The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-09-19
po,ics Jury Proceedings.

The Police ou'S Va
,..;er met in special session, call
L in response to petition from a
L,uber of the citizens of the parish.
b.asent-W. r. Prather, President;
! Hash. Brownlee, Stroud, Thomas,
lIn., Miller and B. F. oneal.
when, on motion of NJ Brown.
. committee of seven was ap.
I,oioted by the President, to report
J |, regard to the expediency Of quar-
l,o,eepiug against such places as are
;,,ected with yellow fever; who ap-
! ,o;Oted J. A. W. Lowry, r. w.
r,,oer. J. A. Sni,ler, Doctor W. j.
. vohley. DIR. Il. w. Vance, s. }.
! o.;eler and J. Ii. Keyser, on said
! committee.
|. When. ON motion, this body took
. recess until 2 o'clock, P. M.
! When it again met, and the Com
i mittee submitted the following re
\ mort. which was received and the
!, Irommittee discharged:
I To the Hon. Police Jury of Bos-
..r Parish Your Committee beg
I,sre TO make the following report
!. and recommendations touching the
louarantiue asked to be established
/ l,v the Board of Health of Shreye
y oart and certain OF our own citizens:
! 1st-We do most heartily approve
d k the precautionary measures
y bdepted by the Police Juryof Caddo
9 had especially of the Board OF
Health aud citizens Of Shreveport.
! Ia keeping from their doors the fell
b lestroyer Yellow Fecer, that is des
ID |9atiwg our Southern homes, and
q destroying SO many valuable lives.
NE but too wildly remember the
Ieritle ordeal which our neighbOr-
= Ilug city Shreveport passed through
an HUT few years sitsce, and hence
Iare 10 no condition to do otherwise
Than to oomnend tacm in doing
y bach and everything possible to he
hone to keep that terrible scourge
from their city, but there have been
This Exceptional cases in which certain
of our citizens have been greatly
s ~ lnconveuseuced Ia getting ingress
Into Shreveport, cur base Of sup
5;S plies. Again, that persons reach
Ing said city front suspicious or in.
ected districts have been sent
IN across the river to I've quartered on
- our citizens living opposite Shreve.
port, that city must expect that we
will protect our own citizens, hence
We recommend that our ParOchial
~ authorities call the attention of the
i authorities of Shreveport to these
81 |facts, and ask that they be not re
sn peated in the future. .-r
NJ We would further recommend
against present quarantine from any
direction, for the reason that there
no necessity therefor, as there are
nree, If not four, quarantine sta
! mons gu the East, between us and
q my infected district, and we believe
mat We are protected ON the Yves,
s oy the untiring efforts of Shreve
port, and the entire travel (almost
aon the line leading east and west
AGAIN, it is almost impossible t.
quarantine the long line Of our pa
s, fSh from the northwest to tht
" southeast corner where we wouli
snt .onnect with the quarantine sta
uoos OF Caddo, a distance of some
d Eighty miles.
Again, Shreveport is in no DANCE,
IRON our Parish, because the diseas,
I eannot, in the opinion of medica
i s,su, become epidemic in our parish
aace, 1t could not be carried by 6
s;sl.en OF this parish who has moi
' e SISTED S'eo an infected district, int
oouleVeport. Again, during tn,
4 p.evalence of yellow fever in ou)
s az aegaoorlng city a few years since