New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-12-16
THEY FiVOR A FEDERAL QUARANTINE.
LETTERS TO THE BOARD OF TRADE URGING A
NATIONAL SYSTEM

LETTERS TO THE BOARD OF TRADE URGING
NATIONAL SYSTEM
The Board OF Trade and portation has received
from Governor James +. Boyd Of Nebraska, q letter
In answer its inquiry concerning National Vuarati-
tine in which he SAYS 81 think In the projection OF
the public health there cannot be too f1gid quarail-
tine enforced during the coming year The World
Fair at Chicago may be somewhat damaged thereby
and in making tho quarantine regulations this should
be kept In view. 1t Is o matter we'll understood that
infection OF contagious diseases are conveyed from
foreign ports mainly by Storage passengers An act
which would exclude this class OF immigration for one
year might serve the desired end"
Dr. G. s. COverly president Of the State BoaN Of
Health writes in favor OF National Quarantine.
j. Crawford Nelson, OF the Maryland state Board OF
Health SAYS: would advocate National adminstra
ton believing that it would afford the security which
should be the object of the whole system.'
Dr. Joseph Holt expresident of the Louisiana State
Board OF HEALTH who drafted the National Quarantine
lii introduced In the House Of Representatives on
December = by Mr. Rayner. OF Maryland, says among
other things The existing guarantees In the United
States, whole, dlsointcd and utterly without
system in method Of application, period OF detention.
cost OF equipment schedule OF charges. restrictions i'm
posed commerce and travel, and security offered
Tnder the present status the guarantees offer most
desirable and sometimes rich offices In the distribution
OF local political favors. That pestilence filters through
these goasyoupoase State guarantees Is not at all
strange reasonably TO be expected, and further
more long this vital trust is in State hands there
is no remedy for the present status
In answer to the questions "Word a NATIONAL
quarantine lessen the existing imposts upon COM
merce ," "WOuld restrictions upon commerce ana
travel lie less injurious" and Would 1t afford In
creased security to the country " he answers Under
n properly organized Bureau Of HEALTH established In
the United States Treasury Department, having its
limits clearly defined while granted penary powers
within It's normal field of action properly safe-guarded
in strictly Federal functions. at point In FRACTIONAL
contact with the internal police powers OF the states,
and non partisan under such National organization,
III, reply to each OF these inquiries is Unequivocay,
yesr
DR.. Arthur Lakewood. OF the Michigan State Board
OF Health, says: The authority Of quarantine sbOul
come from the general Government, that 1t may he
respected and obeyed by ALL"
President E. C. jordan, Of the Maine State Board Of
Health. writes among other things Can there be
any doubt but what National Administration would
insure rule, greater intelligence and, above all,
the great merit Of uniform practice compared with
n state or local administration am safe In stating
that the state Board Of Health OF Maine avors AMI
urges the establishment of a National Quarantine
system"