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remain aboard his ship at the quarantine station until Jackson was
satisfied he was not importing yellow fever.'1 Buoys carrying yellow
flags were anchored in south Biscayne Bay and guards placed along
the shoreline at Cutler in South Dade and Coconut Grove to prevent
refugees from landing. Fishermen, allowed to troll the bay for mack-
erel, brought their catch to the mouth of the River where they blew
a conch horn signalling employees of the Cockran and Fog fishouse
to row out and buy the catch. If a sportsman wanted a day of sailing
on the bay, he was required to obtain a permit from Jackson or his
designee."7
 Around the perimeter of the city, guard stations tents with
shotgun-carrying guards appeared about September 18. Alfred
Kemp recalled one "at the rockpit just above Seventeenth Avenue"
(possibly C. J. Rose's rockpit), one guard station at Fisher's corner
(Southwest Eighth Street at Twenty-second Avenue) and one at
McKenzie's comer (Northwest Seventh Street at Twenty-second
Avenue).18 There were also guards on the roads leading from the
Allapattah Prairie, Little River, Lemon City and Buena Vista. A
guard station stood at the approach to the bridge on the south bank
of the river. When Maude Richards Black was to be married to
Charles F. Seibold on October 16, she was not allowed to cross the
bridge into Miami. Her groom, having contracted yellow fever during
an outbreak in the Miami River community in September 1873, and
thus an "immune," could cross the bridge, but Maude could not. To
solve this sticky point, they were married at the United States Experi-
ment Station (Southeast Thirteenth Street and Brickell Avenue).19 It
was an axiom that yellow fever conferred immunity for life. Accord-
ingly, people who could document an earlier bout with yellow fever
or who had lived for ten years in areas were yellow fever was
endemic were given Immune Cards. By showing these to the guards
they could enter or leave the city at will.
 The Miami Metropolis repeatedly exhorted Miami's citizenry
to clean up their premises since rubbish and offal as well as human
waste were thought to harbor the yellow fever contagion. Since
privies and water closets were believed to be sources of foul air in
which the germs lived, they had to be kept sweet and clean. Citizens
remained indoors after dark until sunrise because it was thought the
fever could be caught more easily at night. Business houses closed
at four in the afternoon. People who lived just outside the city limits
were passed by the guards, provided they went out of (or into) the