Barbour County index., 1885-08-07
Our Local board of Health.

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The last legislature created stat,
board Of health and in the same ac
constituted the county commissioner:
a local board and made it their duty t.
appoint some practicing physician ;
member to act with them as health Off
Ger of said local board.
The county commissioners at theil
last meeting, appointed DIR. b. r. Bur.
ney as health officer of Barber county,
and he is in receipt OF instructions
from the state board, which the public
should become acquainted with. These
prescribe the limits in which sewers
cesspoOls and prisies shall be drained;
prohibits privies within certain dis.
tances of wells and cisterns and gener-
ally prohibits nuisances in the shape OF
swill barrels, dirty back yards, etc.
The rules also prohibit the keeping Of
hogs within the limits Of any, incorpor.
ated village or town within twenty rods
of any dwelling unless the pens haye a
tight and good floor and are regularly
and freely disintected. This provision
is hardly necessary In this city for the
reason that the city prohibits any hogs
within certain limits and attempts to
regulate the keeping Of others inside
the city.
Under the heading Of slaughter
houses the regulations are particular
in prohibiting the existenceof the same
within the city limits or near the same,
and direct that where slaughter houses
exist they must be kept clean, together
with all surroundings.
Every case Of contagious disease
must be reported at once to the local
board OF health.
The rules given for disinfection are
sensible and should be studied by every
person liable to be subjected to conta.
gion. ,~ss,'
Every physicianor midwife practic.
ing in the state isrequired to flle with
the county clerk Of the county inwhich
heor she lives, his or her name, age,
residence, number OF years practice,
school from which graduated liz any);
giving name and location, date Of
graduation and school OF practice. Any
physician failing TO comply with this
order before Octoberl, 1885 shall pay q
penalty OF $40 for each month thereaf.
ter in which he or she fails to comply
with the rule.
The local boards will also require .
report from every physician Of the
deaths occurring in his practice or tha,
may come to Ills knowledge; but the In,
stfuctlons on this subject are not yet
prepared.
II properly observed, the law creating
the state and local boards Of health will
be of great advantage. IL will 10 the
meansof stopping many nmsances thai
now exist In every community, Of Sc
curing correct record Of births and
deaths-yaluable statistics when cor
rcctly c0mpiled-and will be the means
of causing all physicians to register
that the public may know something Of
their history.
DIR. Burney, OF The local board Is q
good man for the place, and II the eoun.
ty commissioners will properly encour-
age him In the work, he will sec that
the sanitary affairs OF Barber county
are kept In proper shape. True, we
have the healthiest city In the state, yet
II Is we'll enough TO haye u local health
board In ease Of epidemic or contaglon.
Persons desiring full instructions in
the matter OF sanitary regulations
should call on DIR. Buney,
Undertaking.
Ring a Johnston aro prcnsrod 10 do under.