Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1897 — A Costly Quarantine. [ARTICLE]

A Costly Quarantine.

The quarantine regulations have been enforced in the Southern districts infected with yellow fever at a cost to the commerce of New Orleans and other cities estimated at nearly $40,000,000, Sanitary measures which would have prevented the epidemic would have been decidedly cheaper.