The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-31
PENSACOLAIS WATCHED
AUTHORITIES HAVE
 ADOPTED PRECAUTIONS
ReIay Camp Established ct F1omston and Pnssengers From F10rida Seaport Are Not Allowed
 fO SfOp in State.

Sanders, State Health Ofncer, pursued the policy of quick action when noti- fled of the Pensacola infection and mas already taken steps which will protect Alabama against an invasion or the disease from that point.
 relay camp has been ordered TOT Tlomason whereby Y all tran Srews for s% ana men before proceeding further into the State and scores of passengers nave been caught coming into Alabama rom Pensacola. These were sent on through the State either in the direction of Att lanta or Nashville.
 The quarantine which becomes opp
 sys on is ssns % ss anS fas County of Escambia. Fla. No extra proclamation for the quarantine was deemed necessary as such processes |iast mste amendment nons1esa of Governor Jelkss |original proclamation against New Or leans. In this amendment was put a blanket clause which orders n that that ail s fected with yellow fever shall be placed under the ban. Therefore when Dr.. Sanders Tuesday. night got official Health HSi officer of Florida. of the exist ence of yellow fever in Pensacola he immediately telegraphed the distant quarantine snperyi:sor&s p: & to insert ser Pen en- affidavit blanks used in the examination of passengers. Those officers who work on trains out of Montgomery were seen In person by Supervisor W. R. BrasseII of the Montgomery circuit, and Instructed to enforce the quarantine against persons coming from Pensacola As a result of this prompt measure it Is believed that not a single person from Pensacola has been allowed to stop in Alabama.
 egram from Superintendent Terrell of the United States mali service, saying he would see to 1t that the mail clerks on | trains through or out of Pensacola and destined into Alabama would be taken off at F1omaton at the relay station and fresh men put in their places before entering the State. The relay camp Is
 the line between Alabama and Florida. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad | Is the only line that runs from Pensa-
 sc to ,ns anS ospe ndea f gomery division, has already told Dr, Sanders that he has begun to comply | with the regulations of the relay camp passengers are not allowed to enter | the State unless they intend to go
 straight on through.
 l When the health department received the information of fever in Pensacola two officers Of the quarantine were all
 ready stationed at Flomaton for the
 purpose of watching freight trains great advantage to Alabama's quaran. tine for they were forthwith ordered | to board the first train arriving from | Pensacola and examine. the passengers
 In this way several refugees were dis | covered and required to go on through | the State or turn back in the direction
 of their homes after short detention al
 Yesterday Dr. Sanders decided to asl | the health officers of all counties in tht lower part of the State to deputiEe citi zens along county dirt roads crossing \ fha State Ao kn their eyes open for refugees. Int citizens to be deputized under this or der would be those who live alongsidt Twill be told to make every person | whether on foot or in vehicle, to giv, 4 an account of himself within the previ
 ous seven days. If it were found sucl cambia County. Fla, the citizens ap pointed for the purpose would have tn, power to detain them and call on tn, to turn back.
 Dr. Sanders says that lots of gooC
 may be done by vigilance of this sort |
 the county. co%nnty nealth it officers Will consen peatedly written the health officers O
 all counties on the States borders, re
 questing that they supplement tn, dirt road pickets. He has wished fol this protection ever since the quaran
 tine was put on against New Orleans i0OHiS OL tHS OiHCeES nave compiled with the request while others have not The officers of the lower State countie. have been especially urged to keep UT
 vigilance against people from Florida
 Extra men for trains on the Alabama
 and Florida division of the Louisvill, and Nashville Railroad hae been put or by the State Health Board where the1
 were scarcely necessary before thu | Pensacola infection. There will also b, | increased vigilance on the trains com 1 cities.
 pr; Sanders for a while thought ot making special trip to Memphis Tenn, to investigate the suspicion oi yellow fever in that city. He has however, been reassured by Associated l Press accounts of the case said to have gone from Memphis to New Orleans
 and statements of the Memphis Healtf l Board. and this combined with the sud den danger to Alabama from Pensacola will keep Dr. Sanders in Montgomery | until the new arrangements at Floma.
 ton are put In regular working order.