The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-27
IS RAISING THE BAN
MAYOR OF PENSACOLA THINKS EP-
 IDEMIC ABOUT OVER.
The German Ship Kaiser, After Nearly Every One on Board Had Yellow
 Fever, Is Free of the

Pensacola, Fla, Oct. 26.-(SpeciaL)- | That the end of the fever in Pensacoia | is in sight was evidenced this morning
 when Mayor Bliss removed all restrlc- | tions placed by the city on interuroan
 travel following the proclamation up with a strong request to the state | health officer to modify restrictions en- forced upon people from the country, | the outlying settlements and the water front. This, if granted, will open up communication with the Pensacola navy yard and the army post. The State health officer. who, under the laws of Florida. has absolute control of all quarantines, had not replied to the letter of Mayor Bliss this evening. A passage in the Mayors letter reads as follows:
 "The end of the epidemic is evidently so near and there Is so little danger that feel that I am doing right in making this request of you. The peo- pie in the country are in distress on account of not being able to enter the city and sell their wood and produce which are going to waste. to buy the necessities of life; and the people in the city are much in need of the things that the country people have to sell. and trust that you will modify the quar- antine regulations as suggested"
 There is reason to believe that the
 
 Porter. the State health officer. has ex- pressed the opinion that the fever Is on the wane.
 One of the best arguments for the opinion that the fever is on the wane in this city Is the fact that Dr. F. Andrade, the Florida State bacteriolo- gist left this morning for Jackson ville Dr. Andrade, whose headquar- ters are in Jacksonville, came over at the urgent request of the State health officer some three or four weeks ago, and has been very busy ever since. The method of determining whether or not a patient has yellow fever, as Is we'll known, is by microscopical examina- tion of the blood Before the arrival of the celebrated bacteriologist, it had been the custom to secure the blood of sufferers and send it to JacksonviIIe for examination. This required more than three days, and as this was the danger period of any fever case. 1t was a constant menace unless the proper precautions were taken. Since the ar- rival of Dr. Andrade, however. it was possible to make an immediate exami- nation and pronounce the type of dis ease at once
 The German ship Kaiser sailed out from Pensacola last evening after a most memorable experience while in this port. She was infected with yell low fever soon after arrival and near ly every member of the crew was at tackled by the disease. Two of the sailors and the second mate died. The ship was isolated, fumigated and watched throughout the danger period The master of the ship was the first one taken down. The nature of his malady was not discovered until he had about recovered. The customary precau- tions, therefore, in regard to the mos- quito were not taken. and the infection spread rapidly through the crew, kill ing three of them.' The ship was lowed outside of the regular shipping lines, and there fumigated several times. Nobody was i'll on board when she weighed anchor and sailed for a South American port yesterday.