The Cairo bulletin., 1905-08-17
EXTEND QUARANTINE AGAINST
EVERY STATE IN THE UNION
DIR. Egan Will Screw the Lid Down Tighter
Against Yellow Fever=VisitS to
WcikIffe Cease

70 Will be drawn considerably tighter
today. Dr. Egan. Secretary of the
State Board Of Health, who arrived
in the city early yesterday morning,
was busy all day yesterday going care
fully over The situation and as a re
suit the first thing that viii be done
today will be the issuance of an order
quarantining Cairo and southern Hill
nois against not only all infected dis
Gr.cts in the south but against every
state in the Union
The later quarantine is called a Ger
tlficate quarantine and means that
no person win be allowed 10 come into
this city from Kentucky or from any
other state who cannot snow a health
/ certificate duly signed by a properly
/ accredited official Of tie board OF
health al the place the person comes
/ from. This viii put an efecuaI stop
to the wholesaling Of health eertifi.
Gates at Fulton, KY. and other points
| In that state and Tennessee, so far
as Illinois is concerned
viii Screw the Lid Down Tight.
DR.. Egan stated last night that he
was through temporizing and that
! henceforth he would screw the lid
down on Southern Illinois so that
there would h. no lifting it, The
Kentucky situation has been giving
the local inspectors more trouble than
/ any other source. Parties at Full
| ton still meet trains and hawk health
certificates through the windows of
the coaches to the passengers for fifty
cents each As a consequence. per-
sons can come straight through from
New Orleans and buy these certiti-
Gates and come on through TO this
city, and upon their certificates be
admitted to Cairo. This has given the
local Inspection service a great deal Of
/ trouble and DR.. Egan has decided that
1t must stop. Therefore. he will issue
an order today which II is believed
will put an end 10 this drawback.
DIR. Egan will also shut down rigid
u on the numerous skiff ferries at
his place. In SPITE of the notices they
have received about bringing people
into the city who have no health GER
fificates the ferrymen have been fer
Irying whoever wants to come and had
the price to Cairo regardless OF certi-
aeates. DIR Egan yesterday visited
. all the ferries and notified tae ferry
men that unless they stopped this
practice ne would abolish their ferries
: And he means to do Just what he says
consults With the Mayor.
Dr. Egan was in consultation yester
lay with Mayor Parsons and other
prominent citizens in regard to clean
ing up the city. DIR. Egan says Cairo
! is not nearly as clean as it ought tC
; be and as it must be. He says Ger
tain parts OF the city notably Ohio
street are filled with the most repul
sye odors, and that under ordinary
, conditions they are menace Il
health. While under present conditions
. hey are a crying danger
A citizen visited DR.. Egan ye-ster
lay and told him the citizens Of Cair,
were not satisfied with the presen
quarantine, and that they wanted
more rigid one, an iron clad one. lik'
that which prevails at Memphis DR.
Cyan said that f the people Of th'
city wanted such quarantine al
hey had to do was to call a mas
meeting and go on record as heinl
III favor Of it 80 that he could hav
I something upon which to act Will
: IN his opinion the present situation dit
= not demand It. he would consider in
u augurating il If the citizens were ii
favor of it,
Alderman Woods View
7 The general feeling of the people g
Y Cairo may be summarized in the word
4 II Alderman Walter Wood last night
g 4 am In favor of shotgun quarantin
r Il it is required to keep yellow feye
e out of Cairo. Under no considerable
DO we want an outbreak here. 1t
Better TO shut the town up for
month than to ruin its future for gel
Y arations and jeopardize the lives {
our people. n ii takes Memphi
quarantine to keep it out | am for t.
This is the view a majority of cit
g zens take. Cairo is today and hs
Sc been for months experiencing tn
= greatest industrial growth 1t has eve
cen and II the fever should con
: here now II would be calamity fro
which II would take years TO recove
There has been some talk OF Men
81 phis quarantine but a great many pc
q pie have not even thought about
s. With the outlook at New Orleans be
g ter for the past three or four day
g and by drawing the lines tighter (
$ the quarantine already In existenc
n many persons are willing to risk Il
present situation until matters gro
all worse.
Sc II Is pointed out however. that the
ali are many holes in the Cairo quara
all tine which ought to be closed. ri
a. city ~ supposed 10 he quarantin,
sf against New Orleans, bur We
~ known citizen last might called atte
al ton 10 the fact that he had read
al he local papers where parties rig
from that city had arrived here I
a visit to freids and relatives If {