Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-14
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Tuberculosis Must Be Reported to
 Health Officers.

Tuberculosis Must Be HeporIeu Io Health Officers. Bridgeport, Aug 14.-The state board of health met at Pleasure Beach yes terday.- A discussion of the new rules for town health officers Was-taken up and printed copies of the rules adopt ed were passed around. The discus sion was on the admission of the new rules and amendments of old ones and one of the main points argued was the propriety of including tuberculosis to be reported by physicians to the town health officers within twelve hours from discovery. It was voted to have tuberculosis included
 Rule 5, providing that no child re- siding in a house i'll which a case of contagious disease is found shall at tend school without q written permit from the health officer was amended to read 'household'' instead of house" as the legal acceptation of the latter term sometimes includes block of dwellings. The adoption of the rule, so amended, was recom- mended
 The rule dealing with placarding houses where contagious diseases are found, was amended to exclude whooping cough and typhoid fever, and to substitute main entrance, for leach entrance T and i'll that form was recommended.
 A vote was passed recommending that typhoid fever be excluded from the list of diseases which, resulting fatally, demand private funerals.
 The new rules whose adoption was recommended were suggested by the health officers of Hartford county and are as follows:
 Rule s. Ar cases of diptheria, small pox, scarlet fever, typhus fever and membranous croup shall be Quaran- tined.
 An amendment offered by Dr Don- aldson to include measles in the list brought out the most lively discussion of the session. Dr Jones of Greenwich asserted that measles was very dan gerous disease, that more deaths re- suited from it than from small pox and diphtheria, and Dr Lindsley agreed with him. The amendment was finally carried by vote of to 6.
 Rule 16. No garbage shall be brought from one town into another, except with the permission of the health off, cer and under his restrictions. The violation of any such restrictions shall cause the reyocation5of the collectors license. 9d II flI
 , Rule Is. No splitting shall be all lowed i'll any public building or store, eor on the platform or floor of any street car. The rest of the printed rules were recommended for adoption.
 Four additional special rules at pres ent in force in certain towns were adopted.
 l. All persons are forbidden to enter or leave a quarantined house unless with the health officers permission
 7. No clothing. furniture or books may be removed from quarantine until thoroughly disinfected
 3. All disinfection must be under the supervision of the health officer.
 4. As soon as patient is convales- cent. the health officer shall notify the attending physician, and in case of death the undertaken
 DrlLemmer of Danbury suggested placing a minimum, timel for quaran- tine in cases of diphtheria and scarlet fever. Dr Lindsley stated some objec- tions, and was answered by Dr Tracey of Norwalk. At the suggestion of MT Hill, the matter was left for consider ation at the coming meeting of county health officers of the state. when rep resentativs of the town health officers of each county will be present h. cluded in the motion was a recommen- dation from the Fairfield county off, cerS that some attention be maid to fha subject.