Excerpt from Third Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Florida: Jacksonville, May 2d, 1892

On December 3d the American schooner Warren Adams arrived off Fernandina from Santiago de Cuba, with her cap tain ill with yellow fever. Assistant State Health Officer Horsey. Placed the vessel in 'quarantine and visited the patient until death ensued, when the schooner was sent to Sapelo.

Thus it will be seen that, although having the disease at our doors, the vigilance of the health authorities prevented an entrance into the State.

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