The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-26
THE SAPEL0 QUARANTINE.
DR. LIE HARDY on THE GOVERN
MENT STATION.

Now Being Expended There the
savannah Quarantine Station
couId lie Made a Better One. He
Thinixs-The Methods in Vogue Mt
SapeIo Hardly Up TO Dnte-The In
iustice of Free Quarantine by the
xovernment at Brunswick to the
y,iurv of sayannah-Tents and
90. Added tn the Facilities at the
savannah Quarantine.
Health officer LeHardy returned yester-
5av morning from Sapelo where he visit
cd the government quarantine station. Dr.
1eHardv was accompanied by Maj. g. 5.
uardee. MIR. Paul NJ. LeHardy and Mr.. j.
- Burgess. The latter has the contract
f,r tbe wharf work now in progress at
the station. 1.,ou...,,
Island ana arrived in the city early yes
terday morning. -..-
DR.. LeHardy gave a very interesting
account of his trip last night, 49,,
I'VE had a delightful trip" he said.
THE weather was perfect and the meek
Ia at her best and we lost not one MN
uoe travelling, except just TINS siue Oh lhe
Mouth of Augustine creek, where we were
Jatained a few minutes, having stuck
IN a mud bank of mall formation. capt
Daniels is a thorough and competent sea-
man. and he and his crew handled the yes
es1 as if she we're a toy, and keep her as
bright as a jewel. l spent good part OF
Saturday on the station, examining every
norton of it, The government Is spend
mo a good round sum of money TO put II
in some shane, and this was needed.
was very GLAD to have had the opportunity
of examining this station, for it has given
ma much better opinion of ours. Inc
United States station is built on Suits, at
a goodlv distance from terra hrma, ana
although it may be very firmly anchoreu'
II NAV some day find itself floating as
rpsIlt of one of our West India cyclones.
This is a very queerly managed sta
4ion +" said DR.. LeHardy. The quarantine
,,bvsician and assistant live about eight
miles from the station and the water Is so
shallow between, that half Oh the uIne
their launches can not be used, ana the
onlv communication left is by land run
ming with some vehicle round the beacn'
We reached the station early
Friday evening (o:4O'' anu .hnra i
the officers been on duty there,
I could have gotten the scent information
7 was able to get on that day. AS it was,
we had to spend the night there along
side a floating lighter and start the work
late next morning. The tides didn't SUIT
and DR.. Nydegger had to come around by
the beach,"
what was the result of your vislt!'
DR.. LeHardy was asked.
q consider my visit to Sapelo one of
great importance" he replied. 1T fully
demonstrated that the methods used by
the marine hospital service there are no
better or safer than those in use at our
own station, and that, at an expense or
less than $4,000 the amount of the
appropriation now being expended to re-
pair and improve Sapelo quarantine sta
ton we could furnish our own station
with a floating disinfecting plant equipped
with all the necessary apparatus for thor
ough distinction of persons, of personal
effects and of vessels, and also provide
for the rapid removal of ballast. By so
doing we would give our city the benefit
of the results obtained by the most re-
cent discoveries, affording greater security
against the Introduction of contagious dis
eases by shipping, and at the same time
reducing the time of detention, TO that
which is known to be consistent with per-
fetc security. We would thus save to our
shipping the enormous expense of towage,
pilotage and unnecessarily long detention,
TO which 1t has been, Is now and will con-
tnue to be subjected as long as the gov
ernor of Georgia will permit the unjust
discrimination between ports in our state,
as now exist between Brunswick and Sa-
Vannah, by allowing the marine hospital
service to retain the management OF
Brunswicks local quarantine and furnish
what they choose to call national quaran-
tine regulations free of charge to all YES
sels going to that port, while, when treat
ed by our regulations, they must pay for
our inspection and for our quarantine reg
ulauons. This is discrimination which
WORKS INFINITE injury TO this port, as per-
sons connected with the lumber and naval
stores business fully appreciate.
tor the lack Of accommodation at Sa-
peio vessels have been detained there as
iong as thirty days. They are now in
SIeasing the length of their wharves to
0s leet-ours Is now 400 feet. Their meth
ca OF discharging ballast is the same old
iohy way we have of tolling it by hand
odifo"s. Then the crew must dip every
Iock constituting the ballast in a l to 500
so'ulon OF mercury, aud after the vessels
naVe gone through a fumigation by burn
ms sulphur in pots or in the sulphur
Snanoer and forced into the hold by a
IN through long metallic pipes, a process
~nlch lasts couple of days, so the sur
~. II charge told me, they are treated
WIN mercurial spray bath and then de-
t1ileu hVe days longer. Vessels going to
DI.uNs~lek are rarely sent to Sapelo sta
4 go. rom savannah he informed me
:, vessels were treated from May 1896
. '7'as A9lAAIE last May, however,
ns one vessel has been sent there, the
IN IN. Fafthenope, from Rio
WY This difference?" DIR. LeHardy
M b.seeause,' he replied, being informed
=. us weekly consular reports to the Sec
4 d,,,aiy OF the Treasury of the sanitary con-
NH MN ~. or the ports whence vessels trading
a c, 80 thls port come, our board Of sanitary
~ sioners have found but in one shin
mi oHlluons necessary, according TO our
So 70 require vessels 20 be sent to
1T 1T Leiardy hopes to be able to pre-
for 10 the sanitary board shortly plans
A too, H'athg disinfecting plant. lie has
\ ~ .. 1lane 10 find here a hull suitable for
. els.' eIl,eeuon Of such plant and will look
/ fset'.-' Tor one. With a floating dlsin-
d..Cts Plant and apparatus for the rapid
| tbo, :" OF ballast. Dr. LeHardy believes
slt'-e .' savannah station will be in DO
hi H 20 nandle vessels OF any class likely
Y.eIilFe az this port.
\ wiz station will shortly be equipped
vt't' supply Of cots and tents. both OF
/ tsrte l ',aFe already been purchased. The
m number, were secured from
ma l.puis firm at a much lower prlce
tasii,' gus oHcrcd by any bidders in this
stance lhe tents viii be Kept at the
n yossI ,' ,H readiness for the arrival OF any
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