Biennial report of the Louisiana State Board of Health. 1886/87 excerpta

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Louisiana State Board of Health, 1888
 

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Seite 4 - Resolved, That in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing resolutions, the Boards of Health of the United States and Canada represented at this conference do pledge themselves to an interchange of information as herein provided.
Seite 4 - State board. 2. Resolved, That upon rumor or report of the existence of pestilential disease, and positive definite information thereon not being obtainable from the proper health authorities, this Conference recommends that the health officials of one State shall be privileged and justified to go Into another State for the purpose of investigating and establishing the truth or falsity of such reports. 3.
Seite 4 - That any case respecting which reputable and experienced physicians disagree as to whether the disease is or is not pestilential, shall be reported as suspicious.
Seite 36 - Hair or uioss mattresses to be replaced by wire or wicker beds. 2. That as far as possible vessels trading with tropical ports should be manned with acclimated crews. 3. Masters of vessels, ship and consular agents are earnestly requested to instruct passengers from quarantinable ports to dispense, as far as possible, with baggage which may be injured by wetting, in case of pestilential outbreak on board, while undergoing disinfection. Such passengers are especially warned against bringing silks,...
Seite 3 - Whereas it is necessary for the protection and preservation of the public health that prompt information should be given of the existence of cholera, yellow fever, or small-pox ; be it — Resolved, That it is the sense of the National Conference of State Boards of Health that it is the duty of each State and...
Seite 29 - OF DRY AND MOIST HEAT. While these two processes of sanitary treatment of the vessel are going on, all bedding, ship's linen, cushions, mattresses, flags, mosquito nets, curtains, carpets, rugs, all personal baggage and wearing apparel of whatever description, are removed from the ship to a commodious building in close proximity (see Plate 5), in which these articles are treated by moist heat at a temperature of not less than 230 degrees F.
Seite 35 - All vessels arriving from Mediterranean or other ports known or suspected to be infected with cholera, or which may hereafter become infected, shall be subjected to maritime sanitation and such detention as the board of health may determine. Vessels arriving from the above named ports and places, and belonging to the second, third, or fourth class, as set forth in the foregoing schedule, shall not be allowed to pass the Rigolets...
Seite 22 - ... further observation may be deemed necessary), as the Board of Health may provide. If, upon inspection of a vessel entering the river, she is found to be foul — that is, showing positive or suspicious evidences of infection, either in a person then ill or in a foul health record of voyage, she is at once remanded to the lower station, located on Pass a L'Outre, an unused outlet of the Mississippi, one hundred and three miles below the city.
Seite 11 - That no person shall retain, expose, or allow to be retained or exposed, the dead body of any human being to the peril or prejudice of the life or health of any person.
Seite 3 - Resolved, That it is the sense of the National Conference of State Boards of Health, that it is the duty of each state, provincial and local Board of Health in any locality in which said diseases may at any time occur, to...

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