Arizona republican., 1911-08-23
FOUND THE GAME PLENTIFUL
But Health Officer is Pleased to Note Its Less eni g Quantity. New Rules Governing Open Season For Microbes.

Dr. F. s. Godfrey territorial health officer has returned from an official tour of the northern part of the territo- ry. The purpose of his trip was tO call on county superintendents of health and city health officers, and to make a general inspection of sanitary conditions. with particular reference to schools, dairies and slaughter hous- es He visited Prescott. WinsIow. Flagstaff. HOlbrook and St. Johns.
 The doctor says that with two eX- captions he found the slaughter houses visited very insanitary and the two exceptions were by no means all that they should be but by the first of the year one of them at least will have been put in model condition by in- stalling a plant for transforming Offal into fertilizer The other slaughter houses all make a practice of feeding the offal to hogs which in turn find their way to the markets, a practice condemned by the meat inspection bu- reau of the agricultural department. The dairy management the doctor found fairly good in that most of the dairymen were evidently trying tO coll duct their business in a sanitary way. but many of them are handicapped by old buildings and poor equipment that makes an actually sanitary dairy impossible It is expected there will be great improvements along that line though it may be expensive and bur densOme to the small dairyman
 hfffl doctor found to be usually in a very good condition. fairly we'll ventilated and equipped. Some of them that he had visited before have been improved by the rearranging of seats and by the building of new toilets that had been condemned.
 The most important incident of his trip was the adoption by the territorial board of health, at a meeting held in Prescott, of new rules governing quar- antinng. and the formulation of other restrictive measures in respect of in TectiOus diseases. The new rules also further define the duties of county and city health officers and local registrars bf vital statistics; provide regulations for the sanitation of dairies and schools and the sanitary construction of school buildings.
 One rule prohibits the use of a pub hic drinking cup and the roller or common towel in the schools. The doctor says it is ridiculous to under take the teaching of sanitation and hygiene in the schools and permit these most common of all insanitary agencies to exist. As repulsive as a pupil may appear with dirty face and hands, it is better that he refrain from washing at school than to wipe his face on the same towel that score of other childreh use. many of whom are suffering no doubt from one or anOth- CT transmissible disease.
 Under the new rules the county and city health officers are required to in- spect the dairies and water supplies of their respective communities and make regular reports to the territorial board of health. The new rules which have the effect of law under the authority of the public health act. will be published and distributed as soon as possible, though they are quite voluminous containing a chapter on each of the subjects herewith le- | fer red to.