The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-10-17
STATE HEALTH OFFICER.
MAKES REPORT ON MS DEPART
MENT TO THE GOVERNOR,
Smallpox Still Prevails In the State and
There Is No Preeauton Against
Spread Of tuberculosis.

Austin, Texas. October i6. The biennlll
report of State Health Officer George r
Tabor has just been received from the
public printer. The receipts of the office
as reported by him amounted TO Sl50sL6j,
while the expenditures were short Sill,
$3.50 Of the appropriation made for the
department, there having been turned back
to the treasury S26.3S0.9S.
The report SAYS IN .purt:
The quarantine ofdcer az Brownsville nd
vlses me that he needs another boatman
at his station which / approve and think
should be provided for by the next icgis.
lature.
Another bontmnn should be provided at
Port I.avaca Two Other helpers will he
required at Galveston When the new dis
injecting vessel is put tn operation and II
shipping continues "a increase az Sabine
another helper win bc needed there.
In June. 1901, ! wus given a special mis-
sion by your excelencv as special inspec-
tor to the city NJ New Orleans aud in.
structed by Or w +. Blount who was
then State health officer. TO investigate
thoroughly the reports which have always
been current In Texas aud elsewhere that
New Orleans Is never free from yellow
fever And was also directed 10y him 90
Investigate all minors OF ycllow fever In
that city or elsewhere cast Of Texas,
took up my he2adugrferas, there me ~
Of June AKA tcmaiued untir~i1 e..l'Sn ot
oetobek giving all my time 10 these ~.
NenuEAtions, and convinced myself that
yell9w fever does not exist at all times
Nora was NOT case there In 1901 There
we're a few cases AZ the New Orleans quar-
nntlne station during that year, brought
IN by ships, hut NO cases entered the CITY,
1she ,,Nnerieure and Information gained
by me- there has been of vast assistance
10 me In my present position .s,.
State more or less for the past four years
. was more widespread during the winter
months Of 1o0ll9o2 than at any period in
mild type, there have been some malignant
ccses, resulting fatally. Demands were
made npon me almost dail{ 9y t tRS Iona
ties for the purpose Of diagnosing or ad'
vlslng, ~
thickly populated cointy IN the state
being Injected. MAS unable 10 visit q
large number ~ places which regret
the disease became miider aud less fire.
Quent; and during the summer months
But as il Is Inc rule for smoilpox 10 be.
come more malignant In winter, ANTICIPATE
for the coming winter q. repetition on tue
epidemic OF last year. luis not only ar,
plies to Texas, hut from reports received
~ this department / nna that nearly every
state IN the Union Il as badly Infested as
our own, ! hpd that a great many counties
are paying no attention Thatever 10 small
p0N, In some localities cases are permitted
10 roam nt win through the streets, M
effort being made 20 quarantine or Isolate
them
Smallpox has prevailed moro among the
negro population than among the whites,
and I attribute that Ia the fact that more
~ that class have never been vaccinated,
The same character ~ THIS disease eNlsts
OH over the United states aud canada AVID,
while some physicians, on account of its
extreme nildncss, question its being gen.
ulne smnllnOX cNilng n "chlckcu nON
'Cphan itch, "adoip itch" elephant
fch. puerto Ricau chicken noN,
rynws, etc have seen thousands, 81
eases ~ this disease within the past four
years. and | hare very rarely seen any
cases among persons WHO had been pre-
7 have seen numerous cases 81 chicken pax
accompanying n
The prevailing disease hiss been accepted
by OIL the health authorities q the Woril
AZ smallpox. Including Tho State heaitH
authorities. the Uuited states marine hos.
pitai service the medical Ofdcefs OF the
army and navy ~ the United states, ana
phvsiciahs generally.
The Illinois state board Of health issued
this year Rn exhaustive Illustrated circular
on smallpox which y most convincing ana
suggestion 70 make a. 20 the hsst meane
of preventing smallpox, and that vee,
cinetion. srnsiirox is POW .epdeInsc ~ THIS
and other States and, While Y may he
stamped out Ok cttisa and ecunsiea ~
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