Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-18
QUARANTINE.
What Fand Will Pay fer the Lux
ury of Having One.

Among the enlightened men OF the
present day who have suffered great
distress, yet have not gone hopelessly
mad over the dying jerks of the Ma
tional Board of Health. is our astute
Judge, d. P. Hadden. who is also
Vice President of the Sanitary Coun-
Gil of the Mississippi Valley. He es-
poused the cause of the N. B. H.
with an earnest desire to keep it kick
ing. Of .course the President of
Memphis and Vice do. of the Sanitary
ETC., etc, iavors the old flag and an
appropriation as zealously as he always
favored the n. b. II. Yesterday the
President, Vice do. etc., etc., received
with his usual good humor little
advice from one of his co.wOrkers in
the interest of the city, also man of
good common sense, and not as
strong supporter of the N. B.
H., as is the Judge. This man of
brains and good sense, who is pitted
against Judge Hadden, is DO other
but Mr.. M. Burke, and he made few
remarks that should set we'll on the
cultivated brain of Judge Hidden
and his adherents. Judge Hidden
says it will cost 5000 per month to run
a river quarantine here, and he has
been hunting around to fndIsomebody
to pay the bill. He thinks portion
of the local Board of Health fund
will have to be used for the purpose,
as local boards have given pledge to
Sanitary Council, etc, etc., Of which
he is VicePresident, to keep it up. He
expected the N. B. H. to defray the bill,
honest soul that he is, and hoped it
would draw suste1ance from the $780,
600 fund given to the President by
Congress for the suppression ofepidem-
les, but nothing can now be expected
from that source, as the N. B. H. goes
out of service on the second of next
month. He had been called bold,
dangerous man by the delegates from
New Orleans to the Sanitary Council,
held at Jackson, but despite this he
was elected Vice President by four
majority, and now he has written to
the President of the Council, DR..
Writ johnson, and the genial John
Rauch, of Illinois, to come here and
concoct some scheme to raise this
quarantine wind.
The authorities here are likely 10
fall heir to the floating paraphernalia
of the N. B. II. now lying in and about
our harbor, including the junketing
steamer Benner perhaps. 1t
will take some money to
keep their floating property in ship
shape, therefore a fund must be pro-
vided. 1t would seem meet and prop
er that such Aotilla as the Benner
and the other stuff would be a boon
indeed for ordinary folks, but the
Judge isn't satisfied with the gift un.
less an appropriation can be captured
from some source, nor docs he seem
satisfied about the luxury of keeping
up quarantine at the expense Of this
city, if he can shift the defraying
thereof on to some one else.
Mr.. M. Burke meantime al
vises Judge Hadden that the
Marine Hospital Service may be
as potent factor in the work of sup.
pressing epidemics as the N. B.H. has
ever been. Nor can he see any reasc \
why as much reliance should not be
placed upon the Hospital Service as
upon the N. b. H. It is possible that
there may be a necessity at some future
| time to call on it for assistance; it will
be unwise to antagonize it, and he
deee not believe in doing 50.
All of the foregoing Oalne out in the
proceedings of the city authorities al
their meeting held yesterday, and il
goes to show that there are two
sides to all questions. All the wise
men get on one side sometimes, thai
is, those superior men who thinl
themselves wise beyond their fellows
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