The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-08
VISITORS WERE ON HAND
LADIES' LITERARY CLUB WON
EN- PRESENT.
Some Time Consumed In Talk As
to the Best Means CT Preventing
a Spread OF Scarlet Fever and
Other Contagious Diseases In the
Public Schools.

mond of the Ladies Literary club. Drs
Bascom ard Beatty Of the state board
of health and DR.. Keogh of the city
board OF health. They were there by in
vitation 70 confer with the board as
to what can be done to prevent the
spread of contagious diseases in the
schools
The subject was opened by a state
ment from Mrs. King as to wha1 was
being done in Chicago by special medi-
cal school inspectors. and she favored
them for Salt Lake if the means could
be provided.
Cups and Towels Bad.
Dr. Keogh told of visiting the Wa
bash school, where two cups were
chained to the faucet and never
cleaned. AT the Hamilton school three
towels were used by 200 children Each
child, he said. should have his own
pencils, pens, books and other things.
These should be sterilized each night
and the rooms should be fumigated
each night. He thought that it would
be too expensive to have inspectors to
examine all the children as to disease.
The teachers could do much in this re-
gard and the parents should help.
Mrs. Jennings made the point that
too many teachers and mothers did not
recognize disease in its early stages. She
favored sending out circulars setting
forth in simple terms the symptoms of
all children's diseases.
DR.. Beatty said the state board of
health proposed sending out bulletins
as mentioned by Mrs. Jennings. He
thought improper quarantine was to
blame for much of the trouble II is
fact. too, that diseases in mild form
were the most dangerous and hardest
to combat. Scarletina is but the medi-
cal term for scarlet fever, and yet
many people thought scarletiaa harm
less. fatal disease in enc child is
often contracted from mild form OF
the same disease in another.
Inspectors Not Practicable.
lie did not think paid inspectors prac-
ticable. The teachers should inspect
the children and when a child is out a
day fer sickness the parents should
in Salt Lake. he said, who dc not be-
lieve in disease. 1t is mortal mind
that carries off the children. Such peo-
pie evade the quarantine law. They
should be investigated. The floors oe
the school buildings should be thor
oughly scrubbed often to kill the dis
ease germs.
DR.. Bascomb favored the idea of cir
culars TO educate the teachers and par
ents. He also took the position that
when child was out two DAYS for
sickness he should furnish a physi-
clans certificate in order to get hack
Mrs. Osmond thought water. soap and
scruboing brushes did not cost so
much that they could not be used Of
tener. The scrubbing is not well done
now, not as any good housewife would
have her home cleaned. Then, the,
sweeping keeps the dust continually
stirred up.
Mr.. Bamberger's Idea.
Mr.. Bamberger thought that few of
the suggestions made were practical
and the whole subject belonged more
to the city and the board of health than
the school board Scrubbing was
good idea-the buildings would be thor
oughly scrubbed and purified during the
holidays. The trouble with medical in
spectors is that they would never tell
till tomorrow what allied the child, and
then they could not tell No janitor
would sterilize properly; it could only
be done in laboratory.
MIR. Newman said the school buildings
had been scrubbed so much now that !
the paint and varnish were destroyed. I
which gave the microbes a chance to
get into the soft wood.
Mrs. Igleheart thought that the rules
Of the school board were not good in
that they provided for cleaning the
school buildings but four times year.
Wilson was against inspectors, and
thought the teachers qualified to in
spect the children with the help of lee
lures from physicians.
DIR. Beatty called attention to the
law enacted by the last legislature pro-
viding for the inspection of all school
buildings by the board of health.
Referred to Committee.
The matter was referred to the teach
ers' and school work and the buildings
and grounds committees, with power to
act.
There were present of the school
board members Nelden, Bamberger.
Young, Newman, Moyle, Wilson and
critchiow.
Applications for positions as teachers
we're received from Edith Roche. Cor |
me City, Utah: Cora NJ Porterfied. |
Miss ]. Conklin, Indianapolis. Ind: w. |
Dixon, HIS: Eva j. Root. |
)dell. Ills; Susie NJ. Bailey, Cincin- !
lati, O.
The resignation of Mamie A ReeIA. |
f tie Oquirrh school. to take effect Jan.
1900. was received
On motion of Moyle it was voted that !
he Christmas holidays begin on Fri
lay. Dec. %, and continue until Mon
lay. jan s. An amendment by Barn-
lerger provided that all teachers be al
owed salaries for Christmas and New
Tear.
Treasurer's Report.
The monthly report by Treasurer Bar