The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-01-28

with one Objectionable feature. He sug-
| gested that the ordinance be taken up
in sections, and it was SO ordered.
The ordinance submitted by the
board of health was then amended,
and adopted in the following shape:
BE it ordained by the board of al
| dermen of the city of Wilmington, and
it is hereby ordained by the authority
of the same. that
/. The chairman of the board of
health shall appoint not more than five
nor less than three physicians of this
city, who shall yaccinate all persons
within the limits of the corporation
without compensation. The institution
of this public service shall be Under the
| advisory control Of the board of health,
who shall see that the physicians en-
| ployed for the service are properly in
l Structed in the duties they assume anC
that they actively prosecute their
\ work. 1t shall be one of the duties of
| these physicians to make proper report
| of each days work on forms to be pro-
| yided for the urpose
| .. 1T is hereby also ordained that
any person or persons resisting the
service of vaccination as above pro-
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Upon themselves, their children or
wards, shall be reported to the mayor
by the public vaccinatOr in whose dis
| trict such person or persons shall re-
side; and such person or persons shall,
Upon this presentment, be arrested
and brought before the mayor, and if
convicted, shall fbe fined not more than
s., or be imprisoned not more than ten
days, or both, at the discretion of this
court.
3. TT is further provided by this or
dinance that any person may secure
| vaccination for him or herself and such
other persons as may be dependent
upon them from any physician of this
city, provided, however, that vaccina-
'tiOn must be lone Within fOrty-eight
hours after the visit of the public vac
c%inatOr, and that a certificate of such
vaccination from the physician doing
the work shall be at once sent in to
the superintendent or health's office
without further notice.
4. The public vaccinators snail be
governed by their own Judgment in the
enforcement of the fore eoing sections"
In the course of amending the ordi-
nance, Aldermen Walker, Green, Nor
| wood, Hewlett and Morrill, opposed
the ordinance as submitted by the
board of health, as going too far. AL
derman Green asked the mayor if vac
| cination was for smallpox only. He
was Informed i'm the affirmative and
then he asked how far back with per-
sons Wtho have been vaccinated the
| ordinance in tended to go, and if per
| sons who had had the smallpox years
| ago would lave to be vaccinated. He
said he had the smallpox years ago,
| and the mayor told him the physicians
would determine questions like he ask
ed.
Alderman Green's face is not pittted
| and he said it would be hard to make
the doctors believe The had had the
smallpox.
Alderman Keith asked the mayor
| abOut the status of the smallpox now
in the city.
Mayor Wright said there a been
only two cases. One would be dis
charged in a few days and the other
at the pest house would be out in two
or three weeks.
Before the ordinance was adopted DIR.
Mcmillan was called on to read the
state laws about smallpox and vaccina-
tiOn n The got the acts of 1898 and
read the law. He also read the city
ordinances requiring vaccination. DR..
Mcmillan also read the bulletin of the
national board of health to show how
the smallpox had spread in other
states. In Atlanta, up to January 18th,
there nave been 272 cases, of which 1876
have been discharged and 5 died, leav-
ing 131 cases are now ON under treat
ment. These cases originated in At
lanta from one case carried There by a
man from Birmin CHAM, Ala. In ALA
| bama there are five cities that have
smallpox, and it is reported in South
| Carolina and New York. He urged
this as a good reason why vaccination
is desirable in Wilmington, and es-
| pecially as two cases had already APP
| peared there. He said we We're lucky.
Only two very light cases frad appear
ed, n n of h patients would he
we'll by next Sunday ana ready for
work, and the other was getting along
very we'll.
DR.. Mcmillan stated that with per-
| sons not vaccinated the death rate with
| smallpox was not less than 33 per
cent, but with one, two, and three
| cicatrices the death rate had been re-
duced as low as Il Of a 1 per cent.
in we'll vaccinated cases. He said
drummers, travellers, train porters,
and even the seats in the cars can
bring SMALLPOX here.
When asked if the ordinance could