1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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about contagious diseases it comes to cousumptioD, and so
I will just read a few lines of this." He then read an
article from a
paper explaining the right ways of treating
the bodies of consumptives after death.
Dr. Whitehead: " Mr. President, here is a cjuestiou that has
been given to me:
'Should cats or other animals, afflicted
with these contagious diseases, be allowed to lie on to}) of
the ground after death?'"
Dr. Battle:
" I think. Doctor, that they should be cremated
in the same way as a human person afflicted with tuberculosis.
Certainly it should be very rigidly enforced that if
we take care of and cremate human subjects after death we
should certainlv look after the cattle in the same way."
Dr. Bahuson:
" Ladies and gentlemen, the next paper that
we have is by Dr. George Thomas, of Wilmington, upon the
question of "Quarantine and Disinfection in Contagious
Diseases":
QUARANTINE AND DISINFECTION IN RELATION TO
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
BY GEORGE GILLETT THOMAS, M. D., OF WILMINGTON, MEMBER OF THE
NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
The act of the last Legislature, entitled "An Act in Relation to the
Board of Health," wisel^v and etticiently provides for the quarantining
of all persons sick with infectious diseases; and this quarantine has been
as wisely provided by your efficient Secretary with full rules and regulations
for both isolation and disinfection. The modern construction placed
upon the word quarantine involves not only shutting off the sick and
their necessary attendants from those that are well, but it absolutely
insists that measures shall be adopted to destroy as far as possible the
germs of disease by careful disinfection. This disinfection must begin
as soon as the disease is manifested, and can only be finished when the
sickness is over, and the patient is either well or dead.
There is unfortunately a wide-spread disposition among the laity to
resist the enforcement of such regulations as limit their freedom to go
and come at will or that seriously impair the comfort of the fiimily or
disturlj the domestic routine.
If they submit, too often the performance