The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1878-11-23
| the next census the great importance to
public health OF this matter.
DIR. cocHRANE's PAPERS.

| The committee to whom was referred the
papers OF DR.. Cochrane, member OF the Yell
low-Feye Commission, reported approving
and commencing the same.
THANKS.
On motion Of DR.. Chancellor, OF Mary
land, it was
ReSoLued, That the American Public
Health Association returns its grateful
thanks to his EXcellency tie Governor OF
Virginia !; to the local Committee of Ar
raDgements. and the citizens generally OF
Richmond; to the press OF this and other
cities: and to the authorities of the Pied
mont Airline especially, which gave free
| transportation each way to all members and
| delegates travelling over their road between
New Orleans and Richmond.
MORE YELLow-FEvEI DISCUSSION.
Papers on the yellow.fever, or topics i'm
mediately relating thereto, were read by
Drs. Plunkett, of Nashville; Austin, OF
New Orleans Lindsey, of Nashville, and
Morris, of Baltimore.
Rev. DR.. Marshall, OF Vicksburg Drs.
Dowell. OF Texas, and Bell, Of. New York,
made brief addresses.
From Or. Morris's paper it appeared that
the disease prevailing at Baltimore in 1876
was s'locaized yelow-fever," though at
the time distinguished medical authority
pronounced it malarial fever. Forty out OF
forty-four persons attacked in the city died.
The disease was rooted out by the removal
OF all the people OF the affected neighbor-
hood to the quarantine.
DR.. Bell was by no means satisfied with
the importation theory. He had tried steam
ing the hold OF ships with excellent effect
IN killing the fever.
DR.. Dowel said that the home Of yellow
fever has never yet been discovered. 1t is
certainly not indigenous to Brazil, and per-
haps not to the West Indies.
DR.. Steuart, Of Baltimore. believed in re-
moving the sick from their houses, and
burning their bedding and clothing.
Major W. II. Walthall, OF Alabama, who
has probably mad more experience rs yell
! low-fcyer nurse than any man in the coun-
| try, didn't believe that the sanitary condi-
ton of city had any effect in checking the
fever. He had seen it most virulcnt in the
cIeancst and purest sections, while the dirty
and filthy portions were comparatively cx-
emDt.
DR.. Sims, OF Chattanooga, gave facts
showing efficacy OF disnfectants used in
houses where the fever had appeared; also
showing how we'll the Nashville policy Of
isolation had worked.
DR.. Dement,, Of Huntsville, Ala, gave an
account OF the fever occurring there among
refugees. Those who attended the sick did
not take the fever.
DR.. Lloyd Howard, OF Maryland, men,
Der OF the Yelow-Feyer Commission, gave
some incidents showing how The sleeping
cars had been instrumental in spreading the
fever. The Pullman cars ran from within
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and dozens OF people sick with he fever slept
in their berths. The Doctor, it seemed, did
not meet with very many physicians in the
South who now hold to the theory Of nom
contagioa. At least twenty-five had told
him that they had formerly been nOn-con-
tagionists, but had had to change their
opinions. That was his own case. Her
believes in contagion under certain circum-
stances.
DR.. Atchison, of Nashville, lamented that
some gentlemen had expressed themselves
as not believing in the cleanliness OF city
as q fever preventive or palliative. He be-
licyed in internal sanitation, segregation,
deportation OF population, &c.
DR.. Bell, OF New York, was given four
minutes OF DR.. Atchison's time (en min
utes), and in that brief space undertook to
show that most OF the so-called clcanly
places where fever prevailed were probably
fiIth-saturated below the surface.
THE PROPOSITIONS.
The sociation-Profcssor Cabell in the
chair-now 10 o'cock) proceeded to consi-
der the propositions submitted at the MORN
ing session by DR.. Blllings's committee, as
| follows:'
l. YeIow-fever is q specific disease, not
indigenous to or originating spontaneously
| in the United States, and its appearance in
this country is always due to n specific
| cause.
,. Quarantine established with such rigor
and precision as to produce absolute. nom
intercourse will prevent the importation OF
the specific cause OF yellow-fcyer
. 8. 1t is the duty Of the General Govern
ment to aid in the establishment OF prac-
tical and proper quarantine by all means in
its power.
4. Tt is the duty of the General Govern
ment TO appoint a commission OF experts to
make thorough investigation into the
causes Of yellow-Ieycr and the best methods
Of preventing its introduction into this
country, and to make sllch an appropriation
as will permit Of the securing the services
OF the best men, and OF thc best means for
carrying out such Investigation.
/ Us j
ernment to invite foreign nations to co0pe-
rate with it in the establishment Of uniform
and effective international quarantine reg
ulations.
| 6, That whatever may be the practical
value Of quarantine, there is no doubt OF
the Importance and value OF internal sanl-
tary measures in the prevention or modltl-
cation of epidemic yellow-feVcr, and that
this Association strongly urges upon State
and municipal authorities the great amount
Of responsibility which rests upon them on
this account at times when no disease Is
prevalent or threatening.
Proposition one was amended, on motion
OF DR.. Gihon, SO as to read, as follows, and
adopted tayes, SO; noes, 1D:
1. Yellow-fever OF 1878 was specific
disease, not indigenous to or originating
during that year spontaneously in the
United States, and its appearance in this
country was due to specific cause.
All the other propositions were then
adopted, though to two OF three of them
there was some objection made. 4
RELIEF FOR PHYSICIANS FAMILIES.
Tile following committee was appointed,
under the resolution adopted yesterday, to
collect data upon which to base appeal to
the medical profession in the United States
for funds forsthe relief of widows and or
phans OF physicians who died while serving
in the epidemic: DR.. Charles N. Hewitt,
Red Wing, Minp,; DR.. K. W. Mitchell,
memphis, Tenn; DR.. Writ Johnson, Jack
son, Miss; DR.. c. B. White. New Orleans !;
DR.. Stephen Smith, New York city; DR.. l..
RI. Steiner, Frederick City, Nd; DR.. 4. L..
| Neal, DAYTON, Ohio. The post.office adj