The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-23
EMBARGO COST $4,OOO
FIRST MONTH OF STATES 0UARAN-
 TINE HAS ENDED.
Health Department Believes that Here- affer Expenses Wtil Be Reduced. pr. Sanders Wiii Go to
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At 9 o'clock last night the first quar- antine put on by Alabama during 1SO5 on account of yellow fever had gone through It's first month. The cost to the State during this time has been ap- proximately 5000. according to an es- timate last night of Chief Clerk W. R. Brassell of the State Board of Health.
 One month ago last night at the hour named. Governor Jelks. who had come down from Blount Springs to Montgom- cry, issued a quarantine proclamation excluding all persons from New Orr leans. The quarantine forces or the State were fairly wtll organized at this time, because at least three days before 1t was definitely known members Of the State Board strongly suspected that the scourge was in the Crescent City and had been there for several days. This suspicion was kept 0 secret in order not to prejudice q quiet investigation which was being made at the time by 8 committee of the State Board sent out of Mobile. So 1t can be seen that the quarantine system was in fair readi- ness when the committee positively de- clared the suspicious cases under scru- tiny in New Orleans to be yellow re- yer.
 Notwithstanding this preparation of tho quarantine officials, Chief Clerk Brassell said last night that multi tude of details had to be attended to before starting the methods of quaran- tine, and these cost a considerable sum of money. These preliminaries have been already overcome and nothing but an arduous routine is expected from now on unless there is an unusual spread of the fever into Mississippi or elsewhere near the Alabama borders. The monthly expenses of the quaran- tine, therefore. are calculated in the AA fnl halnNV those of the initial month, or $4.00O, in spite of the fact that during this month at intervals more men were added to the forces as they stood when the first quarantine proclamation was put into effect This was necessitated by the infection of a number of points outside of New Orleans. It is the purpose or the Health Board to run the expenses down to as little above $3,00O monthly as possible.
 A large portion of the expenses of quarantine is printing and distributing official blanks. The State uses daily about 500 of these blanks on which are registered the affidavits of all passen- gers into Alabama. If this was taken as an index to passenger traffic In Ala bama, it would seem that this number of persons were met with each day in either traversing the State or hunting locations inside the borders. It cannot be accepted as such an idex, however, for the reason that very frequently one person represents two or three forms such cases being where through pas sengers change care inside Alabama and are thereby compelled to sign an extra affidavit or two according to the number of changes made.
 State Health Officer w. H. Sanders did not come back to Montgomery yester- day. and 1t is not definitely known when he will return. The unexpected stay away from his office is perhaps due to a visit he proposes to make in person to Starkville, Miss, to look into sus- picious case of fever there. pr. San ders has received two advices from au- thorities in S.arkvilie on the case un- der suspicion, but he is believed not to be satisfied with the reports so far given cut The last telegram, which was from the city health officer of StarkviIIe, stated that the case had been diagnosed as hematuria malaria, but had been imported from Mississippi City. The importation was just about the lime or a little previous to tho date on which Dr. Sanders and Dr. Mohr of the Alabama Board discovered the Ms sissippi infection. For these reasons, pr. Sanders is said to be little chary of putting final confidence in the diag- nosis of the case as officially announced