Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896.
- United States Department of the Treasury
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Reports inspections of national, state, and local quarantine stations : From Annual report Marine Hospital Service, 1896. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![In accordance with telegraph instructions I visited Aberdeen for the special pur- pose of selecting a physician for recommendation as quarantine inspector, and as previously reported by wire September 13, 1895, I recommended Dr. T. C. Frary to be United States quarantine inspector for Grays Harbor, with compensation at the rate of $50 a month from the 11th instant. Pending your advice in the matter, I directed the doctor to speak all vessels and make thorough inspection of all for- eign ships and ships from foreign ports. Ho was especially directed to use unu- sual precaution with vessels from the Hawaiian Islands and upon any suspicion bein<>- attached to the ship to hold her and wire you for instructions. I drove to Hoquiam and consulted with the tug boat company whose head- quarters are at that point. It will be seen by the map forwarded that this is the most convenient point, as all vessels must either pass within a half mile of Hoquiam or enter the Hoquiam River. All shipping is lumber outgoing and in rock ballast incoming. Some of the vessels load lumber direct for Honolulu and return to San Francisco with fruit, rice, etc., and then come to Grays Harbor for lumber. The principal lumber trade is with San Francisco. September 10, 1895. [Note.—A sanitary inspector of the Marine-Hospital Service has been appointed for Grays Harbor. ] BLAINE. The health officer of Blaine is a civilian. No inspection of foreign vessels is made at all. No fee is charged. In case of sickness aboard the deputy collector would wire the collector for instructions. I would again invite your attention to former report on quarantine matters at Blaine, and in this connection I have to report that, in company with the deputy collector and the former health officer, Dr. King, I inspected most of the roads and environs of Blaine. The doctor pointed out to me the various roads and paths by which people quarantined in British Columbia tried to enter the State clandes- tinely to escape quarantine. The line between British Columbia and the United States is practically through the town, just over the line being known as Douglass. I would invite your atten- tion to a good map of Blaine Harbor, and especially to a point of land which I believe is called Point Roberts. The international line runs through this point, and I am informed that it was next to impossible to keep people from getting in at that point during the last epidemic of smallpox. It is also noted for a smuggler's point. There are a great number of fishing boats in this harbor that run outside, and two small steamers ply between Blaine and fishing points on the other side. The deputy collector informs me that he has had a great deal of trouble with the Japanese, who try to enter there. These men are landed from the Empress Line of steamers at Vancouver, and,through motives of economy and other reasons, walk from Vancouver via Westminster and Blaine to Seattle and their final des- tination. Of course the greater number of these men enter the State through the regular passenger traffic channels. In time of an epidemic in British Columbia I would suggest that a medical officer with a launch be stationed at Blaine, as I deem it the hardest point to guard in the State. I would recommend the employment of a sanitary inspector to be stationed at Blaine to inspect all boats and trains from British Columbia. June 3. 1895. G70S M H s 59](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28716103_0389.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
