Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — QUARANTINE FOR TWENTY DAYS. [ARTICLE]

QUARANTINE FOR TWENTY DAYS.

United State* Port* Closed by Order ot the President, To collectors of customs, medical officers of the Marino Hospital service, foreign steamship companies. State and local boards of health: It having been officially declared that cholera Is prevailing in various portions of Russia, Germany and France, and at certain ports in Great Britain, as well as In Asia; and it having been made to appear that immigrants in largo numbers are coming to tbo United States from the infected districts aforesaid, and that they and thoir persona) otfocts aro liable to introduce cholora into the United States, and that vessels conveying them are thereby a dirdctTmenace tcPtboptrtrttchoalth; and it having been further shown that underi Thoriaws of the several States quarantine detentions may be imposed upon theso vessels a sufficient length of time to ihsure against the introduction of contagious diseases, it is lioroby ordered that no vessel from auv-foreign portcarrying immigrants shall bo admitted to enter any port of the United States until said vcssol shall have undoigono aquarenlino detention of twenty days (unless such detention is forbidden by the laws of the State or tho regulations mado thcrouuder),audof such greater number of days as may bo fixed in each spociai case by tbo State authorities. This circular to take immediate effect except in caso of vessels afloat at this date, which will bo made the subject of -pedal consideration upon due application to. this department. ~——— Walter Wyman, Supervising Surgeon-Geuoral U. S. Ma* riue Hospital Service. Caarles Foster, cn Secretary of the Treasury. Approved. Benjamin Harrison.