The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1885-02-12
1fIuuesots'S Henlth In 1884.

1EInnesots's Health In 1884.
The tenth report Of the state board Of health
for the period from Jan /, 1883, to August 1,
1884, was issued recently. It is pamphlet of
1874 pages, and contains esveral new and inter-
estine features The board reports moro &C
tive local health boards in existence than at
any former time Active, local health officers
are needed, who ara medical men, and who are
paid enough for tie work to encourage them
to learn how to do do it and do it we'll; The
the medical faculty Of the university, which,
if successfully passed, entities tho candidate
to the degree Of '1centiate in Sanitary Sci
enoe" Legislation is suggested, making tho
all towns of over 1000 inhabitants, the
tenure of Office to be at least two years, the
compensation sufficient, tho qualifications
recognized professional ability and previous
ence be given to candidates obtaining tho de-
| gree mentioned above. The strongest induce
ment our people can hold out to cholera, as to
all other preventable diseases, is the average
as respects the disposal of excreta and garbage:
10 amend this, the privy should be replaced
! By the earth closet the contents Of which to be
/ regularly removed to farming lands. House
slops may be gotten rid of by shallow drains
from tight resovoir, which, collecting the
/ heavy matters, must be emphed and contents
removed with the manure. Or all Stops may be-
! removed in close barrels to farming lands
: Garbage street and alley sweepings must reg
; ularly be removed to farming lands and buried
! in trenches. It must be done by the loca! health
| board and paid for by the village OF town. A
! regular monthly inspection by the health officer
should be enforced. An appropriation Of
IS, 600 per annum is RECOMMENDED for the
! nd Tbo Rysp 81 ovh a
penditure of 80, ia: 80 during the period The
! report of the secretary follows. It giYes the
following statistics of small pox: Outbreaks,
II: towns infected, %; camps infected, .; To-
deaths in families, %; per cent Of deatha
/ to total sick, 1873. The board has received re-
ports Of thirty two distinct outbreaks of diph-
/ liberia, with 4Al deaths. When confined to ona
! family the average of cases to each family was
! S per cent. and the average Of deaths to total
| sick, 416 Full statistics Of the disease in St
Paul and Minneapolis follow, as previously
published in the Pioneer Press. In but two
victims been reported, very encouraging
! fact 80 temporary hospitals for diphtheriA
and small po& patients, wall tents. 12x9 are
suggested, two ct which, with full furniture
and equipment cost s93. Three weeks is the
minimum for continuance OF quarantine after
the last complete recovery.
PREPARING FOR CHOLERA.
In regard to cholera, which is likely soon to
reach ibis country. the following recOmmoO-
dations are offered:
! A thorough sanitary survey Of the state by
state and local health boards; compulsory To-
cal sanitation, particularly as respects the
protection of the water supply and disposal OF
filth; an efficient and permanent organization
of local boards; appointment of Competent
physician as health officer and the provision OF
funds for necessary sanitary work; regular re-
ports to the state board of the work done etc.
to promote the organization Of voluntary sani-
whnroV0r DOSslhle.
full survey of hospital and other facilities for
the care of cholera cases; arrangements for
the employment Of sanitary inspectors on trains,
boats and infected localities.
Thomas Reager an old bachelor citizen Of
Mankato, died at his lonely habitation recently.
He has been a resident for about thirty years,
and has lived in small log house all that time
on Agency hill near the Catholic church. His
habits have been the most ,penurlous sort,
and by the mode of his life he has accumulated
fortune estimated at $25, 600 to $50, OOO, which
he leaves to relatives in ''Fatherland"
Richard Ireland, father of Bishop Ireland
celebrated his eightieth birthday on Monday
last He has been in Minnesota for two score
years, and is still as hale and hearty rs many
man not yet born when he came to St Paul.
The jury in the case of Joshua and G. W.
Tressler, tried at Blue Earth City for assault
! ing Mr.. Iverson, returned a verdict of guilty.
! The prisoners will be sentenced by Judge Sev-
erance
! Attorney General Hahn holds that county
auditor cannot collect pay for compiling ag-
rlcultural statistics.
+ Minneapolis bonded debt with what is asked
for, will omount to $685., 600, less $4,000
, sinking fund.
w. D. Armstrong; "aseca farmer, killed
fifty eight hogs of own raising, bought
enough more to make q car load, which he
sent to market without profit to middle men.
| The Diamond cheese factory in Rice county
used 742, 252 pounds of milk during seven
months last summer, making Il 500 pounds of
cheese
Elizabeth Wake, as the administrix of John
Wake, filed in the United States circuit court at
St Paul, the papers on a suit against the St
complaint alleges that, on March r. 1858, John
Wake was killed by switch engine OF the
company at Minneapolis, for which damages
are asked in the some of $1,000
At Pemberton's trading post at Mile Laos
Lake, in drunken row, Pembert on's son
knocked down an Indian, and ia return was
stabbed, and will probably die.
G. W. sycks of Long Prairie has received
~, 600 back pension and an allowance Of $1a
per month in future
Judge Stearns fell at Duluth recently, frac-
turing the bones of his foot.
At Cannon Falls, George Mckenzie an elgh-
teen year-old boy without home or friends,
was sent to jail, for sixty day by Justice Will
son for stealing IS from Fred Johnson
4. ]. Grumbois, bartender at the Northern no.
I tel, st. Vincent, was grossly assaulted by a
/ man named Charles Gates, who stabbed him in
the left temple with knife. Sheriff Vanstrum
arrested Gates soon after.
If there is to be branch penitentiary built,
the people Of Kasota want it s. B. Carpenter
says he will donate 100 acres of land adjoining
the village Of Kasota, if the commission will
locate the pententiary there. Other citizens
will also contribute for the same object
The late William BONNER, who died short
time ago at Melrose, was, perhaps, the wealth.
lest man in Stearns county, or at least had his
property in such shape that he could handle
the most money at moments notice. He left
$4,000 of ready cash and s145, coo of Other
property. His will gives his six children $780,
! GOO and his wife $4,000
The next annual encampment Of the Mnne-
sofa G. A. R. will be hold at Fairbault-not
Excelsior Some time during the coming sum-
mer there will be reunion of all ex-soldlera
and sailors of the late war; under the auspices
Of the G. A. R., department of Minnesota.
! Ten million white fish eggs have just been
placed in Lake Superior at Duluth by the state
fish commission Besides these eggs, 10000
600 young fish will be sent there just as soon
as they are Matched, probably in fe days,
and they will also be placed in the Lake.
H. H. Timme, an old resident of St. Paul,
died at his residence In past years he had
been member of the board of public works,