(b) Hence the utmost importance for people in whose houses fever of any kind has occurred to apply most rigorously, in spirit and in letter, the following recommendations:

(c) All bedding, upholstered furniture, and especially packed clothing, should be taken out of doors and spread in the sun and wind.

(d) This should be done in bright, clear, cold weather.

(e) A single airing is not generally sufficient.

(f) The house should, at the same time, be thrown open as far as possible.

(g) It is better to be without fires, but it is better to have fires and keep the house open, than to be without fires and shut up the house.

(h) When practicable, leave bedding, etc., out during cold nights, but this is not essential.

(i) Pay special attention to clothing, bedding, etc., packed away in trunks and boxes.

(j) The armoirs, bureaus, boxes, trunks, etc., should be opened, and contents spread out as above indicated.

(k) This should all be done six or seven times, in succession, if possible.

(1) The yards, alleys, etc., must be kept thoroughly clean and drained.

363

Resolutions Adopted at New Orleans, La.,
December 8, 1898.

(a) Quarantine shall be and is declared to exist against all places infected with yellow fever or other quarantinable diseases, and whenever reliable information shall reach the President of the State Board that such disease exists in a locality, the President shall take the proper steps to so declare against the particular locality infected, and to prevent ingress or egress to and from such localities into the State, or uninfected portions of the State, and the President shall call a meeting of the entire Board within forty-eight hours thereafter for further action thereon.

(b) In the event that the Local Boards of Health should fail to comply with Section 8 of Act No. 192 of 1898, by isolating and reporting any case of contagious or infectious disease within twenty-four hours after the same has been diagnosed as such, or become known as such, the President of the State Board shall, on reasonable and reliable information, by him deemed to be such, act in pursuance of the foregoing section, in the manner therein provided.

(c) No Local Board will establish or enforce any quarantine until the facts and reasons therefor shall be first submitted to the State Board, and said quarantine be thereafter approved, sanctioned and authorized by the State Board.

(d) No quarantine, when once established, shall be raised or discontinued except by action and vote of the State Board at a meeting called for that purpose.

(e) A Medical Inspector shall be appointed by the President on the recommendation of the members of the State Board residing outside of New Orleans, which inspector shall remain in the city of New Orleans, when necessary, in order to ascertain and report cases of contagious or infectious diseases, or cases suspicious thereof, to the President of the State Board, who shall, thereupon, refer the same to the Local Board, who shall immediately investigate the same and report the result to the President of the State Board, and in the event that the Local Board shall fail to act thereon, promptly, the President of the State Board shall take charge of the same and proceed as authorized by the statute. Said inspector shall be paid a monthly salary at the rate of $200, by the State Board, while actually employed and until discharged by the State Board. (f) The Board shall meet every three months at 12:30 P. M., on the first Tuesday of the month, beginning with the first Tuesday of February, 1899.

(g) The Boards of Health of the States of Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Florida and other neighboring States, are invited and earnestly requested to station in the city of New Orleans during the summer months medical inspectors to investigate, examine into and report to their respective boards the existence or non-existence of contagious or infectious diseases in

said city, and the Louisiana State Board of Health pledges to said inspectors, when so appointed, all necessary aid and assistance in its power in the performance of their duties. 364 When yellow fever is announced in a locality, that locality alone shall be quarantined, and not the whole parish or county, unless otherwise ordered by the State Board (Resolution adopted February 15, 1899).

365 During the existence of the quarantine of a locality, adjoining localities may hold communication with the quarantined locality, but in that case quarantine shall be proclaimed against them (Resolution adopted February 15, 1899).

366 Pass Christian, Bay St. Louis and Waveland (all of Mississippi) may hold communication with New Orleans if yellow fever exists here, but if yellow fever appears on the coast the State of Louisiana will at once impose quarantine (Resolution adopted February 15, 1899).

367a. Resolutions Adopted April 21, 1899.

"The Revised Atlanta Regulations are adopted by this Board and recommended to the people, with the exception of No. 174, relating to quarantining of first cases, for which the following is a substitute:

"Resolved, That it is the sense of the Louisiana Board, as it is of the Mississippi Board, that a case, or localized case of yellow fever in a city, said case or cases being in complete isolation and in charge of the Health Authorities, would not be sufficient cause for alarm or quarantining the city, but that the health and lives of the people may be protected they must have, through their constituted health authorities, prompt and full information relative to the health of that city, and with this information, this Board will be prepared to act in such way as to protect the State, and at the same time not unnecessarily obstruct commerce."

*367b. Resolution adopted May 15th, 1899: Should a case or cases of Yellow Fever be reported to the President in the city of New Orleans, or any other locality in Louisiana, and the case or cases are properly isolated, he shall not proclaim quarantine, but he shall announce it to the other State Boards and State Health Officers, and to the members of the Louisiana State Board; and he shall at once call a meeting of the State Board.

367c. Resolution adopted May 15th, 1899: In the event that Yellow Fever occurs in any locality beyond the limits of the State of Louisiana, the President is empowered at his discretion, to impose quarantine and refer his action to the Board for approval.

CHAPTER IV.

REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE REPORTING OF CASES OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

N. B. The Regulations of the State Board of Health marked by a star are Obligatory.

368 The phrase "contagious disease" shall be held to include all persons sick, affected, or attacked by or of a disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature (more especially, however, referring to cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, diphtheria [including membranous croup], ship or typhus, and scarlet fevers, and also including any new disease of an infectious, contagious, or pestilential nature), and also any other disease publicly declared by this Board dangerous to the pub

lic health.

*369 Every physician in said city shall, at all times, cause his or her name, office and residence, and also his or her kind and class of practice, to be registered within the Board of Health, and in a manner according to the regulations prescribed by this Board.

*370 Every physician shall report to the Board of Health, in writing, every person having a contagious disease (and the state of his or her disease, and his or her place of dwelling, and name if known), which such physician has prescribed for or attended for the first time since having such a contagious disease, during any part of the preceding twenty-four hours.