People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — AGREED ON A PLAN. [ARTICLE]

AGREED ON A PLAN.

Preparations Made by the Conference of Health Officers at New York to Cope with Cholera. New Yobk, April 7.—The national conference of state boards of health on Thursday discussed possible plans for securing a uniform system of interstate inspection to be adopted in case of an epidemic of cholera this summer. The report of the second committee appointed to devise a plan for uniform interstate inspection in case of a cholera epidemic was accepted. A synopsis of the rules adopted is as follows: They provide that in case of an epidemic of cholera no afflicted persons shall be allowed to leave on the trains. During such period of infection it is also provided that a medical inspector shall leave with each of the outgoing trains. It shall be his duty to look after the sanitary condition of the train, see to the disinfection of the closets, and in case of any symptoms of disease being developed en route provide for the Isolation of the suspects in a single car. In case of actual disease the car shall be isolated at some way station, and this inspector will be provided with a list of the names of the physicians along the route and also be required to send a list of all passengers on such a train ahead to their destination. Special cars are also to be provided for all passengers leaving an Infected district In cases where there are no local boards of health the train medical inspectors will be appointed by the marine hospital service.