The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-01
THE QUARANTINE OFF.
The Five Day Limit Removed from
Now Until Msy /.

The Five Day Limit Removed from
Now Until Nay /.
Beginning to-day and continuing unit
May /, all quarantined vessels, excepting
those hailing from cholera ports, will be al
lowed TO come up to the city Immediately
after disinfection and discharge of ballast
During the summer months; from May.
| 70 Nov. i, vessels are compelled to remain
in quarantine five days after discharging
ballast and disinfection.
Cholera is now ravaging Mediterranean
! Spain and South Africa, and vessels arriv-
/ ing from those ports will be compelled ID
undergo the same treatment in winter as
they would be subject TO during the sum-
| mer months.
The tug boat that the city ordered for
the Quarantine station is almost completed,
and win be launched at Rondout. N. Y,
to-day. She will arrive in Savannah
| some time In December. The tug will
prove OF great convenience to the vessels
and officers at quarantine. Heretofore the
! boarding of4cey- hes hae.- srly-a sesenteen
foot skiff, and during rough weather he has
had considerable trouble in going aboard Of
vessels. It will also save considerable hme
and money for docking purposesl In
the past. vessels sometimes had to wait
from twelve 70 s:@rsihteen hours after unload
ing ballast for . tug to 90 down from the
city to dock them. Under the new order of
things a vessel can be docked as soon as she
discharges her ballast.
DIR. Drummer said yesterday that the
quarantine station handled in the neighbor.
mood of fifty more vessels up to Oct | this
year than IL had last year up 70 that time.
In 1883 the reports showed 2S1 vessels at
quarantine. Last year there we're S72, aud
the figures at the close of this year will bs
away above those Of last. This proves that
Savannah is growing in commercial i'm
portance.
Taken as a whole, after Savannah's tug
arrives, the quarantine station q. this port
VIII be one of the oest equipped local sta
lions on the South Atlantic coast. IL has
900 feet of wharf front, and more ballast
can be discharged in a day than at any
other station in the country. It is fitted up
with two double engines and one single, and
can discharge five vessels at the same time,
unloading from 500 to 800 tons of ballast
daily.
When a vessel arrives off the bar the pilot
before boarding her, inquiries from what
port she halls. II the vessel is from an in
fected port and has had sickness during the
voyage or at the port of departure the pilot
does not go on board, but orders her to the
national station at Sapelo Island.
Few people are aware that there are
eight national quarantine stations on the
Pacific, South Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Two of them are fitted up with bacteria
logical laboratories, one at the Dry Tortugas
station and the other on the Pacific coast.
The laboratory at Dry Tortugas is one Of
the finest In the country. Four of the
stations have tugs which are fitted up with
full disinfecting apparatus, which allows
vessels to be thoroughly fumigated before
being brought to the dock.
1t is DR.. Brunner's hope, that when the
city will be able to afford it, to have the
tug attached to the Savannah station
thoroughly fitted up in like manner.
The National Public Health Association
will meet in Charleston In December, and
all the health officers of the country will be
In attendance. 1t is probable that DR.,
Drummer will read paper on quarantine
matters.