Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-25
STATE HOUSE,
Dr.Young Returns from the
Undressing Report.
Word Received al The Forestry
Department Of Forest Fire.
Prosecute IS f)r Violations OF Fish
And Game Laws.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Regular Meeting of Governor and
Council, Tuesday, July 20, 1918, 10
A. M. Special Session, at q p. NJ.
Monday, June %.

from attendance on two important con :
ferences of public health officials The
conference of the State and Provincial
boards of health was held at the ne "
capital in St Paul, Mimi. The two
days program was a very full and
exacting one, particularly in view Of
the fact that the temperature was ex-
ceedingly high from 80 degrees to -
degrees in the shade, with high de-
gree of humidity for that region. This
terrid weather continued through the
succeeding week.
AT the conference in st. Paul, most
of the topics which were considered
were introduced as reports of COM
mittees. Some of the reports pre-
scented were discussed very fully and
were very much amended before their
adoption. Some of the matters dis
eussed were: Epidemic lnfantile
Paralysis reported by DR.. Richardson,
secretary of the State Board of Health
of Massachusetts; Industrial Camps.
by DIR. f.. r. Kelley. executive officer
of the State Board of Health of Wash
ington. who. by the way. is one of the
efficient public health workers, whom
Maine and Bowdoin have contributed
10 the West; Railway Sanitation,
by Dir. L. @. Williams of the Virginia
State Board of Health; Transports
ton of the Dead" by DR.. Bait OF
Pennsylvania, chairman of the com
mittee: "Trachoma," by Dr.. j. w.
Kerr, assistant surgeon general of the
Federal Public Health Service. Wash
ington, d. c.; Standardization of
Embalming Fluids" by DR.. r. II. Null
lin of Minnesota "Pellaera." by DR.. j.
A. PAYNE, secretary of the State Board
of Health of South Carolina.
The report of DIR. Kelley on Indus
trial Camps was based largely upon
the experience in his own state, N
, which the construction companies en-
gagged in railway or other work, some
of the work done on the water SHEDS
of public water supplies, Indicated re-
markable results in the conservation
of the health of their men and in safe
guarding them from infectious dls :
eases, particularly typhoid fever ana
in guarding the water supplies from
pollution and infection.
Trachoma, one of the subjects which
was considered. was reported by Ut
Kerr. because the Federal Bureau un-
der which he works has been studying
that disease and has been cooperatinS
with the State board of health of Mill
nesota. and'with the officials in some
other states in work against trachoma'
which is an infectious and long con-
tinued disease of the eyes which
causes an immense amount oil suiler-
ing and human inetficiency in com
munities in which it gets too'hoiu
and is allowed to spread, ana eNehtu-
ally is a cause of much partial or totai
blindness. 1t has been found TO nave
gained a serious foothold among the
poor whites of the mountain regions
of Kentucky. and among the lhuiah'
in SOME of the states, and with tue
broadening of the school systems or
educational facilities for the Indians
and the children of the red men nave
been admitted to the schools attehueu
bv the white children, the eyes Vi t''e
latter have become infected.
The report on Railway Hygiene
brought out a lively discussion On
noints connected with the subject, IN
which based upon personal knowledge
ar experience, the railway corporations
received both blame for their siior'
comings in the care OF the heai'h Va
the travelling public, and Commence
ton for their cooperation Win pupl,c
health officials The report, consul
cred section by section. was cons'u
erably amended before II was accept
ed by the conference.
The report on the "Transporta'ioi
of the Dead" in somewhat aiiichue"
form. will probably be adopted py 'he
state boards of health Seneraiiy' .o'h
nared with the regulations which are
,,oy in effect the new rules smpllIy
80 considerable degree the REQUIRE
mcnts for the preparation ol oouie'
shipment. and for the transportation
of them.
I, the conference with the surgeon
general of the Public Health service,
!. large number of the state poarue Vi
naaIth were represented by delegates
ana II was generally agreed that hard-
lv any other conference win the SUI
peon general equalled this llth coniei
once in the amount of practicai W.. !"
considered. and the earnestness Vi nv
aiscnssions. In this conference the
consideration of the subject OF railway
hvgiepe was continued and d consul
cradle number of the western raliroaos
were represented by their ofnciais anu
took part in the discussions. mo
WAS gratifying feature In the W.,
an this subject. In dealing with 'lle
subject of the reporting of infectious
diseases. the discussion was opeheu -
a representative of the Metropoi'a,
practical value with which ousiie %
corporations now regard the me sa.
;n@ work which health departments
are trying to do.
In this conference the surgeon gen
oral made a statement ut the preseh'
activities of the Public Health ser
vice in the investigation of the causes
of infectious diseases in his hNsien-o
laboratory at Washington; IN the III
vestigation afield in this country az
abroad as to the best methods 10 EN-
n,ov in the control of epidemic ois
eases: in the quarantine work whleA
| is under his jurisdiction for the pre-,
| yantion Of the importation OF ihlec.iou