The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-08-20
Doctors Of the City Find That it is
Impossible for Kenosha TO Enforce
Health Laws in SOmers.
IMPURE MILK SOLD IN KENOSHA.
Doctors Declare That the Health Laws
Have Been Neglected Until the Pub
Hes Health is In Peril.

Better sanitation and better enforce.
ment of the health ordinances of the
city formed very interesting subject
for the meeting of the Kenosha County
Medical Association at the home of
DR.. II. J. Stalker on Prairie avenue.
1t is probable that the ball started
rolling at the meeting will result in a
stricter enforcement of the laws in the
city and will bring about better con-
dition of affairs pertaining to the
public health.
DIR. Stalker read an interesting paper
on hygiene or Sanitation, and in the
course of his remarks he announced to
the members of the association that he
had written to the State Health Officer
and made an effort to have the powers
of the health officers of Kenosha ex-
tended SO as to include portions of the
the towns of Somers and Pleasant
Prairie. In this regard it has been
discovered that there are legal i'm
pediments to such a plan, as the health
officers of each town and city must be
organized under separate charter.
Notwithstanding this seeming rebuff
In their efforts to secure better systems
of sanitation and quarantine, the doc
tors will not give up the fight and they
will make personal effort in the flu
ture to see that the systems used in the
city are more nearly followed in the
suburban districts. The officials of
the town boards of both the towns have
promisedto give their hearty co-opera-
ton to the plans of the doctors and it
is expected that much better and more
uniform systems will be adopted.
In the discussion following the talk
by DR.. Stalker the doctors brought out
the fact that the health laws of the
city were being fagrantly violated
and seemingly with IMMUNITY. Dirty
alleys and dirty streets in different
parts of the city are breeding germs
Of disease, and impure milk is being
sold by many of the milk dealers in
the city. The doctors reported many
case of impure milk being sold and
they are insisting that the law recent
ly passed by the council requiring
regular tests of milk sold in the city
be enforced to the letter.
Much of the milk is below the stand
ard established by the law and beyond
this fact In many cases the cows which
furnish the milk are allowed to get
filthy and no care is taken in handling
the milk. Dirty mixers and just as
dirty milkmaids are sending milk into
Kenosha for sale to the people of the
city which is not fit for pigs to eat.
The doctors are urging the present
health officer to begin a crusade
against the milk dealers and force all
of them to sell only standard and clean
milk ia the city.
The board of directors of the Keno
sha Hospital association notified the
physicians that they had purchased a
hospital and asked the association to
appoint an advisory board to act in
connection with the directors on all
matters pertaining to the hospital.
The association elected an advisory
board consisting Of DR.. F. E. Andre,
DR.. H. A. Robinson and DR.. G. w.
Windesheim. This board will repre-
sent the Medical association on the
board of directors for the coming year.
The doctors were selected on account
of the fact that all of them have seen
great deal of hospital work and are
well fitted to aid the directors in secur-
ing the best equipment and manage
ment for the new institution.