The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-12-25
shall we Have Another Yellow
Fever Vi=iG alton i'm Jackson Next
6enS0m?

There is one thing We desire to i'm
press upon the authorities and people OF
Jackson. Whatever may be done, or
left undone, by the State authorities, for
public protection against recurrence of
the yellow fever Pestilence, they should
leave nothing undone to protect the Cap
ital of the State from the dreadful inva
sion. Here Is conducted the business Of
the State government. Here are the
Executive office and the departments
appertainiug thereto; here the Supreme
Court-the State Library-the peni-
Tertiary - the benevolent institutions.
The injury which would result 10 the
State from the suspension of business in
these departments and Institutions, and
the stoppage OF intercourse between the
State government and the people and
| local authorities, should be prevented if
possible In this undertaking we have
no doubt the Governor, as the represen-
tative of the State government. will CO.
operate by all the means at his com
mand. The efficiency displayed by our
Mayor during the late epidemic. war
rants US in saying that he will spare no
effort and shun no responsibility
in the discharge of the important
trusts confded to him. We are
confident he will be abetted by the Board
of Alderman, and sustained practically
by the citizens generally, and the How.
ards with whatever means their prudent
management may have saved for an
emergency of this kind. While the
medical and sanitary authorities have all
discouraged a reliance upon carbolic acid
and other disenfectants as preventative
of the yellow fever, they have with equal
unanimity decided that drainage and the
prevention, or removal of accumulations
of filth, and cleanliness are efficacious in
warding off a yellow fever pestilence
Whatever is necessary to bring about
this healthy condition of the town should
be done. To this end, rigid inspection
sh uld be made and the necessary regu-
lAtions severely enforced. A sanitary
inspector should be appointed whose duty
it would be to visit every nook and cor
ner of the town, the highways aud by
ways, and the premises of all persons
alike, to see that they are kept
thoroughly cleansed. Another precau
tionary measure should be taken. Du-
ring the epidemic, the Towards with the
corporation of the Mayor, made it
point to burn the clothing and bedding
used by yellow fever patients in order to
prevent the continuance and spread of
Gus cases and the owners were paid for
the property thus destroyed; but we are
informed that large quantities of mate
rial thus infected were not destroyed.
rhe consequence may be that the seeds
of the disease will hibernate during the
cold season and burst forth into lite and
activity i'll the heat Of the summer. We
would suggest that these causes for the
recurrence of the plague be removed
without delay. No owner of such death
breeding goods would hesitate to surren-
der them for destruction if fair equiva-
lent were paid, and our citizens can better
AFFORD to submit to a SIN I'll tax, or to raise
the necessary sum by private subscription,
than to choose between fight from their
homes and enduring the horrors of
plague. Either is bad enough, but to
this complexion it will surely come if
timely and vigorous measures of proven
ton are not enforced.