The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-30
REFUGEES COMING IN.
Four Of Them Arrive in Savannah
From Camp Detention.

Inspectors-Dr. Drummer Says There
is No Danger in Admitting Them.
Why the Rigid Quarantine of other
Persons is Enforced-The Penn
sy's" Refusal to Sell Tickets to
Savannah.
-Four Brunswick refgees came into this
city yesterday morning, having been dis
charged from Camp Detention at Waynes-
/ vile, where they spent ten days and had
their baggage disinfected.
The partly consisted Of three women
and a man, all of whom were former resi-
! dents of Savannah, or had friends and
relatives here, to whose homes they went.
The passports which admitted them to
the city read as follows, emitting names:
CERTIFICATE OF DISCHARGE.
| United states Marine Hospital Service.
! Detention Camp, Sept. 20. 1893. This Certl1es
! that IA refugee from Brunswick Ga, has
! passed 10 days in this camp without any man
/ Hesitation of yellow fever His baggage con
! sisted Of-VahSes-tru nks--bun-
| dies, has been thoroughly disinfected by
! steam and in my professional opinion no dan
ger need be apprehended from his admission
| into any city or place in the United States.
| II. d. GEDDINGS.
| p. A. Surgeon M. H. S in Command Of Camp
MORE on THE WAY.
| The party reported to the sanitary in
! speCtOrs that a large number of others
| had been discharged from Brunswick at
| the same time with them and that sixty
| had stopped at Waycross. This led the
| inspectors to expect that there would be
a large number of the refugees coming
| into Savannah last night Their expecta-
tions were hardly realized, as no one from
| Brunswick registered at the hotels.
BY DIR. Brunner's instructions the in
spectors will keep a list of every one Of
the refugees coming into the city from
the camp with their names and ad-
| dresses, 50 that in case there should be
| any manifestation of the disease in Sa-
vannah it could promptly be ascertained
If it originated from any of the refugees
from the camp.
DR.. Drummer was asked yesterday if he
had any misgivings about letting in the
people from the camp.
ALL MAY COME.
"Noue whatever" he replied. l have
advocated this course all along. l am
willing to admit any man who has passed
ten days al the camp, and had all his
baggage disinfected. The period of incu-
baton of yellow fever is very short, from
four to five days, and l consider it per-
fectiy safe to admit persons who have
spent ten days at the camp.
"How is it, them he was asked, "that
you will admit persons who have only
left Brunswick ten days. which time they
have spent at the camp, and will not ad-
nit persons who left Brunswick a month
or more ago, though they may have
spent the whole time since in Atlanta or
some other uninfected locality}"
Il am glad you asked that question, >"
said DR.. Bsunner. ut shows the idea of
the average man upon sanitary matters
and quarantine laws exactly. We admit
the man from the camp becau.e he
brings a certificate from the United
States marine hospital surgeon
in charge that he has
exhibited no symptoms of the disease in
camp and leaves there in healthy con-
diton and with all baggage disinfected.
MIGHT BRING INFECTED BAGGAGE.
'The man who left Brunswick a month
ago may have spent his time in Atlanta
or New York for that matter. The fact
that the disease has not developed upon
him is pretty good evidence that he is in
a healthy condition or that he is immuned
to the disease. Suppose we let that man
come into the city. The probability is
that he bring baggages with him that he
brought from Brunswick, which possibly
may have been exposed to infection. in
which case it is likely to be infected still.
In this way infection is brought
into the city and an opportunity is
given the disease to get foothold.
''This danger might exist in only one
case in ten, or one in 100 for that matter,
but the one case where it did exist would
be sufficient to do all the damage, and
that is why we must guard all points so
carefully"
DIR. Drummer thinks that quarantine
will have to be maintained against Bruins
wick for several weeks yet. Brunswick
people who are anxious to get into Sa-
vannah had best put in their ten days in
quarantine.
THE PENNsY's BACK UP.
One of the developments of Savannah
quarantine is a side issue of no small i'm
pOrtance between the Pennsylvania rail-
road and the Atlantic Coast Line on one
side and the Ocean Steamship Company
on the other. The issue was precipitated
by the Pennsylvania railroad and the At
lantic Coast Line is the sufferer. A year
ago when the steamships from New York
were being subjected to detention and ex-
animation at quarantine on account of the
cholera in the port of New York, the pas
senger business of the Ocean Steamship
Company suffered greatly and the bulk of
the returning summer tourists came south
by the Atlantic Coast Line.
Recently, when the report of Savannahs
strict quarantine regulations was made
to the officials Of the Pennsylvania rail
road, they proceeded to get their backs up
and announced that they would sell no
tickets to Savannah while the regulation
requiring passengers to present health
certificates was in force. When Mr.. c.
D. Owens, traffic manager of the Plant
system, inquired of the Pennsylvania rail-
road officials their reasons for taking
such action, they replied that nobody
wanted to buy tickets to Savannah any
way, and in spite of appeals to do so they
have declined to reverse their decision
not to sell tickets to Savannah.
THE STEAMSHIP CoMPANY's GAIN.
The result is that every vessel of the
Ocean Steamship Company southwark
bound brings full passenger list, and
the company's passenger business is
larger now than ever before at this sea-
son of the year The Kansas City and
the Birmingham both came in this week
crowded with passengers. Forty-two
passengers, who arrived by the Kansas
City Thursday night, secured certificates
from the health officer yesterday of this
fact to be used as passports in continuing
their journey further south
At least 100 persons arrived in Savan-
nah this week by steamship who would
most probably have preferred to come by
rail had it not been for the absurd order
of the Pennsylvania railroad authorities,
as il is well known that the summer
swallows are always anxious to hurry
l.. Co. Ill