Second report on quarantine : yellow fever : with appendices / [by the] General Board of Health.

  • Great Britain. General Board of Health
Date:
1852
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    from that small and circumscribed focus was equally virulent in Its operation, and produced the same disease in a few who were placed within the sphere of its influence. Such is a brief narrative of the circumstances connected with this ship and her crew. But it has been alleged that while the landincr of the crew of the Eclair, at Boa Vista, afforded no benefit to the ship's company, it inflicted a grievous evil on the inhabitants of the island ; that several individuals in contact, or close proximity with the sick, became affected with the same kind of fever ; that from these individuals the malady spread to others with whom they came in contact, and from these again to others, as from so many centres of contagion, until the disease became general over the island, thus affording a positive instance of the miportation of epidemic disease. The alleged facts on which these representations rest are the following: It is stated, that during the occupancy of the Fort by the crew, there was a small Portuguese guard stationed there ; that this guard was several times relieved; that at the time when the ''Eclair left the island, the guard consisted of one negro and two European soldiers ; that within three days after the sailing of the Eclair,' both Europeans were attacked with fever similar to that from which the crew of the Eclair had suffered; that the negro soldier, who, with his comrade—the man sent from Boa Vista to nurse the two Europeans—on return- ing from the small island to Porto Sal Key, had been as a matter of precaution— restricted for ['about 8' or] 17 days ^ to the occupation of a small hut at the northern end of the town, was afterwards attacked,—though not confined to bed until the day following- his return to barracks ; and that a woman (Anna Gallinba), who lived next door to this hut, was the first person who was attacked with fever in the town. It is further stated that a man (Pathi), who had been a labourer on board the Eclair, was also attacked with fever, according to one account, on the day after the Eclair sailed; but according to another account, on the third day after that event. Such are the alleged facts, and the only ones bearing