Show A HEALTH commission senator ggGiiibbbbsoonnss plan for 1 cioe ef-fectual quarantine senator gibson introduced a mil ID congress on tuesday for the interior department f tiie bureau of health to bs under thy direc-tion of a commissioner who vive an annual salary of it alsy pro-vides for the appointment by the dent of a health commission to he com-posed of twenty members who shall be divided into six elections as follows biye for a yellow fever section and three each for cholera typhoil small pox and diphtheria sections each member shall receive an annual salary of aad it shall be his to in-vestiggaattee the cause origin and best mode of prevention of the diseases men-tioned five members of the commis-sion shall bo organized into a quaran-tine commission whose duty it shall be to examine into and report upon the efficiency of quarantines at the various seaports of the united states upon the report of this commission to the health commissioner that the quarantine service at any port is inefficient the commissioner ia commanded to direct the collector of customs at that port to refuse entry to any vessel goods or person coming from any infected place unless the vessel shall have undergone quarantine at some national a station the health commissioner is di-rected whenever called on by the gov-ernor of a to make rules and regu-lations and take measures for the sup-pression of any infectious disease it is made the duty of consular officers to make weekly reports to the health commissioner in regard to the sanitary condition of foreign port t ia made unlawful for any person to obstruct commerce between states or with any foreign country except in accordance with the rules prescribed by the health commissioner the braad gango |