The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-09-30
QUARANTINE SOON
 ID BE ABOLISHED Will Come to an End About
 October l5 RULES ARE NOW RELAXING cordova Is Now Honorlng Health Ger tificates-checks to Pay Employees of Quarantine Service Will
 Be Sent Out Monday.
RULES ARE NOW RELAXING

The indications point to the practical abolishment of the quarantine in Ala bama about October 16. Anticipating an early frost a number of the towns In Mississippi that have been closed to the world have opened their gates and Will hereafter admit all persons who produce the necessary certificate of health. In spector Barnes Morgan, who Is in charge of the state quarantine at the union sta- tion. is in receipt of a number Of com munications from Mississippi and Louis jana towns, notifying him that all pas seneers. who are In the possession of health certificates will be allowed to come into those towns
 The travel from the infected districts is very light but many who have refugeeo to northern points are returning to their homes in the south. No suspicious cases have appeared in Alabama for many day and the quarantine officers of Birming- ham have experienced no trouble what ever during the past week with travellers.
 IT ,s probable that within the next two weeks the quarantine seige of 1905 will have passed entirely into history. Last night a number of quarantine officers, who went out on the late train wore their oyercoats which must have reminded them that their offices will soon cease to exist
 At Cordova.
 pr Miller of Cordova, which town has been practically closed, has notified h. spector Morgan that the officials there would honor health certificates Ellisville, Miss, Columbus, Miss, and New Al bany Miss, have also withdrawn their strict quarantine.
 The officials of West Point, Miss. and Tupelo. Miss, have also notified the Bir- mingham officials that passengers to all ponts would hereafter be allowed to change cars in those towns. For the past two months 1t has been ,mnossible to purchase tickets to those points without first obtaining permission from the city officials. This regulation meant that those towns were virtually closed to the outside world.
 Inspector Morgan received word from the state health department last night that the checks for all the employees would be sent out Monday. As the depart ment did not pay off on the 15' the officers will receive a months pay Monday The number of men under Inspector Morgan has varied from twenty-five to thirty dur ing the past two months.
 Inspector Morgan Talks. MT. Morgan, in speaking of the situa- ton. expressed himself as being conf- dent that conditions would permit the quarantine being raised by October 15. "I am delighted said MT. Morgan. | "w,th the hearty cooperation that we have received from the people of the state and from the railroads, in main- taIning the quarantine. All the time we have endeayored to make the rules as easv as possible for the travellers and st inc same time enforce the laws. q am gratifed with the manner In which the travelling public has appreciat- ed the efforts of the men who were in charge of the quarantine. Every day number of people come to me and speak kindly of the treatment that has been &C., corded them by the officers.
 T want to say that the fact that only one case has developed in Alabama and that the situation has been so well hand led Is due largely to the efforts of Dr. w. H. Sanders, president of the state board of health. Dr. Sanders has worked necessarily since the yellow fever first broke out in New Orleans. and has never failed to investigate all suspicious signs that have appeared in any section of the state.'