St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1914-09-26

Commissioner to enter upon said
property and to clean, drain and place
said property in a sanitary condi
ton. And the cost of said work shall
be assessed against said property
and shall be collected in the same
manner as other assessments against
properties are collected.
Section 5. Be it further ordained
ETC., that any one violating any of the
provisions of this ordinance shall, or
conviction thereof, be fined not less
than $500 Dollars, nor more thar
$1,000 Dollars, or shall be impr soned
for not less than 2 days, o more
than 10 days or both at the discre
ton of the trial Judge.
Section 6. Be it further ordained
etc., that for good and sufficient
cause this ordinance shall take effect
from date Of its first publication.
Adopted September /, 1914.
B. A. LITTELL, M. D.,
Chairman of the City Board Of
Health.
OpeJousas, La, September /, 1914
The Board of Health met this day
with the following members present
viz: Or. C. F. Boagni, Mr.. Charles
Ventre and DR.. B. A. Littell.
The minutes of the meeting of May
18th, 1914, were read and on motion
duly second and carried, we're ap.
proved.
The Chairman read the following
report and on motion duly seconded
and carried the report was received
and filed:
Oplousas, La, August 20, 1914.
To the Members of the Board of
Health Of Opelousas, La.
Gentlemen:
your consideration.
Since my incumbency as Health
Officer under your Board l have
been called upon to investigate a
great many cases of suspicious cases
Of contagious diseases. During the
first part of the summer al number of
cases of measles occurred in our
city. The infection in nearly all
of these cases was traced to places
outside of our City. Each of these
cases was placarded as soon as | was
notified Of the case. 1t is of some
satisfaction to know that this dis
ease did not spread from n house
to another, but was kept in the
houses in which it occurred.
During the first part of the year
there occurred three cases of small
pox at different times-one case be-
ing brought here from a ~turpentine
farm in the western part of the state
and thn nthnr aocoC "hi6I, ooaI1 rrnd
about a month after the first one was
brought from the Eastern part of our
Parish. These two last cases were
in the same house. There was no
spread of this disease from either
fof these cases. The expense Incl
dent to the handling of the first case
was high, as a great deal had to be
expended on the pest house and pest
house grounds before the S could
be removed to it the place being in a
very d~ilapidated condition. The ex-
penses Of the last two cases was
very small. l have been called to in
vestigate a great many cases which
proved to be not of a contagious ma
ture. / make it a rule to investigate
every m no matter how vague it
may be, Of suspicious cases. Our
city has been free of Typhoid Feyer
since February 1913, and then we
had only two very mild cases. The
last case Of. Measles occurred a
month ago and since that time we
have had no case of contagious Or
infectious disease in our City. I
have kept in close touch with the
plague situation in New Orleans and
~, e,,I1,r .a4;nE~I &I14 4Io~o - ~
need of apprehension of its spread
to our City.
Sometime after my election by you
as Chairman of the Board of Health
l called on the Mayor and informed
him of the fact and also told him
that you had authorized me to en-
ploy a sanitary inspector. The May
or told me the Board of Aldermen
had already elected an inspector. I
stated to the Mayor that the Board
of Aldermen had no authority to
elect the sanitary inspector, that
that was a duty imposed by law on
the Board of Health, but that I had
no objection to using, or appointing
ed day officer and sanitary inspec-
spector, provided that l could have
Mr.. Meginley's whole time and pro
vided that he did the work satisfac-
tory to the Board of Health and my
self. The Mayor told me that Mr..
Meginley could do the work of the
Board of Health when he was not
busy with the Police work, that the
police work would have to come first.
/ told him that this would not be
satisfactory to the Board of Health
myself, that we would require he
full time of an officer. The Mayor
then told me that ] would have to ap-I
point an inspector. / then appointed
Mr.. A. L. Hollier and agreed to pay
him $500 a day for every day he
worked. Mr.. Hollier's bill for his
first months work was approved by
me and presented to the Board of Al
dermen for payment. The Board of
Aldermen failed to pay this account,
but the second month another bill
the first bill, paid by the Board of
Aldermen and l vas notified by the
Mayor that the Board of Aldermen
not pay any more bills for an
inspector. Correspondence on this
between the Mayor and my
self is herewith attached to this re-
port. | invite your consideration of
same. Mr.. Hollier has been very
diligent and painstakng with this
Work and has proven entirely salts
| herewith submit a report
from him relative to part of tn work
lone by him.
have made a thorough inspection