The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-30
DIVIDE The WORK..
Plans for Making Board of
Health Effective.
Obsolete Anticipated Methods
Being Discarded.
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
One Has Been Adopted to Facil-
itate the Work.
All Officers Will Be Required
to Report.
ORDER OF BUSINESS.

Each member of the board of health.
under the new plan of organization.
has been made responsible for a def
mite portion of the work of protecting
the health of the city. This is an en-
tirely new arrangement. and its success
win be watched with interest.
By giving each member definite
things to do it will enable the board to
accomplish more work and get better
results. Whenever any matter comes
up for investigation it will be referred
to the member of the board who has
that particular matter in his charge.
There are five members on the board.
They are DR.. c. F. Menninger. chair
man; DR.. PIummer: DR.. Storrs. city
physician and secretary; Councilman
Joseph Griley and Councilman ]. c.
Sinner. Their departments will be as
follows;
DR.. Menninger will each meeting
night make a report as president OF
the board of plumbing examiners of
the city. He will also have under his
charge the conditions of all the sewe. s
in the city. the plumbing of public
buildings, stores, etc. and the. water
supply, ventilation and general SAM
tary condition of the public schools.
DR.. Plummer will be in charge of
the public buildings and public schools
in North Topeka, their sewerage, water
supply, ventilation, fumigation, and
condition of atmosphere. He will also
have charge of the fumigation of books
from the city library.
DR.. Storrs will have charge of the
enforcement of health laws, condition
of pest house and inmates, condition
of city jail and inmates, the city dump
and crematOry.
Councilman Griley will be the super
visor of the city water supply. He
will see to it that the supply in the
city mains is pure that the supply in
wells and cisterns is healthy, and in
case condemnation is necessary, he
will see that it is done.
Councilman Sinner will be in charge
of the condition of the streets and
alleys, from a sanitary standpoint,
and the disposition of garbage. Mr..
| Sinner is a member of the streets and
walks committee of the city council,
and will look after the sanitary con-
dition of the streets and alleys in con-
nection with his work on the comiri--
/ tee.
Each one of the above members of
the board will at the monthly meet
ing make a report on the partlcula
kind of work placed in his charge. Ii
addition to reports from these mem
bers the board will also call for re-
ports from the sanitary sergeant. COW
ering the births, deaths, guarantees
fumigations, nuisances reported ano
lnuisances abated during the month
! The sanitary officers will each be ex-
pected to file with the board a detailed
report of each what they did on eacf
! day of the month. They are also g,1Ver
an opportunity to make suggestions
from the field" covering possible I'M
provements in the manner OF work, o.
/ methods of handling the business o.
the department
! The food inspector will also be called
upon for a report of his work in tht
inspection of milk. meat, diaries ant
ldairv registration. The new law puts
the food inspector under tne charge
the board of health.
The plan of the board is to ask tn
plumbing inspector, Ed Chaney' an
the street commissioner, j. +. SnyoeI
to furnish special Information apou
matters in their departments wheneve
. necessary, though these two branche
of the city government are not directl
under the board of health In mos
, matters. MIR. Simmer can speak in re
gard to streets, and Dr. Mehhlhser o
the plumbing business.
The school inspectors who are 70
; selected from the doctors who vNun
. teer for the work, will also be give
an opportunity to make any report
, the board of health that they ma
deem Of Importance and interest
In order that the business of IN
hoard meetings may be facilitated, IN
following order of business has bee
adopted:
Reading of minutes.
Consideration of claims and accounts
Reading of correspondence, petitions
REPORTS from members of the boare
sanitary sergeant, sanitary policemen
food inspector and Others
Health bulletin for publication.
The board proposes each month
+. olive ont an official statement of tn
l Health of the city for the month Til
q health bulletin will cover the auesu4
: of contagious diseases, precautions
he taken for the spread of disease, an
T general recommendations of the boar.
# will be very valuable addition
civ Phvsician Storrs' plan has bee
c to suppress all information about n
: health of the city, and leave the publ
in the dark as to the conditions exlstinl
: hl,t This method of doing business doe
not seem to be the way which the RI
: organized board of health has adopte
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