Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-10-13

pense are illegal ano void. There are
about $50 state patients In both insti-
buttons. The decision of the court
holds that the present method of COM
hitting insane persons by Probate
court on doctors certificates is wrong,
and that the physicians certificate is
nothing more or less than prima facie
evidence, instead of being all the evil
dence required, as was the case be-
fore. This decision was handed down
in the matter of Lydia Ann Allen of
Johnson, who brought habeas corpus
proceedings to secure her own release.
The court held that the certificate was
void, but issued an order that she be
detained 80 days under the charge Of
the superintendent of insane until
legal proceedings might be carried
through; otherwise that she be dis
charged at the end of that time.
Such an order would probably be
issued in all cases after hearing, so
that there is no danger of wholesale
immediate delivery of insane person
from the asylum. State IS attorneys
will now get busy under the attorney
generals direction to secure legal
commitments. The opinion is one Of
the most important in years.
With the state board of health ap-
pealed to relative to conditions of the
watershed, it begins to look as if the
water situation in regard to pollution
might be amelIorated before long, says
the Rutland Herald. That things were
not as they should be was evident to
Health Officer Ball some time ago, and
in conjunction with Health Officer
Pike of Mendon, several trips of in
spection were made, changes were rec
commended, and improvements sug-
gested. Most Of these were readily
put into effect by the residents on the
watershed, but recent discoveries have
led to drastic action on the part of
the local authorities. While the health
officer does not go into details Of the
matter, he says that the discoveries
were Of particularly shocking and
revolving nature especially on the prop
erty of M. E. Wheeler, where it is
said that sewer from the residence
was found to empty into one of the
streams contributing to the city s
water supply. In view Of these suspi-
cious circumstances, the members of
the board of health, with Mayor H. o.
Carpenter went to the watershed and
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immediate attention. On their re-
turn to the city special meeting OF
the board was called, when resolu
tion was passed to request the state
board of health to take Immediate
action in freeing the tributary streams
of our reservoir from pollution, or
the properties of M. E. Wheeler ane
Mark Tenney. This request was pre-
scented to DR.. c. S. Caverly, presiden,
of the state board, and it is believed
immediate action will follow to compe
property owners on the watershed tt
improve existing conditions. Whel
Mr.. Wheeler was interviewed by
Herald man. he denied the whole mat
ter emphatically. He said that h
had made all the changes and i'm
provements in the sanitary condition
on his property that he had beer
asked to make. The sewer emptyin.
into the stream in question, he said
was not being used at all, and h.
branded the whole story as false.
CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they canno
, reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is
blood or constitu iona disease. and in orde
20 cure it you must take internal rem Is