The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-08-18


luarantined against the states Of +
Louisiana and Mississippi, and all f.
yer infected points in other states. and |
no passengers coming from either Of
hose states or places viii be admitted !
10 this city. unless they can show
health certificates signed by duly
and accredited board of
health. showing that they have not
been in the above named sections
within ten days.
Furthermore. the city Of Cairo IS
against the world, and no
person can come into this city from
any place unless they can show a
health certificate showing that they
have not been in a fever infected dis
trict in ten days
The regulations were the basis OF
stringent order issued last night by
DR.. j. A. Egan, Secretary of the Him
dis State Board OF Health, which was
as follows:
Cairo. H.. Aug. II. 1905.
"To all transportation companies by
land and rail and to all others to
whom it may concern:
The Illinois State Board of Health
hereby orders that. until further no
tiee. no passengers from any points
in the states Of Louisiana or Missis-
sippi. or any points in other states in
which yellow fever Is reported, shall
be permitted to leave trains or boats
at any point in the state of Illinois
south of the line of the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern Railway, run
ming from East St. Louis, on the west.
10 Vineennes, Indiana, on the east,
until zen DAYS after such passengers
have left the states of Louisiana OF
Mississippi or points in other states
in which yellow fever is reported. and
then only when provided with certi-
ficates Of health signed BY national,
state, county Or municipal health Of
ficers.
NO passengers from any states in
which yellow fever is reported shall
be carried 10 any point in Illinois
south of the line above described I'M
less provided with certificates Of
health signed by national state, eoan'
tn or municipal health officers,
+The city Of Cairo Is hereby declar
cd to be quarantined against all points
4 north. sousA. east and west No per
sons shall be permitted ID enter th'
/ city III Cairo from any point unless
provided with health certificates sign
ia BY national, state. county or mum
cipal health Officers. it being under
stood that no health certificates is
sued in the states of Louisiana 0
Mississippi or at points in othe
states in which yellow fever is II
! ported shall be accepted in the cit
Of Cairo until ten days after the pei
sons holding said certificates nav
left the states of Louisiana Of Missis
] sippi or points in other states I
which yellow fever is&reportsd
III. IA. EGAN, M. ID,
Secretary and Executive Officer"
Dr. Egan ii also seriously consider
ling the matter OF quarsnJinlng Cair
! and Southern Illinois against ID
world. A great number of leadin
bus, ness men of the city visited hin
yesterday and asked that such qua
( antine be established. DR.. Egan II
0 tened to them with deep interest an
2 IS seriously considering the matte
0 EIe will take no steps toward tht
however, without consulting the Gil
lofficlals Of Cairo and other membe
J, Of the state Board of Health.
r. DIR. Egan. while not an alarms
e doesn't contemplate the present stu
h ton with satisfaction. The situate
Is serious. and he frankly says s
The fact that Kentucky is wsleomlr
s. refugees from the fever infected d
" tricts and that persons at Fulton, X
n are still peddln health certificat
n. as if they were ham sandwiches
ereases the danger to Southern Hi
DIS very considerably
# Or. Eean Suspicious.
~ While the situation from New
al leans according to the Associat
ne Press reports is more ENCOURAGE
ne DIT. Egan looks with suspicion a
fear toward the Infected district
has fought Mellow Jack too long a
mt 100 often not to know that it Is {
th Of the worst diseases to stamp out
ar hot weather when once IL gets
70. start
ne, information was received from
ng source hardly to be questioned
ali quarantine headquarters last NIL
that there were several cases Of
low fever at Shreveport La. nea
iss two hundred miles above New
ere leans, and that number of dea
nf had occurred. There IS no doubt t
ird the fever is spreading at rapid r
ia. through Louisiana, as was eviden
the from the number of new cases
my ported in newly infected districts
Iiss the press dispatches yesterday mi
ing ing.
ieir Sun Gives a Scare.
Quite a scare was givn the quar-
~. tine headquarters last night when
steamer Sun, from Charlottesville
y arrived with her captain viii
Stapleton. in bed with a raging fe
y Or. Clark and another OF the ms
ISS tors went down and investigated
found that the captain was only SUI