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MEXICAN GULF COAST ILLUSTRATED.	23
sess great solvent properties, and instances are not few where people have been relieved and benefited by their use in cases of obstructed secretions. The instances of relief brought to invalids by the climate, water, and judicious exercise are too numerous to detail.
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Occasionally inquiries are made pertaining to danger from yellow fever on the Coast, and the writer has taken special pains to obtain information on that point from the most trustworthy sources. Public authorities, National and State, have adopted the strictest and most effective measures to render the entire northern Coast line of the Gulf, safe from the possibility of danger from that disease. The adoption of the Holt system of Maritime Sanitation adopted and enforced by the National government (which in its general features and minute details is recognized as the best), is supplemented by State enactments to establish and maintain quarantine by improved methods against the introduction of yellow fever and other infectious and contagious diseases. Severe flues and penalties are provided for any infringements of the provisions of these laws. There is every indication and satisfactory evidence that all restrictions relating to such diseases are rigidly enforced, for there has not been a case of yellow fever on the Coast or at Mobile since 1878. The quarantine station, which for a long time was located at Ship Island was removed several years ago to an island in the Chandeleur group at the mouth of the Mississippi river. At the quarantine station at lower Mobile bay the system, and the laws, pertaining to it are also rigidly enforced. Ports regarded as infected, at all times are Rio de Janeiro, Para, Bahia, Pernambuco, Santos, Puntas Areras, Guayaquil, Havana, Matanzas, Cienfuegos, Cardenas, Santiago de Cuba, Kingston and Vera Cruz. All other South American, West Indian, Central American and Mexican ports, with the exception of Ituatan, Bonacco, Utilla, Truxillo, and Swan Island are regarded as suspected ; but vessels from these five named with passengers aboard will be subjected to such detention and disinfection of vessels and contents as the Quarantine Boards (whose members are selected from among the best and most reputable citizens of the community), may prescribe in such case on arrival at Quarantine Station. This amounts to absolute immunity from yellow fever. It is not amiss to add, that, if by any remote accident, a case of the fever should develop some timeafter a vessel has-passed inspection, the progress in medical science places the disease within the control of any good physician who is abreast with the modern modes of treating this disease. Physicians who understand the disease, and the proper remedies to use, have no fears about" controlling it. To intelligent people on the Coast it has no terrors.