The leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1895-1905, 1897-09-15

w. H. SEAvEY, City Clerk. Mayor.
Yellow Fever Quarantine Regulations
Adopted.
At special meeting of the Mayor
and Board of Aldermen of the city of
Brookhaven, Mississippi, held at the
Mayors office in said city ON Friday,
Sept. 10th, 1897, at $3.50 o'clock p. m.,
according to law, there were
Present-His Honor, J. b. Daughtry,
Mayor of said city Aldermen Seavey,
Cohn, Perkins, Schnorrenberg and
Moreton. Absent-none.
The following is a copy of the call
for said meeting and the subject mat
ter to be acted upon.
MAYORS OFFICE, BRooKHAvEN, Miss,
September 10, 1897.
To Aaron Hurst, Marshal:
This is to command you to summon
A. Cohn, A. E. Moreton, Chas. Schnor-
renberg, G. B. Perkins and w. H. Sea
vey, aldermen of said city, to appear at
the Mayors office in said city to hold
special meeting of the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen on Friday, Sept.
10, 1897, at $3.50 o'clock p. m., to meet
the State Board of Health and make
some provisions about quarantine, and
to have this summons then and there.
Witness my hand this Sept. 10, 1897.
(Signed) j. b. DAUGHTRY, Mayor.
The following return made on same
Executed the within notice by sum-
moning G. B. Perkins, A. E. Moreton,
Chas. Schnorrenberg, A. Cohn and w.
III. Seavey. The above summons was
executed three hours before the time
to meet.
This Sept. 10, 1897.
(Signed) A. HURST, Marshal.
His Honor, the Mayor, stated the OBJ
ject of the meeting was to take some
action for the prevention and spread
of yellow fever which is reported to be
almost epidemic at Ocean Springs
Miss. Thereupon, DR.. j. F. Hunter
Secretary of the Mississippi State
Board of Health, DR.. o. b. Quin, mem
Der of said board and DIR. j. w. Ben
nett, county health officer, and Drs. J.
H. johnson, G. A. Barber, J. Wesley
Martin and J. T. Butler, physicians of
standing and prominence, after having
carefully examined the rules and regu-
lations adopted by the State Board of
Health, recommended that they were
amply sufficient in every detail to car
ry out and put into effect such safe
guards as the city should adopt.
Wherefore, on motion duly seconded,
be it ordained by the Mayor and Board
of Aldermen of the city of Brookha-
ven, Miss, That the rules and regula-
tions as submitted and adopted by the
State Board of Health for the preven-
tion and spread of yellow fever, be and
the same are hereby adopted by the
Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the
city of Brookhaven, Miss, for the
health and good government of said
city, and are as follows
JACKSON, MISS, Sept. 10, '97.
In order to make quarantine regula-
tions the same on all lines entering the
State of Mississippi, the following
rules will apply
All persons destined to points in
Mississippi; all persons passing through
the State of Mississippi and all en-
ployees of railroads and common car
riers running through the State, when
such employees run to and from New
Orleans, or through towns declared to
be infected by yellow fever, must be
provided with certificate from some
reputable physician that they have not
been exposed to yellow or other conta-
gious fevers within ten days prior to
the issuance of such certificate. If
such certificate is issued by a physi-
clan of New Orleans, his signature
must be attended by an authorized rep
resentation of the Board of Health of
New Orleans. Persons not able to Sc
cure certificates by reason of being
strangers must make affidavit before a
notary to the effect that they have not
been in any town or place infected by