The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1899-06-24
State Sanitary Association.

rymple in the Chair.
Over twenty new members were
elected including the Presiden,
and members of the faculty of the
University, Chevis of the Advo
cate, and Gen ,Jastrnmski.
The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year
President, Dr.. Dupree, Baton
Rouge; Dr>, John n Thomas
Il. Matas, W. G. Owen, Ran
dolphe' and DalrympIe. Col. +. 2.
Stubs; DR.. Lastrapes, Treasll-
rsr; DR.. Mayer, Secretary.
DR.. Mayer offered the following
which was carried unanimously i:
Whereas, anthrax (charbon) has
again re-appeared in several parts
of the State;
Resolved. That this body re-
commend. the various police jul
ries in the infected areas to take
immediate action in the enactment
and enforcement of laws to vacci-
nate stock with anthrax vaccine,
and for their removal, under SAN
itary precautions, with ultimate
destruction by fire of all carbon
Gus carcasses, where feasible, or
such other disposition as W i'll tend
to restrict the spread of the di-
sease.
The Glee Club then rendered
a magnificent chorus.
DR.. Mayer then read Il paper on
Consumption; Is 1t Heredi-
tary % He reviewed the litera-
ture of the subject from lsocra-
ties, Aristotle and Galen; during
the middle ages; the restrictions
in Naples in the last century;
spoke of the experiments during
the sixteenth, seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, with the
cheesy deposits and other tuber-
culous matter which eliminated
in the grand discovery of DR..
Koch, and removed the question
from the realm of doubt, which
received the imprimatur of the
great Virchow at the Ber-
lin congress, where 2OO0 del
egates were present Gl2 for
eign), and graced by the pres
ence Of the Empress, which
emphasized the Importance Of the
subject. He quoted a mass of
formidable statistics, including
every State Of the Union, and the
leading countries Of the world,
showing that consumption. a COM
nunicable, preventabIe disease,
had greater mortality than all
other contagious and infectious
;scasss put together, and that
he time was opportune to vlgor-
ously combat the greatest scourge
Of the human race.
An exquisite duet between
piano and flute followed, by Ca
diets Mugnier and Roth.
DR.. Dalrymple read an impor-
tant paper on ga Few of the Dan
gers Of an Impure Meat and
Milk Supply in which he COW
cred the whole subject with Il
master hand; speaking of the re-
cent great meeting held in Great
Britain presided over by the
Earl of Derby, he pointed out
that the meeting was fashioned
on identical lines with this Sani
tary body.
Prof. Coates of the University,
delivered a lecture on Water
with experiments.
Prof. Clark, of the Blind Uni
versity, executed a grand solo on
the piano, which was enthusiasts
tically encored.
DR.. Mayer offered the follow
ing-unanimously adopted:
Whereas, the Louisiana State
Board of Health, in frankly ac-
knowledging the existence and
death of u sporadic case of yellow
fever, and promptly notifying the
health authorities of the surround
ing States, gave an earnest to the
whole country that the policy of
concealment pursued by Calves
ton in 1897, and also by it in 1898,
was wrong in theory, pernicious
in practice and to the. detriment
Of the health, safety and CONNER
cial interests of New Orleans and
Of the State, and would not be re-
peated this year:
Resolved. That this body de-
plores the action of the health
authorities of Texas III refusing
20 be party to the agreement en-
,ered into between the health au-
5horities of Louisiana, Alabama
and Mississippi, and condemns in
terms the outrageous
and arbitrary conduct of the Tex
Is health officer in seeking to !
make commercial capital of the !
Incident. thereby blocking the
wheels of interstate commerce,
when assured by the health au-
;horities of Alabama, Mississippi /
ind of the marine hospital SER
rice shat no danger was to be ap-
pretended;
Resolved, That this dastardly |
lction on the part of the Texas
>aal4L a4anr Inrann rafa- The |.