Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-16
Board Of Education Concludes that
Il Shall be Done.
FEE is FIXED AT 25 CENTS
state Health Hoard 60 Issue u Proc-
Ismation-subJcct Discussed
Last Night

Inc BOARD OF education connHVet'N ""
teachers and school work met last night |
with DR.. Beatty. secretary OF the state
board OF health. and Dr.. kcogh, city
health commissioner. and resolved 10
enforce vaccination upon all school
children as a safeguard against the en-
trance into the homes and echoolrooms
OF the dreadful disease OF smallpox.
The committee further determined TO
have issued more effective rule touch
| Ing preventive measures for other con-
taglous diseases The action taken VIII
be recommended FOR adoption TO the
board. at a special meeting to be held
Tuesday evening.
After n short discussion Of the qucs-
ton In all its phases. the following reso.
.utions were adopted.
Resolved, that no pupil or teacher
shall be permitted In the schools at the
opening thereof on Jan. s. 1900. who
shall not present the certificate OF
reputable physician that he or she has
| been vacclnated or give evidence OF
successful vaccination.
Resolved. that the superintendent
| be empowered TO arrange with the
boord OF health for the vaccination OF
all pupils who may present themselves
| for that purpose. at a cost OF not TO
/ exceed 20 cents each. provided, that
the children OF INDECENT parents shall
be vacclnatcd free OF expense"
| Health Commissioner kcogh said that
In no way could the Imminent danger
| Of a smallpox epidemic be reduced 10
| minimum In Salt Lake better than by
| compelling the vaccination of4every per-
| son In the public schools. whether pupil
| or teacher. He added that he would
| teks al IN tho alfN h4u1th HgnlFtmgnf
cooperate with the school board In
making general vaccination effective.
Within the past day or two. several
vaccine points had been received from
the east and he did not think there was
any occasion FOR alarm on that score
DIR. Beatty. In speaking OF the virtue
| OF vaccination, said that no well IN
formed person could show that any
thing but almost utter immunity from
smallpox resulted from vaccination. lilo
challenged anyone TO cite an Instance
where any fatality onsued from the ap-
pllcation OF modern aseptic methods,
and no one could name an Instance OF
even an arm being lost from II. Dr.
Beatty asserted that there waa ab.o:
lutely no danger from vaccination, ana
the efficacy OF II no one could gainsay.
lie said that Utah was about the only
State In the Union IN which there were
no compulsory vaccination laws. and
for this reason he believed that II small
Lake and other towns where the con-
tagion has br ken out, the result would
be terrible.
Chairman Crltchiow affirmed that II
was hls opinion that the school board
has n legitimate right TO enforce vaccl-
ration Of school children, when the dis
ease has already broken out
nr. Beatty thought that the general
powers granted by law 10 the State
health board. are ample 10 require vac
I a
any doubt about II he would favor
throwing down the gauntlet now and
testing the question.
In answer 60 q question by Mr.. Critch-
low, Dr. Beatty said that all the 1000
puplls and teachers could be- treated
during Christmas and New Years holi-
days II the vaccination was done In n
Wholesale way. He could vacciante Mt
the rate OF one minute II he had an
assistant TO prepare the arms OF the VIC
tina. Those who do not wish to have
their arms marrcd. may have the vac
! cine applied on the leg above the knee.
DR. Beatty declared that on Monday
the State board Of health would issue
PROCLAMATION. ordering compulsory
vaccination OF all school children and
teachers and recommending the same
preventive to every person beyond the
reach OF the board. the recommends
lion being based upon the fact OF the
presence OF the disease In Salt Lake and
a., | Othfr towns N inc STATE.
I,y general agreement the arrange
mcnts FOR the vaccination campaign
/; was left with superintendent Cooper
the board concurrlng.
MIR Moylc was willing 10 support the
' general proposition. but did not know
about the compulslon. President Mel
/, den doubted The school boards authorit,
10 act on the lines recommended, bu
Messrs. Cfltchiow. Walker and Youns
! voted for aud heartily supported tn
: resolutions
Dr. Beatty then turned his batter,
upon the presence Of lace curtains ant
other drnpery In school rooms. III
thought this wns barbarous, as curtains
were veritnble nests for microbes.
n After n brief discussion resolution
h | to abolish the evil was adopted for rec
i ommendatlon TO the board. Following
u IL the resolution.
"Resolved. that for sanitary reason
all curtains In any school rooms or IN
city be removed before the opening o
schools after the Christmas holidays
and that they be not replaced at an,
4 time"
!. Quite an extended argument was In
. dulgcd In. on the necessity OF dislnfect
!. Ing text books, apparatus and every
thing In the school rooms by the IRE
uuent application OF formaldehyde gus
but no action was taken upon the mat
ter.
In respect to preventing the spread O
other contagious Diseases such as scar
let fever. whooping cough and the llks
- the following new rule was unanimousl
)" agreed upon for adoption by the board
at Is hereby made the duty q
school teachers and principals to as
certain daily as carly as possible IN
cause OF absence of any pupil, and !
case absence " caused by sickness sup
" posed to bo contagious, that such caus
~ be reported at once to the board q
health for investigation. and the super
intendent OF schools IN hereby author
ICED 90 make such rules and rcgula
lions as to him seem necessary to dit
cover and ronOrt all such cases"