The Cairo bulletin., 1905-10-14
After Long Months Of Unceasing
Labor and WatchfuIness the
Purpose is Accomplished
QUARANTINE LID RAISED AND
CAIRO Is OPEN TO THE WORLD

| the great avenue for railway trave
| from the south This fact will even
tually prove to be the keynote in
the citys supremacy in commercial
prosperity but it will Of necessity be
source of danger in times of calamity
of the great south
These facts were fully appreciated
by Dr. Egan when he arrived in Cairo
the first of August to institute meas
ures for the protection of the city and
the southern part OF the state. His
exper ence in 1897 had taught him
that a perfect control of the lines of
travel was not easily secured while
the five miles or more of Cairo's water
front afforded additional dangers from
those progressive refugees who were
determind to escape from the fever
ridden south and TO enter Illinois.
Promptly DR. Egan established
offices in Cairo and promptly he re.
cruled competent assistants in the
train Inspection service which was inn
meliately instituted. In response To
the first call DR.. w. II. Galland Will
liam o. Krohn, and c. Hubert Love
well, all of Chicago, DR.. Paul S. Mabry,
of Fairfield, and DR.. w. c Clarke, of
Cairo appeared for duty. Dr. Clarke
was appointed chief inspector and a
thorough inspection was made of
every train which entered Cairo from
the south
From the first il was apparent that
the State Board of Health, the Marine
Hospital Service and the City Board
of Health worked in the greatest har-
mony Hardly had the inspection
service been instituted, when it was
announced that steamboats, from the
south were headed toward Cairo
carrying yellow fever patients. AS an
indication of the hearty cooperation
which continued TO exist to the end of
the quarantine service, DR.. Palmer
representing the State, Dr. Griffitts,
representing the Marine Hospital ser
vic and President Fuller. of the local
board of health, went down the river
together, met the boats supposed to
have been carriers of the plague and
returned with the news that from that
direction at least Cairo was froee from
infection
Working even then in close CO.
operation with The Mayor and the
board of health of Cairo, the State
Board of Health soon drew closer lines
about the city. instituted a closer in
spectlon of steamboats, and instituted
a strict inspection of trains from boJh
north and south.
The attitude of the State of Ken
lucky. in receiving refugees from all
points. constantly increased the dan
gers OF Southern Illinois. while Cairo
stood out a prospective victim to the
inefficient methods of both Kentucky
and Missouri.
Inspections were then made by Ill
inois inspectors at Birds Point and at
Wiekliffe It soon developed that the
residents of both Of these communities
took the attitude that unless full recog
issued by them the inspectors would
be declared unwelcome aliens upon
their oil. No concessions were made
TO either community and the Difficult
ties later encountered by the inspect
ors will never be known save TO them
themselves. who. in pursuance of duty
continued their inspection service re-
CARELESS of the threats and abuse of
the citizens Of these outlying towns.
Late in the month of August. the
Cairo board Of health. realizing the
dangers which beset them with yellow
fever spreading as il was so early IN
the season in the south. decided that
they were in duty bound to protect
the city more effectively IRON conia-
giop. A local quarantine was estab-
lished strict in its regulations but
rational and sane in its principles.
which has ended as the rigid and at
the same time The most humane quar-
antine ever established in the nation.
DIR. Egan promptly endorsed the
Cairo quarantine and the inspectors,
who had by this time been enforced BY
the additions Of DTs o. ". Kewitz. Of
New Athens: Fred Lotion. Of Chicago;
W E. Burgett. Of Louisville. and H. A
Davis. Of Cairo. we're al once directed
to enforce the Cairo quarantine regu
latioas 10 the letter.
What these regulations we're Il vel