The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-05
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
HELD IMPORTANT MEETING IN
 THIS CITY YESTERDAY.

i Cause of Typhoid Epidemic at New Ha- ven JaiI-Systematic Returns of Vital
 statIstics-The Recent Hartford EPi- 1 demie-Hamden's Unsanitary School l Building, Etc. l 4 meeting of the state board of health was held at the office of Secretary Lndsley on Elm street yesterday af- iternoon. Dr. Root was the only absen- tee. The secretary read his report for the health conditions about the state during the months of July and August and they showed the conditions to De far above the average, - @ 1 Dr. Lindsley is adopting 8 system which will be of great benefit to people seeking information concerning mar ,riages, births and deaths.
 Professor H. E. Smith. the state chemist, and Edward Mahl, president of the Hartford board of health and Iwho is also a practical plumber, the committee chosen by the county com imfssioners to investigate the typhoid epidemic at the New Haven jail, sub tmitted their report. They state in the report that the probable cause of the disease was due to defective privies in five houses on Hudson street, near the jail, and that the germs were carried by flies from, there to the food at the . jail, and so spread the infection. There were twenty cases at the jail between October S and November 15 and in the five dwelling houses from which it Is believed the disease came there were a number of cases from August P to Sep ltember F. \.,
 During the epidemic of cerebro-spi- EnaI meningitis in Hartford last May. April and June an expert from the pub lie health and marine hospital service lof the United States came there by re- quest of the authorities of that city. His name was Dr. John +. Anderson, and a copy of the report was sent by him to Secretary Lindsley, who read it to the board yesterday afternoon. The report states that the investigation made by the local authorities at that IllIlkG was GOlIGGbs It Nd5 NOLNo pAAAlb the report in the annual record of the state board.
 Secretary Lindsley stated to the board that doctor, Gustayo Testa, an Italian, who resided in Waterbury, had appeared befor the examining commit tee of the Connecticut society at New Haven July F and was found not quail flied to practice. He had been rejected by the sam boart at a previous exam fination. In a few tays he presented
 the secretary of the state board with a
 certifiacte bearing the same date (July
 12) from the committe of the Eclertic
 Medical association, which held it's ses-
 sion in Waterbury on the same date
 (July 12), the certificate stating that
 the eclectic committee had accepted the
 examination of an examining board of
 another state and issued It's certificate
 that he was found qualified to practice.
 The state board voted to have the sec
 retary publish the facts in the annual
 reports.
 The secretary of the board submitted
 for the inspection of the members a
 number of copies of marriage certlfi-
 cates, the writing of which was so care
 lessly done and the usual forms of let
 ters so much distorted and deformed
 that not one of the members could read
 the names. It was considered whether
 or not some legislation could be passed
 to better this condition of affairs.
 The health officer of Hamden, pr.
 Lay. and MT. Clark appeared before the
 board and stated that, there being no
 other means of providing for the chill
 dren of that vicinity and the weather
 up to the present time being such that
 the unsanitary conditions of the school building were not particularly opera tive, they had opened the building as an apparent necessity, but were ready to close 1t again as soon as 1t was ap- parent that conditions were unfavora- ble to the health of the children. The board advised that the metter be left to the health officers and school com mittee. G@.
 Several matters were referred to the committee on legislation, such as pro- vided for, without charge to citizens the Investigating of contagious diseases by bacteriological examinations; the carrying out of the suggestions of pr, Daggett for the prevention of typhoid fever, and other matters.
 It was voted that a general conven- ton of all the health officers in the state should be held some time during the coming winter. The committee ap- pointed to look out for this matter con. sists of Drs. Lindsley, Thompson and Root. Sst l shell fish by sewer contamination re- ported progress.
 It was voted that at some convenient
 time the members of the board should
 make an inspection of the sewer filter-