Reports and resolutions relating to sanitary legislationPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1878 - 23 pages |
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adopted amended American Public Health appointed Boards of Health cause of yellow Census of 1880 cholera collected commercial power commercial regulations Committee on Resolutions Constitution CONSTITUTIONALITY OF QUARANTINE coöperation Council disinfection duty E. M. SNOW epidemic establishment Executive Committee Federal foreign port health laws importance infected INFECTIOUS DISEASES ingress or spread Interior Depart investigation J. S. BILLINGS L. H. STEINER lives and health Marine Hospital Service measures medical officers ment meteorological methods mittee Navy number of members Orleans permanent National port of destination President prevailing opinion prevent proper PROPOSITIONS RELATING provisions in aid Public Health Association Public Health Commission quarantine system regulate commerce regulation of commerce RELATING TO SANITARY RELATING TO YELLOW reserved powers RESOLUTIONS RELATING Resolved respectfully rules and regulations SANITARY LEGISLATION sanitary science Secretary specific disease spread of disease submitted Surgeon U. S. Army Surgeon-general tion United urge vessel or vehicle Vice-President WILMINGTON Yellow Fever Commission
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Page 8 - ... sanitary authorities throughout the United States, weekly reports of the sanitary condition of ports and places within the United States, and shall prepare, publish and transmit to collectors of customs and to state and municipal health officers and other sanitarians weekly abstracts of the consular sanitary reports and other pertinent information received by him...
Page 10 - ... be affected by, the laws of the United States made for the regulation of commerce, congress, in that spirit of harmony and conciliation which ought always to characterize the conduct of governments standing in the relation which that of the Union and those of the States bear to each other, has directed its officers to aid in the execution of these laws; and has, in some measure, adapted its own legislation to this object by making provisions in aid of those of the States. But in making these...
Page 7 - Service shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be charged with the execution of the provisions of this act, and shall frame all needful rules and regulations for that purpose, which rules and regulations shall be subject to the approval of the President, but such rules and regulations shall not conflict with or impair any sanitary or quarantine laws or regulations of any State or municipal authorities now existing or which may hereafter be enacted.
Page 7 - ... disease, shall enter any port of the United States, or pass the boundary line between the United States and any foreign country, except in such manner as may be prescribed under said act.
Page 8 - Provided, that there shall be no interference in any manner with any quarantine laws or regulations as they now exist, or may hereafter be adopted, under State laws.
Page 9 - The acts of congress, passed in 1796 and 1799,* empowering and directing the officers of the general government to conform to, and assist in the execution of, the quarantine and health laws of a state, proceed, it is said, upon the idea thai these laws are constitutional. It is undoubtedly true, that they do proceed upon that idea; and the constitutionality of such laws has never, so far as we are informed, been denied.
Page 10 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a state not surrendered to the general government, all of which can be most advantageously exercised by the states themselves.
Page 19 - That whatever may be the practical value of quarantine, there is no doubt of the importance and value of internal sanitary measures in the prevention or modification of epidemic yellow fever, and...
Page 9 - But they do not imply an acknowledgment that a state may rightfully regulate commerce with foreign nations, or among the states; for they do not imply that such laws are an exercise of that power, or enacted with a view to it. On the contrary, they are treated as quarantine and health laws, are so denominated in the acts of congress, and are considered as flowing from the acknowledged power of a state to provide for the health of its citizens.
Page 7 - SEC. 4. That the Surgeon General of the Marine-Hospital Service shall upon receipt of information of the departure of any vessel, goods, or passengers from infected places to any port in the United States, immediately notify the proper State or municipal and United States officer or officers at the threatened port of destination of the vessel and shall prepare and transmit to the medical officers of the...