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

FIFTH BIENNIAL KEPOKT. 23
The Contereiice \va.s
J o'clock.
AFTEKNOON SESSION.
called to order by the Chairman at
Section 7, relating to salaries of Superintendents, was
introduced as the first order of business and again evoked
much discussion, with liual result of ado])ting the section
as it now stands.
The matter of taking some action luokmg to seeuriug
some law of compulsory vaccination elicited quite a spirited
debate. All present seemed to agree as to the desirability
of a more general practice of vaccination, but some
were doubtful as to the advisability of attempting to
secure legislation to require vaccination just at present, as
it
might jeopardize the whole bill.
On motion the whole bill was adopted as a substitute
for the present Act Helating to the Board of Health.
By invitation Dr. W. G. Curtis, Quarantine Physician of
the station at the month of the Cape Fear river, read a
paper with a description of the station as it now is, a
recital of the needs of the station and a discussion of the
probability of cholera getting into this State the coming
summer.
During the latter part of the meeting Dr. Geo. G.
Thomas presided, as Col. Burgwyu was obliged to leave.
After the reading of Dr. Curtis's paper, which was listened
to with much interest, the Conference adjourned
sine die. RICH'D H. LEWIS,
Secretary.
Upon request the President of the Senate and the
Speaker of the House announced a joint meeting of their
respective Committees on Public Health—the first committees,
by the way, on public health ever appointed by
any Legislature in the history of the State, I am told—for