Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-17
A STATE QUARANTINE
Arranged by Pennsylvania's Board
of Health Committee.
BIG WORK FOR MONEYLESS MEN
An Effective Means of Shutting Out Cholera
at State Lines.
ALL RAILRoADOFFICIALS COOPERATING
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPATcH.1
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 16.-[ Special. J.
The Committee on Sanitary Supervision of
Passenger Traffic met to-day at the office of
DR.. Benjamin Lee, Secretary of the State
Board of Health. The object of the meet
ing was to arrange the details of inspection
work on the State border, especially the in
spection of immigrants There were pres
ent besides the members of the Board,
William j. Latta, General Agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad; Van Smith, Super
intendent of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road; DR.. Morris, physician of the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad; James Pot
ter, the Philadelphia manager of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad DR.. Charles Nc
Intyre, of Easton, Medical Inspector of the
Lehigh district; DR.. William B. Atkinson,
Medical Inspector of the Delaware district,
and DR.. Henry Lehman, chemical and
psychological analyst to the State Board
of Health.
1t was found that there was quorum of
of the board present, and special meeting
of the board was held with Howard Murphy
as the Chairman.
Lots of Work to Do, and No Money.
The first problem which confronted the
board was the necessity for undertaking a
large amount of work which it is entirely
without the means to prosecute. To meet
this emergency, it is stated that if the Gov
ernor cannot provide the funds private in
dividuals will be found ready to provide it.
1t was thought advisable to make an appeal
to the public-spirited citizens of Philadel-
phia, and the Secretary was accordingly in
structed to request Mayor Stuart to call a
meeting of leading citizens for consultation
with the board, in order to devise means for
meeting the emergency. The time of the
meeting will be determined by DIR. Lee,
after conference with the Mayor.
The committee then reconvened. In re-
gard to the railway inspectors it was de-
cided that they should all be reputable
physicians, of widened and extended expe-
rience, and that each should be provided
with suitable badge.
Inspection Stations to Be Established.
The following inspection stations will be
established at once: Morrisville, opposite
Trenton; Easton, State line on the northern
border and State line on the southern bor-
der.
The mode of procedure will be for the
inspector to board each train at a point as
far distant as possible from the State
border, and where practical, inspect the
immigrants before they enter the trains.
This would be possible with immigrants to
Philadelphia from New York, when the
inspection could be made at Jersey City.
The inspectors will be required to ac-
company the train to the State border, and
if no suspicious case is developed, to punch
the certificate of each passenger and in
dorse it on the back. If a case of ch olera
occurs in transit the car will be side-tracked
at the most convenient point, and left in
charge of the New Jersey authorities. If
near the border of this State similar action
is to be'taken at point inside the State
line which has been decided upon as
quarantine hospital station.
The Arrangements for Quarantine.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has already
made arrangements for o quarantine station
at point this side eff Morrisville. The in
spector of the board on the Southern border
is now at Cumberland making arrangements
with the officials of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad in that citv.
DR.. Town, one of the surgeons of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, has tor some time
held the appointment of special inspector
to the State Board of Health for this end of
the road. He has during the past few
weeks destroyed by fire large accumulations
of unclaimed baggage, clothing and bed
ding, which has been left not only at the
Philadelphia station, but at points all owe
the State. He was to-day given authority
also to destroy personal effects, clothing,
bedding, ETC., in transit, which by their
filthy condition might prove breeding
place for cholera germs.