Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-07


lilton county recently and this is being
r,ade the subject of investigation. One
| Dr.. A. w. Chamberlain. Of Stratford,
Essys the epidemic in that part of the
state is not snal.nox at all. He en-
leountered some CASES and diagnosed
them as an infectious disease and dam
gerous and ordered a quarantine. He
lGld not report to thc state board. For
this dereiiction he was invited to trsad
The carpet of the secretarv's Office,
which he did. ard promptly deied the
hoard He Insisted that the board has
no right to revoke his certificate for not.
reporting the case as she. is not required
to do more than report to the local.
health boards. But he also declared
st.,at the learned doctors into whose.
kands the health of the state is placed
Tor safe keeping 40 nos know all about
smallpox. or at least. all about the dis
ease which passes for smallpox. He
says what they have in Haminton ard
Boone counties is in fact disease much
resembling smallpox brought over from
the Philippines OF, some other country
snd not the true smallpox. The board
debated the matter at length with Dr.
Hamilton. He Was positive and the
they finally laid the matter over until
1.-The MAY meeting, altho some of the
members wanted to revoke the certifi-
|ca,e Of DR.. Hamilton at once He says
lie viii not appear before the board
again. but Will demand that the board
take action either to revoke the certifi-
catesor eNonerate him. If his certificate
|is revoked the courts viii have to de-
eide whether it IS smallpox or some
ithing like It.
The state board of health has also un-
der consideration another question that
L iisnew. A large number of nanufactur-
ers of lamps i,l3which gasoline is burned
flor Illuminating purposes have recently
secured approval of their devices. The
use of gasoline for lighting is becoming
popular and common. The members of
the state board have rejected many
lamps. but those they have approved
and permit TO be used in Iowa are re-
garded by them as entirely safe But
every barrel Of gasoline brought to the
state bears on 1t a brand. in accord
ance with law. requiring ii TO be plainly
marked. Not 10 be used for illuminate
ing purposes Thus the state IS in the
attitude of approving lamps to burn
gasoline but disapproving of gasoline to
burn in lamps The board will take
steps to remove this requirement. if it
can be done without an act of the legis-
llature
The work Of consolidating the state
library and the historical department
|will begin at once. Several thousand
volumes will be taken from the library
| in the state house to the rooms of the
historical depariment which are de-
signed to ultimately hold all of the mis-
Icellaneous part Of the state library. The
attorney general has ruled that the CON
lssolidation has been in fact in effect
since the first of the year. One board
Twill have full control of both branches,
and the state librarian will be in con-
troll, with an assistant in the law IL
l3brary and another in the historical de-
lpartment. Al the meeting OF the boards
yesterday the details of consolidation
We're considered Mis-, Mary Whit
comb of the historical department was
made secretary of the library board. re-
llieving the state librarian Of this work
Miss Margaret Bowman of Charlton will
be employed as an additional assistant
in the travelling library department
The books which will go to the histor-
Iical rooms now are those relating to
historical matters
The Iowa supreme court rather reluc-
stantly entered the field of deciding be-