The question of night inspection and passenger traffic on fruit ships having been submitted to the Quarantine Committee by the President, the Committee submits herewith the following report: 325. After examining into the views of the Chief Quarantine Physician, as expressed in letters to the President, and in deference to his suggestions, we would recommend that passengers' permits be modified to read as follows:

I certify that

my knowledge in

(No.) days, (not less than ten), and that

has not recently been subject to any attack of fever.

326. In the opinion of your Committee it is not advisable to make further changes in the present regulations, which we deem ample to protect this port from the introduction of foreign pestilence, if strictly carried out by our medical inspectors. We can see no objection to the night inspection of fruit ships at the Quarantine Station, especially as a second rigorous inspection by daylight is made by our Shipping Inspector at New Orleans (unless in the opinion of the Chief Quarantine Physician, daylight inspection is necessary), before any passenger is permitted to leave the ship and before any communication is allowed between the vessel and shore.

P. 385.

July 16, 1896.

DR. FORMENTO, CHAIRMAN OF QUARANTINE COMMITTEE, Offered the following resolution, which was carried:

The question of detention of fever patients at quarantine having come up again for discussion, the following motion made by Dr. Formento, was read and adopted:

327. "Resolved, That it is the sense of this Board that the Quarantine Physician be instructed to detain all vessels having on board one or more suspicious cases of fever or disease, a sufficient length of time to ascertain positively the nature of such fever or disease. In cases of a contagious or infectuous character, the vessel, crew and passengers shall be detained at the Quarantine Station subject to the instruction of the Board. Cases of malarial fever shall at no time cause detention of vessel or passengers.

328.

P. 406.

Traffic Between Tampico and New Orleans.

March 15, 1897.

The following resolution offered by Mr. Odenheimer and seconded by Professor Dyer, was unanimously adopted.

Resolved, That until a Medical Officer of this Board, sent to reside at Tampico, shall have had time to report fully on the health status and all other conditions of sanitary interest at that port, passenger privileges will be withheld. In the meantime, healthy steamers in good sanitary condition, with aeclimated crews, arriving from Tampico without having touched at any other port, are to be disinfected at the Mississippi River Station without any further detention thereafter.

329. Boarding Employees at Mississppi Quarantine

P. 228.

Station.

March 30, 1893.

Mr. King, Chairman of the Finance Committee, submitted a report upon the expense of feeding employees at Quarantine, and recommended that some action be taken to lessen the expense.

Dr. Formento moved, that in accordance with the report of the Finance Committee, the matter of feeding the employees at Quarantine be left to the President and Chief Quarantine Officer to take such action as is practicable under the circumstances.

Seconded by Dr. Patton and carried.

330. Amendments to Quarantine Regulations-Inspection of Certain Vessels and Baggage on and After April 1, and Until November 15.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

1898.-Department Circular No. 190. Marine-Hospital Service. Washington, D. C., October 22, 1898.

To Officers of the Treasury Department, State and Local Quarantine Officers, Consular Officers, and Others Concerned:

The following amendments to the Quarantine Regulations, to be observed at ports and on the frontiers of the United States, are hereby promulgated:

331. Article II, paragraph 2, exception I, is amended to read as fol

lows: Vessels arriving during certain seasons of the year, to-wit, November 15 to April 1, may be admitted to entry. 332. Article II, paragraph 2, exception 2, is amended by striking out the words "November 1" and inserting the words "November 15," in lieu thereof.

333

O. L. SPAULDING, Acting Secretary.

THE QUARANTINE SYSTEM OF LOUISIANA.

In order that the quarantine system of this State may be fully comprehended by our home people as well as those of our sister States, it is deemed advisable to give a full description of the entire system, taking each station, together with the rules and regulations applying to each, and the part they serve in the general system,

seriatim.

The quarantine system of Louisiana consists of four separate stations, viz: The Mississippi River station, located 90 miles below the City of New Orleans on the Mississippi River and 18 miles from the outlet of that river into the Gulf; the Rigolets station, located 30 miles from the City of New Orleans on the Rigolets or outlet of Lake Pontchartrain into the Mississippi Sound; the Atchafalaya station, 80 miles from the City of New Orleans and 3 miles east of Morgan City on the Atchafalaya river; the Lake Charles station on the Calcasieu river, about 40 miles below Lake Charles.

334

The Lake Charles Station.

This station was established in 1890, it having come to the knowledge of the Board of Health, that vessels arriving from Vera Cruz and other infected or suspected ports in Mexico and Central America, did occasionally call at Lake Charles for cargoes of lumber, thus making this port a possible point for the introduction of contagious or infectious disease. As only a few of this class of vessels arrive at this port during quarantine season, it was not advisable to establish a fully equipped station and hence only a "Quarantine Guard" is employed here, who reports by wire or otherwise to the Resident Physician at the Atchafalaya Station. Thus this station may be considered as auxiliary to the Atchafalaya Station, both being under the control of the same Quarantine Physician.

335.

The Atchafalaya Station.

This station, as noted above, is situated 80 miles from New Orleans in a westerly direction, and 3 miles below Morgan City, on the Atchafalaya river. It is operated by a Resident Physician and one boatman. It serves as a protection to Morgan City and surrounding country, which section is traversed by railroads and is in daily connection with New Orleans and other portions of the State.

336.

The Rigolets Station.

This station guards the entrance to Lake Pontchartrain and that approach to the City of New Orleans. It is manned by a Resident Physician, two boatmen and a watchman. The shipping passing this station consists almost exclusively of vessels engaged in the coastwise trade, such as lumber and charcoal schooners, fishing smacks, etc. Vessels from foreign or infected ports rarely attempt to come to New Orleans through this channel, on account of the quarantine regulations there enforced.

All the stations above described might be termed "inspection stations" for the reason that only vessels in a clean condition, free from disease and coming from non-quarantined ports are given pratique at these stations. Should a vessel liable to quarantine,