The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-08-13
Quarantine and Sanitary Rules.
ADOPTED By THE BOARD OF HEALTH, CITY OF
JACKSON.
JACKSON. Miss July 30. 1879.


JACKSON, Miss, July 30, 1879.
The Board of Health of the city of Jackson
have this day adopted the following Regulations,
and publish them for the information and guild
ance of the public.
LIST. jackson will be rigidly qarantined
against New Orleans and Memphis, and all
other points now infected with yellow fever, to
go into effect at 1870 a. NJ, Friday, August list
and should other points become infected the
quarantine will extend to them also
I'd DIR. Thomas A. Catchings is appointed
Medical Inspector of Quarantines, and will be
governed by the rules and regulations of the
National Board of Health, modified from time
to time by order of this Board to meet any
contingency which may arise, and which can
not now be foreseen.
4th No person or baggage from New Orleans
Memphis any other point now infected, will
be permitted to enter Jackson under any cir
cumstanees, but all such shall be detained at
the Quarantine Station Is days, during which
time all baggage and packages shall be thorough
" disinfected under the supervision of the
Medical Inspector, as directed IN the regulations
of the National Board of Health; Pr0rided,
jackson or the immediate vicinity be the desti
nation of such passenger or baggage. This
does not apply to through passengers, who
have complied with the provisions of the
National Board, and who have certificates.
Such passengers, however, will not be permit
ted to get off the cars in the city limits for any
purpose whatever.
5th All freights included in the following
schedule will be vigorously excluded and not
allowed, under any circumstances to enter the
corporate limits of the city, to-wit:
Bagging of any kind, or in any shape; leather,
in any shape; goods of any description what
ever, packed in boxes, trunks, cases, casks,
tierces barrels, kegs, tubs, crates or buckets,
in bales or bundles; all goods of any kind in
sacks or bags, except salt
No restrictions viii be placed on trelghts not
included in the above, Pr0rided, the rules and
regulations of the National Board have been
complied with which rules provide for a change
of cars and disinfecting, at the first Quarantine
Station out of the infected city.
9th. John c. Carraway, the present Health
Officer, will be retained in service under the
name of Sanitary Inspector, and his duty shall
be to visit and inspect, once week the premI-
ses of every family in the corporation, and OF
all public places, and shall cause all foul, damp
or offensive places, and all sources OF possible
sickness TO be put in proper sanitary condition
within "A hours, the same to be done at the ex-
pense of owner or proprietor, except in cases of
INDECENT persons, when 1t viii be done at the
expense of the city and for this purpose, Mr..
Carraway shall have at his service a sufficient
force furnished by the city authorities, and all
necessary carts, implements, etc and such dis
infectants and deordorants may be directed
by the Board of Health for that purpose. He
shall report to the Mayor Immediately any fail
ure or refusal to comply with the above.
7th 4 Citizens Sanitary Committee, COM
posed of the following gentlemen, viii cooper
ate with the Sanitary Inspector, and will report
to him the existence of any nuisance source
of danger which may come to their knowledge,
and it is expected and requested that the com
mittee will interest themselves in finding out all
such:
NORTH WARD-CoI J. D. Stewart, II. Spene-
ler W. A. Whiting, G. d. Subway, Jacob Klaus
Ter and j. w. Robinson.
SOUTH WARD-C. Cummings, Pat. Giles, Jno-
Hart, Ii. Strauss, ---HoweH ana Joseph
Patton.
WEST WARD.-Jno. w. CIingan, D. T. Har-
rington, Thomas Anderson, f. .. Ryan, Trip
Richardson and Henry Young.
The following extracts from a circular by the
State Board of Health on the subject of disinfee-
tants, is ordered to be published herewith, Tor
the information and guidance OF our citizens
''The object of distinction is to prevent dis
ease. 1t is known that certain diseases are the
result of infective poison and it is also
known that this infective poison has close con-
nection with the decomposition of animal and
vegetable matter.
Cleanliness, pure air, pure water, good food
and proper clothing are great safeguards against
infectious diseases. Artificial disinfectants cam
not be made to supply tina place of these essen
tial conditions OF personal and public health !;
hence the first rules against infection,
1st That no house refuse, filth exerement
matter or foul dirt, producing noxious gasses,
should-be allowed to remain about inhabited
premises.
ed That all occupied houses should have
abundant and uninterrupted supply of fresh
air
Sd. That all water used for cooking and
drinking should come from uncontaminated
sources"
Some diseases are capable of rapid increase
and multiplication in filthy, foul and damp
places hence, all unclean and damp places
about dwellings, places of business and public
gatherings should be cleansed and dried.
From long list of disinfeetants the follow
ing have been selected, and it is believed they
will meet all ordinary demands:
LIST Fresh Stone Lime, 10 absorb moisture and
putrid fluids. Pulverize and scatter over places
10 be dried. In damp rooms placed in pans IN
liberal quantities. Mixed with water, use to
over heaps of fresh manure preseryative.
Sd. Dry earth is nearly complete disinfeet-
ant if used N sufficient quantities to absorb all
moisture. 1t is especially applicable to the de-
odorizing of privy contents, when the basin is
shallow, with limited quantity of fluid.
5th. Sulphate of Iron (eopperas.l 10 disinfect
privies, cesspools drains, sewers and all vessels
and places receiving the discharge of the sick.
Dissolve eight or ten pounds of eopperas In eight
or ten gallons of hot water; add TO this one pint
of impure carbolic acid. For an ordinary sized
privy use about one gallon of the solution twice
q week during the hot weather Masses of filth
in privies, sewers, or drains should be saturated
with it at short intervals, until all offensive
odors are gone. (Copperas is very cheap and
win be found valuable as as disinfectant and
Sulphufic Acid Gas, to disinfect rooms and
infected clothing, applied only in unOeeupied
rooms. To be effectual in destroying disease
germs the fumes must be so strong that they
would destroy human life. Place in earthen
or iron vessel containing small quantity of
ashes, few live Goals, upon which place from
one TO four pounds OF sulphur in powder, ac-
eording to the size of the room. One and a
half ounces of sulphur to each 100 cubic feet of
space. To guard against accident by FIRE, place
the vessel on some 6re-proof article, or suspend
over q tub of water. As soon the sulphur
is ignited, the room, having been previously
rendered alright should be closed andaremain
closed twelve to twenfyfour hours. Useful az
ter case of yellow fever, smallpox, scarlet
fever, cholera and typhoid lever.
P. 7. BAILEY, d. D., President.
:. =. DANIEL u. d. Secretary,