New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-17

means Of prevention, the great city Of New
Orleans, until the outbreak of the late wal
one of the most unhealthy in the world
has been protected to q very great exten,
from visitations of yellow fever. At thu
time when these measures of precautior
were most rigidly enforced the city was &C
cupied by large numbers Of perfectly un
acclimated persons. These enjoyed here
and it can hardly be doubted, in conse
quence OF these very measures of proven
ton, degree of health not inferior to that
they had enjoyed in the more temperate
climate of their nativity, and as the city
mas never, since the war, been permitted to
fall back to the same neglected state az be-
fore 1861, go, while not exempt from vista
tons, the plague has never displayed its
ante 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
tons Of the Board of Health should be
crystalized into acts of the General Assem-
bly, 1t is not here out of place to refer to
the appearance Of the smallpox in all Sec
tions OF the State during the past few years,
| and to its exceedingly unmanageable char
acter. This disease seems to be less de-
pendent upon climatic causes or sanitary
| neglect than other epidemic diseases, but is
| prevented and rendered almost harmless, if
not utterly banished, by means much more
simple and attainable 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 only in the imagination. 1t is hardly
| imagination which has shorn the great
| scourge of Christendom, before whom in the
| seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mil
| lions fell, of nearly.alJ its terrors, and has
! deprived it of its epidemic character in all
| localities where the discovery OF Jenner has
been applied. 1t has been by others OBJ
| jected that compulsory medicament was an
| can hardly be said that any part of the
liberty of any man consists in the privilege
of exposing himself and his neighbors
to disease and death, or that there is any
thing obnoxious to liberty in enactments
which prevent him from scattering broad
cast the seeds of pestilence. 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
ent as in New Orleans, and require the
same control, and can only be controlled by
the same means necessary here. Much |
apprehension and alarm exists in these |
OF Shreveport in 1873 excites fears for |
the summer of the present year, 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, it no legislation provides for precau- |
tlOnary measures, become SO universal that |
an exodus Of the majority Of the inhabi-
tants will ensue early in the summer, and |
an almost entire suspension Of business
must be the consequence to the great dam
age of the interests of the State. =
Your committee call attention to the ex-
cessive fees paid at present to the coroners
Of the parish OF Orleans, and recommend
legislation, providing for these officers an
adequate salary in lieu of the compensation
at present established by law, saving of
many thousands Of dollars per year will
SSoAo' AAO saving illus CHCCtcu Will NC |
more than sufficient, in the Judgment of
your committee, to meet any additional
expenses likely to be rendered necessary by
increased means of protection against dis
ease.
The liabilities of the Board of Health
we're on December 81, 1873, $6I07 81, an
appropriation should be made to discharge
his Indebtedness.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES HEFFNER,
Chairman;
j. MAHONEY,
ARTHUR ANTOINE,
JOHN BARROW.
A. C. BICKHAM,
J. A. LAWES.
With House bill No. $50, entitled an act to
reate board Of health for the city of
hreveport, parish of Caddo; to define it's
overs and duties, and to provide for its
upport.
Passed its several readings under suspen-
on of the constitutional rules, and finally
assed, title adopted, and ordered sent to
ie Senate for concurrence.
MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE.
SENATE CHAMBER
New Orleans, March 5, 1874 |
the HONORABLE speaker and Member OF the |
House of Representatives: +
am directed to ask concurrence of your :
,norable body in the following Senate bills:
No 1913, an act relinquishiDg jurisdiction
the United States OF certain lands, etc. 0
No. 29l, an act to amend article 3042 of n
e Civil Code of Louisiana. :
No. 1913, an act relative to reducing fees |"
witnesses, etc.
No. 329, an act comforting additional juris- S.
,v,o ~ l
ace, parish of st. Landry.
No. 1877, an act to reduce the expenses | r.
the city of New Orleans, etc.
No. 406, an act to regulate the disburse- | 10
ent Of collections by tax collectors, etc. es
No. 49, an act relative to amending
arter of Monroe, Bastrop and Arkansas d.
ilroad Company, etc.
No. 440, an act to relieve the Leland to
diversity from taxation, ETC. "a
No. 443, an act providing for a reduction
the salaries of employees of the city of VI
W Orleans, etc. la
No. 450, an act to amend an act entitled
act to enforce the payment Of taxes due
, State, etc.
70. 454, an act to amend article 32I7 of 10
Civil Code etc. of
No. Ala, an act to incorporate the Long or
,remen' 6 Protective Union Benevolent As
iation No. 9, etc.
senate bill No. 40, an act providing for
acceptance by the Louisiana Levee tic
mpany of reduction of the rate of GER co,
n taxes to be collected as compensation 81
said company from four mills to three mi
lis. and in consideration of said reduc- siI
n, relieving said company from liability DO
u damage in certain cases.
louise bill No. Sc, an act for the relief of
ee'ir, newspaper published in the city III
New Orleans, Louisiana. CO.
Respectfully, un
P. E. BECHTEL, -.
Secretary of the Senate. ',o
,,s thu
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