The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-09-09
QUARANTINE IS ON
ALL OVER GEORGIA
inspectors Are Placed on In
coming Trains
DEFINE INSPECTED REGION
City Officials of Atlanta Object to the
Measure, But State Officers VIII
Make Quarantine as Effect
i've as Possible.
DEFINE INSPECTED REGION

Atlanta, September S.-(SpeciaL)-St
quarantine is ON against all yellow fever
infected territory, and by tomorrow morn
ing all passengers on trains coming into
the state who cannot show clean bill
of health will be required to remain out
side the state limits.
Quarantine inspectors were sent cut
by the state board of health this after
noon on all lines of railroad entering the
state, with instructions to board trains
at points in other states, and make q
thorough investigation as to all passen-
gers. For instance, the Southern and
Western and Atlantic trains from the
north will be boarded at Admission. Tho
Atlanta and West Point trains will be
boarded at Montgomery. The Southern
trains from the east will be boarded al
Greenville, S. C. All trains coming into
the state will be similarly watched and
the passengers investigated. Some TWEEN
ty inspectors were sent out today by
the state board of health for this pur-
pose.
The state board of health officials TO-
day defined what they include in the i'll
fected territory as all of Louisiana.
Natchez, Gulf Port and Vicksburg, Miss.
and Pensacola, Fla. All passengers who
have been within any of the territory
included in this definition within the last
ten days will not be allowed to enter the
state. They must produce health certif-
Gates showing that they are all right or
they must otherwise prove conclusively
to the quarantine inspector that they
have not been within the infected terri
tory.
Define Infected Territory.
The state boards quarantine inspectors
will be paid $40 week for their services
and will be furnished transportation
President w. F. Westmoreland and Sec
rotary H. F. Harris of the state board to-
day arranged with the railroads to fur
nish free transportation to the state
quarantine inspectors. 1t was a question
of doing this or having all trains stopped
at the state lines until they could be thor
oughly inspected, because the state board
has only limited supply of funds with
which to conduct the quarantine. Repre-
sentatiyes of the Southern, Seaboard All
Line and Atlanta and West Point were al
the office of the state board in the capt.
toll today and they readily agreed to
supply such transportation as was needed
for the purpose of carrying on the quar-
antine. Under the arrangement the trains
can be boarded by the inspectors outside
the state and the inspections made with
out stopping them.
So far as Atlanta is concerned there
is still no quarantine against the infect
ed territory, but the state quarantine will,
of course, have the effect of keeping Out
Of Atlanta all persons from that terri
tory who may desire to come here.
City Authorities Object.
The city authorities consider the quar-
antine entirely unnecessary, at least sc
far as Atlanta Is concerned, and state
they have done everything in their power
to prevent 1t. They point to the fact that
although there are more than 1000 refu-
gees in the city who came here from the
infected districts. only one case of yellow
fever developed here and the disease has
never spread in the ethyl. In other words
Atlanta has never during any epidemic
become a point of contagion.
The state quarantine will be made as
effective as possible. and all persons who
have been in any infected territory within
ten days are warned by the state board
that they will not be allowed to cross
the state lines