The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-04-11
TO SAFEGUARD The CHILDREN
School Inspection Plan Agreed Upon.
Funerals to Be Closely Watched.
Cats and Dogs to Be Tied up When
Left at Guaranteed Homes

new henOsHa DOdIu OF health at It's
meeting on Monday evening made
isome interesting plans for the inn
iprovement of conditions in genosha.
With the aid Of the members Of the
! Kenosha County Medical Society the
board of health will at once install
a plan for the inspection of school
children. 1t will not be a daily in
Ispection Of the children Of all the
lscuools, but an inspection of such
children as may be found to be i'll or
who have returned to school following
| quarantine for contagious disease.
Commissioners DeCou was placed in
charge of this work and he will take
the matter up with Mrs. Mary d.
Bradford superintendent of schools
and with DR.. c. H. Ripley a member
of the state board Of medical exanlin
ers. The plan will be to have physl-
clan called to every school where
cases are to be examined and the pay
clan is to receive the regular fee for
a visit for taking care Of such child
rem as may be under observation.
I With a view of further safeguarding
the children the board issued an order
| that children Of homes whore quar-
antines for contagious diseases have
been maintained will not be permit
ted to mingle with other children or
attend schools Of the city until ten
days after the guarantees have been
terminated and during this ten days
their condition will be closely OBJ
served by the health officials.
Quarantine Officer Barber has been
put to work inspecting the streets
and alleys of the city with view of
securing a general cleaning up. The
members Of the board held that one
of the greatest sources Of the spread
of disease was filthy back yards and
alleys and MIR. Barber will give his en-
tire time to the examination Of this
work. He has been instructed THAI
the provisions Of the health ordinance
! in regard to the disposal Of, garbage
/ and Stops must he enforced to The let
ter Only . single warning will be
given to people and this will be fol
tlowed with arrest and vigorous prose-
cution. The physicians discussed the
garbage question at length and Com
imissioners Bernstein and Boerner OF
the health board We're named to act
with the special committee Of the com
mon council in the effort that is be-
ing made to find some plan for MUM
cipal disposal Of garbage. The board
strongly urged the use Of covered cans
for handling garbage.
Dir. J. B. spalding who j. to hold
the Office Of health officer until the
| first of May or until q health commits
sioner is elected was directed to re-
1 port to the board at its next meeting
all facts in regard to guarantees es-
tablished in the city during the past
4 four months. This report will show
the date the quarantine was establish
| ed the date it was terminatedkand all
other facts in regard to the activities
of the health officer in connection
with the case. In the future when
houses are fumigated the plan to be
followed will be if the entire house
is occupied by the family in which
the disease has prevailed tne entire
house will be fumigated from cellar
To attic. In case it is a fat building
the entire dat occupied by the family
Of the patient will be fumigatcd.
Books taken from the city library aud
now in the homes of quarantined PEG
pie will be destroyed and under no
circumstances will the board permit
their return to the library even after
they have been fumigated. Milk
dealers and dealers Id bread have been
notified that the old paste board tic
kets must go. The health board be
heyes that these tickets are lodging
places for disease germs and in the
future it will be necessary for these
dealers to secure aluminium tickets.
IL IS claimed that in the long run this
will be big saving for the dealers
themselves.
Cats and dogs who belong to people
nnder quarantine are to be taken
suare Of under INC orders OF the board
These animals must either be disposed
Of or kept tied up during the prevail
ence of the disease in a home and at
ter the quarantine has been terminals
ed the dogs or cats mus be washed IN
an anti-septic solution to remove any
possibility OF their carrying disease
germs. It may prove . little hard
on the CANNES and the fehnes but
the mempers Of the health board be
lieve that it viii aid materially in
making Kenosha a more healthful
city