The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-02
TO NJ EETIN AUGUSTA.
GOV. GORDON TO SEE THE SUR.
GEON GENERAL THERE.

GEON GENERAL THERE.
Mayor Lester and General Manager
Haines to Attend the Conference-A
Special Train to Carry Refugees
Through to Atlanta To-Day-savan
nah's Quarantine Made More Rigid
What the Health Board Is Doing.
Mayor Lester will leave tonight to at
tend the conference at Augusta tomorrow
morning between Gov, Gordon, Surgeon
General Hamilton, General Manager Haines
of the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway and the mayors of Savannah,
Darien and Brunswick, called by Gov.
Gordon. TO consider the removal of the
quarantine restrictions against jackson
vile, so as to allow the people of the in
fected city to go to points north, where no
danger is likely to result from their going.
The arrangements which were begun Fri
day by General Manager Haines and the
surgeon general, for a special train TO carry
the refugees to the mountains, were COM
pleted yesterday.
TO RUN A SPECIAL TRAIN
Last night the surgeon general tele-
graphed as follows
NABhlNGTOS, ~ u. oept /, loeo.
H. s. Hdines, General Manager Savannah, Ga:
Please have special train of four coaches for
refugees to Atlanta. Baggage must be lert at
Waycross for fumigation Conference will take
place at Augusta, Monday morning. Please
meet Gov. Gordon there. Will wire Dr. Hutton
10 have four guards for special train ready TO-
morrow HAMILTON.
Mr.. Haines Immediately arranged for
train, and also telegraphed Acting Mayor
Archibald of Jacksonville the result of his
,lo,,n rxvifh ha
stating that the train will leave Jackson
vile about 80 o'clock this afternoon. 1t
will go through TO Atlanta under guard
THE QUARANTINE SYSTEM
The precautions taken by the health
board are so systematic ard thorough that
no apprehension is 1T. In fact, the quar-
antine regulations have been SO rigid as to
lead to much unfriendly criticism abroad,
but, as one of the sanitary officials said,
Savannah can better afford to run the risk
Of that than to have the epidemic of 1876
repeated"
Every doubtful point is quarantined
against. This is done for self protection,
for it would be useless to quarantine
an infected locality and permit in
dividual communication with another place
that does not keep out the people of an in
fected territory. While the health of the
city has been good, and its sanitation has
DOCu 0aAlN DCOOSISit uhcIc 10 lltkic uOQpL,
said member of the board last night, that
prompt quarantine against Florida has thus
far prevented the introduction of the fever
into Savannah. Tramps who have eludei
the out Of town inspectors have been pun
ished by being sent to the smallpox hos
pital, and 1t has resulted in keeping them
away from the city. There isn't single
inmate at the smallpox hospital now.
INSPECTORS IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
Inspectors are posted to watch the travel
at Waycross and on the East Tennessee.
Virginia and Georgia at Jesup, the Port
Royal and Augusta at Yemassee, and others
travel over the Central from, Macon to Sa-
yannah on all trains Two inspectors are
stationed at Southover junction and two at
the Central junction, 50 that Savannah is
isolated TO all travellers who are Lot pro-
vided with clean bill of health.
DR.. Duncan said last night that there was
no infection here during the epidemic al
Jacksonville in 1877, and the very few cases
In Savanna that year came over from the
epidemic of 1876 here. 1t is said that dur.
ing the prevalence of the fever at Bruins
wick, Jacksonville, Beaufort and Charles
ton the quarantine was less effectual here
than now, and the fever was not introduced
into Savannah then, AMI is less likely to be
brought now, as the sanitary regulations
are thorough and tine quarantine system is
&AA tAot OOdAd w Ac>llb
LONG WAYS TO COME.
The distance from jacksonville is
SO great and the government and
local quarantine is so closely looked aft
ter, covering, as it does, all avenues of
escape from infected points, that a refugee
could not get here for long time after
leaving Jacksonville and other infected por-
tons Of Florida. The refugees of course try
to evade the quarantine, but by the time
they reach here they have spent sufficient
time on the way, so that there is little dan
ger. Detectives are employed in the city TO
look after refugees who Slip in, and they
find themselves confronted with the pest
house or "A continuation of their Journey.
Savannah may be said to be safe from
within and without
The recent order of Surgeon GeueraI
Hamilton not to detain the guests of
Suwannee Sulphur springs at quarantine
stations, and not to fumigate their baggage,
Is no more than this popular Flnridl anu
South Georgia resort deserves. Savannah
has been, aud is now, quite well represented
there.
THEY DON'T ALL DIE.
A little negro boy, employed about a
house in the suburbs, failed to turn up for
duty one day last week, and ON the follow
ing morning was asked by the lady of the
house what caused his absence.
'Feber, ma'am," he said.
A little 6-year-old standing near asked,
"Yellow feverg'
mo, sab" the darkey replied, 'ef yeller
feber bin yer. ! dun gone fore now"
Little 6-year-old-"M Mama, did'n papa
have the yellow feverp
yes my son" was the reply.
Little negro with his eyes stretched
wide)-"An' he amt ded! / fought cherry
one hab yeller feber bin die"
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