The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-22
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The Funds Coming in for the yellow
Fever Sufferers.

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Sll3 by express o Mayor Lamb Of Bruins
wick yesterday and a later subscription
of $40 by mail, making 1923 in cash sub
scriptions received at the city exchange
so far. The subscriptions received yes
terday were as follows:
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and cash subscription Of $40 from gen
tleman who did not wish his name given.
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THE KICK ON THE QUARANTINE.
A protest is being made by many
against the methods OF the sanitary in
spectors on the trains leading into
Savannah. Many residents fire..
quently go out Of the city
for day or two on business or pleasure.
Many who have their families in the
country 90 out on Saturday night, partic-
ularly along the Central railroad, and re-
turn TO business Monday morning They
have found that even while the inspec-
tors We're personally acquainted with
in the city within the past few days, they
were not allowed to come in if they had
no health certificates, and have been
compelled to ileaVe the train at Meldrim,
and telegraph the health officer and get
his permission to come in on the next
train. IL is known that the inspectors
are required to use a great deal of discre-
tion necessarily in their work,
and it was thought as
matter of fhaf
it,chould be shown beyond the possibility
of doubt that the passengers had not
been anywhere III the neigh borhood Of
Brunswick in the previous ten days they
would be allowed to come into the city.
The authorities have never published any
announcement that no one should be al
lowed to enter the city without a health
certificate, and the statement has been
made several times on the authority Of
the health officer that it was simply
necessary for passengers on the train to
prove their whereabouts for the previous
ten days, to be admitted by the inspect
ors
QUESTION FOR THE HEALTH BOARD.
"This quarantine is just bluff, - said
gentleman yesterday, what is the
sense of putting a man off a train who
can show that he is a resident of the city
and has been out of town only three or
four days, when the inspectors who are
liable to come in contact with infected
persons every day are permitted to come
in the city and mingle freely with the
citizens?
If such a rigid quarantine is to be main
tanned wouldn't it be the proper thing to
quarantine the inspectors Are not they
liable TO infection by reason of coming in
contact every day with persons supposed
to be from the infected districts? Andif
this is true would 1t not be wise to pro.
vide accommodations for them at Sonth-
over and Meldrim and not allow them
to come into the city I'M
til the quarantine is raised?
have known several instances where
citizens who were put off at Meldrim by
the inspectors did not take the trouble to
telegraph the health officers at all, but
simply waited for the "shoo-hy' and
came in on that without any trouble.
have known travelling men who were not
citizens to do the same thing"
FUMIGATED AND DIsINFECTED.
People who went out from Brunswick
or anywhere near it before the detention
camp was opened without a health certif-
cate, are being subjected to all sorts of
precautionary practices In Baltimore
this week the health commissioner of that
city ordered that the room occupied by
medical student c. w. Rush, should be
disinfeCted as also his books and other
personal effects, with bichloride of mer-
curry. Mr.. Rush Is from Brunswick. and
is student at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, in his second course. Last
April, after lectures had ceased, he went
home to Vesta, Ga, and in August went
to Brunswick as clerk in a drug store.
He left there after the quarantine was
raised and returned to his studies in Balti-
more. He obtained no certificate of
health from the health officer of Bruins
wick when about to return, as
1T was unnecessary he should
do so, the quarantine having
been removed. No objection was made to
the action of the Baltimore authorities,
Mr.. Rush readily consenting to the fumi-
CATION as precautionary measure, but it
shows the advantage of being armed with
all the papers one can get when going in
any direction,