The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-26

/ the rules and REGULATIONS Gover1ms sens ~
sn.d they Will be required TO conform 70 -. y
I rtrles prescribed By the conference Of 9nil
I st,te besalb officers at New Orleans FEB
rt,ary .. 1894 governing the frtst trade.
TExARKANA.
| ,ro,,rd state that at Teaarkans. one G
our nsost important stations, Dr.. ]. W
| Talbot was IN charge. ami he discnarget
ore duties of his post efhcientiy ana ~
economically as possible under the foiiow
ing circumstances:
a. Texarkana there is heavy railroad
traffic into our State; large number o
trains, both passenger and freight, from
| inherited DISTRICTS had 10 be inspected
daily: express matter and bills OF la1ins
I had 70 be examined :.oaths hal to be az
/ minfstered to hundreds of passengers .
| large nuirlbsr OF perpons were detid 9 ~
detention camps; all OF which made 70
! expense there very heavy, but not exees
/ siye for ne amount or work done and The
1 number OF guards and inspectors apo
4 iutely necessary 10 transact the o'isthess
of the station.
STATIONS.
Owing 10 the short time in which have
1 had to make this report and the press OF
business since have been in Office, nave
4 not been able to make a personal inspec-
! tion of tbs c0asc quarantine STATIONS.
| can not make as full end complete relois
| OF Their condition and wants as ! would
like, but the officers in charge OF the st1-
| tons report that many repa!Is are needed
On tlhn buildings and boats. VIII men,
| ton, however, that at our railroad deten-
lion camps we are sadly in neei OF suit
able buildings, when threatened with the
| Introduction Of contagious diseases, ios
1 sucn care and projection Of Tersons taken
rrom the cars, to bo held in detention, Us
| is contemplated ia the quarintirfe laws,
| which provides that persons held in QUAR-
| amrine or detention camps be fed and coM-
| fortably sheltered ut the expense OF the
| state. We nave no buildings OF any kid
| at Texarkans, Waskum, Loganeport and
| the Pit:sburg and Gulf Sabine river cross
ing, and it has not been possible for the
| state health officer 10 furnish suc4 ac-
commentators as the public might expeci.
| from the express provisions of the quarln-
tine law, which is as follows:
Article 1929. 1t shall be the duty Of the
| State health officer to furnish persons de-
| tatned by him with necessary shelser and
subsistence (not including crews OF YES.
sells. except such as are removed by the
quarantine officers from infected vessels)
and TO provide all other things essential
for the protection and comfort of those
held ia Quarantine and all such expenses,
authorized By the State health officer and
approved by the governor, snail be paid by
the State"
Great oomlfa.nt has been made to the
State health officer on account OF persons
having been taken off the cars and kept in
tents in cold and rainy weathsr. when the
law provides that proper shelter shall be
rim. hn for ha
reason that there has not been a sufficient
amount OF money appropriated Indeed,
there Rave been threats of suits for dam
ages and injuries to health of persons 50
Gletained / would suggest an appropriation
of $4,000, 10 be usei as follows: To pur-
chase or lease lc'ts on which to erect suit
able buildings at Texarkana. Waskum. Lo-
gIansport, and at the p. G. Sabine river
crossing; TO erect suitable houses and fence
in yards around said houses: to provide q
good cypress cistetn at each of sad houses.
Tbs amount to be distributed as follows:
Three Thousand dollar5 for Texarknna.
$500 for Waskum. $500 for Loganspurt,
$500 for p. G. Sabine river crossing, and
$500 for cooking utensils, stoves, cots and
bedding for the above mentioned places.
Our tisinfeoing warehouse at Galveston
has become in a great measure useless.
When the warehouse was built we had deep
water at the wharf and vessels were
have steam pumps. bichloride Of mercury
tanks. and furnaces for generating sulphut-
Gus gas, and so arranged that disinfectants
can be forced In every apartment of the
vessel being fumigated, so that even a YES
sci aotusdly infected can be made perfectly
fres rf infection in six or eight hours.
And wish to explain that We can no
Longer use this portion of our plant, for
the reason that the water has become SO
slhsllow in front Of the warehouse that
vessels can no longer come to the wharf.
This condition Is due 10 the fact that the
jeBies constructed TO secure deep water at
GALVESTON have so changed the currents
iIh,at sand and mud have been deposited In
flcnt OF our warehouse. 1t would be use
less to dredge for deep water there be-
cause the s@me current would FIJI 1t again.
The gieiateS protection and safeguard in
keeping yellow fever out of a seaport city
is TO see that every vessel that is allowed
to enter Is made perfectly clean and free
from infection before she is allowed to en-
ter. and this can not be done without a
proper plant and machinery with which to
do 1t. | would therefore recommend that
suitable f,lintgating barge. such as is
used n many places, be purchased FOR use
Mt Galveston. These barges have every
thing complete on them, and are kept an
chordi at the quarantine grounds, with a
crew en- board, ready at any time TO disin-
r.ct any vessel that is placed In quarantine.
II Is tine safest and best plan that can be
devised for iisinfoating vessels. DR.. Swear
lngen has bean advocating this plan for the
last fcdIr years and tho money should be
appropriated, and the barge bought and
placed in readiness for use at once at Gal
WESTON. as the shipping from the tropics is
increasing so much and the danger of in
fection from this source so great that 1t
will bs necessary to have a barge OF this
kind 70 properly disinfsct THE vessels that
come TO Galveston. This matter should he
Investigated as early as possible, so as to
have the barge ready far use next summer.
Thts barge can be had. with everything
complete for dlslnfecting. for SIS, 1000 and
II she is coppered she VIII last for years
with good care and attention.
To show the importance of Galveston, |
would state that, although the sh piping
and commerce OF Galveston was greatly
impaired by the war with Spain, dur ng
the last two years to December l. 1898,
there were 1893 ships boarded and Ia
spected by our quarantine officer Mt that
port and 1896 persons were inspected and
landed.
STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURES.
The expenditures embraced in this re-
port necessarily cover . part of three ap-
preparation years.
The appropriation for the year ending
February 2s. 1897, was found 70 be SUI
llcient, as predicted by my predecessor 4,