Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-06-26
Legislative Restriction Called For In
Marriage of Delinquents of Cer-
tain Charncter-Rnilway ASSESS
ment Observation-Disclosures for Com
sumptives-Other Iowa News.
Especial correspondence.l

j. Preferred risks.
2. Firemen, pit bosses, pillow grind
ers or polishers.
3. Railway locomotive engineers.
baggaemen, mail clerks, express mes
sengers on trains and bridge carpen-
tiers.
4. Railway freight brakemen,
switchmen, yard masters, telephone,
telegraph or electric light linemen.
! structural iron workers and miners
working under ground.
Persons who cannot under any cir
cumstances secure insurance are:
Those who engage in professional
driving or riding in races, in gun
powder or other explosive factories,
in glass blowing, in oil well shoot
ing, in operating balloons, etc., in mill
itary or naval service in time of war,
or in factories where white or coli
ored lead is manufactured.
Time to Call = Halt.
"Let us call halt in the reproduce
ton of delinquents and detectives"
said Judge L. G. Kline, of the state
board of control, before the state in
lstitution superintendent last week.
''It is fair to assume that 1t would be
shown by investigation that at least
one-half of the whole number of pa
tients admitted to the state hospitals
for the insane are there because of
epilepsy, intelnperance or heredity."
OF 1923 cases in which the cause was
ascertained by investigation by
Judge Kline, heredity was found to
| be the cause in half the cases and
epilepsy and intemperance in about
rs per cent. of the cases. He has sug-
gested that the legislature restrict
the marriage of delinquents of this
character
Railway Assessments.
The reports of the railroads on
which the assessment of their prop
erty for taxation will be made by the
executive council this year have been
fled with the secretary of that
board. They show the following sta
tistics in comparison with last year:
1901. 1902.
Total mileage. s,336.17 9,621.24
Gross earnings. .$56, o79.943 s56, 466, 305
Gross earnings
per mile ...... 6,006 5,955
Operat'g exp'ns's s9,61s,967 39,333,202
il Operat'g exp'ns's
i per mile ...... 4,243 Alas
Net earnings. 16,46O,975 17,134,1O2
Net earnings per
mile .......... 1,763 1907
l r.-. -.:l gen 400 80 E0A nSs
!, Consumptive sanitarium.
The city physicians and health Off
GERS of Iowa have gone on record il
favor the establishment of state
. B. LaForce, of Ottumwa, and Presi
dent j. A. valenta, of Iowa City, o
: the state association of, city physi
clans and health officers, organize,
( the past week in this city, both ad
vocate this method of treating con
sumptiyes in Iowa. The theory i
that the state should establish ,
state institution for the care of con
9 sumptiyes just the same as it pro
: yides insane hospitals for the insane
. The association did not indorse tn
plan for the establishment of stnt,
meteorological laboratory with sal
aried officer in charge in Des Moines
Contastons Diseases.
DIR. A. NJ. Linn, of Des Moines, ex
poets the next legislature to pass
drastic law against the shifting o
persons who have contagious diseas,
from one community to another t,
get rid Of their care. This is FIRE
quently doneiin Iowa and DR.. Linn
who was the president of the stat
board OF health for several years
believes that law is needed to pre-
vent it, or to provide severe penal
ties for the practice. He thinks tina
j there should be as stringent regula
i tons against sending a smallpox pa
who is living from one conn
d, 81 MI. to ~ ga tseses Is sa
tsts ass
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