The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-09-07
ATLANTA IMMUNE
Presence of Refugee With
Yellow Fever Brings Test.
GATES TO REMAIN OPEN
State Board Censures City Board of
Health and Demands Quarantine,
But Orders Are Not Obeyed.
Situation is Serene.

A case Of yellow fever, brought
from Pensacola, Fla, was discovered
in Atlanta Il few days ago, and the
patient, Jonn G. Caruthers, is now at
the detention camp, three miles out
from the city.
Caruthers reached Atlanta Thurs
day night and stopped at one Of the
smaller ho.els of the city. Friday
morning he was taken i'll and during
the day repaired to the Offices of the
city board OF health, asking that his
condition be looked into. DR.. ]. P.
Kennedy, city health officer, exam
iEed the man and detected symptoms
of yellow fever.
While the news of the case of vel.
lew fever Was the topic of much dis
cussion, there was no alarm manifest
ed by anyone. At the Office of the
board of health it was stated that
there was absolutely no ground fer
worry on tie part Of a single res
ident of Atlanta.
The patient is a carpenter and his
residence in Pensacola was only a
short distance from that of the Greeks
who are now down with the disease
in that city. 1t is regarded by the
local authorities as fortunate for Ca
rrthers that he reached Atlatna be.
fore being taken i'll.
Atlanta's health board was made
the subject of severe censure by the
state board of health, which met at
the state capitol in called session Sat
urday for its failure to promptly mo-
tify the state board Of the existence
of the Caruthecs case.
In connection with the resolution
censuring Atlanta's board of health,
the state board also adopted a reso-
luton advising that Atlanta should
at once institute and declare quaran-
tine against all yellow fever infected
points.
Many other cities in the state, par
ticularly the railroad centers, were
advised to institute quarantine against
infected points without delay.
Strongly asserting their belief in
the oft-proven contention that yellow
fever cannot gain foothold in Al
Ianta and that the fever cannot spread
from any imported case, the city
board of health Sunday morning de-
clined to accede to the request of the
state board of health and will rot
quarantine against the fever infected
districts.
When the question of quarantine
had been fully discussed motion was
made that action upon the matter be
deferred until some future date. This
meant there is no probability that the
city board of health will institute
quarantine.
Marine Service Confident.
A Washington special says: Allan
Ia is not regarded as infectible ter
ritory for yellow fever by the pub
lie health and marine hospital serv-
ice, and no spread of the disease
there is anticipated. This view is bas-
ed on the experience Of the past, as
cases of the fever have several times
appeared in Atlanta, but have never
produced new case. Surgeon General
Wyman said he had received report
of the case developed there from Sur
geon Wertemberger Of the marine
hospital service stationed there The
infected person has been removed
several miles out of town and
screened. DIR. Wyman said, however,
that the yellow fever mosquito does
not breed in Atlanta, and for that
reason no spread of the disease may
be feared.