The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-01-14
PUBLIC HEAL TIL
SAFE GUARDED
What IS Being Done BY the
Board Of Health and
Board Of Education.

DOaTQ Oh EQuCdLlOIl.
GOOD RESULTS AT HOSPITAL
Contagious and infectious diseases
are always with us. the percentage of
cases varying little in period of
years. In some years an epidemic
:. will be more serious in its effects than |
aQthers, the fatalities will be greater
be victims suffer more generally. /
~ iseases are largely of the pre-
bclass If proper precautions
b, with other towns, is /
Il mild epidemic of scarlet
had altogether about
the past Two months, /
are reported as recov-
+ 5 bng in convalescence
+ haye been reported re-
81 3e probabilities that all |
q & & germs of the disease are
= pf developing it.
bany persons have lost I
ID as a result all sorts OF
Sh rumOrS have been put T
The number OF cases
- )led if not quadrupled,
Rking the pains to ascer-
# VI y: many have been ready /
Board of Health and the
Il ;ation about matters that
s. ence. If sensible people /
bp to think long enough I
t men placed in charge
mt matter as the health
s. you'd of course be expect |
= II 4 Z. r best efforts to preserve
the power and means
sal would naturally do it,
F a hye themselves much Wor-
j much annoyance.
s * 81 < what has been said many
Fe it may be well TO say
s when a physician visits a
I'd finds symptoms of conta-
Base, it is his duty under the
1d a severe penalty is prescribed
blating it) to report immediate
the Board of Health. The Health |
ector, and If deemed necessary,
Health Physician. immediately |
1t the premises and if it is decided /
ht the disease is of a contagious
lracter the patient is removed to
b contagious hospital, or if the pa
Aent can be properly cared for and
Ated at home, that is allowed, and
louse placarded, and all except I
coming directly in contact with
PATIENT go about their business
entirely safe for them to doso.
cry case the house is fHmigated I
Rade perfectly safe. If there are
en- attending school the Board I
ucation or principals of the
IS are notified and the children
put Of school for two weeks, or
the conditions are declared safe
certificate granted by the Health [
Etor. Patients are admitted to
scharged from the contagious
3 Rl under the direct supervision
Douglas, the Health Physician,
frequently called in to examine
S6spect1 before the disease is devel-
oped Sufficiently to determine its char
acter. In cases we're a child is found
in sctbol with an infectious disease
the room is Immediately fumigated
and every precaution taken to kill any
disease germs that may have been
taken there. During the holiday va
cation, Ia consequence Of number of
childre4 attending the Maple avenue
school who we're afterwards found to
have been affected with scarlet fever,
the entire building was thoroughly
fumigated, and in. one room most Of
the books were burned. In addition
to this disinfecting solution is used
daily when the floors are swept and
several times a week all the desks in
side and out are treated with it. Not
relying entirely upon the Board OF
Health, the Board of Education em
ployes DR., Becker to look after the
vaccination of the scholars and in case
of suspicion on the part Of the teach
ers that a scholar is sick so as to be
detrimental to the health of the
school, the doctor is called in to look
after the matter. With all these
safeguards it must be admitted that
children are less liable to contract
disease in the schools than in going
about in public places.
The following rule adopted by the
Board of Education is in force ~
b No teacher or pupil who shall be a
member of a household in which a
person shall be i'll with smallpox, diph
iberia, scarlet fever, whooping cough,
yellow fever, typhus fever, cholera, or
measles, or of a household exposed to
contagion as aforesaid, shall attend
any public school duringNSuch illness,
nor until the Board OF Education shall
have been furnished with certificate
from the Board of Health, or from the
physician attending such person. or
from medical inspector, certifying
that all danger Of communicating such
disease by such teacher or pupil has
passed.
The teachers viii please see that the
above section OF the school law is