Pensacola Port Quarantine Notice
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Pensacola Port Quarantine Notice
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Porter, Joseph Y.
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Date
11/29/1897
Description
Notice from the Florida State Board of Health, quarantining Pensacola Port to prevent the spread of Yellow Fever into the area. The poster regulates the restrictions of the quarantine for the port and railways.
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W015
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QUARANTINE NOTICE.
To Sanitary Agents, State Sanitary Patrolmen, State Port Sanitary Inspectors of the State Board of Health of Florida, and the Public at large:
MARITIME.
I. By direction of the State Board of Health of Florida all MARITIME QUARANTINE restrictions imposed on travel and commerce against epidemic-contagious-disease infected ports, both foreign and domestic, during the Summer quarantine season, shall terminate at midnight on November 30, 1897, with the following exceptions:
(a) All baggage of second-cabin passengers from Cuban ports prior to entry into Florida shall be disinfected at a State or United States Quarantine Station during the entire Winter of 1897-8; and
(b) All baggage from New Orleans, Mobile and other infected points in the same latitude shall likewise be disinfected before entry into Florida by the United States, State or city health authority, until otherwise ordered.
II. No bedding or household effects shall be brought from any port of the West Indies, South America or other foreign port that may be infected with an epidemic-contagious-disease to any port or place in the State of Florida.
INTERSTATE.
III. All INTERSTATE QUARANTINE restrictions on travel and commercial intercourse now in force between Florida and the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana shall be removed at midnight on November 30, 1897, with the exception of those restrictions on baggage herein mentioned, which shall be disinfected, and bedding and household goods (not new) which are absolutely forbidden entry into Florida, until further notice.
IV. The attention of all common carriers, railway and water transportation companies operating in Florida is directed to Section 771, Revised Statutes of Florida, and they are hereby required to refuse to accept for transportation into Florida from Yellow Fever infected points in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana any bedding which has been used and household goods (not new). All baggage from New Orleans, Mobile and other infected points in the same latitude shall be refused transportation into Florida until said baggage (viz: trunks, valises, chests and boxes containing clothing and wearing apparel) shall have been disinfected and bear a certificate of such disinfection from United States, State or city health authority.
JOSEPH Y. PORTER, M.D.,
State Health Officer.
PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 29, 1897.
To Sanitary Agents, State Sanitary Patrolmen, State Port Sanitary Inspectors of the State Board of Health of Florida, and the Public at large:
MARITIME.
I. By direction of the State Board of Health of Florida all MARITIME QUARANTINE restrictions imposed on travel and commerce against epidemic-contagious-disease infected ports, both foreign and domestic, during the Summer quarantine season, shall terminate at midnight on November 30, 1897, with the following exceptions:
(a) All baggage of second-cabin passengers from Cuban ports prior to entry into Florida shall be disinfected at a State or United States Quarantine Station during the entire Winter of 1897-8; and
(b) All baggage from New Orleans, Mobile and other infected points in the same latitude shall likewise be disinfected before entry into Florida by the United States, State or city health authority, until otherwise ordered.
II. No bedding or household effects shall be brought from any port of the West Indies, South America or other foreign port that may be infected with an epidemic-contagious-disease to any port or place in the State of Florida.
INTERSTATE.
III. All INTERSTATE QUARANTINE restrictions on travel and commercial intercourse now in force between Florida and the States of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana shall be removed at midnight on November 30, 1897, with the exception of those restrictions on baggage herein mentioned, which shall be disinfected, and bedding and household goods (not new) which are absolutely forbidden entry into Florida, until further notice.
IV. The attention of all common carriers, railway and water transportation companies operating in Florida is directed to Section 771, Revised Statutes of Florida, and they are hereby required to refuse to accept for transportation into Florida from Yellow Fever infected points in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana any bedding which has been used and household goods (not new). All baggage from New Orleans, Mobile and other infected points in the same latitude shall be refused transportation into Florida until said baggage (viz: trunks, valises, chests and boxes containing clothing and wearing apparel) shall have been disinfected and bear a certificate of such disinfection from United States, State or city health authority.
JOSEPH Y. PORTER, M.D.,
State Health Officer.
PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 29, 1897.
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Porter, Joseph Y., “Pensacola Port Quarantine Notice,” Ezra Gerry Museum, accessed September 30, 2025, https://archives.uwf.edu/Omeka/items/show/45.