The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-22
No Action Yet Taken by
 the State.
MONTGOMERY NOT AFRAID
City'S Health Department
 UnW0rried.
1Ouisiana State Board VIII Make no Announcement Pending Omcial Autopsy-Detention Camp
 is Established.
Advertiser Bureau.

Mobile July 21. Mobile county and city have closed their doors on New Orleans for the time being, due to reports of yellow fever in that city. Hon. Pat J. Lyons. mayor of Mobile. and Hon. William H. Holcombe, president of the County Board of Revenue and Road Commis- sioners. have issued their proclama- tions to this effect, that of the mayor reading as follows:
 Executive Department.
 Mayors Office City of Mobile.
 July 21, 1905.
 By authority vested in me by the general council of the city of Mobile. and upon the recommendation of the Board of Health. I. Pat J. Lyons. mayor of the city of Mobile. do hereby issue on and after this date, July 21. 1905, a rigid quarantine shall be enforced against the city of New Orleans in the State of Louisiana. to the effect that no persons or baggage will be allowed from this point to enter the city of Mobile. except under such restrictions as may be imposed by the board of health. Said quarantine to continue in force until the first day of December. next, unless sooner revoked.
 Given under my hand and seal. this Fist day of July 1905.
 (Signed) Pat J. Lyons, Mayor.
 The proclamation of President Hol- combe reads as. follows:
 Ofice of the County Board of Revenue
 and Road Commissioners,
 Mobile, Ala, July 21, 1905. As provided by law and in accordance with the recommendations of the Board of Health, public notice Is hereby given and proclamation made that on and after this date a stringent Quaran- tine will be enforced against New Or lans. La, to the effect that no person or baggage will be allowed from this point to enter the city of Mobile except under such restrictions as. may be i'm posed by the Board of Health. The said quarantine to continue in full force until the first day of December. unless boomer revoked.
 . (Signed) William H. Holcombe.
 President B. R. and R. Com.
 Went to New Orleans.
 Dr. Charles Mohr. secretary of the County Board of Health; Dr. Henry Goldthwaite, executive officer of the Quarantine Board of Mobile Bay, and Dr. J. H. White. in charge of the marine hospital here and a member of the board, left Mobile for New Orleans at o'clock this morning to investigate con ditions. Their leaving was on the quiet, and unknown to others than members Of the DOdrQ. ne lbSucu this afternoon were on account or in- formation received from them in New Orleans. r'":
 A meeting of the committee of health of the county board met this afternoon to receive a message from the commit tee named above with reference to con- ditions in New Orleans. The message was to the effect that they had been two cases of the disease and would
 
 morning The proclamation followed the hearing from the committee.
 Tonight the committee of health again met and, after going over the situation. arranged for details of rigid quarantine against New Orleans. In the meantime two police officers were sent south on Louisville and Nashville No. 1 with instructions to go as far as Scranton. Miss, there to board the northbound train tonight and to allow no one from New Orleans to disembarh in this county. except the committee of the board. ~+ The information as to conditions ir New Orleans leading to the sending of the committee of three to New Or leans was received In telsram' no' from New Orleans, but from Surgeon General Wymans office in Washington This fact was severely commented upon by members of the committee of health and members of the board. they urg' ing that New Orleans should have acted in good faith to Mobile by notifying her of conditions there The committee of health meeting to- night was attended by DTS. Ketchum Goode, Acker, Bondurant, Owen. Gaines and Frazer, and Mayor Lyons and President Holcombe of the Board oi Revenue and Road Commissioners. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad wa: at once ordered to erect and maintain a relay station at the Alabama -Missis sippi State line on its road. to be ready for occupancy by noon tomorrow.