Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-08
STATE BOARD OF health,
The Quarantine Regulations Suggest
ed to the state EegisIature-In-
UOrtant Address to the Pee
pie OF the state.

At the Saturday afternoon session OF the
State board of health, i'll Nashville, DR..
Wight offered the following, which was
adopted
WHEREAS, The legislature of the State, at
its recent session, has seen fit IN their wisdom
to amend and largely increase the powers Of
the State board of health of the State of Ten
nessee, and have enacted as follows:
Sec. 2. That the State board of health be,
and they are hereby, empowered to declare
quarantine whenever, IN their Judgment, the
welfare of the public require it, and to pre-
scribe such rules and regulations as they may
deem proper for the prevention of the intro
duction OF yetlow-fever, cholera and other
epidemic diseases into the State of Tennessee,
and whenever the yellow-fever, smallpox,
cholera or other epidemic diseases appear in
any locality within the State, and information
thereof is brought to the knowledge OF said
State board of health, they shall prepare and
carry into effect such rules and regulations as
in their Judgment will, with the least incOn-
venience to commerce and travel, prevent the
spread of the disease; they shall select suit
able localities for establishing quarantine sta
tons, and may erect necessary temporary
buildings for the dislntection OF passengers,
baggage, cargoes and other matters believed
to convey the contagious principle OF cholera,
yelow-fever, smallpox and other epidemic
diseases, and may enforce such transhlpment
of passengers as they may deem necessary,
and shall assign to the charge of each sta
ton a competent physician and necessary as
sistants, who shall receive such compensation
as the said board of health may deem rea-
sonable and just.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That any
person or persons who shall wlltully disre-
gard or evade such quarantine as said State
board of health may declare, or violate any
rule or regulation they shall make IN attempt
ing to prevent the spread of any epidemic
disease, shall be guilty OF a mIsdemeanor,
and upon conviction shall be fined not less
than fifty dollars nor more than 1--WE hundred,
or imprisoned in the county jail for a period
OF three months, one or both, at the d.scre-
ton of the court.
And deeming it right and proper that this
board should give expression 10 their views
on the important question Of quarantine, and
that all parties engaged in commerce OF
transportation may have due and timely no
tice OF their instructions IN this regard, and
with the view of fully carrying out the spirit
and intent of the law, and, II possible. pro-
tecting the citizens OF the State from the Wis
itation of epidemic diseases, especially yellow
fever and cholera therefore be 1t
ReSOlUed, That upon this board having re-
liable information of the introduction int
any part of the country OF epidemic disease
especially yellow-fever and cholera, that it Is
the judgment and intention of this board tC
enforce TO the utmost of their ability 4 stric
quarantine of all the avenues OF travel auC
commerce against the introduction into thO
State of these most justly dreaded diseases
The following address to the people wa
| adopted:
ADDREss-TO CITIZENS OF TOWNS AND VII
| LAGEs OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE
| 1878 will long be remembered by the PEG
| pie OF Tennessee as q year especially marked
| as one of disaster and death. The yellow
| fever was brought up the Mississippi rive
| and fastened Its deadly fangs upon the cit
of Memphis. From thence it radiate
| through the western division of our State
carving dismay into almost every household
| 1t did not stop here, but travelling with dreat
fatality on the lines of the railroads and river
| 1t swept into the mountain city of Chat
tanooga, and into various towns and cities c
Kentucky. Nor were its ravages con
fined, AS heretofore, to towns, but
scattered all through the villages an
| farms OF West Tennessee, with q vIru
lence and fatality unknown heretofore /
the annals of this dread pestilential teveI
It's damage to life aud property was beyOn
| computation. Commerce ceased 1t its al
! proach Business Of every kind way d,
s!royed, and the people suffered all he hot
rors of disease and want. Had il not bee
Tor the royal munIhcence of our friends All
brethren throughout the christian worl
famine would have been added to the hol