The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-23
GUARANTEES,
Those Of Gov. Jones and Gov. Johns
ton essentially Different.

Those Of Gov. Jones and Gov. Johns
ton essentially Different.
The attention of Judge Thos G. Jones
being called by an Advertiser reporter to
| letter of Capt. W. II. Amerine, which
Gained that the quarantine of Governor
Johnston In 1897 was identical with his
Judge Jones) when he was Governor in
1898, Judge Jones said:
The quarantine proclaimed by me
as Governor in 1893. was the first quar-
antine conducted by the State 1t was
issued first against Pensacola. and then
against Brunswick, Ca There was no
yellow fever that year in Alabama, and
no quarantine regulation put in force
against Alabamians.
There were some differences between
the doctors who met at the late DR.. Coch-
rams house, he then being the State
Health Officer. on the night he received
| news of the fever at Pensacola, whether
the people of Pensacola should be. block
AIDED or not. This discussion was ended
by my statement that | would not CON
form to any advice of that sort, a 1t was
not only inhuman, but foolish, and the
best way to introduce the fever among
us. 1t was agreed that night to proclaim
a quarantine, to appear in the morning s
paper. authorizing the people of
Pensacola to go through the State
on through trains. Next day it
was modified by an order sent
the authorizes of the Louisville and Nash
Vile Railroad Company, against the ad-
vice of DR.. Cochran, to permit them to
go through In separate cars. None of
them wished to stop in Alabama. The
same thing was proclaimed, as TO Bruins
wick None of its people desired to take
refuge In Alabama In a very few
instances. where people desired to stop
in the mountains, or elsewhere where the
people did not object to their presence,
they were permitted to do so. Our effort
was not to make a fuss or panic the
people.
Il think 1t well known from my course
in the City Council where l repeatedly
collided with the Board of Health and my
messages to the Legislature on the sub
ject of quarantine that | had little faith
in most of the measures proposed by
members Of the Board Of Health in times
of epidemic The State Board of Health
met but once after the quarantine i pro-
claimed, because of my known opinions
which differed so greatly from that or
many of it's members as to how quar-
antines should be conducted and my
known determination not to yield to
radical views of the Board in matters
of quarantine.
Il have in my papers in the handwrit-
ing of the late DR.. Cochran, the details
of a plan which he and l agreed to work
on, in event the fever broke out in
Mobile or any other cities of Alabama.
The plan contemplated the concentra-
ton of trains at Mobile; if fever appeared
there to take out all the citizens who de-
sired to leave. For those who were UNI
able to support themselves, plans were
made to prepare camp in the saluhrious
pine regions near by. A list of places in
Alabama, where the people were willing
to receive refugees was prepared. Physi-
clans were to go to those places to care
for any who might be sick there and to
give certificates TO refugees to go any
where, after they had remained ten days,
in the places which received them. There
never was an hour during that quaran-
tine when there was a thought of pre-
venting Alahamians from stopping in any
healthy part Of the state willing to
receive them. All who were asso-
ciated with me knew that plans had been
made in directly the opposite lines and
that 1 would never have tolerated any
other course"