The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-09
ABOUT BUTTE'S HEALTH.
There Seems 10 DO but Little Sickness
In Butte Just Nov.
At Least Reports Sent to the
Health Offios indicate This
Exceedingly Pleasant state
OF Affairs.

BY the Standards Special Wire.
Butte, July s.-According to the re-
turns received at the health Office up to
date, there 10 n raft of health to the square
inch i'm this city. The new health depart
ment has done wonders in finding out
how the city stands in regard to health.
On June - cards were sent TO all the
physicians In town with instructions to re-
port all cases of contagious diseases that
have come under their notice. This rule
has been complied with, and In the ten
days that have elapsed since the notices
were distributed only three cases nave
been distributed. OF these cases two are
of scarlet fever and the other Of measles.
Not a case of typhoid fever or dyptheria
has been reported.
WINGED that there are cases OF typhoid
fever in the city limits, N the sanitary
policeman will be instructed to ferret
them out. There are several cases OF
scarlet and typhoid fever in Centerville
and Walkerville and in other suburbs.
Efforts will be made to have the county
BOARD OF health take equally strenuous
measures in the line of health with the
measures that are now taken in Butte.
Most of the disease is said to be outside
the city limits. With all the bowling
about the OF contagious disease
i'm the city, il II is remarkable that the re-
turns show such excellent general good
health.
In the sanitary inspection, which is pro-
crossing as rapidly as is consistent with
t~horoughness, the third ward has been
completed and the fourth ward was COM
pleted tonight. To-day the inspectors
began work in the badlands district, the
fifth ward, where exists the great mass OF
infection. Altogether 400 premises have
been inspected. An idea of the filth and
Demonstrating places i'm the city may
he obtained from the fact that
out of these 400 places inspected tn e
health Office has not sent out notices to
more than 100 to clean their premises and
abate nuisances forthwith. Most OF the
notices issued require the cleaning Of
cesspools, vaults and yards. Immediately
after the notices are served, a man, with
whom arrangements have been made,
calls and inquiries whether il is desired
that the places be cleaned. The man has
an air tight pump for cleaning the vaults
and will do the work in a thorough and
inoffensive n
Owing to the fact that In most cases
those notified are OF the poorer classes
the work Of cleaning will be done as
cheaply as possible. Arrangements have
been made with a drug store TO furnish
wholesale prices. Much unhealthfulness
is caused by the facts that slops are
thrown into back yards where houses are
not connected with sewers. Hereafter,
whisky barrels with close tops will he fur
nished to all desiring them into which the
slops can be emptied. Once or twice q
week the contents of the barrels will be
collected. This will be done ut q mod
crate cost.
The health office is now provided with
printed reports for showing deaths, dis
ease, causes, notice. burial permits, ETC.,
and il the city is not fairly reeking with
health in a few months, il will not be be
cause the health office has not worked in
defatiRably and thoroughly. Red cloth
notices for smallpox, scarlet notices for
scarlet fever, blue notices for diththeria
and pink notices for measles have
been provided, and will be posted
wherever these diseases appear.
The notices state the disease
and declare n penalty of so fine TO any
body tearing down the sign or entering OF
leaving the guaranteed house without
authority.
IN the course Of its work, the health of
flee has collected the names of all licensed
physicians in Butte with the resulting in
formation that the city contains no les,
than 40 licensed physicians. OF thes,
four are Chinese doctors.