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Disease Control and Prevention

Camp E. A. Perry, yellow fever detention camp, on the south bank of St. Mary's River in Florida near the Georgia border, established by the Marine Hospital Service in 1888. During the spring and summer of that year there were numerous outbreaks of yellow fever in the gulf states. The Service assisted state and local health authorities in controlling its spread by setting up camps such as this. Persons traveling from yellow fever areas were required to remain in the camp for the incubation period (6-10 days) before proceeding elsewhere. This camp which was up for several weeks, was named in honor of Governor E. A. Perry of Florida, who cooperated in establishing and maintaining it. Camps near infected cities were not new, but an inland quarantine, where suspects were detained only long enough to demonstrate that they were not infected and then allowed to proceed, were new at the time.

1888

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