Biennial Report, Volume 3

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News & Observer, State Printers, 1891
 

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Page 136 - States," provides that no vessel or vehicle coming from any foreign port or country where any contagious or infectious disease exists, or any vessel or vehicle conveying persons, merchandise, or animals affected with any contagious disease, shall enter any port of the United States, or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country, except in such manner as may be prescribed under said act.
Page 46 - A person who willfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the life or health of human beings, or animals, or which is diseased past recovery, or who refuses upon demand to deprive of life an animal affected with any such disease, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Page 30 - Spittings of blood and other precursors of consumption attacked such patients afier the disease had in their cases apparently vanished and generally disappeared. An uncommon increase of consumption followed in the year 1808, which exceeded anything ever before known in Charleston.
Page 16 - ... 7. 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.
Page 16 - ... 5. Resolved, 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.
Page 15 - Conference of State Boards of Health, that it is the duty of each State and Provincial Board of Health within whose jurisdiction any of said diseases may occur to furnish immediate information of the existence of such disease to boards of health of neighboring states and provinces, and to local boards in such states as have no central board, in which the duty of notification shall lie upon the local boards. 2. That upon the prevalence of rumor of the existence of pestilential disease in any state...
Page 16 - ... hereinafter mentioned, prevalent in certain areas or which tend to spread along certain lines of travel, be reported to all State and Provincial Boards within said area or along said lines of communication.
Page 14 - The passage of railroad trains through any point on the line of road, whether infected or not. should not be prohibited by any quarantine regulations. The conductors of passenger trains should close the windows and ventilators and lock the doors of cars passing through any place where a train is not permitted to stop. 10. All freight to any infected place should be delivered either at the quarantine station or the nearest railway station to such infected point, where it can be properly cared for....
Page 134 - With the adoption of these measures which, undertaken at this time, will entail very little hardship and will not be difficult of execution, there are those now living who will see the day when there shall not be a leper in the land. How shall the principle of segregation be practically carried out? Those who have given the subject the most careful study believe that careful investigation would bring to light lepers hiding in every state in the Union. Shall every state then establish a leper house?
Page 30 - The first and greatest invasion of this kind which I have had an opportunity of witnessing, occurred in the year 1807. In the summer or early autumn, the newspapers brought the intelligence of its prevalence in Europe and afterwards that it had reached our eastern cities. It was in October, when the weather was fine and steady that it appeared in this locality. Two regiments of militia called into the field to repel from our frontier a threatened invasion of Indians, were at the time encamped a few...

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