The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-03-16
TIMES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.


AT STATE CAPITAL.
indianapolis, Ind March 16.-Indi-
ana will be the haven for everybody on
earth, If the prediction made yesterday
by DR.. ]. N Hurry, secretary of the
state board Of health, comes true. He
says that by reason of the new laws
enacted by the last legislature he ex-
poets that the average length of life in
this state will be heightened by three
years. In other words he believes that
the new laws have added three years
| to the lives of every man, woman and
child in Indiana. This is what DR..
Hurry said about it:
we expect to raise the health rate
of Indiana and then watch the death
and sick rate go down 1 confidently
expect to see the average duration Of
| life in Indiana increase three years in
the next decade under the operations Of
the law. Under the provisions Of this
act we shall be able to show the people
of the state how to enjoy more abund-
ant life"
Good News for Nearly Everybody.
Isn't that fine? Just think of it
three years longer to live. This will
probably be good news to all except
married men.
BY a proper use of the increased
power conferred upon the state board
Of health by the act of the general as
sembly organization, the plan of Sc
lecting local health officers and pre-
scribing their duties, Dr. Hurry expects
to see the work of lettering sanitary
conditions go forward by leaps and
bounds. The act provides that instead
of being elected for only one year, all
county, township, city and town health
officials shall be elected for four years
The salaries of such health officers are
Increased and the state will be entitled
to more Of their time.
, The chief provision of interest to the
state board of health, however, is that
, the act places all local health officers
under the direct orders of the state
/ board of health. All local health Off
GERS are required to give bond in order
J that the state board may hold them K
a proper discharge of their duties. Any
local health officer may be removed By
q the state board for cause The ac
also provides for the examination Of
al Applicants for appointment as health
officers, whereby the state board ex
poets to obtain officers skilled in SAM
? medicine.
Assembly Killed Some Good Bills.
The board feels, however. that thu
= legislature did an unwise thing in re
: fusing to pass the McCarty measur
: designed for sanitary school building
and the medical inspection of children
in the public schools.
IF the bill had passed it would hav
= meant the saving of 100000 to tn
b, state" said Dr. Hurry. 1t is a well
known fact among physicians that
! child can do as much work in thre
years under proper sanitary condition
8 as 1t can accomplish in four years whe
e the conditions are not conducive t
n health. This means saving Of % pc
e cent. 1t would have taken a numbe
IS of years to make all the school build
ings OF the state sanitary, but such
condition could eventually be made I
Y exist and a great saving would result
J. THE medical inspection part of tn
Ie bill that failed would have prevented
n per cent of the school epidemics while
d occur annually and which result in
n suspension Of the schools with a cor
tinuation of expense. Records Of I'll
1906 school year in Indiana show thu
suspensions and consequent expense
for which the state received no retuT
- whatever involved an outlay of $50
~ ~ 600.
~ In addition, that part of the a
10 would have cut down the death rat
= In 1907. 1899 school children died
IL Indiana The state board has estimate
that so per cent of these lives we
needlessly lost through unsanitary col
es ditions in school buildings and the laC
of of early medical attention"
Ill Let Liquor Bill Interfere.
In The AcCarty measure passed the SCI
lis ate. but when 1t arrived in the hou
of word was passed around that Mozart
he a democrat. had voted against the Tor
e. linson bill to repeal the county loo
t." option law and many Of the friends
.rt repeal IN the house voted against {
an McCarty bill as a means Of revenge.
An order has been issued by the d