The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-02-16
HEAR INSPECTOR CHAs. BALL
Well Known Chicago Official Tells of
Improved Conditions in Chicago
Brought by Action Of Militant
Health Board.


tor of the city Of Chicago gave a very
interesting address in Kenosha on Tues
day evening when he was the guest of
honor at a meeting of the Men s club
of st. Matthews church. The address
of Mr.. Ball took up many questions of
intense interest to the people of Ken
osha and following his talk there was
a symposium at which questions OF
public health and sanitation were dis
cussed. AS q result of the discussion
the club decided to appoint commit
tee whose duty will be to secure some
statistics of conditions in Kenosha.
This committee will seek TO do the
work that should be done by the
Health department and it will make an
effort to get some statistics that will
be Of value in future movements for
the betterment Of public health. It is
declared that statistics now available
in Kenosha are Of little value but it is
thought by concerted effort that
facts along this line can be brought
out which will be of great value not
only in the study of these questions of
health and sanitation but in securing
reforms along these lines.
Inspector Ball spoke as one having
authority and in a very interesting
manner he traced the progress that had
been made by the health department
of Chicago during the twenty-five
years that he had been associated with
the work He declared that there was
need of legislation and education to
bring the best results in securing bet
ter sanitation for cities. He spoke of
the necessity of having laws to make
cities sanitary and the even greater
necessity of educating the growing
generation so that the parents may be
taught through the children the nee
essity of right living. He spoke of
methods used in Chicago and declared
that the smaller city had much bet
ter chance to secure better sanitary
conditions if public sentiment would
demand such conditions. He spoke of
the infant mortality of Chicago and
declared that one in every three chill
dren born in the families of one class
of foreigners died during infancy. He
spoke of methods which had been used
in stamping out disease and showed
that these methods had resulted in
stamping out small pox, typhoid fever
and many other germ diseases and
he declared that the city Of Chicago
was rapidly getting a strangle hold on
tuberculosis and that in a short time
the disease would be under control in
Chicago.
Inspector Ball paid high compliment
to the city of Racine declaring that it
had the best sewer system he had ever
seen in a smaller city and pointing to
it as model for Msnosha and other
smaller cities. lie said that in Ken
osha as in Chicago one of the biggest
problems in securing the sanitary con
ditions to be desired was the fight
against ignorance. He declared that
this same problem was met in every
city which had a large percentage of
foreign population but that statistics
showed that the second generation of
the aliens was much easier to handle
than the native born
More than seventy well known men
Of the city attended the dinner and the
symposium which followed and the
meeting proved to be one of the most
interesting ever held by the club.