The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-29
STATE HEALTH TALK
Large Attendance Anticipated at
Coming Conference of Officials.
Some of the Subjects to Be Discussed
and Papers to Be Read -
ChicagO's Smallpox.

The conference of local health officers
throughout the State with the Indiana
Board of Health which will be held here
Wednesday and Thursday, April IL and u,
will doubtless attract a large attendance
of those interested in this work. There are
$50 health officers in the State. and the
board hopes to have more Of them here at
this years conference than have ever at
tended before. The programme includes ad-
dresses by Secretary Scott, of the Illinois
board, Secretary Probst, of the Ohio board,
DR.. Hibberd, of Richmond. president of the
American Medical Association. and others.
DR.. Hibberd is secretary of the Wayne
County Board Of Health, and one of the
oldest officers in the State, having held that
position ever since the law was passed, in
1881, creating boards of health Ohio and
Michigan are the only other States in the
country that ever held these conferences
between the State and local board represent
atives. They have been found to be eX-
ceedingly instructive and beneficial, and 1t
is somewhat surprising that other States
do not take up with the idea DR.. Rachel
Swain, of this city, is on the programme
for a paper. The Chicago smallpox cpl
demic will be given considerable attention
Members of the State board believe that the
apparent increase in the number OF cases
there just now is due not so much TO a
sudden spread of the contagion as TO the
house, toulouse inspection suggested by
them, and which is now bringing to light
many cases heretofore not known to the
health authorities of that CITY,.
The board is sending to all the health
officers in the State copies of the pre-
gramme for the conference, which is the
sixth annual affair of the kind for Indiana.
The officers are urged to be on hand April
IL and II prepared to take part in the dis
cussion of the topics named. fhe confer
ence. will be held in the agricultural rooms
in the Statehouse, and If more space is
needed to accommodate the delegates the
hall Of the House of Representatives will
be the scene of the meeting. The public is
invited to attend. The session will open
Wednesday afternoon, April II, at O'Clock
and the programme for the occasion Will
be as follows: School sanitation; Disposal
of waste and excreta; Railroad sanitation.
Evening session, 7:30 o'clock-Address of
welcome, Gov. Claude Matthew's; address
of welcome on behalf of the State Board of
Health, by ]. F. Hibberd, NJ. D., president
Of the American Medical Association and
secretary of Wayne County Board OF
set a Secretary of a State Board of Health y
c. o. Probst. NJ. d., secretary Ohio State
Board of Health, and secretary National
Conference. State and provincial boards of
health; General Sanitation, j. w. Scott,
NJ. D., secretary Illinois State Board Of
Health; general discussion.
Second day. Thursday, forenoon session,
$3.50 O'clock Restriction and Prevention of
Dangerous Communicable Diseases" Pre-
VentiOn of TuDerculOSlS, DlSln1ectlOn;
How Accomplished How Shall We Pro-
tect Our Water Supply?" Prof. Wellington
b. Johnson, \. NJ, of Franklin College;
management of an Outbreak Of SMALL
pox," Hugh A. Cowing, NJ. D., Muncie,
Ind.
Afternoon session, 1:30 o'clock-The laws
and rules relating to the duties of health
officers; Preventive Medicine" DR.. Rachel
Swain, indianapolis, Ind, president of the
Ladies' Sanitary Society; How to maintain
good sanitary conditions of towns and cit
les.