Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-12
RULES FOR RAILP

Action TO Be Taken Whtg
Seized With ChoIers IN a Passenger Is
the Inspection of Try Regulations for
Drinking Wate- ms and Steamboats,
DR.. Lee in = Be Boiled.
- he Sc of his remarks read
&c following order issued by the State Board
of Health at its meeting last week, and sent
to all traEsportations companies in the State:
Notice is hereby given to the officers of all
transportation companies, whether by land
or by water, that any transportation COM
pany shall be declared contraband of quar-
antinej which shall introduce, land or
transport within the borders of this Com
TC0nwealth Of Pennsylvania any person
snfTering from Asiatic cholera or cholerine
"Ad), or any person who shall develop
ase within four full days after
en- so introduced, transported or
thin the borders of said Common
such company.
road company be thus declared
-,Hora band OF quarantine its trains shall be
stopped at the State line and held until in
spected by an inspector of this board and
declared by him free from the danger of
conveying the contagion of Aslatic cholera
into this Commonwealth.
II q steamboat, canal or other navigation
company, its boats shall not be allowed to
enter any dock, tie up at any wharf or by
any means land passengers, baggage or mer-
cnandise until it has undergone like inspec-
ton and been declared free from danger of
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
AS the same meeting the following order.
requiring additional precautions against
lhe introduction and spread of cholera, was
issued TO the transportation companies:
The State Board OF Health of the Common
wealth of1PennsylVania orders:
First-That all water closets and urinals
ln cars be provided with proper water-tight
receptacles for retaining deposits instead of
allowing them TO fall on the tracks and thus
eudanper water supplies said receptacles to
contain disinfectanUs, and to be renewed at
certain intervals in such places and in such
manner as may be determined upon for the
most perfect protection against infection.
The adoption or the precaution should be
begun with second-class and immigrant
cars, and extended as rapidly as possible to
first-class cars.
Second-Should the discharges of the sick
fall upon seats, floors or platforms OF cars
DR. stations, they should first be diSinfected
and then removed in closed buckets and the
soiled places then disinfected and thor
Cughly cleaned.
Third-An cars coming from infected
places shall be disinfected before sweeping,
and the sweepinCs disin fected and burned.
Fourth-Al water closets ana urinals In
steamboats, and canal boats shall be pro-
vided with proper water-tfght receptacles
for retaining deposits, instead of allowing
1hem to fall into the water, which is in most
-.etances the supply of drinking water for
--eT of population. Such receptacles
vs. contain disinfectants ana shall
at the end of each trip in such
d in such place as may be desig
he local authorities
/ accumulation of filthy clothing
- shall be at once disinfected and
burned.
Sfxth-ShouId cholera become epidemic
the drinking water furnished for the use OF
passengers should be boiled and so far as
possible should not be obtained from places |
~ which the disease exists. By order OF the |
Board, BENJAMIN L. LEE,
Secretary and Executive Officer.