The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
OLD ACE RECORD.
State Board of Health Sends
Out for Statistics.
Can Anybody Qualify for 10
Year Old CIassa
LIST OF OCCUPATIONS
County Health officers Must
Classify Their Deaths.
DR.. Crumbine Will Compile
LIST OF OCCUPATIONS
DR.. Crumbine Will Compile
Kansas Vital Statistics.


Anybody who can quality for the
110-year-old class is now requested to
step forward and make themselves
known to the state board of health,
for the state board of health is on the
trail of all such people. One requisite
for enrolment is that the applicant be
dead.
They are not going to be quaran-
tined, or anything like that. but the
board wants to get them on record.
It is a new feature of the annual re-
port blanks which are now being sent
out to every county health officer in
the state.
Under the forms provided in the new
style of report, the county health Off
GERS must set forth the number of peo-
pie of each age from I year up 10 10
who have died during the past year.
This is likely to make lot of trouble
for the health officers, for it means
that they must adopt a new system of
classification for their list of deaths.
Another new wrinkle in the 1905 re-
ports is a form for the collection of
statistics about the occupations of peo-
pie who have died during the year
There is a list of fifty different occu-
patOns according to which the dead
ones" must be classified. This means
more work for the county health Off
GERS.
The usual form is provided for the
claSslhcat ton of deaths according to
the disease which produced the DEATH
Several hundred different diseases are
mentioned, with a blank space after
each in which the county officer must
| tell the mum Der of victims claimed nv
that particular disease in his county.
In addition to statistics about
deaths, the report calls for informa-
ton about the number of contagious
cases the number of births and num-
| Der of marriages. The sanitary con-
/ dluOn OF schools, pOOrhOuSes tails and
| court houses must be given in full and
/ the number of nuisances abated dur
ing the year. If there has been anv
prevailing form of sickness. the county
health officer must tell all about it.
and must tell whether sickness has
| peen more or less general than in the
! year previous
All the above are merely samples
/ taken from the report form which has
| been provided If the doctors in
/ charge of county health depa rtn7erts
/ answer all the questions properly. thew
| VIII do better than has ever been done
before. It is generally a hard promo
silon 10 get satisfactory results from
| the annual reports. In MANY conn
ties the reports are not carefully Kent
and the detailed information such a iS
wanted by the state board can not be
/ secured.
Dr. ). J. Crumbine, secretary of the
- S9SilI STATE BOARD, is trying to secure
the adoption of better systems of ac-
counting In the county health depart
ments. for as things are now. the vital
statistics of the state are very meagra
and unsatisfactory. He is sending ont
to each county health officer a cir
cular letter with the report forms. ex-
plalnlng the necessity for accurate
work IN the preparation of the renorts
and the desirability OF prompt renIies
Usually it takes about three months
after the first of the year for the re-
ports to all come in.