St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-08-17
Proceedings of the Police Jury.
OPELOUsAs, August 18th, 1878.

OPELOUsAs, August 13th 1873
The Police Jury met pursuant to
call OF the President. Present: Il. II
Lltteil, PRESIDENT; A. GuIdry, D. p
Salzan, q. L. Hawkins, E. DubuiSSon, 5
Haas, F. Savoy and B. E. Clark.
The President announced that he haC
called this special meeting of the Police
Jury for the purpose of calling thril
attention to certain grave omissions il
the late quarantine ordinance, and fol
Il revision of the same.
On motion OF Mr.. Guidry, the follow
ing ordinance was submitted, ard afttl
having been read by section, was uni
monsly adopted:
AN ORDINANCE
10 provide for the quarantine of the
parish OF St. Landry against the in
PRODUCTION of yellow fever and other
infectious diseases, and to create quar-
antine officers, defining their duties
and powers, and to constitute Board
OF Health for St. Landry parish, and
to declare how violations of this Or
dlnonce, and of regulations made in
virtue thereof, shall be punished:
SECTION /. Be it ordained by the
Police Jury of St. Landry, That no
person, nurses and physicians excepted,
coming from any place infected with
yellow fever, cholera, small pox or other
infectious diseases shall be allowed to
enter or to remain within the limits of
the said parish, or within limits of such
quarantine stations as may be estab-
llshed, until ten days shall have elapsed
since sald person had left such infected
place. And any person who shall vio-
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ct this section shall be fined the sum of
fifty dollars recoverable before any
justice Of the peace, one-half for the
lnformer, and One-half for the parish.
| SEC. 2. Be it further ordained by the
| Police Jury of St. Landry, That no
| dry goods, baggage, coffee, merchandise
| or any other object which may be des-
| ignated by the Board of Health of the
parish OF st. Landry, coming from any
place infected as aforesaid, shall be
brought within the limits of the parish
OF st. Landry, or beyond the limits of
such quarantine stations as may DO es-
| tablished. until they shall have been
ventilated and disinfected continuously
for ten consecutive days by such persons
and at such places as may be desi gnated
by the officers of this parish created by
tlls ordinance, except mess pork, mess
beef, flour, meal grits, rice, liquors in
barrels or denlijohns, lard in tierces or
kegs, coal oil, turpentine, oils in barrels
or cans, all canned goods to be opened
and the packing destroyed, all liquors
and medicines in glass to be opened and
the packing. destroyed, all machinery,
Wagons, ploughs and farming imple
ments, hardware not packed in boxes,
salt in sacks and lime shall be al
fn pff hnfs,
and a cerfcate to that effect, given by
the officer in charge of the quaran-
tine stations. And if the provisions
of this section are violated or attempted
to be violated, the said dry goods, bag
gage, coffee, merchandise or other OBJ
jects designated by the Board of Health,
shall be seized by the officers of this
parish, carried to the places designated
andlplaced in custody of persons charged
with ventilating such and after being
ventilated, they shall he sold for cash
to the highest bidder, half of the pro-
ceeds to go to the person making the |
seizure and half to go to the parish
treasury; moreover the person violating
Or attempting to violate the provisions
of this section, shall be fined one hum
dred dollars, and imprisoned ten days,
half of the fine to go to the informer,
and half to the parish treasury.
SEC. 3. That If any town or place
within the limits of this parish should
become infected as asaforesaid with yellow |
fever, or any other infectious disease;
the provisions of sections one and two
shall be inforced as far as practicable
against persons, dry goods, baggage,
mated by the Board of Health, coming
from, cnoh trvn rr p1ano 1ooo1 r11pSac
physicians and ministers of the gospel
in the discharge of their duties ex-
cepted.
SEC. 4. The President of the Police
Jury shall have power to determine and
shall proclaim what city, town or place
is infected as aforesaid, and to estab-
lish such quarantine stations, and to ap-
point such quarantine officers as he may
think proper; and he shall have power
to make contracts for rent of necessary
buildings for pay of officers, etc, until
the next meeting of the Police Jury
after his proclamation. And it is hereby
made his duty to assemble the Police
Jury within ten days after such pro-
clarnatiOI il necessary.
SEC. 5. That any person aiding and
assisting any person in violating the
provisions OF sections one and two of
this ordinance, shall be subject to sthe
same penalties as are provided against
the principal, and the fines recovered
from such person shall be disposed in
the same manner as those imposed by
said sections one and two.
SEC. 6. That 40 person who shall have
died OF yellow fever, or any other in
fectious disease, outside of the limits
of the parish Of St.. Landry, shall be
inferred within the Limits Of this parish,
except under such regulations as may
be established by the Board of Health.
. SEC: T.. Eb9t any person who shall
have died within the limits Of the parish
from yellow fever or any yotherinfectious
disease, shall be enveloped and buried
as speedily as possible in the nearest
burial ground, and shall not be subse
quently disintered and removed, except
under such regulations as may be es-
tablished by the Board of Health. And
the house in which such person shall
have died, shall at the expense of the
be cleansed, fumigated and
by such agents and in such
manner as may be designated by the
Board of Health i; and the articles which
such diseased person may have used,
shall at his expense also be cleansed and
or buried. -
SEC. s. That Board of Health, COM
posed of five practicing physicians, shall .
be annually appointed by the Police
Jury at its first meeting in January.
That such appointments shall be com ]
Inunicated within ten days from said
first Police Jury meeting in anuary, to
each of the physicians so appointed,
and published in the proceedings Of the
Police Jury. -..-...--....
SEC. 9. The members of the Board
Of Health shall meet on the first Mon {
day. in February after their appoint ]
mont and will nrpaniz, by annoin tiuo !