Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-05
TENNESSEE'S SAFEGUARD.
Meeting of tn e State Board of Health at
Nashville-Epfdemics During the
Last Six Months.
precautions Against the Spread of
smallpox, Which Has Developed i'm
Two Places in Tennessee.

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, January A. meeting Of
the State Board of Health, the committee on
epidemics reported that epidemics have pre-.
vailed in the following places during the last
six months: Middleton, West Tennessee, dys.
| entery; Trenton, West Tennessee, dysentery
Murfreesboro, Middle Tennessee, typhoid
fever; Rugby, East Tennessee, typhoid fever
During the first six months of 1881 measles
prevailed very generally throughout the
State, the rate of mortality from which was
very low. The disease, az a rale, was mild
and controllable. The report was signed by
G. B. Thornton, chairman.
The committee on epidemics presented the
following:
ITO Public Carriers:
Smallpox being reported prevalent in several
leading cities of the country, and recently having
developed in two localities in Tennessee through
the agency OF persons coming from other States
in order to prevent the spread OF the disease the
State Board of Health orders:
First-Ihat no person suspected of smallpox in
any OF its forms shall be allowed TO travel on any
railroad, waterway, other means of public con-
yeyance in the State, and all common carriers are
persons.
second-Thst no corpse having died of SMALLPOX
or other infectious disease shall be Transported
under fifteen months after death, and then only
with temperature of thirty degrees or under, and
upon the certificate of the health officer at the
place of disinterment and reinterment If any
there be.
Third-That no goods or chattels or merchan-
disc or mourning apparel belonging or pertaining
to any person infected with smallpox, or which
may have been exposed to such infection, shall be
received on board of any train, steamboat, barge
or other public conveyance for transportation
within this State or elsewhere
Fourth-No passenger, or goods of any descrip-
tion shall be received by any line of public car
Tiers for transportation without the certificate of
an inspector recognized by the board If there is
reason to believe that such passenger goods have
been exposed to infection.
Fifth-All persons in the employ OF any lines of
transportation should be at once vaccinated or
revaccinated
We urge that this order be mandatory by such
public carriers
The circular was adopted and the secre-
tary instructed to have three hundred copies
printed and distributed Immediately and
made public by being exposed at the differ
ent depots.
The committee on epidemics offered reso-
luton requiring the State superintendent of
public instruction to establish. as a rule
throughout the State, that no pupil be admit
ted to any public or private schools without
exhibiting certificate Of vaccination.
Adopted.
The secretary read the report from Inspec-
tor Henderson at Milan. The report states
that one case has died since the visit of the
secretary; that all persons who have been
exposed to infection have been placed in
quarantine under close guard; that no new
cases have developed, and that all other
cases are progressing favorably; that be
allows no one to leave town without a GER
tifcate; that several eolored persons have
made an effort to get away, but were
arrested and sent back to the quar-
antine quarters; that the mayor is closely
engaged in having everybody vaccinated and
re-vaccinated, and that he hopes TO be able
soon to report the disease at an end.