The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1906-11-17

/ your authority and law known as thu
Screening Ordinance carried out by
your servants in the Office of the BoarC
| Of Health.
1t is with considerable qualification
that l report to your body thai
! through precautionary measures advo
| Gated and carried out in the different
infected localities, and it is only ir
accord with the fitness of things that ir
making this report 1 publicly say tc
you, that the appreciation of the ef
forts and conduct of Mr.. Oscar ZenOl
in caring for his some two hundred
and eighty cases should be recognized
by your body as we'll as your BOARD
of Health. 1 have no data of the
sulphur and culicide used on River
Side Plantation, but am satisfied thai
! Mr.. ZenOr's methods we're thorough
/ and complete, costing him no less
| than $40, 10000, without asking one
cent donation from the Parish of St.
Mary.
| am also happy to inform you that
the Town of Patterson has completely
redeemed herself from the errors of the
past year. the citizens having nobly
responded to the call of your Parish
officials together with the United States
Marine Hospital Service, and raised
something over thousand dollars
to carry on the absolutely essential
post-epidemic fumigation, costing the
Parish Of St. Mary only $4,000, and
that / paid an Inspector for one
months work. In the said town.
there were fumigated five hundred
and fifty-seven residences, thirteen
hundred and fifty-three rooms, together
with the business houses, churches,
hotels, etc., four hundred and fifty
premises inspected and three hundred
and eighty cisterns oiled, and a gen.
eral scavenger system organized for
the proper removal of garbage. The
total amount of disinfectants used in
Patterson, and donated by the citizens
themselves, was one ton of sulphur,
and one hundred and thirty-fve
pounds of culicide. During our post
epidemic, preventive measures through
out the Parish, 1 employed several
Inspectors in different parts of the
Parish, at total cost of $25 90, to-
gether with the term of my Office, eight
months, $500 90, making total cost
for the entire service and work, 81 ,250.-
90, work shown and enumerated as the
following tabulated statement shows.
l have inspected your court house,
public square and Jail. all of which
find in a generally bad sanitary con-
dition. The Jail is a menace to the
health of those there confined, and
will ever remain so until complete
system OF sewerage replaces the abom-
Unable one now in use.
There is also another matter of SER
iOus importance to us-and that is the
Pure Food Law. That will, necessar-
lily, be enforced by and through your
Board Of Health.
In conclusion, gentlemen, l desire to
urge upon you the necessity of con-
tinuing your vigilance, not only so
far as yellow fever is concerned, but |
even with renewed vigor towards the |
elimination of small pox and con-
which are making rapid |
strides into our Parish and State.
The Parish of st. Mary has had, for
the last four or five years, each win
Ter, number of cases of small pox,
and has constantly number of cases
Of consumption, both of which are
to sanitary precautions, and
IAN, with proper safeguards, be posi-
lively eliminated.
It is with no little satisfaction that
inform you that our present able
President of the State Board of Health
has already taken up the question of
consumption from our
midst and stamping out the epidemic
II small pOx which we experience each
winter. T.
Respectfully submitted, +
BEVERLY w. SMITH.
Report received and ordered
lied.
On motion duly seconded, a vote
# thanks was rendered by the
Police Jury of the Parish of St.
Nary to DR.. B. w. Smith, Presi-
lent of the Board of Health of
his parish, for services rendered
o the parish for the past eight
Moved and seconded, that S25
,e and hereby appropriated and
he secretary instructed to draw a
in favor of w. X. Wilson
o defray his expenses to New
orleans. Carried.
Moved by Mr.. Marsh and Sec
nded, that committee of three G
re appointed to confer with the
road Commissioner, and look into =
he manner the roads of the Par
III have been worked during the
asst year, and look into the con-
ition of the public roads of the :
arish, with view of working the
ublic roads in the future, and
eport their findings and sugges-
ons to the Police Jury at their Y
ext meeting they may have to
AXE. Adopted. T
The President appointed on said B
Messrs. Allan, Milling B