Disposition of the quarantine grounds on Staten Island : speech of Hon. Smith Ely in the assembly of New York, April 3d and 4th, 1862.

  • Ely, Smith, 1825-1911.
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1862
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Credit: Disposition of the quarantine grounds on Staten Island : speech of Hon. Smith Ely in the assembly of New York, April 3d and 4th, 1862. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    decessors to do us o wrong, bul there is grcal reason to believe that nmcli prejudice and ill feeling have been engen- dered by those who ought to have been our friends. The Quarantine has long been a prolific source of moral, physical, financial, and political corruption. It is to be hoped thai no oilier counties in the Suite will ever be cursed to tin thai Richmond County has been. It', unfortunately, such shall be the case, may the same degree of justice and sympathy be extended to those counties thai Richmond is aboul to receive from their representath Our foreign relations arc such, at the presenl time, thai it is possible the torch of the invading foe may soon be applied to some di' the cities of our beautiful lakes. Then a time will come when the inmates of those devoted homes will rcqu iainly will receive—powerful aid from neighboring counties. Then, it is to be hoped, they can saj , w e hesitated nol to aid and completely relieve our friends in Richmond so soon as the necessity for so doing w;i^ made apparent. Now we, in our time of need, are reaping ;i full reward for the benefits promptly conferred on that occasion. Mr. Sim \ki k, I li:i\ liat 25 persons (<>ut of a very limited agricultural po I of yellow fever the first yr-u- after the hospitals we lated upon our County. Here we ha it of Mr. Isaac Simonson, who swears that he wi ml or lessee of the Quar antine Gromi l!(.. and that the first year af train iting Pest Houses \ placed there, 23 or 25 p srs >m- 3icl sne I of bellow Fever, himself am i Lg the rest, and that he was th • only Biirvivor. Now. sir, was anything h \\\' - i fatal ever heard of in this country since? Twenty-three to twenty-five per- sons to Bicken and all but one to die, and that, too, in one of the most salubrious places on earth! Is it not positively liornhli f Notwithstanding the assertion of the Hon. member of the Chamber of I \\ m • t,, inquire if there ! .'/'' • would i ider it down- right murder, of the most alarming nature, to have dis< under shadow of law. forced npon hi- Countv, bo deadly in