The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1891-1893, 1893-03-17
CONFER ENUEsN WASHINGTON.
The uaratiEne Quarantine Officers
Convened Yesterday.

WASHINGTDN, Match 10 -Ihe con
ference Of the r1aratime quarantine 9TH /,
cars and the officers Of the marine hos
Dit,l service convened at noon today at
the Office If Supervising Surgeon General
Wym4n, OF the marine hospital service
The object Of the conference is to secure
90 operation in state and local maritime
quarautine officers in adopting set Of
Uniform quarantine regulations IN order
that along the entire coast there may be
concert and uniformity of quarantine
during the coming summer, when cholera
nay visit this country. When thesa
equations are agreed upon DR.. Wyman
viii asG tie treasury department 10 sane
tiOn a0d promu,gate them. Those
present from outside cities were DIR
Samuel Fl. Durgin, port physician of
Bot m; DR. Frank w Wight, health
tic.r OF New Haven, Coma; Dr.. A
Clark Hunt, reprc .euting the state beard
# health OF Nav Jersey; Dr.. Benjamin
Lee. secretary OF the state board of
health Of Pennsy lvania; Moses Veale,
james 2 McShsne, commissioner
of he'll h st Baltimore, Maryland;
| Dc William A Tnom, quarantine cfficer
Norfolk, Va; DR.. H. B Horlbeck,
| heslh officer, Charl6s'on, S @; DR..
w Fl Brunner, hea tn officer, Savannah,
| ga Dr. s. r Oiiphant, president of
hesAh of Louisiana, and Dr. r M
! Swearluger, sate health stficer OF Texas.
Dr. jenkins, the quarantine officer at
NV Yc,k. telegraphed that be had been
8etaucd bv reason Of his visit to Albany,
our would be here today The officers
in the other Atlantic and Gulf coast
States accepted the invitation to be pres
ent. bur hsva not arrived as yet
Drs j Y. Porter, heallh off ,er of
florida; Wiiiars Springer, port pyslclan,
4 Wilmington Delaware. and W. @
Curtis. quar- ntine tficer, at Wilmingto ton,
n G. 4; he quarantine also took part in
the confert nee, and DR., Wyman opened
me confere ce in an address in which he
5 ated lts purpose. The act of the last
session of Congress establishing add
f,oual qu4ra ltiue laws was explained by
him lie said that it was made tie duty
If the supervising surgeon gen
eral under DIRE C ion Of the secretary OF
treasurer to care for the quarantine ser
vice, to examine the State and local quar-
ant'ne eguiatioDs, aud TO CO operate with
the local author,t es in their execution
and where the local or State regulation
we're insufficient to supplement then
with additional regulations The regu
latiOns were TO be u1lfOrm, and were no
10 discriminate against any port or place
At tie present the regulations were no
un,form, and were not always WRITER
rggula IONS Ia order that the servlc
m ont learn what were tle rules at tn
various ports, and in order that the
might be uniformed, he had reqaeste'
! the ), cretary of the Treasury to have
conference held A system Of rules ha
been framed by the officers of the Marin
Hospital service to serve as basis 10
t1elr deliberations.
. Only mall number Of persons ha
been invited as it WAS thought thi
: would insure greater effect veness In IN
Z .lr. an;. n ,souing il .lla tlons they ha
oeen lmiged 10 persons actually engage
= Ia or directly connected with quayantin
work The regulations as heretofor
! framed conaist on the preamble Stain
. u what ports quarantine stations shoul
,e equipped with al appliances and ia,
: after port inspection st stions should
: maintained and the perod of manter
ace The equations define the equi
= meGt OF stations. st >te what evils shuu
oe IN pected, how they should be trestt
: il the disc ases are found ahead, made
tn treatment Of specific diseases, prop
> made Of disinfectlon, etc. Special rul
: are made with reference to quarar I'll
:, or cholera and yeitow fever. hegul
= tons were read SECTION by section al
!. were freely discussed The discussi
- was conducted in an entirely friend
1s tone Throughout The meeting W
~ harmonious and will be continued t
= a satisfactory set Of regulations are N
lie .uaily agreed upon