Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-08-21
Board OF HEALTH.

Washington, august 10, loo2.)
The following resolutions have been passed BY
the Board Of Health:
The Board Of Health, after mature delibera-
ton, have resolved, and they do now declare,
that the following articles are. IN their OPINION
highly prejudicial to health at the present sea.
son. Believing them, therefore, IN the light OF
r,uisances, they hereby direct that the sale OF
them. or introduction within the limits OF this CT.
~, be prohibited from and after the I'D Instant,
for the space of ninety days:
Cabbage. Green Corn. Cucumbers. Peas, Beans
Parsnips, CARROTS, Egg Plant. Cimblins, or
Souashes, Pumpkins, Turnips, Watermelons.
Canteopes. Muskmeiuns. Apples, Pears, Peach
es. Plums. Damsons, Cherries, Aprcots, Pine
Apples, Oranges, Lemons. LINES, Cocoanuts.
Ice Creams, Fish, Crabs, Oysters, Clans, Lob.
sters, and Crawfsh.
The following articles the Board have not con.
sidered it necessary to prohibit the sale of, but
even those, they would admOniSh the community
to be moderate in using:
Potatoes. Beets, Tomatoes, and Onions.
Resoired. That it be recommended, to the City
Councils with view to the preservation OF the
health of our city, TO prohibit, for the term.o ~
DAYS. all theatrical performances, shows, or other
exhibitions, which may be calculated to produce
large collections Of persons.
RESOLVED, That it is the opinion oil the Board
of Health of this City, that quarantine resuIa.
tians. interdicting the commercial intercourse ot
our country, are wholly Intellectual in preventing
the introduction and spread Of Asatic Cholera,
as well as vexatious and embarrassing to thu CON-
munity. and that they are injurious by creating
false confidence in such provisions, to the neglect
of the more important preservatives from the DIS
ease. The Board, therefore, earnestly desire
that the City Authorities will not enact any pro.
hibitory regulations upon this subject.
Whereas, Precauiion at the present season OF
the year may, in great measure. prevent the IN
PRODUCTION or general diffusion Of any epidemic
or malignant disease into the city, and the Board
of Health being sensibly alive to all the import
ant duties which devoIve upon them, feel it their
duty to suggest that the most happy consequen.
ces to the general health Of the citizens, would
result from strict enquiry on the part Of the
heads of families every day, as to the health OF
their domestcs. and all others intrusted to their
charge. The Board are also Of opinion. that 1t
all contractors or superintendent OF every spe'
cies Of work or labor. now going on in the city,
we're to make strict enquiry every twelve hours,
az to the health Of the hands employed BY them,
and to require all who have any prcmonitory
symptoms of disease to desist from work. and ex-
rosure, that none but good consequences woufd
grow out Of sucha course Of proceeding, and that
the health of the city would thereby be greatly
preserved. Its, therefore. the particular de-
sire of,this Board, that the citizens in general,
lend their hearty cooperation in carrying into
fulLeffect such measures Tor the health Of the CT.
~. as the Board. may deem it proper from time
To time to suggest; and that they will bear IN
mind this strong fact, that with them, and not
,oith The Board, rests tie important resp"nsblli.
ty Of checking or increasing the disease which IS
now passing over our happy country, should X
make its appearance among US.
The Norfolk Board Of Health, under date OF
the l4th inst, announce that, in consequence OF
the mpossibi:y of obtaining full reports of cases
Of cholera, they will con6neI themselves to q daily
report of the interments, including deaths by all
diseases. -
Iutcrments August 14th, %, Of which 6 white
! and 16 colored persons.
August Is, 10 deaths, white and ID coored
August l6, 26 deaths. white aud 10 do.
PonTsMoU1H. Va.-New cases for 48 hours,
ending August IS, 17-dcaths 9.