. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . conclusion to try toprevent the yellow fever. First, I established at the quarantine station, seventy miles belowNew Orleans, a very strict quarantine, wherein thirty-two and sixty-eight pound shots should be the messengers to execute the healthorders. Vessels were required to stop below Fort St. Philip, about 402 BUTLERS BOOK. five miles below the quarantine establishment, and there be inspectedby the health officer, who would report to me by telegraph the con-dition of the vessel, passengers, crew, a
. Autobiography and personal reminiscences of Major-General Benj. F. Butler; Butler's book . conclusion to try toprevent the yellow fever. First, I established at the quarantine station, seventy miles belowNew Orleans, a very strict quarantine, wherein thirty-two and sixty-eight pound shots should be the messengers to execute the healthorders. Vessels were required to stop below Fort St. Philip, about 402 BUTLERS BOOK. five miles below the quarantine establishment, and there be inspectedby the health officer, who would report to me by telegraph the con-dition of the vessel, passengers, crew, and cargo. The officer at FortSt. Philip was to allow no vessel to go up without my personalorder, by telegraph or in writing, and this was not given unless thequarantine physician, upon examination below, reported a clean billof health in every respect. If any vessel attempted to evade quar-antine regulations and pass up without being examined, the vesselwas to be stopped if there was power enough in the fort to do required that the term quarantine should be used literally, and any. The Levee at New Orleans. vessel found with sickness on board, of any malarial kind, or with shipfevers, should stay down forty days and not come up again until re-inspected. Before this, it had been possible, under the State laws,for such a vessel to come up at the end of ten days, if a dishonestsurgeon chose to certify that the vessel would be all right in thattime,— a fact he could not know. One further regulation: No vessel which had come from aninfected port, i. e., a port where the yellow fever was prevailing,whatever the condition of her health, should be allowed to come upunder forty days. BUTLERS BOOK. 403 Having shut the door against our destroying enemy and fastenedit securely, I engaged the most competent medical director in thematter of yellow fever there was in the country, Doctor MacCormick,who fought it in New Orleans through the siege of 1853. Beforehe came I procured a perfe
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