The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-01-17
Medical societv Meetinp.-The monthlv

Medical Society Meeting. The monthly
meeting of the Baltimore County Medical So
ciety was held in Y. NJ. G. A. Hall, Govans-
town, on Thursday. Those present were
DR.. H. Louis Naylor, president: DR.. R. G.
Massenburg, corresponding secretary; DIR. +.
R. Rich, recording secretary DR.. II. S. Jar
rett, treasurer; Drs. George H. Hooking,
Thomas B. Owings, William ]. Todd, B. B.
Browne, William A. Mills, H. F. Cassidy,
John r. Winslow, L. E. Neale, L. NJ. Allen,
R. Percy Smith, J. Holmes Smith, G. NJ. Ca
briel A. w. Smith, Stanley Gorsuch, l.. Glib
bons Smart, 7. B. Hall, Thomas S. Cullen,
Charles E. Brack, Harvey G. Beck, E. M. Dun
can and Alfred Gundry.
DR.. VIM. ]. Todd, of Mt. Washington made
an address on 1.-The Consolidation of Public
Schools" He said that the electric road, the
telephone, the free rural delivery of mail en-
couraged the good roads movement and
brought the farmer into closer relations with
the city and its advantages and conveniences,
and created desire for like advantages nearer
his own home, particularly better school facil-
tiles for the children in the more remote dis
tricts, where even fair primary school is not
now possible because of the small number of
pupils in that immediate neighborhood.
DIR. Todd gave brief history of the consoli-
dation of rural schools, and said that as a re-
suit of the small schools the farmers children
are forced to leave home to attend larger
schools and lose the home influence and the
watchful eye of the parent at tender age,
when that loving direction is necessary to form
good characters. or else to grow up without the
advanced training to which they are entitled
and for which the parent is taxed.
The advantages of the consolidation of
country schools over the present system" said
DR.. Todd, would be larger buildings, afford
ing ample room for all pupils, with teacher
for two grades, and perhaps-if the school was
large enough-for one grade. With CONSOLE
dalton of schools, better buildings, better ven
tilation, better drainage would eventually re-
suit, which is now impossible with the present
small buildings.
under the system of consolidation of
schools it would be possible in Baltimore coun-
tv, l think, for the Baltimore County Health
Board, composed as it is of 10 physicians, one
! from each district, to visit the public schools,
to inspect the buildings and pupils each day.
| This special duty could be added to the duties
at present assigned to them"
DR.. n. d. Lewis and DIR. K. Perry Carman,
both of Baltimore, were elected to membership.
Dr. and Mrs. George Fl. Hooking, of Govans-
town, entertained the society at luncheon, for
which the members rendered them vote of
thanks.
Rural Free Delivery and the Public
Roads.-General Superintendent Machen, of
the rural free delivery mail service, has been
sending out circular letters to some of the post
masters of the country which make plain GER
tain duties OF the patrons of the service IN or
W ldClllldtc plum OCAAfCly
of the mail. The communication is as fol-
lows:
1.-The Department looks to the patrons of
the rural free delivery service who are receiv
ing the benefits of the service, to use their ut
most endeavors, and also to exert their influ.
ence with the road supervisors, or those ofh-
Gals who are responsible for the condition Of
the highways, to the end that the roads travel
ed by rural carriers may be always kept open
and kept in such passable shape that the SER
vice can be regularly and punctually per-
formed.
"ShouId the regularity of the service be need
lessly destroyed, as the result of inattention
and lack of care bestowed on the highways,
the permanent Withdrawal of the delivery will
very likely be the result.
Rural letter-carriers are required to serve
their routes regularly at all seasons of the year
and in every kind of weather when it can be
done without seriously imperiling their lives
or endangering their conveyances or the q. s..
mail which is in their custody.
patrons should clean away the snow drifts,
so that carriers can drive upto and reach boxes
from their vehicles without dismounting.
ut is not part of the carriers duty to break
out the roads after severe snow storm.
Rural carriers are expected to energetically
try to serve their routes even though the con-
ditions may be extremely adverse and any
undue lack of zeal on their part should be
promptly brought to the attention of the De-
partment for such action as the merits of the
care require"