Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-11-01
BOARD OF HEALTH.
State Board Maps Out Plans For
the Years Work.
Third Quarterly Meeting Held Monday and
important Matters Discussed.

Ine third quarterly meeting Of the
State board of health, an adjourned
meeting. was held. yesterday, at the
secretarys Office In the State House.
The members We're all present except
DR.. Wedgewood, whose absence was
due to illness. The secretary reported
en- at outbreak Of diphtheria at Jack
man and measures which were taken
by the Board to aid the local board, by
sending DR.. Bryant, and otherwise.
The secretary reported that, in ac-
cordance with the instruction of the
Board. he inquired of Surgeon General
Sternberg in June, whether this board
could in any way cooperate with him
OF his surgeons in the preservation Of
the health of the troops from this
State, and saying if so, the Board
would be pleased to be at his COM
mand. The reply of the surgeon gen
eral that he knew Of no way in which
the State Board could be of assistance
to the medical department in caring
for the health of the troops from this
State, was undoubtedly the only reply
which could have been properly have
been made at that time. 1t seemed to
the Board, however, that it might have
rendered help to the medical depart
ment, after the LIST Maine had returned
from Chickamauga. if it had been au-
thorized to do SO. Reporting on the
prevalence of typhoid fever at Camp
Powers, the secretary stated that he
had. at the request, visited the camp
several times with Adjutant General
Richards and Surgeon General May
bury. and had given his opinion as to
various sanitary measures, particular
ly with reference to disinfection and
the management of the sinks
The subject of rules and regulations
for the transportation of dead bodies,
and the question of approval of the
rules which have been adopted by sew
eral state boards of health, and by the
National Undertakers' Association, was
discussed. Action was, however, de-
ferred to the next meeting of tine
Board. The committee on vaccine was
asked to investigate the comparative
value and advantages of glycerinated
vaccine lymph, and vaccine lymph on
points, and to report to the Board at a
future meeting.
AS work for 1885, the secretary was
authorized to make a study of the
question of infant hygiene, and espec
tally of infant feeding, and to prepare
a popular circular upon the subject,
with view to lessening the mortality
among infants. The sanitarium and
out door air treatment of consumptives
which the secretary was, last year, au-
thorized to investigate, will also be car
ried on during the coming year.
The secretary exhibited specimens of
SdElOOS Sdultoiy opCSldhNiCS, oiAiohS
which was DIR. Knopf's pocket sputum
flask for the use of consumptives. es
pecially while travelling, and pressed
paper spit cups, to be burned with
their contents after each days use, or
oftener. Saprol, a new disinfectant for
excreta, was shown, and glycerinated
vaccine virus in tubes and in bulbs,
from the establishment of DR.. Slice of
Pennsylvania. Samples of Harker's
Sanitary cans which seals without the
use of solder was also shown. Prof.
Robinson exhibited a new form of for
maldehyde generator, which the Board
thought to have advantages over any
thing else yet devised, on account of
it's simplicity and convenience.