Year: 1879

was created by recent act OF Con-
gress, with full authority to take charge
of all places in the United States in
which infectious and contagious dis
eases may appear, have issued the fol-
lowing rules and regulations to be en-
forced during the existence of yellow
fever:


Every train leaving an infected city,
Vown, or other place, shall be inspect
ed by a competent medical man, who
shall give to the conductor of said train
u certificate of the results of his inspec-
ton. 1t shall also be his duty to fur
nish certificates to each passenger, and
no passenger shall be permitted to
leave an infected place without such
certificate. No person having fever
shall be allowed to take passage on
such train. All cars leaving such place
shall be thoroughly cleansed and fumi-
gated with sulphurous acid gas, by


burning eighteen ounces of sulphur for
every 1000 cubic feet of space, and
closing up the car tight for six hours
prior to the date of leaving. No up
holstered car shall be allowed to leave
a dangerously infected place. All bag
gage shall be thoroughly disinfected at
the station before leaving. At point
not less than five miles, and as near
this point as possible, from the point of
departure from a dangerously infected
place, there shall be an entire transfer
of passengers and baggage to other
cars, which cars shall never enter an
infected district. This transfer shall be
made in the open air, under the super
vision of a medical officer, and as far
from a habitation as possible, and no
person with fever shall be allowed to
proceed, but shall return to the point
of departure, or be treated in hospital
at or near the place of transfer. No
sleeping car shall be allowed to leave q
dangerously infected place, nor shall
any sleeping car approach nearer such
place than the point of transfer. Any
passenger car leaving such infected
place shall be thoroughly ventilated
during its passage to the place of trans
fer, by having the windows of the car
open during such passage. 4--a


In cases of suspected infection of
passenger in a sleeping car, such car,
including all the upholstery, cushions,
curtains, mattresses, etc., shall be
thoroughly disinfected. under the su-
pervision of medical officer, and shall
be exposed to the open air for at least
twenty days before being again used.


All freight shall be transferred at a
point not exceeding fifty miles from the
point of departure, and the cars from
which such freight has been trans
ferred shall not proceed further on the
road, but shall be returned to the point
of departure. The freight cars, upon
unloading, shall be thoroughly cleansed
by scrubbing, fumigation, disinfection
and ventilation.


Mail matter and mail bags should be
heated to a temperature of $50 deg.
Fab, or should be otherwise disin-
fected before they are sent from in
fected places


At some point, not less than fifty
miles from the first transfer station, q
and baggage is desirable, and should
be provided for by the authorities of
the States through which the lines run.
II yellow fever infect place situated
upon line of railroad, trains of all
kinds may be permitted to pass through
without stopping, at speed of not less
than ten miles an hour, provided the
National Board of Health has not de-
clared it dangerous to do SO, and pub
lished, through the local health au-
thorities, a special rule forbidding it;
but they shall not take on passengers
within one mile of such infected place,
and all persons taken on shall first OBJ
tain the certificate from the local Off
GERS set forth herein. No train having
a certificate of such inspection, and no
having a proper certificate
that he was free from disease and that |
his baggage was properly disinfected,
shall be interfered with by any munich |
pal or other local systems of quaran-
tipo