New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-03
Three deaths from yellow fever reported on \
Yesterday. ....all
Board of Health.

regular meeting of This board was held last 4
evening. Present-Dr. Smith, in the chair; Dr.
Foster, DR.. Austin, and Mfr. Remington.
The minutes of the proceedings of last weeks
meeting were read and confirmed.
A communication was read in reference to the
steamboatJ. D. Swaim's having run by the quar-
artine, as reported at last meeting. Under the
supposition that the boat belonged to the United
States qaartermaster department, complaint had
been preferred to the United States authorities.
This led to the statement that she was no longer
under their control, having been handed over to
her owner.
The president stated that having learned this
fact he took steps to have the boat seized by the
| sheriff and sent back to the quarantine station;
! but found she had left port. He suggested that
| the proper course for him nov TO pursue would
be to put the case in the hands Of the attorney
| general for the fine. This was agreed to.
| DR.. Austin presented the following report from
| the committee on health:
"Tothe Honorable Members Of the Board Of Health
:" Gentleme1l-The committee on health beg
leave to report that the sanitary condition of the
4 city is-impFoving. The health officers have an
been active in the discharge Of their various duties.
Your committee find on examination of their sew
eral reports, that there is difference of opinion
as regards distileries and breweres. While
some have been reported upon as detrimental to
health and closed up others have been allowed to
continue in operation, and are said not to be un-
healthy. Your committee have visited the
! Ciirod street CUTTERS as early as six o'clock
IN the morning, and are perfectly satisfied
that the offensive odor arising from the
: : fluid running from the cutters Is from the dis
tleries and is detrimental to health. Besides, the
committee think there should be uniformity Of
action on the part of the health officers. Treat
! those interested alike. The odor in Grod street,
= early in the morning. is Offensive to the inhabi-
: = tans living that street that many of them are
giving up their houses aud moving away. Your
), committee recommend that the hnid hlwing from
these or any other distilIeries must the
owners must haul it off or the dstilleres be closed
q at once by the health officer of that district.
q Your committee have no disposition to reflect in
a the least any health officer; for they believe
= they have acted from the best Of motives.
, Z" As regards epidemic disease, there have been
sporadic cases of cholera and yellow fever. 1t is
SO late in the season that fear is entertained Of
& the latter becoming epidemic. There have been
: but few deaths a day.
= "Through the kindness Of the superintendent of
+ the Charity Hospital Dr. Theodore S. Clapp, your
4 committee has been furnished with the fact that
g the number of cases of disease treated in the hos
- pital during the month of September, were 1909;
n deaths during the month, Of all diseases, 1853; of
a a which cholera So, yellow fever 2S other diseases
g So. This speaks well for the good management of
- the Charity Hospital, and will compare tayorably
:. with any hospital or city on the American con-
~ tinent. W. G.. AUSTIN, n. D.,
:, "GhairmGu Committee on Health"
The report was adopted and ordered to to be
!. entered on the minutes.
q communication was read from D. W. Hughes,
q of Jackson, Miss, calling attention to carhoic
!, acid as disinfectant, and to an invention of his
n for throwing it in jets into the air. It was re-
= A communication was read from Judge
a Alexander, in reference to the commission
f6e to him m to hears tho to earg
!. Of the proceedings of the board while act
# ing under the military authorities, and OF the
n funds on hand when it was restored to civil admin
4 Iistrati0n The Judge related circumstances which
i prevented his efforts from being successful de-
- pendent principally the absence of the surgeon
: general from Washington. and recommended that
If memorial should be drawn up, and forwarded to
fhn Vr1F Hpn DFt m
! On motion of DR., Foster the president was re-
n quested to draw up such a memorial and for
n n ward it.
!, u On motion of DIR. Foster it was ordered that
y ~ the expense of recovering anticipating the Rigo
~ let's quarantine boat, which Dir. Legar6 had Or
dered to be brought to the city to take him back
hence to the station, and which had been capslzed
and injured, should be deducted from his salary;
% and an addition, by way of amendment proposed
4 by Mr.. Pennington, was accepted by DR.. Foster,
d and adopted by the board providing that in future
~ quaran tine physicians be required TO obey the
law prohibiting them from leaving their stations
a without permission from the present
n The report of DR.. Burns, health officer of the
+ First District, was read as folows
"0FFIoE OF HEALTH OFFICER. FIRST DISTRICT.
To the President and Members of the Board of Health:
' GeRtene1l-My business during the past week
s has been generally OF routine character, calling
for particularization in only one respect.
:" On Saturday morning last l&llscoyered thatthe
: water closets of the St. james Hotel were being
Y proprietors, and Recorder Ahern imposed fine of
n fifty dollars for the offense On Sunday again
detected the offense, and to-day again had the pro
. prietors summoned before the recorder. At the
l. request of Gen. Smedes / agreed to a postpone
1t ment of the case, until could submit the facts to
a the board, and take the sense of members upon
the propriety of pressing it, or of granting pEyl-
J. leges certainly cannot feel myself warranted III
). according, Gen Smedes. in the best faith, am
satisfied declares that it is mpraeticable iof nun
to employ any better method than tlaf ls npM
adopts; but me, this is violation Of the heaith
c ordinance, and danger to the public health, TOT
i which remedy must be found. That remedy I
4 have given ali the Information on the SUBJECT OF
u which am possessed A positive plan copldo only
> be laid down, conceive, by pracueal mau'
q ] submit this case in the desire nave 70 per
form my duty with as little yaxstion oppression
i to citizens as circumstances Will allow.
Respectfully, JAMES % ol5aine
On motion of Mr. Pennington, 1t was resolved S @
that the matter be referred to committee OF TWO