Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-10
ADJOURNED.
The State Board Of Health and
Sanitary Convention Com
plete Their Work
Yesterday.
The Board VIII Next Meet at Topeka
A Pointer for the Coming
Session of the LegiS-
lature.
Able Papers Read by DIR. ID. W. Stormont, Rev.
+. &. McCabe, Mrs. II. 4. Lease, Hon.
T. Dwight Thaclicr and Others.
ADJOURNED.

was present and the work of the previou
day reviewed and accepted.
The defects OF the law in regard to tn
power of the committee were discussed ant
it was agreed to attempt to induce the legis
lature this winter to make the necessar,
amendments in the law.
The board adjourned and held meeting
in the afternoon, beginning at ) o'clock.
was decided to have all papers read at thu
SANITARY convention printed with the pro
ceedings of the board at the states expense
l. Dr. Alexander OF Topeka, was elected
chemist for the board.
On motion a vote of thanks was rendered
the ladies and gentlemen who attended the
! SANITARY convention, and especially to the
county health officers.
! The executive committee of the board was
instructed to visit the public buildings as re-
| uuested by the trustees of charitable institu-
! tons
The following preamble and resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, it is the sense of this convention,
assembled in the city of Wichita to consider
the various subjects pertaining to public
sanitation, that the adoption OF SUCH pubic
measures as are calculated to prevent the IN
ceptiOn and spread of disease amongst the
people. is of prime Importance, and lmpera-
lively demanded by fhe highest consldera-
tons of public interest, and
Whereas, recent discoveries made by the
researches of eminent scientific men into the
origin and causes of many OF the diseases
that most afiiict communities may be guard
ed against and often prevented by lntelll-
gent sanitary regulation, and much OF the
sickness that commonly prevails may be
avoided by well directed effort, and the
health and prosperity of the people largely
dependent thereon be greatly promoted; and
Whereas, the rapid growth Of towns
and cities in this state increases the
need for more perfect sanitary measures and
their enforcement, and believing that the
people of Kansas should njoy the benefits OF
every reasonable and known resource tend
ing to the conservation of life and health.
Resolved That the state board of health
heretofore created by the legislature has eX-
erted the limited powers conferred upon 1t
with intelligence and useful purpose and re-
suit, but that the highest usefulness OF such
a body can only be secured by armIng 1t
with the more ample powers, to the end that
its more important functions may be more
efficiently eX6rted towards the accomplish
ment Of benelicient ends.
The board adjourned to meet at Topeka on
the second Thursday OF next March.
The sanitary convention met yesterday
morning at o'clock. Dr. ". L. Schenck of
Usage City, read a lengthy and able paper
on sanitary necessities of school houses and
school life. The doctor commenced by say
ing that man is compounded of matter and
spirit and injuries to either invoices injury to
the other Health is the condition resulting
from the harmonious relative development
of all organs and functions Of the physical
and spiritual man.
No organ, factory or function can be de-
veloped at the expense of the other. Every
attempt at such leads to disease. Both phys
ical and spiritual education commences early
and the fact that half die before they reach
the school age, shows how imperfectly we
guarding early life.
The general subject was discussed under
such heads as location, Of school buildings,
construction of school building and its VEN
tilation. The doctor stated that in the sys-
TEN of ventilation three things should be OBJ
served: pure air before admitted. supply
constant, and removed as soon as conhmi-
mated.
The doctor elaborated upon the topics of
seats for school rooms the rod commodious
physical training, sex, school sessions, arti-
fetal stimulants to study, over work in
school teaching, physiology, hygiene and
effects of alcohol and sleep.
In closing he said: THE state
as an aggregation of individuals
can only reach It's true grandeur as it is
reached by its individual members, who can
only reach ib by the full and harmonious
development of all their organs and facul-
ties. And as each generate on lives for that
which is TO succeed it, that which is pledged
to that which is to be and as parent and
patriot is bound to its best possible develop
ment. As the children and schools of Ameri- !
"a are the hope of the nation the sanitary
and success of school life should be |
the special care of national, state and local |
boards OF health.
DR.. c. +. McAdams of Wichita. read !
paper on Pollution OF Water as q Cause OF |
Disease" He stated that impurities of water !
,ame mainly from tive sources, from organic .
md Inorganic matter.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The first paper OF the meeting was by Dr..
J. r. Lewis OF Howard on exposal of exereta
md decomposing organic matter. 1t con
aimed the following:
The subject here presented is one of no
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5 a subject that Is admissible OF Il great deal
ii expansion.
1t Is Il subject that has been a constant
source OF thought for ages past, and perhaps
Al the present time Is no nearer a correct So
utlon than when Noses administered hyzeuic
avs 10 the hosts OF Israel while joulneying
through the wilderness.
\ subject that should he of the utmost inn
portance TO the present generation. and one
Ipon the correct solution OF which, the life
ihd health OF more persons depends than any
other subject.
y subject the incorrect solution of which. /
: an invitation Tor ali zvmGtic
and pesulentiaI diseases to spread abroad
n our land. and, closely allied 10
them, are sickness, long suffering ana death
and death with countless numbers of mourn
as, parentlesS homes, orphan children s,1d
even whole families swept into the grave
This Is subject that Is OF vast interest =,
he citizens OF the great state of Kansas. the
banner state OF the Union. Youthful ya+
having more than a hundred cities within
ler borders with population of over
thousand Inhabitants
4 goodly number Of these cities have -ba
above subject under consideration and dis
'uSsion at the present time, and great many
ind their revenue entirely inadequate To H.
expenses OF the common sewer system from
he fact that 10 MAKE a success of This Svs
EN- they must have an abundant water SIM,
Ny. Even then very prominent objection
o the removal OF eNcrsta by the sewer svs-
EN-, Is that II Is only carrying from