The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-01-30
BUSY WITH VACCINE
NONE ALLOWED TO PASS THE SUR
GEoN AT QUARANTINE.
EVIDENCE is NOT ACCEPTED.
ORDERS OF THE SURGEON ARE TO
vACCINATE EVERYBODY.

Quarantine on Behalf of Savannah
Against south Carolina Coast Is
RigidIy Maintained at Venus
POint-Dr. QuiIIian Has No Discre-
ton, but Is Instructed to Allow
None to Pass without Being Vac
cinated-FIve Persons Have Been
Detained at the Quarantine sta
tion-NO OUTGOING Boats inspect
ed, but That Is Because south Car
oIina Hasn't Asked 1t.
The smallpox quarantine established on
! behalf of Savannah against the sea ISL
| ands of South Caro- ia is rigidly maintain
| ed. Every person passing the quaraa-
tine tug Theckla, at Venus Point, must
undergo vaccination unless special dis
pensation is obtained from the Marine
Hospital Service.
The instructions to DIR. w E. Quillian,
temporary acting assistant surgeon, are
ironcIad. He must vaccinate every per-
son, irrespective of age, sex, condition or
anything else. He has no discretion, save
| for the possible relief by specific order of
some one known to the Marine Hospital
Service as having successfully undergone
the operation within month.
Residents of the South Carolina coast
seem to regard the establishment of the
| quarantine as an imposition. They pro-
test against, and seek to be relieved of
necessity of being vacclnated, but none
has yet passed the surgeon without
having first submitted to the prick of the
vaccine point.
This morning, possibly. the first party
may pass DR.. Quiliian without being vac
cinated by him. A Savannahian, on be-
half of party of five Beaufort ladies and
| children, called at the office of DR.. Hobby,
marine hospital surgeon in Savannah I'M
der whose direction quarantine is main
tanned to induce him to admit the party
into Savannah without requiring that they
be vacclnated again. The gentlemen gave
| every assurance that all in the party
| had been vaccinated within the last month.
! AS there was no means of COM
| municating with the tug at Venus Point,
| DR.. Hobby wrote a telegram to be sent
| by the gentleman to Beaufort, and, by the
lady receiving il, TO be presented to DR..
| Quillian to-day. The party expected to
| take the steamer Pilot Boy this morning
for Savannah. The steamer viii be board
| ed by DR.. Quillian, and the telegram from
| DR.. Hobby, provided it reaches the lady
| to whom it was sent, and provided her
party takes the trip, will be the only thing
| that can save the members from Te-vac>
| cination.
| DIR. Hobdy's Instructions to DR. Quill
| liam, as conveyed by the telegram were
to pass the members of the party with
out vaccinating them, provided they could
| show marks of Vaccination that we're not
more than month old. That means
that the marks must be shown fresh, or
no entrance into Savannah can be had.
| The only alternative that is granted is
some days detention at the quarantine
station.
| The argument has been made that the
quarantine is a hardship, and that 1t
| places great many persons in embar-
| RAISING positions, besides often subject
| ing them to great inconvenience. This is
| not disputed, but the counter argument
| is made that the quarantine is necessary
| It Is regarded as a precsLtion that it
would be criminal not to exercise, and
the Marine Hospital Service stands
| strictly for the enforcement of it's orders
day or two ago a surgeon from Port
Royal, connected with the naval station
! at that p ace, was among the passengers
| on a steamer bound for Savannah. The
steamer was boarded and passengers and
crew were vaccinated. The surgeon de-
INJURED declaring that he was in the
| service himself, and had been but recently
| vaccinated. He said he did not want to
undergo the operation again. You are
in the service?" asked the vaccinating
| surgeon. We'll, then, you know what Or
| derS are, and cannot refuse to submit 10
| ours" The surgeon from Port Royal was
| vaccinated.
| No quarantine is maintained on the rail-
| roads. Those entering the city by train
| from South Carolina are not he'd up by
surgeons. This is for the reason that
almost the entire traffic between Savan-
nah and the section of South Carolina
that is infected by the disease is by boat
Five persons are in detention at the
| Quarantine Station, having been taken
| from aboard boats. Only one was from
steamer, and only two were discovere
with cases of smallpox. The others were
| detained because they had been associat-
| ed with the disease recently. and ii was
desired that the period of incuba ion
| might pass before they be at liberty to
mingle with humanity and endanger 9TH
| ers.
| No inspection of outgoing boats is
made. None is demanded by the South
| Carolina health authorities If those au-
| thorities wanted such an inspection, it
would be granted but no request is made
| Reports to newspapers from the South
| Carolina coast protest against the one
| sided quarantine, declaring that the in
| lection visits the coast from Savannah.
but the health authorities do not seem to
think enough of that contention to back
it up with a request for protection.
| The smallpox situation in Savannah, in
| the meantime, is creating no alarm The
| number of patents in the pest ouse =
creasing. 1t is said. too, that the ase
| is relinquishi G its hold II South Carolina.
| the health authorit. es of the state having
| adopted measures to st mp it out Mayer
c. c. Towsend of Beaufort was in the
| city yesterday, and from him it was
learned that there have been no new
cases to develop there recently and that
the town is being freed of the disease.
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