Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-28
HEALTH MATTERS.

Meeting of the State Board of Health
 Dr. LindsleytO Go Go C1neinnatI-A
 BIlI Co Provide for a Central Bureau
 of Health at WashInGt0n-Epfde
 of Dtphtherfa in MIddleSex County.
 The State board of health held it's second quarterly meeting in Dr. O. P. Lindsley's office yesterday afternoon. All the mem- bers were present.
 The health bill now before Congress came up for discussion. It provides for bureau of health and 8 commission to be put in charge of it in the department of the In- terior. The bill relates to the exclusion of infectious epidemics from the country.
 Dr. Lindsley offered preamble to the resolution already before Congress which was unanimously passed by the board. It is as follows:
 Whereas, The history of epidemic diseases in this country has established the fact
 That adequate protection of the public cannot be confidently relied upon through the voluntary pre- cauti ions of local maritime quarantine establish ments;
 That despite existing quarantine regulations, as eo% fser n ss sGdsd Ss ssr lance and been directly imported; that such quar- tained chiefly in the impsrfectiy equipped, and at best only partially efficient under the stimulus of an immediate threatened invasion of an epidemic; and
 Whereas, it is the belief of the board that suc- cessfu exclusion of the epidemic diseases of for eign countries cannot be accomplished by the separate and independent efforts of the local health authorities at the several ports of entry but that such most desirable result is only possible the
 product of concerted and united efforts based upon
 broad and comprehensive views of all the conditions and circumstances involve cd in the undertaking and Whersas, The benefits of quarantine are not ex-
 clSVely local but the interest of the whole countrythere is sufficient and the welfare of thePnation demands that the protection of the pub
 c health from the danger of invasion of infectious epidemcs be placed under appropriate depart nent of the general goVernrnent ltherefore be it Resolved, That the State board of health of Con- necticut respectfully urge upon our senators and
 and vote to establish bureau of public health with
 ample authority and funds to administer such de- partment properly.
 | Resolved, That we endorse the provisions of H. | R. bill 1,5s6, Fiftieth Congress, first session. | The board appointed Dr. Lindsley as del ! egate to attend national conference of State \ boards to be held in Cincinnati next month. Dr.Wilson reported that there is an, epi- demic of diphtheria in the County Home for | county Out of the thirty-six children ! twenty have the diphtheria. The mildness | of the disease is evidenced by the fact that no deaths have resulted. The sanitary con- ditions of the home are fairly good. The | plumbing is poor, and the ventilation not | what it ought to be.
 Several communications from registrars in | various parts of the State were read. Ques- l tions were asked relative the disinterment of bodies which were bun ] without certif- | cates of death having been made out. I The board decided that registrar has no right to amend the methods of his predeces- sor, and he could amend his own only when in office