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city after sunrise and returned to their home before sunset. Trains
manned by "immune" crews brought in food and supplies and took
out produce, but only passengers with Immune Cards could travel on
the trains. Clothing and fabrics had to be fumigated before shipment,
but other manufactured goods did not.20

 Yellow Fever Strikes!

 By September 2, dread of the scourge spread among Miami's
populace after the first case of yellow fever entered the city from
Key West. On its regular run, the steamship City of Key West
arrived in the morning of August 31, and discharged two passengers.
On September 2, Dr. Jackson was able to track down both passen-
gers and found one, Samuel R. Anderson, in bed with fever. Ander-
son had developed a chill followed by fever in the evening of his
arrival and had remained in bed, though improving, until the day of
Dr. Jackson's visit. Dr. Jackson believed Anderson's illness was
yellow fever because of the absence of severe muscle pains, the
presence of albumin in the urine and his recent residence in Key
West. He immediately confined Anderson and his entire family to the
house and placed two "immunes" as guards to prevent anyone from
entering or leaving the house. The physician wired Dr. Horsey, who
arrived in Miami on September 4, and immediately confirmed the
diagnosis. Dr. Horsey had extensive experience with yellow fever,
but none of Miami's four doctors had seen a case up to that time.
Anderson, his wife and two daughters were put aboard the Drum-
mer, a small schooner, and sent over to Bear Cut for an eighteen-
day quarantine. "Upon the removal of these people, all of their beds
and bed clothing was [sic] destroyed by fire."2t The house was
fumigated, the yard cleaned and the ground, even under the house,
wetted down with bichloride of mercury solution and coated with
lime.22

 Panic Reigns

 Yellow fever was a dreaded disease; in some epidemics, up-
wards of sixty percent died.23 Did the people panic? Dr. DuPuis
recalled that: