Proceedings of the Quarantine Conference held in Montgomery, Ala., on the 5th, 6th, and 7th days of March, 1889Brown Printing Company, 1889 - 144 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 42 - ... 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 or province, if positive definite information thereon be not obtainable from the proper health authorities, this conference holds that the health officials of another State are justified in entering the before-mentioned State...
Página 41 - ... precaution; but the fact of inspectors being on such trains should not relieve trains carrying passengers, or express matter or baggage, from stopping at quarantine stations for such inspection as the officer in charge may determine to be necessary. 14. It is recommended that all quarantines, as far as practicable, should be uniform in their requirements and operations, which will greatly contribute to the prevention of panics, and tend to allay unnecessary excitement and fear -on the part of...
Página 39 - 1. Quarantine should not be made against any place until it is officially known that yellow fever or other infectious or contagious disease exists at such place. " 2. Only competent physicians should be put in charge of quarantine stations, and only thoroughly qualified persons should be employed as inspectors on railway trains. " 3. Quarantine stations located on railroads should be established at convenient points, on one or both sides of a town or station, as may be deemed necessary. " 4. If...
Página 42 - ... 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. 6. Resolved, That any case respecting which efforts are made to conceal its existence, full history, and true nature, shall be deemed suspicious, and so acted upon.
Página 42 - 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.
Página 43 - ... 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.
Página 42 - 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...
Página 92 - ... sections of the United States. I knew, from personal experience, the malignant nature of the disease, and the futility of the various modes of treatment which had been resorted to in the effort to combat it. It was, therefore, with the deepest interest as well as with strong hopes of success, that I went to an endemic focus of the disease to search for the yellow fever germ. The recent ( 1873) demonstration of the spirillum of relapsing fever in the blood of patients suffering from this disease,...
Página 51 - ... health authorities along the lines of the roads concerned. (2.) The regulations and restrictions governing railroad transportation during yellow fever epidemics should be of such character as to afford all reasonable guarantees of protection to the communities in danger of invasion by the disease, but should not be more onerous than the circumstances warrant, and should be framed with due consideration of the extent and character of the danger in each particular case, and as affected by latitude...
Página 91 - The present state of knowledge with reference to the etiology of infectious diseases in general, and wellknown facts relating to the origin and spread of yellow fever epidemics, fully justify such a belief. The a priori grounds for such faith I stated as long ago as 1873, in a paper published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences (July, 1873); and the progress of knowledge since that date has all been in the direction of supporting this a prioii reasoning.