Morning journal and courier., 1884-07-10
Board of Health.

Holding an Afternoon sessIOn-Secretary
 FOlger's Circular on the Prevention of
 the ChOler1-The Mortality Report for
 June-Th0 Second and Third Wards
 Unhealthy.
 At o'clock yesterday afternoon Dr. 0. A. Lindsley, Prof. Brewer, Dr. Bartlett, pr. Winchell and Clerk Whedon of the Board of Health met in the room of the Board to hold the meeting which was postponed from Tues day evening on account of the fireworks that didn't take place. Clerk Whedon read the following printed circular which has been sent out by the Secretary of the Treas ury concerning the prevention of cholera:
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
 OFFICE OF SECRETARY,
 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 2, 1884. } To collectors of customs:
 It has been brought to the attention of the department that persons from the infected districts of France are leaving in considera- ble numbers by other than French lines. You will therefore, require evidence that none of the baggage of immigrants or returning trav- elers has been shipped from the infected dis tricts since June 20, 1884. A certificate of the local quarantine officers. to the effect that 30 danger to the public health need be apprehended from allowing the landing ! of any passengers baggage, may be accepted | as entitling such traveller or immigrant to | land his effects.
 CHARLES J. Fo1GER. Secretary. The circular was ordered on file.
 Health Officer LindsIey reported that there ! had been 1O6 deaths iu June There was an
 unusually large number of deaths from dis ! eases of the nervous system, 23 persons hav- | ng died from those causes. Seventeen died \ of consumption, 16 of convulsions, of in- fammation of the brain, 4 of scarlet fever, ? ot l consumption, of typhoid fever, 1 of typho, ! malarial fever. Of the whole number 7S l were Americans, 39 of American parentage ' and 40 of foreign percentage. remarkable large number of deaths in the Third ward l 20. The greatest mortality was in the Sec. 1 ond and Third wards, the district the Board | is trying to sewer. This fact was comment. ! ed upon by Prof. Brewer, who remarked that ! those sections of the city would continue tc ' be unhealthy in all probability until they ! were properly provided with sewers. Prof Brewer said that 1t was surprising ! that there has been so little trouble with the measles, considering the great run that epi demic was having in New York where chil. | dren are dying in great numbers of the ! measles Health Officer Iindsley remarked V i the measles, but that the disease was not fatal here.
 Clerk Whedon reported the action of the Board of Aldermen on the matter of the Boards petition in reference to the over \ crowded and filthy tenement houses. He said that the petition had been referred tc ! the committee on ordinances and that Mayor Lewis had requested that the Board send rep. resentatives to the committee when it met. The cholera question was discussed some what. Health Officer Lindsley mentioned au account of the cholera appearing in Mime | sota in 1859, which he read in the New York Herald. Dr. Lindsley said that if the report was accurate it proved two things. One was the utter ineffectualness of duar> I antine measures, however strict, as | the disease was brought by i'm. [ migrants in their clothing. It also proved that the germs of the disease possessed con. siderable life and could be transmitted in the | atmosphere. The various members of the Board joined in discussing various points oi I the matter, and after deputipg the clerk to | investigate some objectionable privies in I Howe street, about which complaint had been made and Inspector Jackson had found ' to be dangerous, the Board adjourned, Prof Brewer reminding the members that the next ' meeting would be on next Tuesday, whether ! there were any fireworks billed for that night or not.