Speech #470099906

I move to amend thelast clause just read by striking out "%5.500" and inserting "$17.500." The machinery of the National Board of Health would be entirely crippled with this inadequate appropriation of $5.000. It is well known to the members of this House that the National Board of Health stamped out the epidemic of yellow fever a few years since. With the large increase of immigration now coming to this country. there is imminent danger that not only smallpox. but diphtheria. typhus fever. and scarlatina will bebrought in by the immigrants and spread throughout the country. It will require the whole power of the National Board of Health as now organized to make an efficient resistance to the spread of those contagious disascs. I ask the Clerk to read a statement handed me by the secreary of the National Board of Health.