The morning news., 1897-08-16
COMES BACK AT DR.. LIE HARDY.
DR. BURFORD DIsAGREES WIN
THE HEALTH OFFICER.

~ between the Brunswick Quar-
antiBe station and the City-Ac-
cOmpiished the object of His visit
Anyway-saN annah's station Bet
ter Equipped Than Brunswick's
and Vessels Handled More Rapidly.
Only Necessary to Remove the
Quarantine Charges.
Or. r. r. Burford. Brunswick 8 health
officer and acting quarantine officer at the
time of Health officer LeHardy's visit or
attempted visit T. the Brunswick quaran-
tine station takes exceptions to the ac-
coun< given by Savannah heal offic
! Of his reception at the ta,ion, ard what
/ he saw there.
In statement TO the Morning News
correspondent at Brunswick DR.. Burford
! expressed hims II in substance as follows:
II nave just read the articles purport-
/ ing to be an interview with Dr. LeHardy.
/ But for the inaccuracies 1t contains.
would pay no attention to it. DR.. LeHardy
says he Brunswick station is within one
mile Of Brunswick. II is, in fact, three
/ miles from the city. and separated by
/ creek. There has never been a case OF
runaway from the station, and never.
! since my control, any contagious or other
! disease carried from it to Brunswick or
any other portion Of the country.
"Dr. LeHardy says he was astonlshed
/ to see lying in close proximity to the city
/ By land and water vessels from Santos,
/ Havana, Bahia and other foreign ports,
supposed to be and infected. In this he
I cites as seen by him the Spanish bark
/ Maria, Amalia, Triumfo, Norwegian bark
| Rosenious, British schooner Aroma, Dutch
/ bark Cornelia, Spanish brigs Fe Virginies,
1 Josefa Formosa. Isabel, Swedish bark Ju-
| uus Palm and others. It was a physical
/ impossibility for Dr LeHardy or any one
/ else to see the vessels which he states
were noticed BY him. The Maria sailed
/ Aug. 10; Amalia, Aug. 6; Triumfo Aug.
/ Z; the Norwegian bark Rosenlous was dis
infected at Sapelo quarantine; the Dutch
bark Corneiia sailed one month ago and
/ is now across the water; the Fe sailed July
/ II; Nirgiuies July 15; Julius Palm, Aug
/ .; Isabel, July q; Josefa FOrmOsa, July
/ 81. How far on the other side of the
water these vessels now are which Dr.
LeHardy states in his interview he saw
in close proximity to Brunswick 1 do not
know, but they certainly sailed from
Brunswick long enough ago to be out Of
sight on the day he claims TO have
seen them here The British schooner
Aroma, which he also claims to have seen,
is to my certain knowledge forty miles up
the Satil.a river and was there the date
he claimed TO have seen her at Brunswick.
The Brunswick quarantine station has
been inspected at times by men high in the
marine hospital service and no fault has
been found 10 my knowledge with the sys-
in he af off fnar
lie health. The regulations prohibit any
except clean stone ballast being brought
from Santos and other known infected
ports and when vessels come from such
ports they are dispatched Immediately TO
the South Atlantic quarantine for disin-
/ fection."
DR. LeHardy's attention was called last
night TO the apparent discrepancies be-
tween his statements and DR.. Burford 8.
'As 10 the vessels mentioned by DR..
Burford," said DR.. LeHardy. there is a
misprint IN the interview 10 which he re-
| fers. I did not intend to say that all the
vessels mentioned by me We're at the
quarantine wharves at Brunswick at time
Of my visit but that such vessels from
the infected or suspected ports named had
been there during the last month, lying
in close proximity TO the city. The week
ly reports issued by the ma
rine hospital service will show
that such were the facts. The
criticism made by rle as TO the disinfec-
tion Of vessels from supposed yellow fe-
Yer ports In dangerous proximity to the
city applied equally well, whether the yes
sells were at that time in port or had re-
Gently left there.
LAS TO the distance from the quarantine
station to the city l am not informed as
/ TO the extent Of the corporate limits Of the
/ city of Brunswick, but of this much / am
certain the distance from the station to
/ the nearest lumber wharves of the city
| of Brunswick can hardly be more than
/ mile. / Judged these wharves 10 be part
/ of the city. II there have never been any
/ runaways from the quarantine station, I
/ must say that the officials there have
/ been very fortunate. When | was at the
/ government quarantine station at Sap
/ elO recently. which station is under
! the same control as that at Brunswick,
/ the marine hospital service, ] was nform-
: ed By the officer in charge that there had
+ been five runaways from vessel there at
the station and on my return TO Savannah
/ / notified the police to look out for these
runaways The Sapelo station is much
more isolated than the one at Brunswick
I and much more difficult 20 escape from in
I every way. Whether the distance from
the Brunswick station to the city Is one
mile or three miles Il would be a very
/ simple matter for sailors desiring 70 Cs-
cape from vessels there 20 do so."
Notwithstanding the fact that 7 was
/ not permitted 90 land at the Brunswick
I station" said Or LeHardy. 81 secured
/ the Information which was the object Of
my visit found that the facil-
tiles az the Brunswick station
are not equal 10 those Of the savannah
station and that a longer time T. taken in
/ dischdrging ballast and disinfectlug vcs-
/ sells. This established the view ] already
| held. which was chat the large number OF
Z vessels going 20 Brunswick do not 20 there
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