Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-09-08
ATLANTA IMMUNE
Presence of Refugee With
Yellow Fever Brings Test.
GATES TO REMAIN OPEN
State Board censures City Board of
Health and Demands Quarantine,
But Orders Are Not Obeyed.
Situation is Serene.

A case CT yellow fever, brought
from Pensacola, Fla, was discovered
in Atlanta a few days ago, and the
patient, John C. Caruthers, is now at
the detention camp, three miles out
from the city.
Caruthers reached Atlanta Thurs
day night and stopped at one of the
smaller ho.eis of the city. Friday
morning he was taken i'll and during
the day repaired to the Offices OF the
city board of health, asking that his
condition be looked into. DR.. ]. P.
Kennedy, c.ty health officer, exam
iped the man and detected symptoms
of yellow fever
While the news of the case of vel
lew fever wss the topic Of much dis
cussion, there Was no alarm manifest;
ed by anyone. At the Office of the
board Of health it was stated thai
there wr3s absolutely no ground fer
worry on tie part of single res
ident of Atlanta
The patient is a carpenter and his
residence in Pensacola Was only a
short distance from that of the Greeks
who are now down with the discrse
in that city. 1t is regarded by the
local authorities as fortunate for Ca
rrthers that he reached Atlatna be:
fore being taken i'll.
Atlanta's heElth board was mada
the subject Of severe ceGsure by the
state board of health, which met az
the state capitol in called sess on SAT-
urday for It's failure to promptly no.
tify the state board OF the existence
OF the Caruthers ocse.
In connection with the resolution
censUring Atiaglta's s board of health.
the state beard also adopted q rcso-
luton advising that Atlanta should
at once institute and declare quaran-
tine against all yellcw fever infected
points.
Many other cities in the state, par
ticularly the railroad centers, were
advised to institute quarantine against
infected points without delay.
Strongly asserting their 1Rlief in
the cft-proyen contention that yellow
fever cannot gain a foothold in Al
lanta and that the fever cannot spread
from any imported case, the city
board of health Sunday morning de
clined to accede to the request Of the
state board of health and will not
quarantine against the fever infected
districts.
When the question cf quarantine
had been fully discussed a motion was
nsade that action upon the matter be
deferred until some future date. This
meant there is no probability that the
city board of health will institute a
quarantine.
Marine Service Confident.
A Washington special says: Allan
Ia is not resnrded as iHfectible ter
ritory for yellow fever by the pub
lie health and marine hospital sery-
ice, and no spread of the disease
there is anticipated. This view is bas-
ed on the experience of the past, IS
cases of the fever have several times
appeared in Atlanta, but have never
produced a new case. Surgeon General
Wyman sad he EaI received a report
of the case developed there from Sur
gecn Wertenfberger Of the marine
hospital service stationed there. The
infected perscn has been removed
several miles out of town and
screened. DIR. Wyman said, however,
that the yellow fever mosquito does
not breed in Atlanta, and for that
reason no spread Of the disease may
be feared.