The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-07
s,vANxAH's QUARANTINE.

mat 1t Is, what 1t Ought to Be-A
lew of Our City's History in Its
4,oD TO Yellow Fever and
quarantine
=. obvsiclans who were practicing here
.,ho time have informed us that during
..,o5 between IT'S and 1921, Savan-
ling surrounded on three sides by
'' ,.nsive tracts of rice lands and of tide
.,ar swamps was in IAN intensely ma
w., condition." that her people suffered
az tsvers during the greater part of the
,ba mortality from that cause aver
~, one in every eleven inhabitants and
~, yellow fever with black vomit oc-
s1rred every year.
MI evidence shows that Immediately
- the inauguration of the dry culture
u p.'ar, in 1878 the mortality dropped down
ons in every siXty-two inhabitants and
s,t mon the neglect on the part of own
- n drain these lands, the mortality in
go Increased to one in thirteen; while in
IN m account of the same neglect, and
n effect of or heavy rainfall and intense
w, during the spring and summer
~hnth9. ana D6CduS6 VI lAAC IoiAaAC VA NAO
.a,t of the municipal authorities to clean
X, streets and privies, intermittent and
.wtent fevers of a severe type started
D,r early that season and in July and
4 ,sast took a malignant form, became
-SohIrroxismal and many of the fatal
. ,,es had the black vomit. That in 1921,
mn the enforcement of the dry culture
gsem the mortality dropped to one in
sry-seven, the health of the inhabitants
4 r,stly improved, and as long as the pro-
4 Tdons of the dry culture contract were
4 try enforced no case of black vomit
i raIn occurred ceases of yellow fever came
M from other cities and through the
4 aDping, but did not spread.--R. d. Ar
NiD
Il But that whenever the municipal au-
NJ h,1tes allowed part or the whole of the
Il "a acres, comprising the Vale Royal
4 rsct the 142 acres of the Springfield
n ntation on the west flank of the city,
4 N 600 acres of the Hutchinson Island
y tact and AIS acres Of low rice lands on
d AZ eastern flank to be neglected and
Hnsformed into beds of malaria, the
8 lumber of cases of fever in the city at
4 MN increase and there fatality also in
& asase in proportion to the area so neg
+ hled Those physicians further dis
s.
& b draining the lowlands and in properly
nending to the sanitary condition of the
dg was accompanied by intense heat and
E Icessive rainfall as occurred early in the
SINNERS of 1920, 1854 and 1876, fevers start
ary in May, their symptoms become
nuCh aggravated in June and July assume
Il he continued form and become epidemic
# August, when black vomit is frequent
E y thrown up yellow fever) In years
Ehen the intense heat and heavy rains
b Mcur late in the season, an outbreak of
IS FlOw fever with black vomit may occur,
n hut as this. as well as all malarial fevers,
S ne killed by frost, it does not spread or
much damage. Such was the case in
& 1I 1919, 1927, 1858, 1854.
"A In ordinary years few cases of spora-
DC yellow fever may break out here or
mere, but they never spread. The records
snow two deaths in 1899, one in 1870. three
1872, two in 1852 (Dr. r. d. Arnold,
olr IN 1861, fourteen in 1864, one in 1866,
I'VE in 1865, one in 1868 (Dr. William Dun
tan), three in 1871, one in 1874 eight in
+ no, one in lT (mortuary record of Sa-
annah, DR.. ]. ]. Waring). showing be-
h !ond the possibility of a doubt that yellow
lever is not contagious, and that Savan-
nan except under great provocation, is
10Y liable to any kind of epidemic dis
ease Or. ]. Nunn).
AHnough the autumnal fever accom-
lahled with black vomit, presented the
ame symptoms as those of the yellow
g'u raging in northern cities, the physi-
edns oil Savannah did not call it by that
name because they considered it to be
vne Of the many forms of malariaI fevers
sle 70 local causes, while the northern
N'er was reported to be contagious-and
importation from abroad. Our fever
sIe was called remittent bilious, by Dr.
onilam Waring, and autumnal by DR.. w.
Dahlel, two of the most prominent
ssiclans IN this city. 1t was in 1920
way Dr, Nicholas Chevin, an ingenius
~ h'eihgent French physician, who had
su yellow fever in northern cities, and
Nv VISITED this city during the prevalence
.ne epidemic pronounced 1t yellow
any person would have expressed the
sniou mat this autumnal fever was
lldslous, or imported through the ship.
~ would have been ridiculed by the
@Iors and the inhabitants alike. AS
w. however, as it was reported that
ulsease raging here was yellow fever,
duVocates of contagious and of the
ISL origin, said that II had been
Se' 49, from Africa in the brig Raminez,
nad a cargo of new negroes
ooaru' but the records show that the
'iieA came into port with a healthy
.n Y" ana cargo on the 22d of July, 1920.
s ne fourteen deaths from rapid and in
'ouS IeVer had occurred in June, and
t ne Ioth Of July Patrick Stanton died
oiacA VOmt." 1T appears from in
ms as TO the state of the vessels (Which
sa ne IN port during May, June and July,
ss.a a southern latitudes), that the crews
~. healthy, and there was nothing in
Hoi,'et 10 them which could authorize
sso "a oI their either having severe dis
h gu "a BOARD or the power Of propagat-
|1ncn' , olsease whatever (report to city
N ~ Io-V' by DR.. William Waring).
h. - only since 'the genuine yellow fe-
N mas so to say, died out IN these INIT
har,L''es' since the great majority of the
nnoers Of the medical profession only
ar,no vi IL through the bulletins of the
H. ' in, hospital service that the contagion
ro',l 'orlaton doctrine has had any ad-
ere ''S IN savannah. The physicians who
saas, INSTANTLY in contact with the
have IA times of epidemics and the
boil an. no remained at their post never
/ase NO., STOCK IN the theory that the dis
Iine, vas brought in through the ship
b. a. as IN 1920, Il was reported that
4hIne1 's y had been imported in some
|nayor non. John Il. Ward, who was
Nov so Inc time, IN his report dated
|he e91. looi he has this to say: zone of
b the ~ assigned was the introduction
Eharlo,te INTO our city from the brig
*pur roa1. hague, which put into Cock
|Eas a Ea about the 18th OF June. She
e copenbansln orlg' bound from Havana