Archer, Robert, fl. 1842-1875 to the governor & council of the state of Virginia

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GLC#
GLC01896.011-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
1861-1865
Author/Creator
Archer, Robert, fl. 1842-1875
Title
to the governor & council of the state of Virginia
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
7 p. : Height: 29 cm, Width: 21 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Regarding the present Quarantine establishment located on Tanners Creek 7 miles from Norfolk, acquisition and decrepit condition of the property and structures thereon, inability to bring boats up creek due to low-level of water, possible better sites, example of situation where new site could have been put to good use. Archer petitions the Virginia government for a quarantine area, with the example of "a vessel arrives, freighted if I may use the expression yellow fever; her crew lingering off a miserable existence, insulated by a cargo of animal and vegetable putrefaction." Dr. Archer had been health officer of the port of Norfolk during a yellow fever epidemic there in 1821.

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