The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-07-27
QUARANTINE IS ON
Fever in New Orleans Causes
Health Boards to Act.
OFFICIALS ARE CAUTIOUS
Belief is That Disease Can Be Con.
fined to Italian Quarter of City.
Detention Camps Are Estab-
Iished at Various Points.

lIshed at Various Points.
A New Orleans dispatch says: The
Official autopsy On a patient, an Itai-
ian, who died of what has been called
suspicious fever, has disclosed that the
disease was yellow fever. President
Souchon OF the state board of health
has notified Governor Blanchard and
the health officers of Mississippi, Tex
as and Alabama Arrangements have
been made for detention hospital to
treat the remaining cases. Applica-
tion of the same methods which were
pursued at Havana is to be made, and
the authorities are hopeful that the
disease can be stamped out. Presi-
dent Souchon said:
"No cases of the fever are known
TO exist outside Of this area, save
two or three which are directly trace
able to it and the infected area, a
few squares in extent, is under Wig.
orous d!sinfection.
TT is expected that the measures
adopted and operated will be success
full in eradicating the infection, the
nature of which is suspected to be
yellow fever, though the autopsic find
1ngs in one case only determined this
as a conclusion"
The quarantine situation affecting
New Orleans is not serious in that It
applies on:y to persons and baggage,
and this will be relieved by the i'm
mediate esta blishmeQt Of detention
camps on the lines of an the railroads,
where travellers who desire to go to
the quarantine territory may remain
five days and secure certificate OF
non.infection from the marine hospital
service. Surgeon J. H. White Of the
United States marine hospital serv-
ice Sunday arranged for the estaD-
lishment of camps at the following
points: Slidell, on the Queen and
Crescent; Avondale, On the Southern
Pacific and Texas and Pacific; Ken
ner, on the Mississippi Valley and
Illinois Central, and Waveland, on
the Louisville and Nashville.
Alabama quarantined on the basis
of opinions expressed by her health
officer. Mississippi and Texas quar-
antined on the basis of information
telegraphed them.
The state health and city boards
of health Of Florida, Saturday, order.
ed quarantine against New Orleans.
Freight will be permitted to pass at.
ten fumigaticn, hut inspectors are sta
toned at. Flomaton with instructions
to allow no persons from New Orleans
to pass.
Sunday the city of Montgomery,
Ala, through Acting Mayor c. P. Nc
Intyre, issued an official proclamation
Of quarantine against the city Of New
Orleans.
The board Of health of Selma, Ala.
Sunday afternoon sent back to New
Orleans a thirteen-year-old girl Of that
city, who arrived Saturday to visit
relatives. The girls parents reside
in the Italian settlement Of New Or
leans, where the yellow fever is said
to have been discovered.
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A Havana dispatch says: On ac-
count of the existence Of yellow fever
at New Orleans, quarantine has been
declared against that port.
Mexico Won't Quarantine.
The health authorities Of Mexico
City Say there will be no quarantine
against New Orleans. The sanitary
inspection of arriving passengers from
infected ports is strict and suspected
cases are isolated. Merchandise from
ports where yellow fever exists is not
detained. The theory on which the
Mexican sanitary authorities deal with
yellow fever is that it is only COM
municated by species Of mosquitoes,
thus the lnreasonableness Of quaran.
tine precautions.
Washington is Aiding.
The officials Of the public health
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