The Topeka state journal., 1905-09-19
HELP FOR SICK.
State Board Of Health Begins
Its Campaign.
War on Great White Plague in
Kansas.
INSTRUCTIONS OUT.
Doctors May Now Have Service
of BacteriolOgist.
List of DepOsitOries Where Sup
plies Are Kept.
INSTRUCTIONS OUI

DR.. s. J. Crumbine is now sending
out to every county in the state the
supplies necessary for the operation of
the new law which enables doctors,
without cost, to have examined the
sputun of suspected cases of tubercu-
losis and diphtheria.
In nearly all the counties a depot for
the deposit of supplies has been selected
and in these counties the physicians are
now afforded the free use of the state
psychological laboratory. conducted by
Dr.. Sara 2. Greenfield, at Topeka.
When a physician has case which he
suspects is incipient consumption, or
diphtheria in its first stages, he goes
to the county depository, secures a
glass tube and mailing case, provided
free by the state, takes sample of the
sputum from the patients throat, and
after hermeticaIly sealing the sample
Ia the tube, mails it to Topeka. An ex-
animation is made, and in cases of
emergency, the result is telegraphed
back to the doctor.
This new system is made possible by
the action of the last legislature in fix
ing a regular salary of SIS per month
for the state bacteriologist. For this
salary the bacteriologist is subject to
call at all times for psychological ex-
arninations. 1t is part of the general
campaign which is being ipaugurated
by the state board of health against the
plague of consumption.
The trouble has been in the past that
doctors have had to pay fee of SIS to
get an examination made of suspected
cases OF tuberculosis. This fee has had
the effect of preventing a very general
acceptance of the opportunity to have
such examinations made. Now it is all
free, and besides, the state puts within
the reach of every doctor in the state
the supplies necessary to send in the
samples. These supplies are also free.
In Shawnee county, D. T. Nichol has
been appointed by DR.. Crumbine to
have charge of the supplies. DR.. Nichol
is health officer of the county. In some
counties the county clerk has been ap-
pointed; in others, leading drug store
or prominent physician is placed in
charge of the supplies.
Those counties which have no depoSi-
tories so far are being supplied as rap
idly as possible.
The state has placed a fund of $500
at the disposal of the board of health
for it's expenses. and it is out of this
fund that the mailing cases for the tu-
berculosis samples have been purchased.
A complete list of the repositories for
supplies so far as designated at this
time, is as follows:
Allen-C- B. Spencer Drug Co., lola.
Atchison-S. S. King, county clerk,
Atchison.
Barton-A. A. Allen g. Son.. druggists,
Great Bend.
Bourbon-R. Aikman, NJ. D., Fort
Scott
Chatauqua-Ed Fish, druggist, Sedan.
Cherokee-R. C. Holmes. county clerk.
Columbus.
Clark-w. H. Fox. Ashland.
Clay-E. E. Hooper, county clerk, Clay
Cloud-E. ]. Alexander, county clerk,
Concordia.
Corey-H. E. sowgfl. druggist, Bur-
1ington.
Decatur-w. t. stevenson, druggist,
Oberlin.
Ellis-M. P. Dinges. county clerk.
Hays.
Finney-W. Nc D. Rowan, county
clerk, Garden City.
Ford-Walter Pine, druggist. Dodge
Citv.
Geary-A r. Holzschuher, druggist.
Junction City.
5rahan-R. A. Meyers. county clerk,
Gray|c. M. Dillman. county clerk.
Cimarron.
Hamiiton-E. M. Scott, county clerk,
Syracuse.
Harper-H. L. Irwin, druggist An
thony.
Harvey-B o. Hagen. county clerk.
Newton.
Hodgenan-A. B. Scott, M. D., Jet
more.
Jackson-T. c. Mcconnell. county
clerk. HoIton.
Jefferson-A. P. Conant & Co, drug
gists, Oskaloosa.
Johnson-s. ]. Kelly, druggist, Olathe.
Kearny-G. c. W. Richards, druggist,
Iakin.
Ringman-E. D. Eson, druggist, King
man.
Labette-A. E. Townsend, county
clerk, OsWego.
Leayenworth-Ado Lange. druggist.
EeavenWorth.