The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-10
,., We Are To Be Watched.

>HCpitS hS&tSLer.
 The governor of Mississippi wants
 q state official who will be armed With rowing commission to travel I'd
 sIo sho Inspect every locali.y outsice of
 ms state upon which some suspic h SIv SI yeeil9w e sy fever infeci might possi-
 Orleans should be the chief field for his researches. The wisdom of such course was demonstrated in the re
 e out tbat tfbpidemlH Ha,lo in Mississippi. It came at Mississippi City and Gulfport, in
 that State, and the fact was wholly
 unknown Hnai,s to the state and local
 eddai ipSsTs 0ea aea of eys s H ntss tss Marine Hospital Service, and so re- nrt nla.neo until some rowing medical in- sipeet9ss i4sd 9sa of the state of Alabama vls- covered it-New Orleans Picayune,
 su IS new idea in the Southern Srases Suires t that a visiting inspector is re- tho State which commissions inc ;n spector Does this mean that the agreement between the boards Of health of Southern States to report pearance of yellow fever at any point IS at an end? It Is to be hoped moi. ,i me agreement was found to be Of lit- gained headway in New orleans he fore being discovered there by the t1 H1snsroyin rowing medical" inspectors of Gulfport and Mississlppi City. The The Pie. ayune loses sight of the fact that the
 lrst lntimasion of yellow fever in New mer there announced that a friend of his had died with the fever. The state msnt % reached pr. Rh+tt Goode. health 9rncer or Mobile, the same night, and pr John F. White. of the marine hos pltal service. who afterwards Eained the good will of New Orleans for his yaiSahle wnSa work there, pr: Charles A. and pr. Henry Goldthwaite, at the head of the maritime quarantine in Mo. elie' were in New Orleans next day ana and reported the presence of yellow mdlcai inspectors, but representative othcials of the United States govern ment. the State of Alabama and the have been unnecessary if the Louisiana and New Orleans board of health had. kept faith with the neighboring States at Gulfport and Mississippi City were only incidents. the first discovery in New Orleans was the one which saved Alabama and Mobile from infection by placing the authorities on the qui vive in time to keep the fever out.
 In the same spirit observed in the f.rst quotation The Picayune continues: with authority to go exploring into neIghboring States the presence of the dreaded infection might have been dis covered before 1t got here. but the Louisiana State Board of Health lacked either the power or the enterprise to make use of such a safeguard. with the result that in not a few cases the
 Infection was brought here from sister States.
 It ia news that the Louisiana health officials have not the power to go into neighobring States when they suspect the presence of infectious disease. When the fever broke out at Ocean Springs. Mississippi. in 1897, the first officials on the ground were Dr. Sou chon. president of the Louisiana board, Dr. John Archinard, of the New Or leans board, and Professor Metz, analytical chemist from New Orleans. What Louisiana needs is not more power and more enterprise for the Stata Board of Health. but a hoard Of health which will be undeterred in Going its duty by comm ercial or other considerations and which will take hold of the situation at once If fever appears again and put other States on their guard to the end that all may assist in confining the infection to Q small area.