Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-07-16
The Annual TRADE On the
Louisiana Board of Health.
Nav Orleans States. l9.


We notice that number of the
papers in the Mississippi valley are
beginning their usual summer clamor
about yellow fever, the unreliability
Of the Louisiana State Board of
Health, etc The Vicksburg Herald,
Of the 18th inst, has about as wild
ind ally an article In this line as we
have seen in a respectable newspaper
IN many months. DR.. Jones and his
little coterie of banana-eaters, shotgun
guarantees and batteries ordered out
by the Governor of Mississippi to
boot the yellow fever germs from
New, Orleans, dance and gallOp through
the columns of our contemporary
ike incoherent and senseless fans
cies through maniac's brain
and yet there is not, and has not beon,
single case OF yellow fever in New
Orleans this summer; the death rate
has been, and is now, as low as that Of
any city in the Union, the most rigid
quarantine is being enforced at all the
approaches to the city, our sanitary
Association is expanding, in the most
judicious manner, large sums OF money
TO aid the authorities in cleaning and
keeping clean the streets-nothing, in
short, is left undone to protect New
Orleans and the valley of the Missis.
sippi against an invasion by yellow
fever.
In view Of these facts such utter
ances as those of the Vicksburg Her
aid appear either malicious or
disgustingly silly. DIR. Jones
and the board over which he
presides believe strongly in the
efficacy Of quarantine. and are
theoretically acting on their cOnvic
tons. The assaults upon him and the
Louisiana Board are of a character
with those which were kept up against
DR.. Chopin and she preceding Board,
and which, BY Destroying confidence
abroad in their integrity and compe.
tency, inflicted incalculable loss upon
the business men OF the city; and il
DR.. Jones and his associates were to
resign or be removed to morrow, any
physicians or persons who might be
appointed to succeed them, would be
Immediately assailed IN like manner to
The injury Of this city The fact is,
there reseFtaip papers, hysieia1s aud
organizations that are determined to
representing State Board Of Health Of
Louiaiaaa, let Il he composed of WHOM
it may, As unworthy Of nnh .,ic conf.
qenee, ana as incapable of performing
the duties imposed upon it. Nothing
indeed, will please the alarmists ard
sensationalists but the revival Of that
national fraud, the National Board
Of Health, or the destruction of the
commerce of this city by shot-gua
quarantine. This latter evil they have
in their power to inhict upon us, The
masses OF the people contemplate
yellow fe15r with a terror that lit
orally renders them insensible to rea.
son. The most absurd falsehoods are
accepted, and the lies of any sensa~
tionalist outweigh facts attested by the
ablest and best Of men; hence, all that
is necessary to rally a shotgun quar>
antine is, first to weaken public conf
denoe in the veraoity Of the Louisiana
Board of Health, and next, to oircu
late through the country the malicious
lines of spectators, or The wild stories
Of frightened old cronies.
Every effort should now be made to
establish confidence in the Beard of
Health Of this State, in the interest of
the commerce Of this city as we'll as
for the welfare OF the people of this
whole valley. But unfortunately there
appears TO be a determined purpose to
destroy that confidence, aud when
that is accomplished, it is easy to pre-
dict the consequences,