New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-03
Moasp AK NJ O RNING, MARCH 8,
Report of the Board Of Health.

The repoyt Of tie Board Of Health ofs this city,
made naccordanee with law the Senate en- Aaose
Of Representatives, for the embraces I'VE
documents prepared by the Secretary Louzail,
and the Preside DR.. Chopin w nave received
copy Of the pamphlet containing these papers ana
e extraet tile following imp ortant facts from them y
III aecordanee with the law OF 1866, authorizing
fheir conduct. the Board Of Health has located a
Quarantine Station On the lett bank at the Mississippi
abont IVY miles from the head Of the Passes
ana about seyenty-two miles below the city 1t nea-
s,res eight acres front by forty acres Deep between
lines, making q beautiful enclosure for the
purposes Of d quarantine station. The grounds are
spacious, well drained ,sand have many fine shade
trees The wind has an unobsructed course opened
for ii almost every direction, and thusegeEy exter
nal means is improved to render the spot
and beautiful.
The authority Of the Board has been used in the
erection Of four buildings. A main 10 feet
long by As feet wide, two stories highith galleries
nine feet wide, both above and below.
A minor hospital, or pest house, for malignant and
eninentiy contagious diseases two stories high with
galleries, and eighty feet long, has been erected
making the opportunities for separating The diseases
which are contagious, and for*fuIly accommodating
all, unequalled
The receipts Of the Board last year-ending on the
LIST of January were s$67s46s IS, of this amount
45 900 was received from the State under the law Of
18th March. 1885, 1893 rs was received from yes
sells at the Mississippi Station ,19l 81 from the
Atehafalaya Station, and $685. 40 from the Rigolets
Station WI The expenditures were as follows: Elk
penses Mississippi Station, $41 FOL so Rigolets Sta
ton, 81, Ill 81 /; Atchafaaya Station, $7,sl1 s.;
expenses office in New Orleans IS 1858 81.
Z Tie liabilities Of the Board amount to $2S, TAG 10,
and its assets sl2l24 81. "#
further appropriati of twenty thousand dollars
is asked for, hoping with that sum to make the
Germ nay foritse The establishment of the stations
caused tie excess tile present year over whatit will
hereafter be OF 500. The stations on the Atcha
alaya and at Fort Pike, on the Rigoets, have been
discontinued since the first of November last. A dis
cusson Of the contagious character of#fever and
demonstration of the benefits arising from quarantine
stations in other cities makes very interesting por
lion Of The report It is shown that our imports from
countries where yellow fever prevails and from which
vessels would therefore be $25s3 7l3,
more than one-half of which is from Mexico; while
the total value Of imports about $166,0O0OoOthe
imports from sea being s4600O0O0. But for the
epidemics, it is thought they would have been $2l6,7
100000 per annuln
The character, history and nature Of epidemcs and
quarantine stations, are fully and deliberately re-
viewed The station on theariver, whatever it may
have accomplished, Or failed to accomplish, with
regard yellow fever has prevented shipfever and
smallpox from being imported. Confessing the fail
Of the plan to have accomplished all in year
that may do when thoroughly organized, and pre-
much success for it hereafter, the report and
nor summary thereof both close.