Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-03-10
PRESIDENT MADDEN
Petitions the Legislature Tor an ApPro-
pristIoa to M ainfAfn QaaranfiBe.

President D. P. Hadden yesterday sent t.
the Legislature a memorial on sanitation
and the necessity of strengthening the Slats
Board of Health and en!arglng its useful
ness in case OF an epidemic. The following il
THE MEMORIAL
To the HonorabIe Senators and Representatives o.
the People of Tennesses in General Assembly
Convened at Nashville:
GESTLExEs-At a meeting of the Legislative
Council of the Taxing District of Shelby county
this day held, the following resolution was unani
mously adopted:
Resolved, That the president of the Taxing-Dis
trict be requested to urge our representatives al
Nashville to have law enacted enabling the state
Board Of Health TO take such action at any time
as VIII protect the people OF this State against i'm
minent dangers of epfdemics of any nature and
tnat q suitable and ample appropriation be made
accordingly, to be paid out OF the State treasury
In obedience thereto 1 have the honor most
following:
no summer passes without more or less yellow
fever at New Orleans; that it is very often there
In epidemic form, and liable to spread 10 other
this scourge afiicts Memphis It is because 1t
is imported into our midst from below. II, there
the State, will be kept free from the ravages Of
TINS disease. In order to compass this EaucR de-
sired calamity it is necessary 10 keep up quaran-
tns stsuon below our city from the LIST of May TO
the last OF October. AID to enforce rigid quar-
antine regulations on all railroads eater.
Ing OUT DOrutrs from tue south. ms necessary
work, has, for the past two years, been accom-
pllshed by The concerted action of the National
Board, your State Board and our local Board OF
health, the national government furnishing the
means. But as you are aware the Congress of the
United st ties adjourned on last Saturday having
IaiiSd TO make any appropriation for the support
qqence as we are informed, that board will ces Sc
all active operations before the first day of
plications have arisen at New Orleans among the
health authorities This, together with our past
experience OF the action of the Louisiana health
authorities leads us to expect no protection from
that quarter against the fever.
We therefore deem 1t of supreme importance
and indulge the hope that you, our represen ta-
tves. may See the i'm perative necessity of prompt
and decisive action TO afford not only our people,
against this much-dreaded disease. To this end
we most earnestly request that you include in
your budget of State expenses for the next two
years. a sum not to exceed $50 GOO year, for quar-
antine purposes, at any point in the State threat
ened by yellow fever or other contagious diseases
to be used by the governor upon the ADVICE of the
State Board of Health. II is useless for us to say
that this is not local question: but 1t is one that
deeply concerns the people OF the whole State.
Aside from the destruction of human life by cpl
demic diseases, and the oiminution of the mate
rial wealth of the whole State from this cause
and also from the paralyzed industries of large
population, the suffering and distress caused by
the enforced absence of those who flee, the misery
of those unable to fee. as well as the fear and
anxiety of those who have to entertain the fugi-
hves, entails incalculable damage upon the state
and suffering upon the whole people. If to these
widows and fatherless children, and the increased
public burden arising from the poverty of those
thus left helpless we think all will concede the
magnitude Of the interest involved in this mater
and that the damage done by great epidemics Is
widespread and lasting, and is not confined by
State lines even, but affects the whole country.
And If by the expenditure of few thousand dol
lars annually you can defend your people from the
plague and its direful consequences ii is certainly
the part of wisdom to make the expenditure.
Memphis is now in excellent sanitary condition.
We are DESTROYS on all accounts that she be kept
healthy. 1t is not only for her own interest but
for the interest of the whole State that she be kept
healthy. For her internal sanitation she asks no
aid from others. But IL is submitted that when
any city or section of the State is threatened or
may be threatened by diseases coming from other
States 1t then becomes a State question CIV and
by what means the approaching destruction may
bs averted. We therefore feel warranted in urging
upon representatives in General Assembly
convened, a speedy and favorable consideration
of our request. And our apology for not calling
your attention to this matter sooner is that until
Saturday last we hoped that the National Legisla-
ture would render it needless to trouble you at all
d. p MADDEN,
President of the Taxing District.