The terror of the tents, or, Quarantine restrictions as imposed and enforced in Jamaica during the prevalence of small-pox, under so-called paternal government.

Date:
1872
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Credit: The terror of the tents, or, Quarantine restrictions as imposed and enforced in Jamaica during the prevalence of small-pox, under so-called paternal government. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    I have to inform you that the Governor has caused copies of your letters to be forvi^arded for report to the Local Board of Health of St. Andrew, to the Acting Superintend- ing Medical Officer, and to the Inspector-General of Police, and I am to state that his Excellency will feel greatly obliged if you will suggest, in detail,'any measures which, under the circumstances, you are of opinion can, or ought to be adopted, apart from the abolition of the Quarantine Law, which, in the existing state of opinion here and else- where, can hardly, the Governor thinks, be considered a practical question at present. I have the honor to be. Sir, Your obedient servant, EDW. E. RUSHWORTH. Lewis Q. Bowerbank, M.D., F.R.C.P., Kingston. Dr. BowerbanJc to the Colonial Secretary. Kingston, 24th June, 1872. Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication, No. 3SS1, ot the date of the 2]st inst. in reply to mine of the 6th in which you inform me that the Governor has caused copies of that letter to be forwarded for report to the Local Board of Health of St. Andrew's to the Acting Superintending Medical Officer, and to the Inspector-General of Police. With all respect I would ex- press my opinion that little good as regards eliciting the truth, can be obtained from the means thus adopted. As far as I can learn, the Local Board of Health of St. Andrew's has existed hitherto only in name, as pointed out in my letter of the 6th inst., they have no rules, no paid efficient officers, no disposable funds, all is now confusion and alarm, as a Board they have as yet taken no active part, and can, I should think, know little of what has occured. The