Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — WILL KEEP OUT YELLOW FEVER. [ARTICLE]

WILL KEEP OUT YELLOW FEVER.

Thorough Work to Be Done by the National Government. Under the direction and supervision of Surgeon General Wyman, of the Marine Hospital service, extensive preparations are being made to protect this country against an invasion of yellow fever or other contagious disease this year. The four revenue cutters, Winona, Morrill, b orward, and Mcl.ane, have been ordered to duty off the Florida coast. Each cutter will be supplied with a steam launch, and these launches will be used for penetrating the lagoons and small streams which exist in numbers along the coast of Florida. Usually about Aug. 1 the fishing smacks of Cuba come over to our coast in considerable numbers, under the pretense of fishing in the waters of Florida, but their real object is to smuggle in intoxicating liquors from Mexico and tobacco from Cuba. The men who bring over these smacks are familiar with the coast and know all the hiding places afforded by lagoons,\ bays and rivers. J. he purpose of burgeon General \Vymon is to so equip the United States cutters that they may hunt down these smacks and drive them away, no matter how far they may seek the interior. At the request of the Florida State Board of Health the national government will take entire charge of the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of that State. Whenever vessels from infected points are discovered they will be taken, by force, if necessary, to the nearest quarantine station and thoroughly cleansed and fumigated.