The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-05-10

one and well put up, which is to the cred
Of Messrs, Freeman IL Co.
In view of the fact that the Louisiana
state board Of health has refused to main
tain through the season the system o.
steamboat and railroad inspection servic,
as means of preventing the introduc'
ton in that state of contagious diseases
DR.. Rauch, secretary of the Illinois board
has addressed letter to the governor Of
Louisiana from which the following extracts
are made: "Official information being
this day received, to the effect that owing
TO the attitude of the Louisiana state board
of health the inspection service approved
OF in the foregoing resolutions has not yet
been re.established and cannot be SO long
as that attitude is maintained, it becomes
my duty, on behalf OF the Illinois state
board OF health--the chief quarantine au-
thority in this state-to notify your excel
lency-in your capacity as the chief quar-
antne authority of the state of Louisiana
that, in the event of yellow fever being
reported, officially or otherwise, in the city
of New Orleans OF the State of Louisiana,
it will be imperative upon the state board
OF health OF Illinois to declare and en-
force rigid quarantine against CONNER.
cial and personal intercourse with said city
and state Should yellow fever
again appear in the State of Louisiana in
the absence OF an efficient inspection ser
v!ce--such as that maintained during the
past three summers with signal benefit in
preserving confidence and sense Of secur.
ity-there remsins no safety for the south
ern portion of this state save in absolute
non.intercourse with the infected region.
But while a quarantine of exclusion may
be relied upon to DO this, II will, of course
As in the past, so in the future-prove
totally Inadequate TO prevent the frequent
panic alarm, bred OF rumor, the distrust
and apprehension always rife in the alb
sence OF impartial and accepted agencies
of observation and information. Between
"the interests Of the health and life of the
citizens of the state, however, on the one
hand, and their commercial interests on
the other, The duty and the obligations of
this board are clearly defined
Complaints against local boards Of
health, because OF their mismanagement Of
the sanitary affairs of their respective
cities are many. These com
plants in most places amount to
nothing and are without reason.
because, no matter how well set of off
cials may perform their duties, or what the
result may be, there will Away. be some
good people who cant see why this was
done or way that wasn't done" There are
always some who look upon public serv-
ant as tit subject for adverse criticism at
all times and in all things. Cincinnati,
with her two hundred deaths from small.
pox per week, with its fifty to seventy-fve
new cases every day and its lack of any
thing Ike isolation, has undoubtedly q de.
fectige sanitary management, and the
complaints Of is citizens are doubtless
Egl,eous. But in other cities, where there
has been no palpabie negligence and
where the sease does not prevail to al
alarming cxtelt, as in Cairo for instance,
there is no good cause for complaint
Isolation IS more difficult ia Cairo than it
is in most other cities, because the resi-
dents are not clas. fed as they are else
where. The poor and the rich, the cleanly
and the unc.eanly are often huddled to-
gether IN the same square. Yet, SO far,
the disease has not reached near the extent
to which it prevailed in 1873 Out of per.
haps thirty-fve cases IN all among citizens,
there have been but about half dozen
whites, and two or three deaths. The dis.
ease has been generally very mild, and
each case has beengiven prompt attention as
soon as discovered. There might have been
different, more stringent quarantine in
some cases, but in this as in all other
things, il is always much easier to see after
wards how it might have been done better.
1t is always easier to advise than to act, to
critlclsc tAan to do better. The same peo-
pie who complain now because the author
tiles did not use more stringent measures
from the first, such as closing the churches
and schools, bockading whole squares in
which case Of the disease existed, would
have complained then because that had
been DONE and would have been unable to
see any reason for creating such a panic
about case or two Of variooid" Dr.
Rauch has been the subject Of endless de-