Identifier: annalsofhygiene4188penn (find matches)
Title: Annals of hygiene
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Pennsylvania. State Board of Health
Subjects: Hygiene Public Health
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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Hendersonville, N. C. : The train left Jacksonville on the morningof the nth instant, and was joined by my-self and the Camp Perry contingent at Folk-ston, Ga., making, in all, a total of 291souls. It was found that no keys had been fur-nished to lock the cars, and this evil it wasfound impossible to correct by applying tothe railroad authorities, on account of thevariety of cars furnished. Unfortunately the trip was prolonged be-yond the time anticipated, on account ofseveral accidents on the road. These per-haps might have been provided for withgreater promptitude by the railroad author-ities had they fully recognized the gravityof the situation. The evils resulting from this delay weretwofold. First, the running short of rations.This was provided for to a great extent,sometimes by the generosity and in others * It has been claimed that the sending of thistrain violated the Augusta conferencs, but Hender-sonville was not considered as a populous city,as mentioned in that conference.
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276 THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. by the cupidity of the towns aloigthe road.Some parties at Atlanta and Macon gener-ously furnished relishes, while others charg-ed exorbitant prices. I must mention, how-ever, the most conspicuous example of gen-erosity. This was shown by the town ofEasley, S. C. which provided, without anycharges, and late in the night, the mostabundant assortment of supplies. The second and most important conse-quence of delay was the development ofcases of yellow fever on the train. Only twocases developed in the first twenty-four hoursand three in the course of the second day. Ofcourse it was to be expected that this wouldhappen in an aggregation of people leavingJacksonville ; but it is very probable thatthe accumulation of people, clothes, andbaggage for so long a time in hot cars,which could not be kept in a sanitary condi-tion, created a secondary center of infectionthat will show itself in the development ofcases after the arrival in Hendersonville. The appearance o

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