New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-14

Orleans, until the outbreak of the late wal
one of the most unhealthy in the world,
| has been protected to . very great extent
| from visitations of yellow fever. At the
/ time when these measures of PrecautiOn
| were most rigidly enforced the city was oc.
cupied by large numbers of perfectly IN
| acclimated persons. These enjoyed here.
and it can hardly be doubted, in conse-
| quence of these very measures of proven
| ten, degree of heakh not inferior to that
they had enjoyed in the more temperate
| climate of their nativity, and as the city
has never, since the war, been permitted to
| fall back to the same neglected state al be-
fore 1861, so, while not exempt from vista
| Hose, the plague has never displayed Its
sAte bellum virulence and power. 1t is IN
| evidence that those years in which sanitary
| measures have been most thoroughly en-
| forced the yellow fever has been most
easily controlled. 1t seems, In the
! Judgment Of your committee, that these
| measures of precaution should be extended
and enforced more widely and rigidly
| than in the past, and that the recommends
Ptions of the Board Of Health should be
| crystalized into acts of the General Assem-.
| Div. 1t is not here out of place to refer to
Che appearance of the smallpox id all seq
tons of the State during the past few years,
l and to its exceedingly unmanageable char
I acter. This disease seems to to Sess de
| pendene upon climatic causes OF sanitary
neglect than other epidemic diseases, but is
| prevented and rendered almost harmless vii
| not utterly banished, by means much more
| simple ard aUainable than any other.
Compulsory vaccination should be the law OF
| the state; by some it has been objected that
| the security impaired by the process ex-
listed 0nly ID the imagination. 1t Is hardly
| Imagination which has shorn the great
| scourgs of Chyisttndom, before whom in the
| seventeenth and eighteenth CENTURIES mil
Iona fell. OF nearly all its terrors, and has
deprived it OF its epidemic character in all
localities where the discovery OF JeDner has
been applied. Il has beef by Others OBJ
I jected that compulsory uledicHtpent was ~
Invasion 81 the liberty Vt the citizen; it
can hardly be said that any part Of the
| liberty OF any man consists. in the pPvilcdge
OF exposing himself and his neighbors
| 80 disease and death, or that there is sny
which prevent him from scattering broad
cast the seeds of pestilencee Your com
mittee earnestly recommend Legislation to
cover this urgent necessity.
Your committee further recommend the
extension of the powers and of the means
of the Board of Health in any direction
necessary to the adoption and enforcement
Of all possible means Of precaution against
disease and death.
Your committee also are of the opinion
that the local boards of health in all the
larger towns Of the State are necessities for
which your honorable body and the Senate
should provide by appropriate legislation.
The same necessity exists in the interior
towns as in New Orleans for the presence
of competent health officers. The same pre-.
disposing causes of disease are there pres
emit as in New Orleans, and require the
same control, and can only becOntrolled by
the same means necessary here. Much
apprehension and alarm exists in these
interior towns. The terrible visitation
OF Shreveport in 1873 excites fears for
the summer of the present years and it
is thought by your committee that in some
of these towns, especially in the city of
Shreveport, the alarm at present existing
will, if no legislation provides for pracarl-
tionary measures, become SO universal that
an exodus of the majority of the inhabi-
tants will ensue early ip tho summer, and
an almost entire suspension Of business
must be the consequence to the great tiamo
age OF the interests of the State.
Your committee call attention 50 the ey.
cessive fees paid at present to the ceroners
of the parish OF Orleans, and recommend
legislation, providing for these officers an
adequate salary in lieu of the compensation
at present established bv law, saying of
many thousands Of dollars per Scar will
result. The saving thus effected wifi be
more than sufficient. in the Judgment OF
your committee. to meet any additional
expenses likely to be rendered necessary by
increased means OF protection agaips: dis.
ease.
The liabilities Of the Board Of Health
were on December 81. 1873. 500. 81, an
appropriation should be made to disehasy.
this Indebtedness.
Respectfully submitted.
JAMES HEFFSEE.
Chairman:
ARTHUR ANTOINE.
JOHN BARROW.
4. c. BICKHAM,
y. y. LAWES.
With House bill No. i55. entitled an ac: 70
sreate Board of health for the city of
parish .! Cadio: TO define It's
powers and duties, AMI 30 pyayiie for its
supports
Passed its seserai reading. anier suspen.
ion Of the constitutional rules, and finally |
passed, title adopted, and Ordered seat e. |
Ire Senate for concurrence.
ssEs.AGS FROM III. SENATE.
SENATE EHsHBnnp
Few OSIeans. March 5, 1874.
o The fIohoeab'e Speaker AUD Members Ut she
House of Representatives,
I am directed to ask concurrence Of ye,r
onorable body in the following Senate bills:
No. 1913. an act Telinquishir. jurisdiction
} the United States OF certain lands, etc. !
No. 29l, an act to amend article 20i9 Of |
lie Civil Code Of Louisiana.
No. 328, an act relative t. reducing fees
witnesses, etc.
No. 329, an act comforting additional juris.
ction IN criminal cases 80 justices ut the
eace, parish of st. Landry.
No. 1887. an act to reduce the expenses
!. the city of New Orleans, etc.
No. 4O6. an act to regulate the disburre
ent Of collections by tax collectors. etc.
No. 1913. an act relative to amending
arter OF Monroe. Eastrop and Arkansas 1
abroad Company. etc.
No. 4l0, an act to relieve the Leland /
University from taxation. etc.
No. t43, an act providing tor reduction |
the salaries OF employees OF the city Of
,w Orleans, etc, {
No. $50. an &C, 20 amend an act entitled I ,
act to enforce the yneIt OF iaxas due .
q State. etc.
No. Ash, an act 20 amend article 81. of !
9 Civil Code. etc.
No. Ala. an act TO Incorporate the Long I /
Protective Union Eene yc!en: Az. =
station No. g. etc. Il
Respectfully. II
Secretary Of the Senate. :
EEsoRfs Os spECIAH COMMITTEE. 1t
VIZ. Guichard. chairman Of tho special | s
nmi:tee 20 examine the book. and sc.
i,.ts q: the Committee on Contingent Elk | 6
lses. SESSIONS Of 49,: ana 1873, sub. 3
tied the following report: d
, W.. ron ". speaker and Member" ~ she /,