The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1897-09-18
STRINGENT MEASURES
Adopted by tho Police jury of
Lafayette Parish.
Sheriff Broussard Appointed
Warden and Will Try to Keep
Out Yellow Jack.

Warden and Will Try to Keep
Out Yellow Jack.
LAFAYETTE, La, Sept. ID, 1897.
The Police Jury met THIS day
pursuant Is sail by the president
with the following :2smbers present:
r. c. Landry, Ben A*a2t 1no. E.
Primeaux, Alonzo Lacy, c. u.
Brown and NJ Billeaud, Jr. Absent:
Alfred Hebert and Jno. Whiting
ton, Jr.
BY motion, duly made and car
1ied, the Police Jury resolved itself
into Board Of Health as follows: By
virtue of the powers vested in the
Police Juries of the various parishes
of the State under act 60 of 1852,
be it enacted, that the president
and members of the Police Jury of
the parish of Lafayette do hereby
constitute themselves a Board of
Health under the following rules
and regulations and the officers of
the jury are hereby elected to serve
in their respective capacities on the
Landry, president; R. G. Greig,
secretary.
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
I. The coroner and parish ply
sician, DR.. A. r. Trahan, is here
by appointed health officer for the
parish of Lafayette, and is en-
powered and instructed to carry into
effect all ordinances, rules and re-
gulations, now in force or that may
hereafter be adopted by this Board
of Health.
z. 1t shall be the duty of the
health officer, to inform himself
thoroughly as to the introduction
Of any and all infectious or conta
gious diseases into the parish of
Lafayette; as to the presence and
progress of any such disease or
diseases at all points infected or
where an epidemic of any kind is
reported as prevailing or where in
dividual cases have occurred or
hereafter may occur and he shall
adopt such measures and precau
tons as the rules of the Board of
Health may provide and in case of
Of any emergency be shall act for
the moment as his judgment may
determine.
:. In case of the occurrence of
any infectious or contagious disease
Or diseases anywhere in the State
the health officer is required to
adopt stringent measures of quar-
antine as may be deemed most ef-
ton Of any such disease from the
this end, he shall atIthe proper time
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president of the Board establish
quarantine guards to enforce the
rules and regulations of this ordi-
nance.
d. 1t shall be the duty of the
health officer to carefully investi
gate all sources of danger to the
public health from collections of
filth, or other nuisances and to
adopt prompt and stringent mea-
sures for the abatement of the
same.
s. In case of any danger from
the introduction of any infectious
or contagious disease or diseases,
or if any infected clothing or goods
should threaten the public health in
in any Police Jury ward of this par
ish, then and in such case the
Police Juror representing such ward
it empowered to act promptly for the
suppression of such danger and it
shall be his duty to report the facts
SO the Health officer without delay.
The president was authorized to
confer with the health officer and
to establish if necessary a pest
house for the isolation of any per-
son or persons who are afflicted or
GREATER may become afflicted with
any infectious or contagious disease.
The president was empowered to
act in conjunction with the authori-
ties of the town of Lafayette in all
measures necessary to preserve the
public health.
I. BY motion of Mr.. Brown, the
was adopted: Resolved
that a strict quarantine be and is
hereby established against New Or
leans, and all places infected with