The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.
State Board of Health Has a way to
Check 1t.

At the quarterly meeting of the state
board board of health held Thursday
afternoon, a committee of three, COM
posed of DR.. Lerrigo, DR.. S. j. Crumbine
and ]. w. V. Deacon, the statistician
for the board, was appointed to draft a
bill which will be presented at the next
session of the legislature providing for
the establishment of a new state institu-
ton, for the care of consumptive poor.
The board also instructed its secretary,
DR.. Crumbine, to participate in the
formation of a proposed association of
the Transmississippi boards of health
for the purpose of fighting the spread of
consumption and other contagion by
means of infected railway coaches.
The state of Kansas is therefore thor
oughly launched in its fight against
the spread of tuberculosis, which, ac-
cording to the recent reports of Secre-
tary Crunbine, is gaining a tremen-
dous foothold in the state.
At the meeting Thursday Mr.. Deacon
read a paper and presented tabulated
report for all the states of the union
showing what work is being done for
the establishment of sanitariunls for the
care of tubercular patients who are too
poor to receive proper care in other
ways. The information thus collected
by Mr.. Deacon will be used by the
board in it's fight before the legislature
This is one of the most important
matters which has ever come before
the board" said DR.. Crumbine today,
land believe that the movement which
has been started will bear fruit. The
state should protect itself against the
further spread of consumption. Con-
sumption is disease which can be COM
batted by modern methods of treatment
and unless it is SO combatted, it is GER
tain to spread"
The formation of the proposed Trans
Mississippi association of state boards
OF health is to secure a. concerted ac-
ton for the fumigation of railway cars
Such an action can only be effectively
accomplished, it is believed, by co-opera-
ton among all the neighboring states.
The last legislature defeated a bill
which had this for its object. The in
fiuence of the railroad pass has been
SO strong on the other side that effective
legislative action has been impossible.
It is now proposed to secure a stimuli
taneous movement in this direction
backed by the combined energy of all
the state board of health.
At Thursdays meeting of the board,
three new members were elected to the
state examiners board for enbalners
and undertakers. The three new ones
are D. r. Maltby of Mcpherson, A c.
Mueller of Wichita and J. T. Barley
of Topeka. 1t is the duty of this board,
under the direction OF the state board of
health, to see to it that all the under
takers In the state are competent to
prepare dead bodies for shipment An
embalmer must have a license from the
board before he can practice his pro-
fesSion.
The action of DIR. S. ]. Crumbine. in
conjunction with the secretary of the
Missouri state board of health, in estab-
fishing yellow fever quarantine, was
approved, and the board decided that
in view of the decrease in the yellow
fever epidemic, that no further action
| is necessary.
Resolutions of sympathy for the
widow of the late DR.. Lowry were or
dered prepared.