year there were heavy rains in May
and June, followed 10y very hot weather in
July; the veg tation III this then swamps
east AMI south Of the city was RANK and
broken down by the heavy rains, and when
the hot sun beat down on them tho stencil
was sitting, and the east and southwest
winds drove the malarious atmosphere into
the city; the air was murky and heavy
great pools Of water stood in the streets,
and on. West Broad street water and mud
was from IL II Ii inches deep, and the
water wherever it collected was Shiny, and
in some instances green scum formed on
the surface of the pools.
WHERE THE FEVER STARTED.
In the noighborhood of the gas house,
where the fever first broke out, there was nc
sewer connection with the water closets,
which overfowed from the h avy rains and
the fetid mat e. percolated through the dry
hot sand, and w1en the sun shone down
upon that locality with intensity an un-
savory m st rose in a fog about the place,
while in the vicinity Of Lamar's mill the
uneantary condition of the place WIS in
closets on the hill. The nights were close,
hot and almost sitting. This, said the SER
geant, was the atmospheric aud sanitary
condition of Savannah in 1876, and to make
matters worse. the Savannah river, swollen
by floods and poisonous from the rank
growth Of marsh and rice fields, was the
only water the people had to drink, except
that of the surface wells, many of which
afforded water not less impure.
THE CITY's PURE WATER.
Since that time pure artesian water hal
been furnished throughout the city, sewer
traps and paved or graded streets have dis
posed of the stsgnant pools, the drainage OF
the st and the Casey canal on the south
have caused the swamps and rank foliage
to disappear, and the water closets of the
Old Fort have sewer connections, and it,
sanitary condition is as good as the mos
sanitary part of the city in 1876. There
have not been the continuous rains Of
that year, and July was not such hot
month, the nights now are pleasant and the
air is not heavy and oppressive as IL wa:
then. With this view Of the case,s Sergt
killourhy says that il there should be on,
Or two cases among those who came to tn,
city from the infected districts before tn
quarantine was systematized and mad
rigid, he has no fear that the fever will
spread, because, in his Judgment, the con
ditions are NOT such as will permit IL to be
come epidemic.
THE EXODUS KEEPING UP.
The people in Florida are still pouring
out OF the state as fast as trains can carrl
them. Baggage master Thomas who cam
T.. -, ha f.cf mail vactardaN said That tI,,