The Meridional. (Abbeville, La.) 1856-1906, 1898-10-08
Some Quarantine Hnmbug.

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Franklin is concerned. This IS the
proper method of quarantine bottle
up the places where the fever exists
and let the balance Of the world go
free. Now that New Orleans IS IN
fected with the fever, why don't the
State Board Of Health bottle her up.
All who desire can 90 in, but none
come out. This would be effective
and allay all alarm and fear.
The question will soon arise. have
we a commercial Board Of Health or
q protective Board of Health?
Vicious animals are always Gagged
40 let our august State Board 81
Health cage the contagion where u
exists. and not have the people hun
dreds of miles away standing sentinel
awaiting the approach of the enemy.
-.sCommon Sense IN Town Talk.
When the yellow fever first made
its appearance in Franklin, we were
Immediately bottled up by the state
Board of Health, without any ar
engagements having previously been
made for US to ship lumber, etc. But
when the State Board finally an
nounced that fever existed in New
Orleans, provisions were Immediately
made for the shipment OF goods,
which is now being done in accord
ance with the regulations adopted at
Atlanta, thus it appears that the
Board of Health is favoring New Or
leans. as it certainly did nothing for
Franklin in the way of making ar
ranoements for our mills to ship lum-
Der. If Franklin must be bottled up,
so should New Orleans.-St. Mary
Banner.
Ticking the above extracts as our
text we desire to say something's the
practical workings of the new law
governing Boards OF Health. 1t is
plainly evident that the old style OF
shot gun quarantine was both cruel
and destructive. 1t was bat proper
that there should he some uniform
and reasonable limitation Of the pow
ers of local health boards, for past
experience demonstrates that when
Post Oak, Coon Fork, Lickskillet,
Postum Hollow and Punhinylle al
rear up on their hind legsaand declars
d Quarantine agin world we truly
J have confusion worse confounded.
| But grave as this evil be, it is cues
| tionable whether the dominant idea
that it is the duty of State Board Of
Health to protect these localities
against their own desires is not Of
even more gravity.
1t is no open secret that the ..busi-
ness interests of New Orleans" is the
chief object of solicitude with present
State Board of Health. Under Pres
ident Souehon's liberal interpreta-
ton of the Atlanta resolutions, the
business district Of New Orleans is
not to be considered as infected
Hence anything you want is shipped
ont of New Orleans without further
question. If the yellow feversbreaks
out at Post Oak, however, the State
Board of Health promptly declares
quarantine against the whole parish
though it may be sixty miles square,
and every business interest within its
borders is bottled up. You can't gel
a carload of lumber from Franklin OF
Patterson, although the Atlanta regu-
lations say the contagion of yellow
fever q not be conveyed by such .
medium, for the entire parish is ii
quarantine, but you a get a bundle
of blankets or a case of woolens from
New Orleans, forsooth, because there
is an imaginary line of demarkatior
which excludes the infected region
Nor is this all. If Jim Brown {
prominent citizen Of Punkinville, goes
to New Orleans, no matter II he only
visits the sacred confines of the .sbusi.
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