Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-07-12

Inc eiGltu annual SCnOOl Of instruction
for the health officers of Vermont opened
in the armory Monday evening.
There was good attendance
at the session. which was pre-
sided over by Or. Charles S. Caverly of
Rutland. president of the state board of
health. Or. Caverly made the opening
address, speaking in part rs follows:
DIR. CANERLY'S ADDRESS.
Modern sanitation means more every
year. The methods and Instruments which
are being devised to protect life and con-
serve physical health multiply rapidly.
Science Is working over hours.
Sanitary science, in its practical work.
Iings touches and includes many other sci
lcnces. The practical sanitarian must be
something more than doctor, he must
ihc somewhat of chemist, an engineer,
an architect. yes, Il lawyer and above all,
a tactful and resourceful man.
The registration Of vital statistics, the
selection and protection of safe water
and ice supplies the disposal of sewage,
the heating, lighting, ventilation and
plumbing of buildings both public and
Iprivate, school sanitation, the guarding
Iof food supplies and the management Of
infectious diseases Is each n science in it.
self. Yet our laws expect all this knowl-
edge of local health officers.
Here, at this school of instruction, our
jState has for eight consecutive years been
educating n corps of health officials. The
Instructors have, every year, been men OF
thu highest standing in their specialties
Those who have attended all these
schools have had the advantages of a
liberal education in all departments of
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believe. has given its health officials.
In arranging our programme for this
school, we have aimed to maintain the
standard of its predecessors. The sub
iects treated are all such as we may pro-
ftably consider.
School hygiene should he live subject
in rural Vermont. The superintendent of
education will speak of the school house.
and the school as "A distributor of disease
will be treated by one of our oldest
health officers.
Methods of sewage disposal is sub
iect about which We, in Vermont, have
everything to learn The discharge of
untreated sewage into the nearest avail
able body Of water is an ahominatiou.
that is working hardship in all directions
and can not be always tolerated.
| The State hoard las determined to al
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e o el'p.H 'l'' ,,'S n""' ~ :, has no.
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all tho municipalities and companies
which already have such systems.
| prnvor,ivo medicine ana n,ihIfc opin-
ION 10 81 than,o -i,at will anneal TO all
os us Tho subject of the public peril
from venoraal diseases is ono that IS
eecoud orI,. to Tho +uhercu,osis nrohler1
II is now reccivfry vida attention all
lover the world The secretary of the
state hoard las given this matter much
lattcntion. AMI he has distributed to all
nbvsicians Of the State blanks for re-
norting on the provalence OF these dis
ooses
The LIST Of rotif,hIo diseases is year-
lv Incoming lonpor Some recent ad
ditinns are tonaf'itts nneuuonia and
ocrabrn-enino1 ,,euinpitts 7, Ia a so,,i
torr axiom ,bot tba first sten in the
,ro vor.io,, ~ anc 1i.ooe, l. ;, ,ocura
;.s ,,o,ioc,tio,, ~ .ho health o,tbori,ies
p,,oun,orio &c rc-t,,,s orr most fatal
disease tts h,cto,toloq,v 60 nrow, No
,,o,,,r,. t. ,,coe.,,,- tborer,ro Cor
placing II here for considerations
crolro-spinal meningitis has been un-
der close scrutiny the past two years
. Its disastrous effects have at times
created widespread alarm. Vermont ha
for one hundred years been a favorite