Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — QUARANTINE CIRCULAR. [ARTICLE]

QUARANTINE CIRCULAR.

fublto Health I* Much More Important Than Commerce. The following circular has been Issued by the direction of the President after a conference with Secretary Foster, Attorney General Miller, Postmaster General Wanamaker, Assistant Secretary Spaulding and Dr. Wyman, Burgeon General of the Marine Hospital service: Quarantine Restrictions upon Immigration to Aid in the Prevention of the Introduction of Cholera into the United States. Tbeasuby Department, Oppicb Supervising Suboeon Gen’l, U. S. Marine Hospital Sebvice, Washington, D. 0. To Collectors of Customs, Medical ofacers of the Marine Hospital Service, Foreign Steamship Companies, State and Local Boards of Health: It having been ofacially declared that cholera is prevailing in various portions of Bnssla, Germany and France, and at oertaln ports in Great Britain as well as in Asia; and It having been made to appear that immigrants In large numbers are coming into the united States from the Infected districts aforesaid, and that they and their personal effects are liable to Introduce cholera Into the United States, and that vessels conveying them are thereby a direct menace to the public health; and it having been further shown that under the laws of the several States quarantine detention may be Impossible upon these vessels a sufficient length of time to insure against the introduction of contagious diseases, it is hereby ordered that no vessel from any quarantine port carrying immigrants shall be admitted to enter at any port of the United States until such vessel shall have undergone quarantine detention of twenty days (unless such detention Is forbidden by the laws of the State or the regulations made thereunder), and of such greater number of days as may be fixed in each special case by the State authorities. This circular to take Immediate effect except In cases of vessels afloat at this date, which will be made the subject of special consideration upon application to the department. Walter Wyman, Supervising Surgeon-General, United States Marine Hospital Service. Chables Fosteb, Secretary of the Treasury. Approved: Benjamin Habbison.