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JJ. Daniel, President; P. McQuaid, Vice-President; Dr. J.C. L’Engle, Treasure; Chas. S. Adams, Secretary; Jas. M. Fairlie, Cor. Secretary.

Executive Committee:

J.J. Daniel.

P. McQuaid.

J.M. Schumacher.

Dr. J.C. L’Engle.

C.G. Elliott.

P.E. McMurray.

W.A. McDuff.

Office of

Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association,

16 ½ West Bay Street.

P.O. Box 749. Telephone 108.

Jacksonville, Fla. Oct. 17, 1888.

Joseph Y. Porter, H. D.,

Surgeon in Charge Government Relief Measures,

City.

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My dear Sir :-

Your favor of IIth inst., with accompanying copies of

letter of instructions to Dr. Dem. Echemendia, Chief of the Disinfect-

ing and Fumigating Staff, and copy of rules and regulations relating

to the subject of disinfection and fumigation, has been duly received,

and have had careful consideration by the Executive Committee of the

Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association to-day, and believing that

you desire an expression of their opinions thereon, I am directed to

communicate to you their views, and at the same time express their

confidence in your judgment and ability to devise and execute such

measures as will exterminate the germs of disease in this city and

prevent a visitation of this terrible scourge another season.

As you already know, the transfer of Dr. Dem. Echemendia

and his staff, and placing the disinfecting and fumigating of the houses

where yellow fever has occurred, to the Marine Hospital Services, was

advocates and approved by this Committee.

IN REGARD TO DISINFECTION OF HOUSES.

Rules 1, 2 and 3 we fully concur in.

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JJ. Daniel, President; P. McQuaid, Vice-President; Dr. J.C. L’Engle, Treasure; Chas. S. Adams, Secretary; Jas. M. Fairlie, Cor. Secretary.

Executive Committee:

J.J. Daniel.

P. McQuaid.

J.M. Schumacher.

Dr. J.C. L’Engle.

C.G. Elliott.

P.E. McMurray.

W.A. McDuff.

Office of

Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association,

16 ½ West Bay Street.

P.O. Box 749. Telephone 108.

Jacksonville, Fla. ………………….. 188

Dr. Porter, (2).

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DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY.

Under this head the Committee beg leave to make some suggestions

which they hope will impress themselves favorably on you.

Rule I.- That instead of leaving it optional with the owner to

have “Mattresses, Pillows, Comforts and Blankets soiled by dejections

from the sick so as to prevent their further use by anyone else sick

in the same house”, destroyed by burning at once, it should be made

obligatory as a means to prevent the spread of the infection and the

owner paid a fair value for the property destroyed out of Government

funds. The grounds on which the Committee base these recommendations

are: - First, All citizens with but few exceptions, who had the means

to leave, sought safety in flight at the beginning of the epidemic,

and left their houses unoccupied. Those who remained did so, generally

speaking, because of want of means to go away, and in their homes

the scourge found its victims, and very few of those people indeed are

able to bear the loss of such property as you say should be destroyed.

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The Executive Committee have felt it necessary to pay for property

destroyed under similar circumstances by Dr. Dem. Echemendia’s Staff

when under the direction of the Board of Health, as a measure of

relief to the owners, to enable them to [illegible].

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JJ. Daniel, President; P. McQuaid, Vice-President; Dr. J.C. L’Engle, Treasure; Chas. S. Adams, Secretary; Jas. M. Fairlie, Cor. Secretary.

Executive Committee:

J.J. Daniel.

P. McQuaid.

J.M. Schumacher.

Dr. J.C. L’Engle.

C.G. Elliott.

P.E. McMurray.

W.A. McDuff.

Office of

Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association,

16 ½ West Bay Street.

P.O. Box 749. Telephone 108.

Jacksonville, Fla. ………………….. 188

Dr. Porter, (3).

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Second, From existing conditions as above stated, there are so few

able to bear the loss of such property as should be destroyed to

prevent spread of infection, that the Committee believe it would be

wise and within the scope of the law, for the Government to announce

that it would pay for all property destroyed under your orders. Such

action would remove any danger of secreting infected articles by the

owners, which we fear might be attempted by those unable to bear

the loss, if otherwise.

Rule 2.- In reference to this rule providing that applications

to the Government for reimbursement for destruction of infected mate-

rial, should be referred to the Committee on Claims of the Citizens

Auxiliary Association, the Committee feels that in view of the fact

that the work of disinfection and fumigation may require months to

complete after the end of this epidemic, and as the members of that

Committee have gratuitously devoted their time and services to the

work during the epidemic, and will be compelled to give their atten-

tion to their personal interests as soon as business can be resumed,

that a competent person should be appointed by you as an appraiser for

the Government, who should, in conjunction with a representative of

the owner of the property to be destroyed, determine its [illegible].

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JJ. Daniel, President; P. McQuaid, Vice-President; Dr. J.C. L’Engle, Treasure; Chas. S. Adams, Secretary; Jas. M. Fairlie, Cor. Secretary.

Executive Committee:

J.J. Daniel.

P. McQuaid.

J.M. Schumacher.

Dr. J.C. L’Engle.

C.G. Elliott.

P.E. McMurray.

W.A. McDuff.

Office of

Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association,

16 ½ West Bay Street.

P.O. Box 749. Telephone 108.

Jacksonville, Fla. ………………….. 188

Dr. Porter, (4).

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that a certificate for the property destroyed be given to the owner.

Rules 3 and 4 are cordially concurred in.

INSPECTION OF HOUSES PREPARATORY TO DISINFECTION

AND FUMIGATION

The Executive Committee view this as a very important work, and

think it a wise precaution to designate infected material as you

describe, but would suggest in view of the impression that prevails

that many cases of yellow fever were not reported to the Board of

Health, that all houses where cases of yellow fever were suspected to

have occurred, be visited, and infected material marked same as in

houses where yellow fever was reported to the Board of Health.

Permit me to say that the suggestions made on Destruction

of Property, Rule I, that the Government should pay for infected

material destroyed, - bears strongly on the work of seeking out and

marking infected material; so few are able to bear the loss, that

unless they are assured they will be paid for what is destroyed, I

very much fear [striken; much] infected bedding will be hidden away and not dis-

covered by the Fumigating Staff, and be the means of propagating the

disease hereafter.

The Executive Committee have requested the City Council

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JJ. Daniel, President; P. McQuaid, Vice-President; Dr. J.C. L’Engle, Treasure; Chas. S. Adams, Secretary; Jas. M. Fairlie, Cor. Secretary.

Executive Committee:

J.J. Daniel.

P. McQuaid.

J.M. Schumacher.

Dr. J.C. L’Engle.

C.G. Elliott.

P.E. McMurray.

W.A. McDuff.

Office of

Jacksonville Auxiliary Sanitary Association,

16 ½ West Bay Street.

P.O. Box 749. Telephone 108.

Jacksonville, Fla. ………………….. 188

Dr. Porter, (5).

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Board of Health to confer on you and those under your direction, full

authority to enter houses for all purposes of disinfection.

I need not assure you that the Executive Committee will

render you all assistance in their power.

Yours very truly,

P. M. Quaid

President.