The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-26
CASTLEBERRY IS SAFE
DR. SANDERS RAISES QuARANrrNE
 AGAINST TT.
Travel From Formerly Infected strsw- berry Town May Be ResumeS- Looking for Early Ending of
 Yellow Fever

State Health Officer W. H. Sanders went to Castleberry early yesterday morning to inspect the situation at that point and after . thorough inves- tigation found no signs of yellow or any other sort of fever. He sent a telegram in the afternoon to Super visor W R. Brasseii of the Montgom- cry quarantine circuit, authorizing him to lift the quarantine of the rest of the State from the formerly infected place.
 Thus has yellow fever in Castleberry become a part of history. There is nothing left but the infinitesimal chance for the development of another case of yellow jack in the strawberry town. It has been over ten days since 1t was first possible for the fever to spread from the Johnsons who died. These were man and wife. There have been one or two frosts since this also and all the elements have been found to be so favorable that Dr. Sanders did not hesitate to lift the quarantine against the water station.
 When the month of October expires the State Board of Health will have spent on the quarantine which Ala bama has conducted practically Sao.0oo. Until October the quarantine had cost the State in round numbers $22.- 900. When the quarantine of the Northern section of Alabama was with uTaWn IueSudy StAby sh&hA guards employed in the State service ever since the outbreak of fever in New Orleans last July were laid off. This will reduce the expenses of the quarantine somewhat this month.
 On no side has there been heard any criticism of the methods used by Dr. Sanders in conducting this years quar- antine. There is no room left for criticism, 1t Is regarded. as the results show for themselves. Only two cases of yellow fever have been diagnosed in the State since the quarantine first went into effect July 22. It has not even been established where those two cases at Castleberry came from. Very searching efforts were made by Dr. Sanders and Secretary c. A. Mohr of the State Health Board. to trace the origin of this infection and not a thread could be found.
 There are now left in the States ser- vice about 100 men and most of these are concentrating their energies in the southern portion of the State Their eyes are ever on Pensacola and there vigilance kept on New Orleans and the Mississippi coast.
 It is understood that 1t is the inten- tion of Dr. Sanders to lower the line of quarantine for Alabama and make it one more instaliment before finally bidding 1t farewell. It now runs from Phenfx In Lee County to Sylacauga on the Central of Georgia Railway, thence to Calera on the Louisville and Nash vile Railroad and thence to Tuscaloosa by an air line and thence upward to McCrary in Pickens County along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. The next adjustment of the line is most likely to be another third of the longitude below in the State. Just wttn some
 more of the State will be opened to the world will depend upon the arri- val of some more frosts and the future situation in Pensacola.
 Dr. Sanders said yesterday that he would go to Mobile after satisfying himself about conditions in Castleberry and he will remain fin the Gulf city un- til Saturday when he will return to Montgomery.