The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-04-08
ALL NOT HARMONIOUS
In the Health Conference.-The Mississippi
Delegates Hold u Meeting,

New YoRK, April 7.-It has been evil
dent from the beginning that all was
not harmonious in the delegates to the
board OF health conference, The dis.
content eliminated this morning in a
meeting OF the sanitary council for the
Mississippi valley.
The meeting, which was held at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, grew out OF the
feeling that the national conference at.
tempted to unite interests too various
and to harmonize too many conflicting
authorities. DR.. Hewitt stated at yes
tefday's meeting that the generalities
and platitudes that only could result
from attempting 10 cover the entire
country and Canada was not what was
wanted in face OF the gravity of the
situation, Tho result was that a spe.
Clal meeting Of the sanitary council OF
the Mississippi valley was called. The
territory embraced includes twenty-five
states and takes in the country between
Minnesota and Louisiana on the north
and south and Iowa and Eastern Penn
sylyanla east and west.
Twelve OF the fifteen representatives
attended the meeting. Resolutions
were adopted, requesting that the sur
geon general Of the marine hospital
service make thorough investigation
OF the cholera question, and II the fact
seems to Justify it that the case be laid
before the authorities Ia Washington,
and the President be asked to prohibit
immigration either in whole or in part.
This evening the regular session OF
the international conference took place.
DR.. Reilly read his much talked Of re-
port in which he touched on what Chi
cago had done and was doing In tho way
Of cleaning herself up for the tair. In
the course OF his report he said: "Dur-
ing the past fifteen months q great
amount Of effective sanitary work has
been done in the city OF Chi
cago. Its health department, al
though hampered by a vicious
system Of political control Of It's
employees and by inadequate appropri-
ationS, have made record in this pc.
riod which is more than creditable.
Its pEobable efficiency in the event Of
an outbreak Of cholera may be inferred
from its unparalleled record in dealing
with the small pox. Notwithstanding
the frequent introducttons Of the dis
ease in 1902, in no instance was
spread OF the contagion from any given
first case to another person.
As TO cholera, the department has
mnde ample provision for isolation, dis.
infection OF premises, surveillance OF
those exposed, and care OF the patient;
and there Is no obvious reason why 1t
should no be successful In dealing with
a cholera outbreak should such unfor-
tunately occur, as it has been in dealing
with outbreaks OF smallpox.
The Chicago water supply, concern
ing which there were serious grounds
for apprehension during the completion
OF what Is known as the four mile tun-
mel; is now claimed by competent OK
perts TO be the best OF any large city in
the world. To this general claim, how
ever, exception must be made to the
supply furnished to the Hyde Park dis.
trict Owing to unavoidable delay in
the extension OF the Hyde Park tunnel
the projected distance, this supply is at
times and in varying degrees, affected
by slow contamination.
10 guard against this danger all the
water furnished from this source to the
Worlds Fair grounds Is sterllized by
the Pasteur process. A supply from
the Waukesha springs has been piped
to the grounds and vicinity, and the
feasibility OF extending connection to
the Hyde Park system and the four
mile tunnel supply is now being inyes-
tigated. II this can be done the Hyde
Park tunnel supply could DO aban.
doned pending the completion OF the
tunnel extension, the date for which 10
now fixed at June 15