The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-12
The Annual Report Of tho National
Board OF Heath Ready
for Congress.
"A System or National Quarantine
Recommended President
to Announce When
Town Is Infected.
The Cost Of Carrying Out the System
Recommended by the Board,

WASHINGTON. Jan, 1.-THE annual report
ar the National Board Of Health has just
been completed and will probably be sub
mitted TO Congress tomorrow, The report
says: tThe work Of collecting information
and advice from tho sanitary organtz atoms
throughout the United States AS to the best
plan for a national public health organization,
including the subject Of maritime and inland
quarantine, has been quite successful The
report indorses the CONCLUSIONS of the Ameri-
can Public Health Association at Its meeting
In Nashville Last November. The following
are some of the principle recommendations
submitted:
That for the present no change be made In
the plan of organization Of the Board Of
Health: that convention of representatives
or United States, State aud local authorities es-
pecially engaged Ia the collection Of vital sta
tistics be held, with view To securing uni
for.nity throughout the country tn the meth
cd of such statiatics: that the law Of June,
1879, shall be SO amended that al vpases from
foreign ports coming TO the United States
ports shall be required to haveh hilla Of health !,
that the Board III Health be charged with the
duty OF reporting 10 the President Of the
United States when any city ie cnnstdeied
dangerously infected aud on the official pub
ilcation by the President Of such re-
port, transportation Of goods or per
annR from surh infected cities to other
States bs forbidden under penalties to
be imposed under the jurisdiction Of the
United States courts, unless such transpnltA-
tiun Is carried on under rules and regulations
prescribed by the National Board of Health,
and these rules shall apply until the presi-
dent publicly declares the place no longer in
fected. That the President of the United
States be authorized 70 call an international
sanitary convention, to meet at Washington,
k.Ay,t
tion of ports likely TO be infected by yellow
fever shall be invited to send delegates for
the purpose OF securing an international sys-
tenn OF notification ~ 10 the actual sanitary
condition of such ports and vessels sailing
therefrom.
The last Recommendation is that the Ma
tonal Board shall establish quarantine
stations at once near the mouth OF
the Chesapeake bay aud al Shp Island, on
the Gulf of Mexico, provided with all the
necessary apparatus for treating infected
ships: that these stations be managed by
the national board, and ha Devoted TO the
treatment of vessels bound respectively for
the ports Ut the Chesapeake aud of the Eult.
It liz held that IL will then he necessary only
TO maintain boal ding and Inspecting stations
Mt several ports.
The report then states that In the opinion
OF the national board, complete quarantine
establishments, are needed mt pres, mt only at
Boston, New York, Philadelphia, the mouth
OF Chesapeake Bay, Charleston, Savannah,
Brunswick, Ga, or Fernandina, Fla, Ship Is-
land, Miss, and some point on the Texas
coast. The expense Of stations on the Cnesa-
4peake, at Brunswick ana at Slip Island,
which are regarded as the most important,
is estimated at 100000, and II is recon-
mended they be- equipped and maintained by
the United States. THE report also recon-
mends tho establishment Of inspection sta
tions for steamboats, on The Mississippi river
ut New Orleans, ut VickshurR. Just below
Memphis, and AT Cairo. The estimated cost
OF these stations is $35 900.