The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-12
- MAKE VIGOROUS EFFORTS.
.,-,xVAu BENEVOLENT AsSOCIA-
TON TAKES ACTION.

.,.e semi-AnnuaI McetinG-COm-
go. ,npointed TO Look After the
rrork-PreSidcnt }. II. JOhnson's
Annual Report.
7,,s seni-annual meeting of the Savan-
,o5 benevolent Association was held yes
-. afternoon in the Office of the Coun-
%, commissioners.
'',fsbr in the lions lair the association
.l a resolution calling upon the COM
.s..orers to look to the sanitary condi-
or rho county around the city before
~, ,pproach Of warm weather. This res
-'..n, was the result of President j. II.
-.s-sfon,s annual report, in which the
s.,,,sr was prominently mentioned.
,rl. sssoclation transacted little be-
..,.. routine business. Mr.. H. T. Es5ill
elected a member, and the reports
,-o officers were read. The treasurer
-, shows that the association has on
i.1,5 SOL c13.S7, face value of securities
,3 other assets The most interesting
f.,t,,re OF the meeting was the annual
-.,orr of the president, in which he said:
i. % matter for con graduation that,
,,,houah yellow fever was rampant in the
c.1f during the past season and In The
-oons and cities along the Mississippi
t,.r ii was Kept out Of our own city
ana state. During the months of Sep
.or,b,r and October however, there was
,,,eb anxiety felt lest some persons, bear
irr the nlague about them. would enter
-,.r b,riers. Our last visitation of yellow
favor was as you all know in the sum-
al RI
ais orisn. or by what Ineans the fever
,c,s introduced here, bue all agree that
olr Surroundings were ripe for the intro
dYction and propagation of its germs;
these surroundings can be made ripe again
if the same course be pursued in 1858, as
WAS enacted in 1876.
The bursting out of an epidemic of yell
Low fever in a port has been compared to
q confederation in cellar or room when
LIGHTED taper has been brought into the
eu3rtment into which gas has been escap-
iog for some time. If our surroundings
ore neglected we may only have an cpl
slemic of dengue or malarial fever; but,
should the yellow fever germ be intro
duced the malarial character changes
The transition from dengue to yellow fe-
ror is gradual, but sure under the intro
duaftou of the germ. DIR. Richard d. Ar
mold called dengue cousin German TO yel-
\ low fever. In certain ports dengue IS con-
Hsidered an importable infection, and is
Quarantinea against.
ut is well-lnown fact that the sanl-
tary conditions of Biloxi and Ocean
Springs the past summer were in a de-
yloraDle condition. 1t is said that the Of
fall of these towns was deposited in the
outskirts into an arm of the Gulf in rear
of the towns, for the tide to carry away;
but the tide rising only fifteen inches
twice in tWenty-fOur hours, only served
simply TO wet this debris and increase its
dangerous effects having no force 10
carry il off.
ship Island, quarantine station of the
Cult, lies only FIVE miles from Biloxi in
an air line out in the Gulf. Communl-
Gallon though forbidden, was, it is said,
nightly carried on between the seamen
from injected vessels at quarantine and
the groceries of the town-the at
mosphere highly charged with malaria
found a fitting resting place for the germ.
The germs from Biloxi and Ocean Springs
were first carried to New Orleans and
thence to other points contiguous to the
river equally favored with malarial poi
son
"a singular coincidence has often been
noted in this fever. 1t is not a cross
country rider, and is seldom carried over
land TO interior points, unless water COM
muu!caton exists The germ is first in
tro5uced into a port and is carried up
stream to towns or cities along the banks
Of the river Ports surrounded by alluvial
soil or mud banks receive the germ most
readily
New Orleans is surrounded on all sides
by alluVial soil and is below the level of
the Mississippi river, drainage is carried
for miles back of the city and is made
quate, sdll New Orleans until the past
season has been tolerably free from cases
oil yellow fever for nineteen years, owing
probably to an efficient quarantine and
some attention to sanitation, doubtless as
good as the situation permitted; before
the war New Orleans had a visitation of
few cases of yellow fever, pretty much
every season. Gen. Butler in 1S62-1S63
gave New Orleans a very thorough clean
ing up and strict quarantine, which was
kept up by his successors in both the
military and civil line. New Orleans since
.Ae war, with one or two exceptions, has
peen free Of the fever. New Orleans,
however, Will always be liable to a Wis
"auon Of the fever if the germ is allow
ea TO be introduced. Savannah is sur
rounded on three sides by alluvial soil,
pul no city in the land is better fixed for
uidlnase purposes built on a high bluff
~ 1eel above the river and the lowlands
On NE east and west having a fall of
OF Ieet above mean low Water-nothng
van render our city other than the most
He"lhIul as well as the most delightful
u.l ID the land to live in.
because Savannah has had several
lN'.1tlohs of yellow fever, there is no
200 reason for the fever ever finding a
iol5'hent here again. We have simply to
rep our atmosphere as free as possible
V ot malaria and the germ out. New
IL Philadelphia and ever port of New
i-N7'stAd nave had their visitation of yell
INV lever, as a matter of fact, Philade-
p.a visitation at the close of the last
1','iy was the most disastrous that this
tt.'.l.eht has ever witnessed. Phiadel-
G,A' removed the two causes that pro-
80 lnat epidemic and has had no re-
U-e OF the fever
me slave ships after a successful voy-
a. repaired to the ports they hailed from
y-'os-| New England tOwns) to clean up,
t--tIal and take on their outward val
l''5 cargo Of calico ribbons and beads,
I-seharge of the filth and bilge water
e slavers upon mud flats of rivers
cue towns, was always the precursor
90. er.demic Of yellow fever. The cause
1.- lever stopped, the fever never re-
'''I IN these Northern cities.
mn euect upon a city during the exist
OIL mn epidemic of yellow fever and for