Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-11-16

and he passed on to awaken the rest of
the sleepers in the car.
An hour or SO later the train stopped at
a little forsaken looking settlement in the
woods. Ii was lumber town, consisting
of half dozen lean TO stores and qrOg
geres, aud a dozen or two houses, with
saw mill in the near distance. 1t was
region of swamp and forest and why any
one should want TO get off there Il they
could possibly avoid it passed my under
standing. Although It was long after
midnight the groggeres were yet lit up
and out of one of them staggered couple
of fellows with yellow ribbons on their
cost lappels. More quarantine officers.
1t so happened that there were an old gen
tleman and lady and little boy who had
tickets to this place, where they we're to
take the stage for the interior. They were
returning from Il visit to the North.
AS these people got out the two officers
bracing each other up by locking arms
staggered forward and shouted out
"Hold on (hic) thar ! Ye c--C-can't git
off yere we-all ain g0in have no WALLER
(hiC) fever we're ; 30 gY git back thar or
--n and the two lurched forward. The
old lady waited to hear no more but
catching up the youngster, who was baWl-
ing Justify, they all scrambled into the
car in great haste. The train pulled out
the quarantine was efficient, aud the town
was saved. Some 20 miles further on the
| two landed III safety as the settlement
| there seemed soundly asleep.
| After having practical experience with
| quarantine | am satisfied that az now car
| ried on, II Is in most cases not only use
less but injurious. or course if q com
munity closes it, doors against the world
and refuses admission to any one or any
| thing, it will Keep out yellow fever If this
be begun early enough. But this course
is destructive OF All business and BRINGS
| many hardshlps. Anything short Of this,
! however, Is not effective Witness the
fact that | had been in contact with cases
of yellow fever within few days, had
held the head of physician dying of the
"black vomit," and yet because my last
ticket dated from st. Louis, a place not
infected, would have been permitted tt
stop III most of the quarantned cities hat
| wished to do SO. AT the most it only re-
Quires a refugee to do little false swear
ing and he can pass the officers unless hc
IL down with the disease already.
To deal effectively with this scourge re
quires prompt action by the strong arm
of the government. While the lOca
boards are quarreling the disease gets he
You'd control. Had the government takel
hold OF this disease when it appeared a
Tampa, Fla, and held II there as II cuult
have done, the country would have save
500, 100000 N money alone, by thus pre-
venting the decentralization of bushes:
throughout the whole south. From Tam
IA the disease was carried directly q
Jacksonville by man named MCCOf
mack, | believe. What the effect of III
disease there has been il known to til
world. From Jacksonville to Decatur
Ala, is Il long step but it came, and ma
named Spencer viii be long remembered
in this community as the cause Ot tn
epidemic here.
Now had the government drawn cor
don around the Infected portion of Tam
pa and removed the population UNAFFECTED
out into isolated camps, feeding and cal
ing for them there if necessary, but hold
ing them in place for IA days at least bt
fore allowing them TO go to other parts Q
the State or country, there could hsv
been no chance for the disease 10 Sprea
beyond that point. OF course with thi
shoDld have come careful disinfection Q
the clothes and baggage OF the people i
, quarantine camp. Haze these steps bee
J taken, even after the fever had becOm
epidemic at Jacksonville, and carried GU
with tirmness, the disease could not hay
: spread b yond that point
such action by the general government
is not in accordance with states RICH 5
doctrine but the truth is that question
Us dead in the South now rs is slavery
and If the government could save thi
section from the scourge of yellow feve
there would be no objection on the scOr
of states rights"
As this communication has reached q
| undue length already and is now 'Out q
, quarantine" We will see the disease itsel
Ill the next
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