The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-16

the school buildings of the state SAM
tary. but such condition could even
tually be made TO exist and a great
saving would result.
The medical inspection part of the
bill that failed would have prevented
90 per cent of the school epidemics
which occur annually and which re-
suit in a suspension of the schools
with continuation of expense. Rec
ords of the 1906 school year in In
diana show that suspensions and con-
seQuent expenses for which the state
received no return whatever involved
an outlay of $4,000.
In addition. that part of the act
would have cut down the death rate.
In 1907. $3.50 school children died in
Indiana. The state board has estimat-
ed that so per cent of these lives were
needlessly lost through unsanitary
conditions in school buildings and the
lack of early medical attention"
Revensed Themselves.
The McCarty measure passed the
senate. but when it arrived in the
house word was passed around that
McCarty, democrat, had voted
against the Tomlinson bill to repeal
the county option law and many of
the friends of repeal in the house vot-
ed against the McCarty bill as
means of revenge.
An order has been issued by the
department of drug and food inspec-
ton that hereafter no samples of food
or drugs will be analysed unless re-
ceived from a health officer Or the
department has been communicated
with. Except in this way no samples
for analysis will be received from in
dividuals. The rule has been made
necessary by the fact that during the
last few months the work of the labor
atory has increased wonderfully and
it is now taxed about to it's limit H.
+. Barnard, state food and drug in
spector, says that many of the analy-
sis requested by individuals are fool
ish. but the department has tried to
| attend to all of them
One day recently negro girl came
in said Mr.. Barnard, and brought
sample of chicken gravy. declaring
that man in the boarding house
| where she lived had tried to poison
| her. That is sample of many of
| the requests We receive.
With the exception of a Wood bill
concerning the appointment of a DO
lice matron for Lafayette, on which
executive action has been delayed by
| reason of the fact that the bill was
lost in the rush of affairs on the clos
ing night of the session of the legis-
lature all acts of the recent session
are now in the hands of the state
printer. 1t is probable that the bound
volumes will Be in the hands of the
county clerks and the clerks receipts
In the hands of Governor Marshall
by April Is. Then the governor will
issue a proclamation and the laws
will be in force.
Are 1870 New Laws.
The acts as sent to the printer by
the secretary of state make $50 new
laws. Two hundred and fifty-six pages
have been officially O. KID. and 1872 of
these pages have been run off the
press. The volume of the acts OF
1907 contained 697 pages of acts and
800 new laws.
| The first volume of the acts of 1907
was received at 3 o'clock on the after.
noon of March %. and it required sew.
enteen days to issue the remainder
and place them in the hands of the
county clerks.
| DemarchuS e. Rrown Stoto 1;hror
ian. is confronted with the question OF
how he is to keep up his work of col
lecting data concerning the early his
tory of Indiana since the general as.