. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 13 3. CAMILLE: DEVASTATES GULF COAST In early morning, Monday, Aug. 18, 1969, as Hurricane Camille's 200-mile-an-hour winds lessened, the Food and Drug Ad- ministration's New Orleans District put into operation its prepared plan to meet a natural disaster. All inspectors, chemists, sanitation engineers, and microbiologists were alerted for service. Other FDA districts sent spe- cialists. Using whatever means of communication were still working, FDA contacted State and local health and civil defense officials in Mississippi, Louisiana,
. Commercial fisheries review. Fisheries; Fish trade. 13 3. CAMILLE: DEVASTATES GULF COAST In early morning, Monday, Aug. 18, 1969, as Hurricane Camille's 200-mile-an-hour winds lessened, the Food and Drug Ad- ministration's New Orleans District put into operation its prepared plan to meet a natural disaster. All inspectors, chemists, sanitation engineers, and microbiologists were alerted for service. Other FDA districts sent spe- cialists. Using whatever means of communication were still working, FDA contacted State and local health and civil defense officials in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Alabama to de- termine the hardest-hit areas and the ways FDA could help. The following are excerpts and photos from 'FDA Papers', October 1969, which tell part of the FDA operation following Hurricane Camille. "After building steadily to full intensity for several hours. Hurricane Camille's Sunday punch came at 10 August 17, striking the Gulf Coast with unprecedented 200-miles- an-hour winds that continued unabating until 2 Monday. Although the entire coastal area felt some of the hurricane's impact, its biggest was against the coasts of Mississippi, southeast Louisiana, and Alabama, destruc- tion by winds ranging in some places up to 200 miles inland. Along the Mississippi and Louisiana coasts tidal waves up to 20 feet high slammed impartially into the works of man and nature alike, destroying, flooding, and killing. "Within 48 hours the same hurricane was to carry torrential rains as far as central Virginia, precipitating flash floods there that brought further death and destruction, before heading out to sea to die in the Atlantic. "On the Gulf Coast the hurricane, its po- tential death toll kept down only by hurried, partial evacuation of the most dangerous areas, had left thousands homeless and job- less, had wiped out almost the entire econ- omies of some cities that were built largely on seafood processing and the tourist trade, and had so f
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