The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-03-07
State Health Officials to Hold
Order in Allegiance Await
ing Action of Council
FORMAL NOTICE WAS SERVED
Secy. DR.. g. A. Harper Says State
Wants to be Fair With Kenosha but
that Lives Of People of City Must
be Protected at Present Time.

The state board Of health is going
to give the city of Ken osha chance
to cleanse itself and although DIR. q.
a. Harper, the secretary Of the state
board, issued an order some time ago
to have the state board send men
into Kenosha to take care of the sit
nation in a telephone message from
Madison this morning DR.. Harper de-
clared that the order would be held
IN allegiance pending the action of the
city council on the ordinance toy be
proposed on next Monday evening.
We have no desire to cause the
city of Kenosha expense or trouble,
said DR.. Harper this morning, but
we feel that conditions there are such
that they must be taken care of at
once. | have personally taken great
interest in Kenosha because have
considered it one of the model cities
of the state along many lines and !
want to have it a model along the
lines Of the important problem Of pro-
tecting the lives of the people. The
state board has not been inactive in
the Kenosha matter and under the
date of Feb. 18th / sent a letter to
Mayor Scholey in which / served form
al notice on him that the state board
was planning to come into Kenosha.
/ had no response from the mayor, but
later j received a message from the
special committee named by your coun-
ell and this letter gave me assurance
that Kenosha was ready and willing
to do something. On Wednesday I
received letter from Health Officer
John B. Spalding which was in answer
to the letter which had sent to
Mayor Scholey. DR.. Spalding was quite
frank in his letter and admitted that
the state board had been properly adj
yised as to conditions. He admitted
that guarantees had not been main
tanned and that quarantined people
had been slipping out of back doors
and going to work. He told of steps
taken to establish a laboratory and /
approve Of all this work. Nov if
Kenosha can get down to real com
mon sense basis in regard to board
w
of health l believe that the city will
be made leader instead Of the last
trailer among the cities of the state.
The state board is convinced that the
people of the city of Kenosha are
ready and willing to expend money for
the protection of the people and all
that is necessary is to have the matter
laid before them in the proper light. h
DR.. Harper declared that he was
ready to come to Kenosha at any time
there was a demand for his presence
and take up the matter with the coun-
Gil and the people Of the city,.
There is no denying the fact that
recent agitation of health questions
has brought improved conditions in the
city, but in order that this improve
ment may be made permanent it is
certain that something must be done to
secure a. revised health ordinance which
will provide for the future.
Many of the members of the com
mon council who have been given a
chance to read and digest the proposed
new health code have declared them
selves in favor Of its immediate adop-
ton. One thing is certain and that is
that Kenosha is going to take care of
the matter without the further aid of
the state board Of health.