All steamboats and barges will come to anchor on command of the officer in charge of the quarantine station; and all railroad conductors and engineers will bring their trains to a halt wherever or whenever the said officer or officers, agent or agents of the State Board of Health shall command. Any refusal or failure to obey the rules and regulations here declared and published, will be visited with the severest penalty of law. By order of the State Board of Health.

JAS. E. REEVES, M. D., Secretary Board and Executive Officer.

The persons appointed to enforce the above orders and act as inspectors, were as follows:

At Wheeling Drs. I. P. Birney, H. B. Baguley and E. C. Myers. At Wellsburg-Dr. W. K. Curtis.

At New Cumberland-Dr. P. C. McLane.

Subsequently, or on the first day of February, 1882, it was found necessary to extend the declaration of quarantine so as to embrace inspection of persons, baggage and freight from Washington, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Geo. A. Cracraft, of Triadelphia, was appointed inspector.

DR. CARPENTER offered the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted:

WHEREAS, We have heard the report of the Secretary of the measures adopted and enforced by him to save West Virginia from a visitation of that dread and loathsome disease-small-pox; therefore,

Resolved, That this Board cordially endorses and approves the prompt and energetic means adopted by its Secretary-Dr. James E. Reeves-for the prevention of small-pox in West Virginia in 1882; and the whole proceedings are worthy of praise as showing the efficient manner in which those measures were carried out.

DR. REEVES offered the following:

WHEREAS, The introduction of contagious diseases into the United States from foreign countries by immigrant vessels is causing outbreaks of small-pox, scarlet fever and diphtheria, and swelling the death-rate from these preventable diseases, thereby increasing general suffering among the people; and

WHEREAS, Because of the rapidity and vast amount of inter-state traffic and travel, it is impossible for State and Local Boards of Health to successfully quarantine against or effectually control and stamp out such diseases; and

WHEREAS, This Board views with deepest concern and alarm the inefficient provision in the sundry civil service appropriation bill for the National Board of Health, whose important work of protecting the public health has been liberally extended to the citizens of West Virginia—probably saving them from an invasion of small-pox with all its attendant horrors, loss of life, loss of money, and prostration of business; therefore

Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be and

they hereby are earnestly requested to use their influence to secure the most liberal appropriations to the National Board of Health to enable it to continue the immigrant inspection service until the necessity of such work no longer exists, and to do all else which in its wisdom may be deemed right and proper to protect the health and lives of the people throughout the greater portion of the United States.

Adopted.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF THE WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF HEALTH FOR REPUTABILITY OF A MEDICAL COLLEGE.

DR. REEVES offered the following preambles and resolutions which, after full discussion, were adopted unanimously:

WHEREAS, It is one of the special duties of the State Board of Health of West Virginia to protect the people against incompetent medical practitioners; and,

WHEREAS, The said Board is charged with authority of law to reject applicants for medical certificates who are graduates of disreputable medical colleges, unless they, the said applicants, shall appear before the said Board, and pass a satisfactory examination; and,

WHEREAS, The test or proof of proper reputation of a medical college is the occupancy of all needful grounds and buildings set apart for lecture and laboratory work; the possession of such mechanical and scientific apparatus and appliances as are necessary to illustrate and supplement medical lectures; a de facto corps of capable professors, whose curriculum embraces not only both lectures and examinations in the eight ordinary branches of medical education-namely, anatomy, chemistry, physiology, hygiene, surgery, obstetrics, practice of medicine, materia medica, and theraputics-but also the additional and important departments of hospital and clinical instruction; a preliminary examination as a condition of matriculation; the requirement of actual (not merely nominal) attendance upon at least eight-tenths of the lectures of two full winter courses; dissection, practiced during one full winter course; and finally, strict adherence to the measure of requirements for graduation established and published by its officers and faculty; therefore,

Resolved, That the State Board of Health of West Virginia will not hesitate to refuse recognition of all diplomas granted by disreputable medical colleges.

Resolved, That nothing less than the definition or measure of requirements expressed in the foregoing preamble, or a very close approximation thereto, will be acccepted by this Board as proof of the "good reputation" of a medical college.

DR. CARPENTER offered the following preamble and resolutions which, after being freely discussed, every member expressing his opinion on the subject, were unanimously adopted:

RESOLUTIONS CONCERNING COLUMBUS MEDICAL COLLEGE.

WHEREAS, This Board has before it a communication published in the

Philadelphia Medical News, July 22, 1882, over the signature of "D. N. Kinsman, M. D., Dean of Columbus Medical College," which gives the standard of requirements upon which the diploma of that college is issued ; and having other evidence of indisputable character that the said Columbus Medical College has grossly violated its published requirements for graduation; therefore,

Resolved, That this Board can no longer recognize Columbus Medical College as worthy and "reputable" within the meaning of the law from which this Board has received authority to pronounce upon such cases; and all persons applying for registration on diploma issued by said Columbus Medical College will be rejected, unless they, the said applicants, submit to an examination by this Board, and are found duly qualified to practice medicine, surgery and obstetrics in West Virginia.

Resolved, That this action is based wholly upon recent proceedings on the part of the Faculty of Columbus Medical College, and there is nothing in it which is intended to, or should in any manner, reflect upon the professional standing of graduates of that school prior to the year 1882.

DR. J. T. HALL, of Wellsburg, presented himself for examination and was granted a certificate.

DIVISION OF SANITARY WORKS.

As a ready means of educating the people in sanitary matters, DR. CARPENTER moved the appointment of a division of work among the members of the Board, and the early publication of a "Health Primer," to be distributed broad cast over the State; whereupon the President announced the following appointments and schedule of labors:

HON. A. R. BARBEE, M. D.-1. Stimulants and Narcotics. 2. Climate, Topography and Geology.

GEO. H. CARPENTER, M. D.-1. What to Eat and How to Cook. 2. The Duty of the Medical Profession.

LAWRENCE CARR, M. D.-1. How to Resuscitate the Drowned. 2. Diseases and Accidents of Coal Miners.

WM. M. LATE, M. D.-1. The Houses we Live in. 2. Our Domestic Animals and Their Diseases.

GEO. B. MOFFETT, M. D.-1. How to Nurse the Sick. 2. Drainage and Sewerage of Towns and Cities.

GABRIEL MCDONALD, M. D.-1. Contagious and Infectious Diseases. 2. Country Life and Its Exposures.

C. T. RICHARDSON, M. D.-1. Accidents from Explosives and Poisons. 2. Health of Freedmen.

JAMES E. REEVES, M. D.-1. Domiciliary Hygiene. 2. Hygiene of the School Room.

Papers "No. 1," to go into the proposed Primer.

Papers "No. 2," for the next annual report of the Secretary.

A telegram from HON. A. R. BARBEE, M. D., was read by the President, announcing his sickness and the impossibility of his presence at this meeting of the Board.

A resolution of thanks to the Mayor of the city of Parkersburg for the use of the council chamber was adopted.

DR. W. H. SHARP, of Volcano, Wood county, was, on motion, requested to prepare a paper on some subject connected with State Medicine for publication in the next report to the Governor. There being no further business, the Board adjourned.

FIFTH MEETING OF THE BOARD.

At a meeting of the State Board of Health in the city of Wheeling, Friday morning, 10 o'clock, January 12, 1883, in the Governor's private office at the State House, pursuant to call by the President of the Board, there were present the following members: Geo. B. Moffett, M. D., President, Parkersburg; Hon. A. R. Barbee, M. D., Point Pleasant; Gabriel McDonald, M. D., Union; Lawrence Carr, M. D., Charleston; James E. Reeves, M. D., Secretary, Wheeling.

Letters were read from the absentees-Doctors Richardson, Carpenter and Late-regretting their failure to be present at the meeting. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, after which the Secretary made a verbal report of the affairs of his office during the preceding six months. The importance of the work of Local or County Boards was dwelt upon, and a free interchange of opinion by the members present followed the suggestions of the Secretary. From the general survey of the work of this important department of public sanitation, the outlook for the future was deemed as favorable as could reasonably be expected.

The alarming prevalence of small-pox in the cities of Baltimore, Richmond, Va., Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, was the subject of serious consideration; and the Secretary was instructed to urge upon Local and County Boards the necessity of immediate vaccination of all unprotected persons as the first and most important step towards protection of communities; next, close watch for first cases of the disease, and the isolation of all suspected persons. To equip Local or County Boards to the fullest extent for mastery of the

situation, the county courts were requested to make immediate and liberal provision for the prompt execution of all orders by their sanitary officers who, under the law, are also the agents of the State Board of Health.

The question of the reputability of several medical colleges, diplomas from which had been presented to members of the Board in the several congressional districts, was next discussed and disposed of by special instructions to the Secretary in relation thereto. A letter from DR. JAMES M. BROWNE, Medical Director U. S. N., in charge, was read inviting attention to a prospectus of the Museum of Hygiene which has been recently organized under the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, and officially recognized by Congress in an act making appropriation for its support.

A letter was also read from PROF. B. W. ALLEN, M. D., Professor of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene in the State University at Morgantown, inviting attention to the increasing demand for a larger curriculum of medical studies in that institution, and the desirability of authority to grant diplomas in medicine and surgery. The following preamble and resolutlons were adopted unanimously concerning the

NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH.

WHEREAS, The State Board of Health of West Virginia recognizes the services of the National Board of Health as of very great importance to the prosperity and well being of the country-in this :

First-By protecting the sea ports from the introduction of contagious and infectious diseases under the Act of June 2, 1879, by a regular system of inspection in foreign ports which are habitually and especially dangerous in this connection; by the establishment of refuge stations in aid of local quarantines established by State and County Boards of Health, where suspected or infected vessels, which cannot be handled by local authorities, may be sent for observation and treatment until in proper condition for admission into their port of entry; and

Second-By establishing a system of inspection on the Mississippi river, which, in the absence of yellow fever from its shores, gives a sense of security to the people of the vast section of country liable to devastation by this disease, thereby preventing panics and shot-gun quarantines, which the history of recent years has demonstrated in damage to commerce to be second only to an invasion of the disease; and which has been found efficient in protecting uninvaded localities, while permitting uninterrupted commercial relations; and

Third-By its inspections at the principal ports of immigrant entry and also at various points on lines of through travel by rail, which have been found to lessen the frequency of small-pox developments and outbreaks, and promise, if fully and perfectly carried out, to free the country from this loathsome pest; and