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

40 NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF HEALTH.
While the securing of a quaruutine station with all the
modern improvements for our chief seaport, a work of the
liighest value, from a sanitary point of view, to the State,
•cannot be credited to our Board, it is gratifvino- to know
that the leader in that movement was one of
Dr. George G. Thomas, who v\'as
our members.
most ably assisted by Dr.
T. S. Burbank, Messrs. J. C. Stevenson, Alex. Sprunt and
•others. Thanks to their efforts and to our enlightened and
progressive Legislature North Carolina will soon be abreast
of the most advanced communities in the matter of maritime
quarantine protection.
In the performance of the duty imposed upon me in
Section 9 of the Act Relating to the Board of Health I
prepared the following 23amphlet containing Instructions
for Quarantine and Disinfection :
INSTRUCTIONS FOR QUARANTINE AND DISINFECTION.
EXTRACT FROM SECTION NINE OF AN ACT RELATING TO THE BOARD
OF HEALTH, RATIFIED MARCH i, 1S93.
"Iiilaud quarantine shall be uuder the control of the County Superintendent of
Health, who shall see that diseases especially dangerous to the public health, viz.:
small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever and cholera, are properlj'
quarantined and isolated within t\vent3--four hours after the case is brought to his
knowledge; and that after the death or recovery' or removal of a person sick of either
of the diseases mentioned, the rooms occupied and the articles used by the patient are
thoroughlj- disinfected in the manner set forth in the printed instructions, both as to
quarantine and disinfection, which shall be furnished him bj' the Secretary of the
State Board of Health. The expense of the quarantine and of the disinfection shall be
t>orne by the householder in whose family the case occurs, if able, otherwise by the cit}',
town or county of which he is a resident. * * * Any person neglecting
or refusing to comply with or in any way violating the rules promulgated in the
manner above set forth on the subjects of quarantine and disinfection shall be deemed
guiltj- of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, at the discretion
of the court, not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or less than ten nor
more than thirtj' daj's. * * * In any city or incorporated town having a regularly
appointed medical health officer who is a member of the County Board of Health, the
duties assigned in this section to the Count}' Superintendent of Health shall be performed
by the said medical health officer for the people of his city or town. * * * "
1. Every person sick of either of the diseases mentioned in the above
•extract from section nine should be immediately isolated, with his nurses,
in a separate room, if there is one. and nothing: should be taken out of