Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-05-23
IOWA HEALTH BOARD
Legislature Doubles Secretary's
Salary and Reduces Fund
ONLY $4,000 FOR REAL WORK
Comparison With Amounts Furnished
by Other States Shows Iowa 40
Twenty.ninth In List Of
Thirty.tWo.

Des Moines.-Sec. Sumner of the
board of health, in looking over the
appropriation for his department,
found that while the legislature had
doubled his salary, making it ST.
400, that the board will actually have
$500 less for health work than it had
under the old appropriation. One
item of $4,000 is for the state board
of health. and from this the salary
of the secretary is paid. Under the
old plan salary of a clerk had to
be paid out of this, which left ST..
900 for actual health work. Now
the clerk is provided for by appropri-
alton, and with a doubled salary to
come out of the $4,000, there is ST.
600 for actual health work. But the
$4,000 increase given by the legisla-
ture is in appropriations for the 9th
er bureaus and does not include the
secretary's salary.
OF the thirty-two states which
make appropriations for state board
of health work, twenty-nine have
larger appropriations than Iowa. This
state was at the tail end of the list
until the last legislature got busy.
The present appropriation for the de-
partment is $4,000. 1t was formerly
$1,000.
The following are the appropria-
tons:
Pennsylvania, $1,5oo,ooo; New York,
$4,000; Massachusetts, $14O,50O; ILL.,
nois, $4,000; Florida, $4,000; New
Jersey, $4,000; District of Columbia,
$4,000; Ohio. $4,000; Indiana. $780,
900; Texas, $4,000; Kansas, $4,000;
Colorado, $4,000; Virginia, $4,000;
California, $4,000; Kentucky, $780,
900; Missouri, $4,000: Vermont, $780,
500; Minnesota, $26,5oo; Michigan.
S25.500; Connecticut. $24,5o0; Georg-
la, $21,5oO; Washington, $21,250;
Rhode Island, $4,000; Utah. 100000;
South Carolina, $4,000; Alabama.
$4,000: Maryland, $4,000; Maine,
s15,25O: New Hampshire, $4,000;
Iowa, $4,000; North Carolina, $12.-
Supreme Court Decisions.
State VS.. Edna Leek, appellant,
Greene district: affirmed; opinion
by McClain.
James Maley vs.. Western Union
Telegraph company, appellant, Cedar
district; affirmed on condition; opin-
ion by Ladd.
State vs.. J. A. Harris, alias Ar
thur Johnson, appellant, Linn dis
trict; reversed and remanded; opin-
ion by Sherwin.
Milford Frazee, appellant. vs.. City
Of Cedar Rapids. Linn district; re-
versed; opinion by Deemer.
J. H. Latta VS.. Illinois Central
Railroad company, appellant, Harri-
son district; reversed; opinion by
Evans.
Joseph Stock vs.. Joseph Christie,
appellant, Cedar Rapids superior
court, reversed; opinion by Weaver.
Advice on 8abcock Tester.
June LIST is the time for the Ii.
censes which users of the Babcock
tester must buy, to become opera
tive" said Food and Dairy Commits
sioner Barney. Il am now sending
out blank applications to dairymen
and creameries all over the state.
The law provides that the licenses
issued to operators Of the Babcock
tester shall become effective after
May 31st. This gives the operators
of these tests a comparatively short
time in which to procure them. They
are required to pay into this depart
ment the sum of $3.50 for each Ii.
cense. Another thing that the opera
tors should understand Is that If a
farmer procures a license, 1t does
not give his hired man the legal right
10 operate tester on that mans
farm"
Offered Place on Tax Commission.
Nose Cohen is mentioned as the
main possibility for chairman of the