The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-12

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puron and bear away any artcie the touch o. wncn
might be death then obviously public duty, private duty
the commonest humanity forbid that those persons snouu
be allowed 20 abroad No doubt such restraints would
make those empoyments more irksome and render ne
cessary advance OF wages Of salary But are wages
70 be weighed against a pestence2 Then IN regard TO
persons from without There will be found in every vii
age lnose whom interest curiosity or mere fooihafd
ness win lead into such places oi exposure me aains
sion OF these Quarantine grounds must endanger not
only their lives, but also those Of many others o tho IN
fecon that might be borne away For the abundance OF
such there the miserable excuse OF expense
saved or Inconvenience avoided These principles
obvious as TO be almost trulsms.
The health laws of New York contain the most abun-
dant enacments sustain them Thus, every who
shall eope from Quarantine, or who shall enter the Qua
refuse TO comply with the directions and regulations
which any Of the officers OF health may prescribe
guilty Of nisdsmeanors Thus the more direction of the
officers Of health laws, and their violation The
written command OF such officer 10 any citizen to arrest
any such offender obligatory and disobedenco TO that
is a misdemeanor also. Every power which most
expected eSlgency Of duty may require is thus con
ferred and person may pass tho Quarantine grounds
outward or inward without pefmsslon and complete soa
ton from the surrounding population would be established
And is obvious principle that powers conferred for
the protection Of the public health become duties THE
People vs. tire Corporation Of Albany, IL Deno)
But besides the general duties exercise such powers
for the isolation OF the Quarantine there the very
day on which the statute by which they were conferred
passed, enacted another statute under which be-
came the duty Of the cas,eon Board OF Health 10 regu
late and prohibit or prevent all communication or inter-
by and with all houses tenements and places, and
the Occupying the IN which there shall be
any person exposed to any infectious contagious ds-
ease u Is l.. 1850 500 sec g. sub. sec A. Thus, within
those walls CODE and the outside of them another
code, operation; both in the most explicit terms,
and by the most necessary implication imposing the duty
of complete ISOLATION Tie omission of these duties
msdemeanor. CIR. s., the People vs. the Corporation
Of Albany above oted To violate the regulations thus
made q crime also punishable by fine not exceeding
thousand dollars, by Imprisonment not exceeding two
years. or both a w. Se o sss ssa a.
early in April last and had continued so far as the
case shows, without interruption. Infected yes
sons aud property at the Marine Hospital The cases
emplaed by the certainly existed all the phys
clans, orderes purses persons with the wash
house boarding officers the revenue bagemen and steve
dores had been exposed TO yellow fever, among the
mcst not the most, contagious of diseases all the
yellow patents in the houses and tenements had
contracted the malady and all these in the hospital
grounds Tie Casteton Board Of Health had therefore,
alternative but TO violate tho statute act under it,
They chose the latter and the 18th OF July last at full
meeting composed OF the Supervisor and the four Justices
o the town. adopted series OK regulations, oil ~hch the
9Th and 9TH together with the declaraory clause
follows + The Board oi Health OF Castleton adopted the
following rules for preserving the health OF the town
Sec .. No person shall pass from within the Quarantine
enclosure into any other part of said town. the
said ferry boats shah any baggage luggage freight
or other articles be brought from within the said enco
any other part of said town. carried upon said
ferry boats within said town. Sec. Neither the Health
ofbctr, Deputy or Acting Deputy Health ofhcer, ply
sican OF the Marine Hospital Lor any person IA their
or either of their employments, within the Q1ar.
antue enclosure, In visiting infectious quarantncd
into rart OF the said town. outside q said and
person going into such enclosure shall beaowcd to
out Until the further acton Of this Board shall there
be any communication intercourse with such enclosure
without The written permission OF the Health Oncer OF
the said town, stating that, in his opinion will not
danger the public health 10 do" Copies served
Dr Thompson, the Health oficer Of the port and
Dr. Bsse, the physician of the Marine Hospital No oh
lection to the legal validity Of these regulations
suggested, have been nbe TO discovery any. No
discretion was eit 10 any person having knowledge OF
their criscnse trt abstain from their lnracton Yet
tle pI lrGtli Tlgt
paid 10 them. IN. Thompson sSearS, =
dsrogadod th,mn II is difficult 70 account for the alb
u precauon 10 prevent the spread OF the infection
by of the intercourse between the inmates and the
public around except ON the provcroa Indifference 70
human life exhibited by those whose own lives are IN con
slant danger.
There il no evidence showing that adnittaule
in single instance before the ire refused 10 PERSONS
without There is, however, proof that verbal or
written passes wcrc given the inmates go out but
proof how frequently for what causcs, under what
precautions, these passes were granted or withheld no
that such pass any safeguard against in
footon. II Is certain, howcver that the bargcmen
who visited and fmigated infected vessels gathered
up and burned the iron infected Materials aud
brought away the sick and dead had general 70
whenever and wherever they pleased In fact although
most of them lived within tho hospital enclosure their
dwellings constructed that they had 10 pass into
and along the public highway many rods TO enter them.
Aud equally certain that as 70 the steyedorcs whose
business unod infected eargoes, whether passes
granted TO them refused, all the same, for
OF them, for the prosecution, says-we can
steal boat whenever want II. Sometimes our boss
sicvedore leaves boat unlocked sometimes would
get pass from r Thompson, Dr. Waller Dr. Walser;
sometimes We could not aud then we would get out by
boat, wanted 10 20 badly" lie sot out once week,
sonnet mes oitener but never more than three times
week, and then he generally went to his family, at Port
Richmond village three four miles distant All the
persons living the grounds received visits from their
friends except the patients, and returned their visits
David NcIy another witness for tue prosecution tcs-
tincs:-.Generally spent my evenings where wished,
about the village nj home at the convention at the
New Brighton Assembly rooms about ndteen or twenty
the neighbcrhood and for the prisoners, says1
have frequently them hc empoyss) outside Of the
walls la the street. the ferry boats aud 10 tho city
M Thompson himself estnes that several of the barge
convention ut Richmond, SIX or sevon
miles or with his permission In August and when yell
low Fever the hospital some time beores that he
attended large political assemblage At New brighton
where there about thirty stevedores and others en-
poyed at Quarantine, some OF whom went with his per
MISSION yellow fever being then in the hospitals, and in
fecsd being discharged in their turn al the dock
He sayss-''It a msdemeanor for parties putting
themselves in Quarantine 10 go out 20 Understood a, the
time of the political meeting letting the stevcdores and
others there In opposition Of tho known wishes Of
the Board Of Health at Gastetou.r The VALE be says
low that they easily scaled and nj the
eatrs persons could get who desired H. There was
police keep in the s'cvcdores Ofher witnesses fur
nsh further details and all coming TO the result,
that practically the intercourse between the inside and
the outside Of the grounds was rnres,raped This
of thinrs, besides tending 10 the spread Of Infection by
Of clothing, facilitated traffic in infected
des, and accounts for the sale In the village " the e.
fccs of persons dying OF yellow fever IN the hospitals
put the Casteton Board ol Health TOO quick ia
their precautions On the 10th Of July two days after the
a0olt&On OF ueputy
iron ecow, who lived IN tho village only n few
from the hospital, sickened and died at his house,
whore his wife died then Mrs Ncll died, then MIR Hen
dctsou died. thirteen others sckencd aud three OF them
d ed oil Of yellow fever. in the same locality. - I'M
possible, think, TO doubt that Al least this mortality s
attributable the intercourse with the bospta grounds
for Kramer had been strictly quarantncd as be should
have been, this mortality would have been avoided
Meanwhile the disease appeared in New Brighton where
occurred four and two deaths; or two else
where. The season Of the year al hand when the
terrible malady s known 10 be most malignant Besides
in sis there had been nearly two hundred cases along
the eastern shore o the island IN 1856 about forty cases
and the other side Of the Narrows $50 cases Ia popu
laton hardly exceeding five siv times that number
pruportioned nearly hundred Thousand cases W the
city of New York And II hal broken forth again,
and with the increased influx Of yellow feyer vessels
what to prevent an equal or greater mortality
this not uf great danger, is, THINK, dhNuH
10 say what danger i great for II threatened whole
community, member of which could say that bis III
safe. n this not o ease of mmneut danger,
think II difficult to say what danger is imminent, Tor
member &C that community could Gay that he
might not be the next victim OF the next hour IRON
he uaspt tO tVl hall thQ mata nj