Quarantine in San Francisco by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 18, 1886

Quarantine in San Francisco.

By Editor

THE recent arrival of the Belgic with small-pox on board reminds us of what we have long thought,—that the United States greatly fails of its duty in not establishing a quarantine station in this harbor. No better place for such a station exists than Angel Island, where one could be established at very small expense. To shut up a lot of passengers for weeks, in a ship, after a long voyage, with disease on board, as has been done within our recollection, is cruel; and at the port of San Francisco, with such excellent facilities for an isolated land station, where the climate is always mild, the cruelty is altogether unnecessary.