45th CONGRESS, 
3d Session. 
S. R. 56. 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. 
February 6, 1879. 
Mr. Harris, from the Select Committee to investigate and report the best means 
of preventing the introduction and spread of Epidemic Diseases, reported 
the following joint resolution; which was read the first and second times by 
unanimous consent. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Requesting Doctors Bemiss and Cochran and Engineer Hardie to 
complete their reports upon the yellow-fever epidemic of 
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight for the use of Congress. 
Whereas Doctor S. M. Bemiss, of New Orleans, and Doctor Jerome 
Cochran, of Mobile, and Civil Engineer Thomas S. Hardie, of 
New Orleans, as members of what was known as the Yellow 
Fever Commission, organized by the Supervising Surgeon of 
the Marine Hospital Service in eighteen hundred and seventy- 
eight, have collected a mass of information upon the cause and 
spread of the yellow-fever epidemic of eighteen hundred and 
seventy-eight, but have not completed their maps and reports; 
and 
Whereas it will require some two months to complete the investi- 
gations, maps, and reports; and 
Whereas it is important that their maps and reports should be com- 
pleted: Therefore, 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa- 
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the said Doctor S. M. Bemiss, Doctor Jerome Cochran, 2 
and Thomas S. Hardie, he, and they are hereby, requested to 
complete their maps and reports upon the causes and spread 
of the yellow-fever epidemic of eighteen hundred and sev- 
enty-eight, and present the same to the first session of the 
Forty-sixth Congress; and for their services in preparing the 
same they shall each be entitled to compensation at the rate 
of ten dollars per diem for two months, to be paid out of the 
money appropriated by “Joint resolution making an appro- 
priation for the purpose of paying the necessary expenses 
incurred in investigating the origin and cause of epidemic dis- 
eases in the United States,” approved December twenty-first, 
eighteen hundred and seventy-eight. 3£79—February 6.—Bead the first and second times l>y 
unanimous consent. 
Requesting Drs. Bemiss anti Cochran and Engi- 
neer Hardie to complete their reports upon the 
yellow-fever epidemic of 1878 for the use of 
Congress. 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
4T>th CONGRESS, 
to Session. 
b. R. 5C.