The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1908-12-24
HEALTHERS
To Seek Consent Council
to Create Office City
Bacteriologest
AT SALARY OF $500

NJ OHLftnI VI WlVOV
Messrs. Zinninger, Arnold, Nelson,
and Shorb, members of the
loacl board of health held their last
meeting of the year in the health
department Tuesday night, taking up
such matters as came before them.
For sometime past the members OF
this organization have been talking
of the advisability of creating the Of
fee of city bacteriologist and city
chemist, a resolution to this effect
having been presented by Member
Shorb. A committee from the Can
ton Medical society, consisting OF
Drs. Fraunfelter, Dewitt and Hart,
had called upon the board and advis-
ed the creation of such an Office,
pointing out to the members the
many good features of having such
an official. Later the question arose
as to whether this board had been
right to create this Office and there
was a difference of opinion in regard
to the matter. 1t was finally decided
that this should be left to Solicitor
Blake for an opinion and he was pres
ent at the meeting for the purpose
RlNIHk Ills OpliilOlls II "No hAt' cBhh
ion that no such action could be
taken without the consent of the
council. He told the members that
If they gained the consent of the leg
islative body that there would be
nothing in the way of creating the
office, fixing the salary of such an
official and then making their appoint
ment. This satisfied the members
and the matter will be taken to the
council for it's consent II such an
Office is added to the health depart
ment the new official will be given
regular salary of possibly $500 per
annum.
William E. Sherlock, proprietor of
Ingleside hospital was present at the
meeting and said that he was pre-
pared to make the board proposition
for the care of charity patients and
those suffering with contagious dis
eases. While he did not make his
proposition public at this time, he
said he was willing to do so and it
was agreed that he should reduce
his proposition to writing and present
II to the committee having this matter
in charge at TIE present time.
A number of bills were allowed by
the board and little odds and ends
that accumulate during the year were
cared for.
The physicians, undertakers and
cemetery sections are calling at the
office of the health departments at all
hours during the day for the purpose
of registering as the law prescribes
and getting their blanks for the re-
porting of all births and deaths in
the city. When these gentlemen ar
rive they are registered in a book
kept for the purpose and then they
are loaded down with the outht,
which consists of books of instruc-
tions, blanks and stamped envelopes,
which must be returned under pen-
atty. It will require ten or fifteen
minutes time for a physician to fill
out a birth certificate and those who
are kept busy in cases of confinement
will have to work overtime in getting
out their reports or hire some assist
ant for their offices who will look
after this branch of their professions.
The clerk at the office of that board
of health, who has been appointed a
deputy by Health Offlcer DaHinden,
will be kept busy each day and at the
end of the week she must send rec
ord to the state department. The
word must" is used advisedly in the
laws that have been passed.
Physicians and midwives must
make reports; sections must demand
certificates before permitting burials
registrars appointed by the bureau
must make their reports and must
report failures of physicians or mid
wives to make reports to him. The
fine for physician or midwife failing
to make report of a birth is IS to
$50 for every case of failure or neg
lect; the fine for the failure by ply
sician to deliver to the undertaken
or sexton a death certificate is SIS tC
$50; for false certification of cause o.
death by a physician, $50 to $200, fol
sexton or undertaken burying or re
moving a body without death certi
flcate, $40 to 500; for registrar fail
ing, neglecting of refusing to perform
his duties, $40 to 800; for altering
either certificate of death, on file will
a registrar, $40 to 500 or imprison
ment for so days in Jail, or both; O
for violation of any of the provision
of the act by any person, or fer fur
nishing false information to any phys
ician, midwife or undertaken for tn
purpose of making a false certifica
ton, IS to 800. Any common car
rier removing any body not accom-
panied by a death certificate may b
fined $50 to 5000.
The birth certificates must contai
the full name of the parents of tn
child, the date of birth, the res
dence of the parents or the hospita
I'm which the child Is born, the SCI
color, etc. It must also contain tn
ages of the father and mother Of tn
new born infant and must tell ho'
many children they have had before
either dead or alive and lot Of othe
things which will help the physical
earn the money that he receives fo
his services-providing he receives
Local registrars, or the person ha'
ing charge of this work in variou
districts are required to make an
keep a copy of each and every birt
and death certificate fled with then
and upon the fifth of each month the
will forward to the bureau OF vita
statistics all Of the original deaf
certificates, and on the tenth, tn
original birth certificates for th
month preceding, the secretary
state having made preparation for III
care of these certificates. These wi
be bound and card in1exed, so thu
at any time within a few minutes
hn m