Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-01
Health Board Warning for
ASiaiiC Cholera.
Stale Horticultural Visits Sever
al Large Nurseries.
Cost Of ExiInguishIng Forest Fires
Likely to Reach high Figure.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Council
Wednesday, Aug. 16 at 10 A. M.

The July bulletin of the State Board
tor Health, which was issued MONDAY,
has the following to say IN regard TO
Asiatic cholera: with cases of Asatic
cholera at the port of New York and
with the probability of the arrival of
other affected persons at ports to
which Immigrants from cholera affect
ed countries come, it behooves local
officials to keep a careful watch over
newly arrived immigrants from coun-
tries. in which cholera is prevalent.
Though the methods of the present day
at the inspection and quarantine sta
tons fer safeguarding our country
from the importation of foreign infec-
ton are signallv efficient in handling
so many cases the chance for the ar
rival IN our midst of carrier of the
Infection of cholera is serious enough
to require alertness. Since last year
the State Board of Health has received
notifications relating to immigrants
destined to places in Maine and upon
the receipt Of such information ii is
promptly forwarded To the local boards
to the places 70 which such immigrants
are going This information includes
the name of the immigrant the coun-
try from which he came. the street to
which he is going. etc. Local boards
of health are advised merely to keep
such immigrants and persons with
whom they closely associate under OBJ
servation to know that they remain
well aud do not show any symptoms,
which might be those due to cholera
infection"
71nsidaTa ble N tho hIIllqtip iG
taken up with the matter of child
hygiene, and upon the subject of in
FAINT mortality has the following to
say: I'm Maine in the five years. 1906
1909. a totaf number of deaths of chill
dren under one year of age was S765.
That is an average of 1853 per year.
The death rate of children under one
year of age per 1000 children born,
was HOS: that is. for each 1000 chill
dfen born in the State within year
over ITO of them die before the COM
pleticn of the first year. This for the
whole of Maine is not so bad as the
infantile death rate in some other
places. hut the death rate of children
IN some of the manufacturing eenters
OF the state is so awful that Is has
the attention of some writ
ers outside of Maine. The high death
rate in a few of our cities indicates
the need Of efficient local work with a
view ef saving the lives of the chill
dren"
The bulletin gives rules endorsed by
Prof. Pisek of New York for safe
guarding the results of excessive heat,
and also other helpful hints in regard
to the care of children. The State
board of health plans at an early date
to begin an effective and wide
continuous edueative campaign In the
of the children by means of
leaflets distributed where they are
needed. and by means of child we'll
fare which have been begun. The
board hopes in many places to have
local helpers TO do such work as is
going on in Portland and to have the
help also of organizations of Names
Motherhood The bulletin deplores tho
fact that Maine was again unrepre-
sentcd by any State or local organiza-
tons at the National Congress of
Mothers. which was held this year In
Washington