Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-03
NEW STATUTES REGARDING
HEALTH RULES MAY BE MEN.
ACE TO CITIZENS
STATE HEALTH BOARD POWERS
LIMITED BY NEW LAWS
General Confusion Predicted by Dele
eating of Authority to Local Boards
-Representative Miller Succeeds in
Getting Revense-state Capital
News and Gossip.

Des Moines. June 3.-While club
women are planning fight on the fly
because the insect carries typhoid and
other disease germs, While heads Of
state institutions are discussing the
spread of the "black plague" and while
the state is building new hospital cot
tages for fighting tuberculosis. there IS
a bigger problem TO be solved with
regard to health in Iowa, That is just
what is worrying Secretary Thomas. of
the state board OF health. New laws
enacted by the last legislature go into
effect soon. They disorganize the
health systems organized under the
old law. The state board is robbed OF
mandatory authority. The local boards
become an authority unto themselves,
but are required to make reports to the
state board. However, robbed of the
authority with which il was formerly
vested the state board can not as ef-
iciently fight epidenics il is claimed
The legislation was largely the result
of personal opposition 10 the state
board OF health by Representative
Charles Miller of waverly and Repre-
sentative Johnson of Mitchell county.
Secretary Thomas during the session
gave his approximations with respect 10
the change and he now fears ii will be
impossible for the board 10 do as eff
icient work as in the past. The work.
ing of the new laws, including the
quarantine powers, will be watched
with a great deal of interest and it Is
practically certain that the next legis-
ature will have TO deal further With
the quarantine question. Those who
favored the change accepted it as the
first step OF breaking up the old sys-
tenn of quarantine which they said
permitted an awful graft on the couu-
" treasury. Those who opposed the
change and will oppose it two years
hence say the quarantine bars have
been let down SO as to impair the
standing of the state in case of epideTn-
les and subject the state 70 a great
commercial disadvantage in way of
quarantine against the state in case
of any local epidemic Of any serious
disease.
Secretary of State Hayward will
probably have the new session laws of
the last general assembly ready for
distribution by the middle of this
month SO that county attorneys, whose
duty it now becomes positive to en-
| force all laws may study them. Proof
Of the session law book is now being
finished.
One of the biggest athletic events to
be held in the state this year will come
( No 90 io-- ,n yol
( ley Field Meet is held at the Haskens
have already made entries are Miss
ouri state University. Kansas State
University, Nebraska State University
University Of South Dakota. Washing
ION University of St Louis, Ames
] Colige. Drake University and Morning
side. There will be 200 competitors in
the events. Steele Of Missouri is book
ed to win the mile run, Mcdonald OF
/ Nebraska is predicted TO be the star
hurdler of the event and there is a
possibility that some weight records
will be broken by Collins of Nebraska
An effort to organize baek.sors
started by Frank A. lass, genera
stenographer in the of Re of the sec
retary Of state. He one of the Off
GERS Of the bachelY club of Daven
port chat has attrsred statewide at
1tenli'a whe9Mr. Hass made aan
vGss Of the capitol he discovered III
four unnn3rTied men in it. His hope
vanishedS when he was given a qute
tip that some Of these were contem
plating marriage. 1t is believed nov
that the state house will have no bach
elor club, and it has been rumored tina
since his discovery of the condition
under the golden dome that Mr.. Has
Is himself considering breaking ava
from the Davenport way and taking o
the Des Moines habit.