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CHOLERA QU ANTINE OF 15 DAYS FOR EACH VESSEL VISITING MOBILE
ESTABLISHED BY AUTHORITIES August 22, 1866
N.O. Times - Wednesday, August 22, 1866 p 5 c 3
We have just learned that the magistrates of Motile have established a quarantine of 15 days against steamers and other vessels from this port (New Orleans).
This will, of course, break up not only the mail line, but all other trading and passenger vessels between the two points.
At this late date the idea of establishing a cholera quarantine is utterly ridiculous. We trust that Mobile will reconsider its action in the premises; for what such a quarantine as that proposed can do no good in a sanitary point of view, it will do an immensity of harm commercially, socially and financially.
p 11 c 3 "On ’Change"
For 50 years we have not heard of Mobile interdicting intercourse with our city. Possibly it may be going	too far	back as	1816 or	1817,
when Mobile was a mere village.
Nor do we find that in 1832, and at	a later	period,	18^8,
that intercourse with New Orleans on account of cholera was prohibited.