The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-07-26
WORK OF QUARANTINE
WHAT OFFICERS or STATE BOARD
 ARE DOING.
pss.en~ers from Ceast Towns are Conn velleA te Take Ffrst Train Ont of Montgomery to Other
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Nothing new developed yesterday or last night in the quarantines of both the State and the City of Montgomery on account of yellow fever. On every train from the direction of New Or leans and points along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad refugees have tried to land in this city but failed. The forty or more quarantine omcers having Montgomery as their base ap- pear to be doing their work we'll. and when a passenger is found whose point of departure was in the region under quarantine, he is sent on through to the nearest place outside of the State.
 The matter of billing" the refugees through does not always conform to their wishes. When found, they are required to remain on these trains that are destined to points beyond the State and are taken off local passenger trains and put on the first one that leaves the Union Station, no matter where It VII take them. It is recognized that the longer the fleeing passengers remain In the city limits the more dangerous 1t will be for the welfare of the city and the State at large.
 Chief Clerk W. R. Brassell of the State Health Department was in com munication with Dr. E. D. Bondurant of Mobile yesterday. Dr. Bondurant. who is acting State Health Onicer in out nothing of public interest except to say that the quarantine declared by the City of Mobile and the State Is be- ing vigorously enforced. He made strong denial of the report that yellow fever had been discovered in the Gulf City. telegram was received yes terday at the office of the department ~<- nc ru says he will be in Montgomery this morning. barring accidents. He will immediately assume charge of the State quarantine system, relieving Dr. Bon durant.
 Chief Clerk Brassell of the Health Department, who is also Gtate Supervi- sor in Montgomery. declared yesterday that 1t is the aim of Dr. Bondurant to get none but efficient men to serve as quarantine oficers.
 In observing this rule, MT. Brassell says, he has made a thorough canvass of the available material, and believes the men now in the employ of the State are doing work above the average. IT connivance or negligence on the part of any of the officers is discovered. he is at once discharged and his place filled by one of a number of applicants who are on his list.
 According to officers working trains in and out of Montgomery. many ef- forts to impose upon the railroads have been made since the quarantine went into effect. Almost daily one or two passengtrs have been found with tickets to Montgomery, who plead that they have no money and cannot pur- chase tickets to a further point. They know that if the carriers representa- lives sold them tickets from New Or leans or coast town between New Orleans and the State line, such road Is responsible and Is compelled to haul the refugees outside the State. In most instances the willing passengers dig down in their pockets and buy the tick cts as dictated by the quarantine of- ficers, but there are a few who. with an ample wad in their pockets, will not loosen for all the world and force the road to the extremity of free haul. Of couse, such designing refugees as these can and should be squelched In the beginning by the agents observing the quarantines when debating the sale of tickets.
 The sanitary forces of the city con- tinue to work hard in their efforts to make yellow fever a stranger to these parts. Coal oil Is being used freely over cess pools and all stagnant waters in and about the city.
 Governor Jelks returned last night from Eufaula, but had nothing new to say about the prospects of further amending the quarantine proclamation which was issued Monday night It Is not likely that Alabama will follow in the steps of Mississippi and quarantine the whole of Louisiana until there Is some evidence of the practical neces- sity Nor will the State yet awhile put an embargo on freight traffic out of New Orleans and those coast towns barred as to persons. The. Health Board has an eye on the progress of the disease in New Orleans and upon this will depend any future action as far as the State Is concerned.