The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-23

Van Horne. and DR.. H. B. Hogeboom.
were DR.. S. ]. Crumbine, secretary OF
the state board of health, and F. q
Dreaming, city attorney
| DIR Crumbine advised the board or
health, and told them it was entirely
within the power of the board, TO en-
by operating under the state quaran-
tine law. F. G. Dreaming, city attor-
ney, backed up Crumbine by declar-
ing that the board of neaIIn was clear
ly within its rights and could enforce
any order against the board of educa-
ton.
I'VE don't want to be arbitrary or
mean about this" said DR.. Plummer-
The fact is, we have exercised consid-
cradle leniency. We have accepted
scars that probably no one else would
have accepted as evidence of suffi-
Gent vaccination, and in every other
way we have endeavored to bridge over
the trouble. We are as much interest
ed in the schools of the city as the
board of education: we are residents
here and have children in the schools.
But we are charged with maintaining
the health of the city, and we must
see that the charge is carried out.
Here is boy who has been attending
the high school and rubbing elbows
with his fellow students just at the
worst stage of the disease We say
that the pupils that are not vaccinat-
ed should be excluded. We are not
requiring them or trying to force any
one to be va ccinated.''
Here are eight hundred children
that have been vaccinated," said DR..
Hogeboom. 1.-THE majority should rule,
and it isn't right to let those that have
not been vaccfnated go right along to
school with those that have when the
former have complied with the order
of the board of health. 1t isn't the
square thing for the majority to be
treated in that way
Members Are at Sea.
The board of education was some
what at sea as to what position it real
ly intended to assume yesterday. Rev.
F. E. Mallory. president of the board
said: I'VE didn't deny the right of
the board of health to exclude fndi-
vidual members of the school from at
tending where vaccination did not ex-
list, but we did deny the power of the
board to enforce vaccination. That is
the view the board of health took"
t. F. Carver. member of the board |
took different view and stated that
the board of health simply had the
ucation that vaccination be enforced |
that the board of health could neither |
insist on vaccination nor exclude stu |
dents that had not been vacicnated
The exposure of the students at the |
high school occurred on Friday of last |
week when Glen Cooper, an upper class |
man who resides at 934 North Monroe. |
was taken i'll with the smallpox on the |
same day that he had been attending |
classes
The children at Lafayette school were
told to be vaccinated last Monday when |
it was discovered that S. w. Coursey of |
Sol East Logan street had been sick
with smallpox for eight days, during all
Of which time his two children had been
regularly attending school.
The city ordinance states: 1T shall
De the duty of all persons residing in the
eity of Topeka, who have not been eff
'ectively vaccinated for smallpox, to be
7accinated whenever the board of |
health shall publish an order to that
effect in the official city paper and it
shall be the duty of all parents or other
persons in charge of children over three
7ears of age to have them effectivelysk
7accinated. 1t shall be the duty of the-f'
BOARD Of health to make such other
ules governing vaccination as may be
necessary, subject to the approval of
he mayor and council. The board of
education of the city of Topeka is here
~ authorized and empowered to ex-
Jude from the public schools of said
ity all children who have not been eff
ectively vaccinated whenever the board
# health of said city shall inform said
BOARD of education that it is necessary |
or the public health of the city that /.
he same should be done"