The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1883-04-19
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CRY out the oiJrcts lof "uion At ""'
orgnu;zri, the sanitary Council oil the
Mississippi Valley has respectfully petl
ito led the President, owes It's origin T."
Senator Ishnn q. Hnrris, who, with the
Hon. Casey Young secured tue phssag'
of the net creating it. This they dld III
Difference to the expressed wishes oi tli
whole country, who, in S1S-79, demands
ed that the general governms NJ should
take some steps to protect the Sthu
from invasion by epidemic diseases lH'
yellow fever, which, during the first o.
.nose wears, dec mated the Mississippi
valley nj "A cos, of many Thousand lives
., nd nearly So 90 0.000 How best to
ACCOMPLISH this was il problem that gave
senator Harris u great deal oil trouolt
and forced upon HIM the labor OF much
research, the ,xlmination OF 0tHd from
historic sources aad the sitting OF the
best medical tes' imony to be had upon
the subject OF sanitary inspection service
and the enforcement of quarantine. Al
the experts in Washington were con-
suited. and the result was the organlza>
ton of n body made up OF sanltarl"ls
mud m, dicul practitioners OF the highest
standing in the army, navy, Marine hos
p;tal Service and civil life. They wer'
81 of th,ln gentlemen well known to the
country as admirably fitted and adaptet
to the duties prescribed in the act by
long serviccsnrd the positions they occu
ried ns sprcia SITS. 1t was deemed best
to create this body for the service be
cause the duties We're peculiar would
tuke the physicians employed to perform
them away from those that ordinarily
drvoly Il upon them in the practice OF
me i,ine. A careful examination Of the
Quarantine ard inspection 81 rvlces OF al
tup maritime naiOls Of Europe, as well
as that of New York, showed that any
thing like hospital service was lncom-
patible with thorough inspection and the
careful enforcement ot u quarantine tha'
while it would guard from disease, won d
not be burden to commerce. SANITARY
work, being special work, 1t was found
i.a1ld not be followed with the care and
fidelity required by medical man who
was uevutpg himself TO hospital o.
general practice. No man can serve tW"
masters. This is found to be the case III
The practice Of medicine as i'll other de
nnrIments of human effort, hence tic
sppcialles into which the faculty Is
ulvided aud the number OF specialists
who dey ote themselves to the eye ana
ear. the Lrain and nerves, to mumen
diseases, and so on. sanitation, white
ii eau be more thoroughly pursued by
men of good general medical euncntiou,
is quite hin the power OF luteli1gent
luymen TO compass; so, too, with guar
untine-its routine can be enforced by
laymen ms well as by doctors, but when
the existence of disease Is to be deter
mined in man or woman then the
nvdico sanitnriun has the advantage. ii
can detect disease by the least observe
ble of its symptoms, and hy his knowl-
re Of the origin Of it trace Il to It's
source. Medical men of tins character
composed the National Board OF Health,
and were employed to pertol IN Its duties.
They had nothing to DO with hospitals,
could have nothing to do with them, as
their time was fully occupied with the
great, good work Of preventing the IN
PRODUCTION Of epidemic diseases. IhaL
they p-riormed that work 'nltbtnliy aud
well is patent in the undispuled TACT that
fifteen of the States of the Mississippi
valley, through their sanitary experts
an / the public press. Last year, owing
to political influence, the Marine Hospital
Service, which is said to be part OF the
political machinery IF the Treasury De-
partmeut ut Washington, was, by an I'M
IL wfnl d, cision of the Secretary OF Il e
Treasury turning over to II the TltO,OVu
appropriated for quarantine aud luspec
tlon servic,, enabled to usurp its place
THIS it did, however, only III Tex s,
where, ut cost Of S6j 900, itestabl'sned
a G ir,ion, but did not to any extent enter
upon any other Of the duties which the
National Board of Health would have
performed had not the appropriation
been thus diverted, and, as the mayor OF
Brownsville positively asserts, Tor polls
icnl purposes. 70 prevent the repetition
of SO hlgraut an outrage upon the people
during the coming summer, the Sanitary
Council OF the Miss issippi valley, com
posed of sanltarlars of national repute
and State and mdn'cipal officers OF DIS
tine ion, have pptitoned the President
to place the 500, 600 appropriated for
Quarantine and inspection services 10y
the last Cougr ST, at the disposal Of the
National Board of Health. That body,
speci Ily created for that work, has the
eonfd nee Of the people rs no local body
of similar character could or can have,
and the President, in yielding to the
petition of the Council, will simply BE-
accedipg to the wishes Of the people,
So far as the l. Il Al, na State Board OF
Health TO which we owe all this coniu-
siop) is concerned, it has not the conf
dence OF EVEN the people it proposes to
sel We, and the Health Boards, State and
municipal, OF all the other States, retHS,
to have anything to do with If or to &C
cent any Of It's reports. Besides this it
has not the mems of adopting OF en-
forcing quarantine, and cannot at all
enter upon inspection service. Iheath.
trlJe of our own State Board OF Health
AMI the city Board OF Health toward the
Lnuisiona B0md il one Of complete
estrangement, which is fully justified 10y
Il e conduct of that body in 1879 and
subs quent years. Acting mp to this,
President MADDEN, before the Sanitary
Council, made some threats for which
the New Orleans Pic, ynae takes him to
task in an article printed III another part
If his Issue of The APPEAL. Anything
more silly and undiguhod, and utterly
at variance with the facts, We have never
read, and it is only worthy Of repuhlca
ton ms evidence of the shifts to which
the Louisiana Board is put to justify lis
course against the National Board Of
H alth and those who intciligenrly sus-
tain it. What President MADDEN is
therein accused of threatening, the plople
Of Memphis will sustain him in. If the
National Board of Health IS prevented
BY presidential interference from the
performance OF its duties, Memphis, as
MIR. Fl dden very pointedly asserted, at
J sou, will take care Of herself, ami
will enforce quarantine against New
Orleans that her merchants will feel, MS
they have before; and not only Memphis,
but Virksburg and Natch,z will enforce
a rigid aud exciting quarantine, as their
only possible defense against what is
generally believed to be the purposed
H., Efficiency and indiff' rrnce to yellow
fever of the Louisiana State Board OF
Health. -Nemphis Appeal
Queer Story OF a. Georgia Juror.
From the Elberton South.
IL was at Wilkes court, when a