The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-03
HEALTH IN KENTUCKY
State Board of Health Secretary
Makes Report.
Appalling Statistics on Typhoid Fever
The Smallpox
8 tuation.
WEST VIRGINIA WORRIED

to notify the state of West Virgin,
that unless precautions are taken Il
protect Kentucky against smallpo,
patients coming from that state, q
quarantine will b. established. AL
who enter Kentucky will be required
to be vscoinated. DR.. McOormact
will aci promptly, as the health OF
various Keu'uokv communities ha,
been threatened BY the incoming oil
smallpox sufferers from West Virginia.
The communities If kenova and
Oeredo are unusually lax in thsir
health reQuir ments, nnr the instruc.
lions of DIR McCormsck are TO have
the sanitation OF those and other
towns improved rs o condition OF the
agreement to refrain from esta blishing
border regulations.
DIR. Mccormack presented at the
board meeting report covering two
years. oont aiming . detailed statement
FROM everv county except Boy, Mar.
tin. norssu and Leslie counties, ann
from every oity except Henderson and
Paduoah.
In Psduoah IL is always practically
impossible to get stssistics in deaths
and disease The health odioer al
though Q city offio,al paid By the city,
declines to furnish o. wsp.pers with
any facts relative TO deaths or the
death rate.
IL other cities tina pspsss publish
every month . completes lit Of deaths,
births sud the diseasa from which
people died. 1t il not known Why there
was no repnrc Co the state Secretary
from Psduc,h and Henderson bus the
Secretary OF the Sts,e Board Of
Health rep rted ha mai no reports
from these cities. DR.. Mccormack re-
ported that the two years covered by
his report 8 commits in Kentucky re-
port X. 1856 crs.s Of typhoid fever with
1879 deaths. while a conservative
estimate Of the cost of caring for the
sick 10 96s $50.
At ention rs cslled to the fact that
this is prevertabls dis-sse, and more
refsr sboald be show n for he public
health by al attempt to pr. vent IL on
. bash al 5000 e. ga b life, wasted
by typhoid ~h'oh b sis - from the
claim OF political Economists that the
life Of every healthy immigrant who
arrives n or shores j. wor,h 81, 900.
the loss so K.ntuosv IN two years
from typ o,d tevtr hs. b, en- 81 $40, 900
or added 70 The cost OF caring for the
siok, ss.54s.75o
Turning IN the subject Of smallpox,
the rep rts from us counties show
wit the two years q total of 10. 1870
cases. ami il6 deaths. The total ex-
penses Of anageme"t WAS sI95, 504,
or an average - sI9 20 per Case. a.
against iI,279 c,srs, 1874 draths and a
total exp n-' OF $3OS 27l OF All average
of $27 30 pr Ca. in the two proceed.
lng y"n'-. Ia vry large mr cent.
of i".tarc,s tn" nu' m. ak w,re trscrd
to IA unrts'in frnu Iuhiana W.st
Vir,h'i,. leuuess e aud even distant
state snh in m.nv COM e. h. DIS.
ease Was stamped nu, over ami ove-
again only to be started anew by other
i'm o. a. o..
III W lie 20 # former years has
been Wy vniushl. tn hoth the health
and nscal nilirisls rs well Ms To the
medical y ofr ssioD. AS might have
been Exp ctrn here important inter
ests and r,spons,hility ware involved,
friction aud cl rinV of authority have
occurred. boz win much less fire..
qusOoy tnsn formerly anu they were
ALWAYS moe en,iiy adjusted In sev-
eral oounti-s the County Judge or
County Al ornev, or both were made
ex-nfficio me NIB r. of the County
Boaris of Health with decided benefit
in TIL interest of both economy and
the public h al h. lie IL sugge-teh that
this plhn dhopred IN every county.
lie is slsn sugg std that medical mem
bers of the county boards b. nouinat-
ed by the cnunty medical cites 30
as "a gi,e these officials that support
OF the Jrganizeh profession ~ the
juIisi ciiou % tssen'i.l to the bsst re
suits.
1 ri thiri of tn" counties the
suggestion of tn hoar that the