Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-14

]. F. Lamont Nj. G. Ewing
I. +. Delaney DIR. A. w. Trevitt
The first five being named as COM
mittee TO put the resolutions and
recommendations of said meeting in
proper form for presentation TO your
honorable body:
RESOLUTION.
Resolved by the citizens of the City
of Wausau, in mass meeting assem-
blec, in the Wausau club house in
said city on the 9th day of June, 1910,
as follows:
That we commend the rules and
regulations to prevent the spread of
contagious diseases and for the pre-
servation of the health of this city,
which have been prepared by the
commissioner of health and approved
by the common council of said city,
and that we call upon all citizens TO
cooperate with the health depart
ment and assist in every way possible
in the strict observance and enforce
ment of said rules.
That we believe that the present
resources, provided by the city for the
department of health, are wholly in
sufficient and inadequate for the
proper enforcement of the laws, and
the rules and regulations of the health
department, and we pledge ourselves
to stand by and support the action of
the common council in making
adequate appropriations of money and
providing the means for effectually
stamping out the epidemic now raging
in the city and for thereafter keeping
the city free from such epidemics, be-
lieving that the expenditure of all
necessary, sums of money for such pur-
pose and thereby protecting the lives
of our children and citizens is of at
least as much Importance as the ex-
penditure of money for the protection
of property.
We, therefore, recommend to the
common council of the city the i'm
mediate adoption Of the following
measures:
/. That the Office of medical inspec-
tor, in the health department, be es-
tablished, who may be the commits
sioner of health, at salary of at least
S2,500.00 per year.
2 That the commissioner of health
be authorized to employ two thor
oughly competent and experienced
men in charge of the fumigation and
disinfecting of places and persons in
fected with dangerous or contagious
diseases at a salary of at least $500
per month each.
3. That the commissioner of health
be authorized to purchase modern and
efficient generators and other proper
appliances for proper fumigation and
disinfection, he to be given broad
powers in this regard.
f. That municipal laboratory be
provided for The Office of the medical
inspector at a cost not TO exceed $780,
5. That the commissioner of health
be granted Authority TO appoint such
special assistants or officers as may
from time to time be necessary for
the maintenance of quarantine by day
and night and enforcement of the
rules and regulations, above referred
to, and of the rules and regulations of
the state board of health and of the
laws of the state for the preservation
of health, the prevention of the
spreading of contagious diseases, ETC.,
such special officers to be given the
powers of special policemen assigned
TO the health department, such Off
GERS TO receive compensation as fixed
by the health commissioner, not to
exceed $500 per day.
6. That call be made upon the
state board of health to assist the city
in dealing with situation in the towns
and villages tributary to the city with
reference TO the scarlet fever epidemic,
which is serious source of the spread
of the contagion within the city itself
I. That the commissioner of health
be authorized to employ and send
such special officers, as he may deem
necessary, into the towns and villages
tributary TO the city for the purpose
of obtaining the enforcement by LEGAL
health officers and health boards of
the laws OF the state and the rules
and regulations of the state board of
health, such officers TO be compensated
the same as special officers working
within the city.
s. That special meeting of the
common council be called as soon as
possible by the mayor for the purpose
OF considering and acting upon these
recommendations
JAS. VI. DUER.
j. j. BRENNAN.
+. w. GENRICH.
w. A. GREEN.
+. Z. BUMP.
Brief talks were made by Rey.-F
Bremen. Rev. J. NJ. Duer, Franklin
Bump. Chas. z. Turner, Neal Brown.
Rev. FIR. Johnson and ]. w. Coates.
The mayor was then called upon to
make statement as TO ADndjtions as
he viewed them. 1t was his opinion
that the disease was brought in from
outlying towns: that the city authori-
ties had not kept up strict quarap-
tine until recently on account of the
lightness of the cases: that all had
been done that could possibly be done
the past few months, and now he was
confident that our city's greatest
menace was from outside towns, in
some OF which there are more cases Of
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