Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-07-31
THE MEETING AT THE COTr0N
EXCHANGE THIS MORNING.

The board Of health has done and Is doing
good work II has the whole city under con-
slant supervision. has and Is enforcing its
sanitary regulations, has established a rigid
quarantine by rail as well as river, and has
put the city in fair sanitary condition. But
DR.. Erskine is not satisfied. He calls to-day
for one hundred laborers and twenty-five ad
ditional carts with which to complete the
work begun month ago. In
this he has the hearty co opera
ton of the city government, and
we are glad to see that the merchants, ap
preciating the fact that the good health of
the city is essential to trade and the main
tenance of paying commerce, propose this
morning to raise fund that will make GER
tain the work prosecuted so far with vigor.
In another column we publish their call, and
to 1t direct the attention of all classes of our
people. For the purposes indicated in that
call Nationals as well as Democrats
can afford truce for an hour
To preserve the life of our fair city
and save its good name as a healthy place
place to which country merchants can come
with a perfect sense of immunity so far as
epidemic disease Is concerned-is a work in
the accomplishment Of which ali Memphians
can unite. We hope, therefore, that the
meeting will be large and influential, and
that the results will justify the call The
Howard association, which is the custodian Of
large fund, on the principle that an
ounce Of prevention is worth a pound of
cure, can, we venture to suggest,
without violation Of its charter or laws, con-
tribute FIVE thousand dollars to sustain the
board of health, and we ask that it be done.
The work cut out bv the board will require a
large sum Of money and the immediate
outlay OF no inconsderable amount.
Not only has the river quarantine to be
sustained, requiring great circumspec-
ton, but on the Louisville, Charles
ton and Tennessee railroads points for the
detention and dIsInfection of freights
will have to be maintained All
this, with the purchase of dis
infectants and the employment Of laborers
and agents, requires money. Then there is
the constant and vigilant supervision of the
city and the watehfulness and anxiety which
must be divided among many to accomplish sat
isfactory results. Considering all these things
and that they are IN the nature of prevent
ives of the introduction Of the disease which
the Towards are organized to nurse and cure
we think they can lawfully, and ought to
promptly contribute of the immense fund
they hold in trust for an emergency
such as the board is trying tc
prevent the occurrence OF. The river mer
have responded in cheerful acquiescence t.
the rules and regulations of the board, ant
so have the railroad companies-the latter
promising to retain freights-the Tennessee
road at Whitehaven, the Louisville road at the
United States cemetery, and the Charleston
at Grand Juncuon--and all have promised tC
notify promptly any SICK persons en- route t.
the city from New Orleans or other places
quarantined. Thus envroned by watchfu
agents, Memphis is safe. 1t only needs {
little money TO enable the board to complet,
the work of cleansing and disinfecting, anC
that we hope viii be subscribed to-day, tn,
Towards being at the head as the SUBSCRIBE
of the heaviest amount.