The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-29

! D., of Maryland; Gabriel Grant, N. D., of
| New Jersey; Henry G. Clark, NJ. D., of Massachu-
| sets.
DR.. Griscom conducted to the chair by
special committee.
| Dr. Kemp, in resgning his post, complimented
the new President, and remarked that the two pre-
ceding Conventions had accomplished but lttle and
| great deal more was expected of this. The first
was Convention of del;beraton only, agreeing
upon but a few fundamental principles the second
went further, and appointed important committees
whose reports at this Convention were to be the
basis of their action.
DR.. Griscom returned thanks for the honor of
! his election. The Convention to deliberate
| upon matters of the deepest moment. They were
met to consider two classes of subiects-the exter
nal sanitary police, and the internal hvgeinic police
The first had philosophy broad as commerce;
| the second had details as minute and as numerous
almost as the individuals of the human family The
house upon the heath, and the crowded tenementina
populous city, were alike subject to influences pro-
ductive of disease and DEATH Life was limited by ma
ture but we limit it still more by neglecting the laws
OF health The arm otthe law could adequately reach
the requirements of external hygiene, but the in
ternal required the education of the people them
selves. They could not perform a greater service
to humanity than to develope a plan of universal
education in matters of hygiene. There was an
extraordinary disparity between the Importance of
quarantine regulations and internal hygiene. The
subject OF quarantine deences had occupied the at
tentlon OF mankind from time immemorial, while
| the more important subject of internal defences
against individual diseases had received scarcely
any attention until within a few years. In this
connection he gave these statistics of the causes of
death in New York:
In % years, from cholera, 1890
Cholera inantum, Is 900
In 20 years, from hydrocephalus, 400
| Erysipelas, 2lOO
Cholera morbus, l,400
Commissions (partally affecting infantile
These were chiefly diseases originating within the
domlclle within the city itself, against which the
has a.,
fever including those in Brooklyn and at Quaran-
tine, have amounted in the last fifty years to only
6Oo That was his appreciation of the relative
Importance of those two class of objects which had
brought them together. (Applause.) He had the
honor to represent the first sanitary association in
America. 1t originated from the exigency of the
| circumstances in which the city of New York had
been placed, and was composed of both medical men
ana lavmen, all having deep interests at stake.
| They could not find perhaps this western hemis-
phere city more in need of sanitary reform than
New York. He hoped the Convention had come to
| help on the work of sanitary reform here and he
trusted that the New York Sanitary Association,
which had been the pioneer, would not much Ion
ger remain Alone but that similar associations would
be formed in every city, village and hamlet, all
aiming to disseminate among the people informa-
ton upon matters vitality affecting their health.
| The Convention thanked DR.. Kemp for his eff
Gent services as temporary chairman
Inc report on Quarantine, or external hygiene,
! prepared by committee appointed last year
was distributed to members, and made the spe1
| cial order for this morning. 1t is volumni-
Gus printed document, embracing the following
| points:
| l. history of Quarantine.
z Have guarantees secured the object for which
they were orr inally intended If not the reasons
of their failure.
| 3. What reforms required to make quaran-
| tines more efficient and less burdensome?
A. Is a uniform system of quarantine laws fea-
sible? If so, to propose plan by which the OBJ
| ject may be accomplished.
The committee was also instructed to report
in relation to the best means of purifying infected
vessels but that branch of the report was not pre-
pared.
The report is thus summed up:
| l. No system of quarantine laws can guard lis
! against diseases which are capable of sDreadinp
| themselves by any other means than pure conta-
| gion.
! 2. The line of demarcation between contagious
| and non contagious diseases is no. so clearly de-
| fined as to enable us to say, of many of them
whether or not they may be controlled by quaran-
| tine laws.
| 3. The difficulties in the way of enforcing quar-
antine laws, in reference to vessels carpoes crews
and passengers after these have entered our ports,
are so great that it is hopeless to endeavor to effect
anything useful by the old plan.
4. Inc only possible way of restraining the in
tercourse OF the infected and unaffected is by to-
tai separation-by preventing the former from an
preaching the latter. To do this the ports should
be shut against the entrance of vessels from places
known to be suffering from infectious diseases to
lied epidemics.
5. AS the forms of yellow fever originating in our
cities are not supposed, by the contagonsts to be
| capable of reproducing themselves il will not he
necessary to observe the same rgidity of isolation
in reference to the native to the foreign disease
The coastwise intercourse need not be as entirely
suspended as the foreign
| 6. As the law which the Convention NAV recon-
mend will require to be of equal force in every
State, and as it can only be enacted by the State
Legislatures it will be necessary in order to secure
Its passage, to have it so framed to be acceptable
to all; hence the necessity of cntrustng to COM
mlttee composed of members from every State con-
cerned.
In order to have the law laid before the public
with all the prestige of high authority it would be
desirable to obtained the co operation of the Amer
| lean Medical Association
The report of the Committee on Internal Hvpene
| In cities was also presented and distributed among
| members. 1t seven more vouminous than the pre-
| ceding report-making volume of 100 pages II
| was designed to embrace the following points:
|. complete and efficient system of registration
OF births, marriages and deaths, with particular
reference to Cities and the necessary connection of
such system with sanitary measures. Assigned
for report to L. M. Snow, NJ. D., of Rhode
| Island.
2. Disnfectants, their character. effects and
benefits, In connection with sanitary measures
Assigned to w. Van Ribber, NJ. D., of Balti-
| more.
8. Importance of an ample supply of water, an ad-
equate sewerage, and the proper disposal of the
NJ. D., Of New York
4. Importance and economy of sanitary measures
to cities Assigned to John Bell, NJ. D., of Phila-
dephia.
The following subjects were added at a subsequent
period by vote of the Convention:
II. IL. Arnold, Nj. d., to report vaccination
as preventive OF varioa, and the value of vacc-
nation, with a view to the enactment of laws for
the enforcement of general vaccination and revac-
cination.
IL. G. Clark, NJ. d., on some detailed and specific
piad for regulating the internal sanitary condition
of cities, which shall embrace all the subjects which
may properly come within the province of poeyent-
alive medicine.
All those points nre elucidated by able papers,
except the subject of registration and vaccination
Drs Snow and Arnold not having found time to
prepare their reports.
1t was ordered that the Convention meet daily
from ten O'Clock, A NJ. to three o'clock, p NJ
Business Committee, to consist of one from
each State, to be appointed by tn, Chairman, was
ordered
Rev. Mr.. Van Lennep, missionary in Tocat
Asia Minor,) writes to his father-in-law, Rev. Mr.
Bird, of Hartford, that the missionary premises at
that place were burned to the ground on the 9Th
| OF March-and that nothing was saved except the
clothes they had on! The mischief is attributed to
the bigotry of the native population. Speaking of
! the losses, he says:
sin Constantinople and other places where there
| are Franks, man can easily replace any garment
that may be lost, but in such place as this it is
impossible 10 procure any of the articles which we
have been accustomed to regard as indispensable to
our comfort; can Mrs. Lennep procure needle
thread and scissors Ali nv books are
gone, consisting of some 1000 volumes Our bed
stead, bedding, Sofa tables and furniture in general
All my papers accumulated for % years, my
lectures in College and at the seminary;-the whole
commentary of the Old Testament in French and
Armenian Il believe there is no other copy of the
letter. my commentary on Romans ofwbch three
chapters ready for the press; ell my sketches
and sketch books, comprising some rs or 80 vols;
daguerreotypes of all my friends the portraits of my
children; my very writing materials; all my med-
cine and medical books.
l believe shall have to throw ourselves upon the
generosity of friends home and the Christian
public in America.
The CENSUS OF OREGoN.-The census of Oregon,
says the Statesman, in the main pretty fully TAKEN
during the past years. the poll-lsts, and the vote
cast at our elections do not permit the belief that
mere are to exceed 5000 At 900 white inhs BIZ
tants In oregon. In 1860 the census will be taken
inc United States authorities, and making allow
anSe ior whatever may take place between now
anu nen, we are willing to risk the Judgment that
we nave at the very highest, not more than Al O0O
we wish we did have 80 900 or 100 600: the addi-
tlona 40 600 or So, 900 would "help ont" amazingly
In supporting State government.
Mr.. Frank J. Blackwell, the Youngest son Of /.
former Episcopal minister in Genesee. N v Tho
several years ago joined the Roman Catholic Chroh