Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1909-09-17

Lac for the abatement Of a uuisAae-. IL
h. aizays been his eustom 70 procure
tie abatement Of a nuisance by p-rsus-
sian. Ii APPEARED that he hai b-en uni
f.rmlv successful ia thls, With Que eX-
c-ption. VIZ when complaint had teen
o. ale Of such a nuIsanc- IN the form OF
.si- paper aud empty uu cans IN the
rear 81 certain husiu-ss buildings, the
paouri-tor denied The existence of q
nuisance. aud declined to be persuaded
hy the Health Officer. IL did not appear
Il Al this case was pushed further.
Another item 10 substAntlate this charge
u.s the matter Of broken sewer pipe
on Railroad Street Ia this cas- Hui-
sAnee was apparently created by the
melting suoW aud surface water Ia the
spriuE. mixed With certain amount Of
.eW,ga trotu thu broken sewer. 1t ap-
mars that the Health Officer Inspected
TIM, place. aul notified the proper otfi-
GERS Of the sewer Company to repair the
same. This they did, although it vas
not shown couclusively that this Was
done as speedily As vas possible. The
failure however To sbate this nuisance,
II il was such, Was apparently as much
the fault Of the local Board as a whole
s, of its executive officer.
81 II was charged that he quarau-
tined a family for suspected scarlet fever,
aud did not visit them for more than a
month, 50 that the family aud domestic
animals suffered for the necessltie. Of
life. 1t appears that the Doctor visited
this family, Currier by name, three
times during the early part OF the quar-
autine. aud did not visit them again uu-
al he considered sufficient time to have
elapsed, 50 that the quarantine could
safely he raised. The period OF quaTau-
the for this disease was formerly IN this
state. and i still Ia some other states,
six weeks. The Health Officer had this
IL mind, aud declined TO make unneces-
sary visits TO this family for this reason
There are cases of this disease, as We
now know, that may safely be released
from quarantine in less than six weeks,
As there are sthers that require still
longer detention, hence the rule that
such cases shall lie quarantinet until
desquamation Is complete. The Health
Officer in this case might properly have
visited this family, upon their urgent
request. before the termination OF the
six-we-ks period He might properly
have given attention to their requests
for provisions for themselves and their
stock. The Health Officer in these rr-
spects may not have acted humanely
The public however did not and could
not suffer from his failure in these re-
spects.
a. He is charged with having been
notified that the people he had quaran-
tined were on the street, and with pay
ing no attention to this until one OF the
nelghborS, fearing for his own children,
moved out of his house, and did not re-
turn until the quarantine was raised
This Is the Mckee case. The testi-
mnny in this case all went to show that
the quarantined family obeyed the quar-
antiue, as far as remaining on their own
lAF " ~ Aa'llAFihtAf AhN- AAN
hor, who moved away, did so for an en-
tirely different reason than that men,
toned in the specification. In this con-
nectlou it was also charged that Mrs
Mckee was taken from Mr., Henry's
house, where scarlet fever then was, to
her own home bv the Health Officer
There was nothing improper in this act,
she having bad the disease, and her per-
son aud clothing being dislnfected be-
fore removal.
90 1t was charged that the Health
Officer advised people, who We're visit
ing in town, aud whose child was taken
sick with contagious disease, TO return
home with the child, thus exposing the
whole community. The testimony on
this head showed that the Health Off
Ger in his capacity as physician, saw a
child sick with commissions twice, aud
that he told the parents, when asked if
they could take the child to East Haven,
its home, that they might do so iii the
child seemed better" Later this child
developed the eruption Of chicken pox.
and was not taken home. There was
nothing introduced in this connection 10
show that the child had any eruption, or
could reasonably he suspected OF having
au eruptive disease when seen by the
Health Officer.
(6) 1t Is charged that the Health
Officer has given licenses to sell milk in
town without consulting the local
Board, or obtaining their approval. In
this connection it appeared that the
Health Officer asked the Chairman Of
the Selectmen on one occasion, "What
shall do with regard to these milk
licenses His reply was, DO your
duty, or Go ahead and fix them up. y
The State Board OF Health issued GER
| tain regulations under No lis of the
Acts of the last Legislature, requiring
the inspection of dairies, and the licsns
ing of milk pedlers. The law required
| that the local Board of Health should
make inspections of all diaries before
granting these licenses. This law, look
ing toward the production of sanitary
milk in this state, was such radical de-
parture, that the State Board felt that a
certain amount of lenieney should bt
shown milk producers in judging their
tituess to sell milk from house to house
1t was not contemplated that this leni
ency should extend beyond the frs
year, but all milk producers should b,
| 1ivan fair opDortunity tn oct theiI
stables. herds, milkrooms, and employ
ees into condition to meet more rigic
inspection in the future. DR.. Sargent
the Health Officer, apparently, marke,
these milk producers on the score care
furnished by the State Board for thai
purpose. very leniently. The Stat,
Board however is not disposed to trea
this failure as Of serious nature at thi
| TINA Tn This connection he was charva,