Public Ledger

A Tug With Yellow Fever Cases Not Allowed to Land.
Quarantine to be Established Below the City To-day.

Yesterday the little tug Mohawk, towing several barges, and having aboard eight sick persons, attempted to land at the wharf. The police ascertained that the illness of the passengers was the result of yellow fever, the tug being direct from New Orleans, and promptly notified the city authorities of the fact. Mayor Lofland, Dr. Rogers, the Health officers, Sergeants Hampton and Brown, of the police, and several physicians, went down, and an investigation by the medical gentlemen confirmed the report. During Dr. Rogers' investigation one of the patients died, the disease being at once pronounced yellow fever. Medicines were procured and placed aboard, and Dr. B. M. Lebby was engaged to go to St. Louis on the tug and treat the patients. Several articles of merchandise discharged from the Mohawk were put aboard, and the little steamer was soon en route to its destination. A bathing boat will be at once placed in the river near President's Island, and a strict quarantine established. Every upward steamer will be boarded at that point by the health officer, and all necessary precautions taken to prevent a case of fever from being brought to the city. There is no reason to apprehend a visitation from the dread epidemic with the regulations rigidly enforced.