Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-10
BY FRIDAY NIGHT
The Quarantine Against Hampton
May Be Raised.
AN IMPORTANT MEETING
'ika.!It,; 2
Norfolk, Portsmouth, HAMPTON and the
State, May Be Represented. DR..
Hope Before the Special Session
of the Board Yesterday.
IMPORTANT MEETING

To keep up the quarantine or not to
keep 1T up. that is the question which
the local board OF health Win decide
today
a meeting will be held in the after
noon and at this meeting RI. j. II.
White, of the Marine Hospital Service.
in charge of the Hampton situation.
VIII make Il statement of conditions in
that town. Upon this statement the
board will act
1t is probable that Norfolk will have
representatives here in the persons Of
quarantine Commissioner Hope. and
DIR. New'bil. President of the board of
health of that city. Superintendent
Doyle ana DR.. Brock. of the Chess-
peake 4 Ohio. Will also be in the city,
ana possibly DR.. Pettus, quarartil;.
officer at Old Point, and Dr. Irving, OF
Inc state board of health
There has been some observation-disclosures
regarding the probable coming of the
above named gen tlemen TO this city. II
has been stated that they will mee- the
board of health in a conference This
is an error. The board will have no
conference, but will be guided entirely
by what DR.. White says, or not guided
py him. as the case may be- The other
gentlemen are invited to be present if
they desire, to learn from DR.. White
the conditions at Hampton and the
basis for the action which this CITY
may take. They may desire to hay,.
something to say relative to raising The
Quarantine against Hampton. In this
event they Will be accorded a cordial
ana ana respectful hearing, as it is realized
.hat they all have an interest i'll the
matter, but the board Of health Of this
city will act from Il scientific stand
point and no other
If 1T is no longer scientifically nee
essary to quarantine against Hampton.
the quarantine will be raised. II it is
quarantine up longer, why. it viii be
Kept up longer. That is ALL
AS the case stands now. there is very
little doubt that the quarantine will be
raised. The boards of health OF both
Hampton and Newport News seem tc
desire it, and the only qcstion is
whether the circumstances will Justify
Ut. Apparently they do, but Il final re-
port on the subject will be received to-
day.
ouraging-remarkably So DR. ]. II.
\NhIte 'phoncd over to DIR. Hobson YES
terday telling him that he would bc
| able TO give Hampton a clean bill OF
! health on the following day
The Hampton people declare that they
can protect themselves from phncbus
| and Soldiers Home without outside
| heip and some Of them resent the in
| tlln;ntlcn that Newport News will keep
up part OF the line down there when
| siie quarantine is raised here. Newport
News Will be protected Will. Harnioa
| IS belnG protected and necessarily felt
| called on TO furnish part of the assis-
] lance, but If Hampton does not want
1T, 1T will not be forced upon her. the
| remark was made in the Daily Press
| Yesterday that Newport News might
I lehd men, money and brains to help
hampton keep up their end of it, The
| suggestion that brains might b.. lent
was nnsconstrued by some who took it
70 Indicate that Newport News was
aborlng under the hallucination that
| course, such an Interpretation of the re-
mark is entirely incorrect. II sinr,iv
means that if this city furnishes men
ana money to help guard Hampton, it
VIII, or might. desire also to assist in
their direction.
| However, the matter will 10 dis
cussed from all standpcints today and
it is very probable that by Friday night
Or Saturday morning the Gordon around
Newport News will be removed and
| matters Will begin to assume a normal
appearance oncesnore.
NORFOLK'S QUARANTINE.
quarantine Officer F. S. Hope. Dr.
Ration and Dr.. Parish, of Norfolk. ar
rived mere yesterday at = O'Clock
on the State oyster steamer Accomac
loca' health authorities With a view TO
obtaining a partial relaxation of the
J quarantine between this city and the
cities across the Roards.
they returned two hours later without
| having accomplished anything. They
were given to understand that no quar-
antlne at all or an absolute quarantine
must be maintained.
Among those present at this confer
ence were Mayor A. A Moss, Acting
Health officer S. w. Hobson. Common
Wcalth's Attorney Newton. DR. T w
1 .AEler, Mi. C. l.. {3arhan ana n. yo,,,-
tGolcred) members of the Board Of
! Health; Messrs. r. G.. Bickford. direct
ing the quarantine line and Messrs. r.
r. Orr and J. J.. Marye, Jr and Irwin
Tucker, OF the Business Mems Associa-
ton; DR.. w. F. Cooper, Mr.. E. j. For,
and Mr. j. ii. Catfee, members of The
specral council health committee.
~. 1Cbson explained the reasons for
when this city quarantined aguins,
Norfolk and stated the purpose of the
conference Tansl,1l pr. HoIe, representing the
ment of Norfolks position in IL. mai
Ter. re said he was present as the
representative of the health boards nf
.Norlolk. Portsmouth, Berkeley and vi
Gll'ity; 1esterday the Norfolk Board Of
1lcaita passed resolution urging the
esta blis'hment OF q limited ouarantinc
by which trade relations could h.. r.-
sumed. The quarantine had beer a.
tabllshed August I'd. Ten DAYS from
mat time. which will be Saturday. hc
thought the Quarantine could be modi
ned with safety.
Or. Hope suggested that the b,at
tratllc be resumed and that the two ci
Ties require of all persons passing he
tween them certificates Of idcn'tificafion
4sofl DIX ne said, would put out INSPECT
OTIS on 'ne boats in order to see that no
SUSPICIOUS persons either went to their
city or left there FOR this CITY
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