Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-11
MORE STRINGENT
HEALTH MEASURES
SUBMITS New Code viii Make
to Minimize Dangers of
TubercuIar Infection.

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SUMMIT, Nov. 1.-THE revised
ordinances of the Board of Health
which will be adopted before January
!, will contain far more stringent pro-
visions relative to guarding the health
of the community than those under
which the board now operates.
Milk containing more than 100000
bacteria count per centimetre will not
be permitted to be sold. A uniform
system of sterilizing milk bottles
must be followed in all diaries supply
ing milk to this city, and the washing
of floors with a bichloride solution
repapering OF wallis and repainting OF
woodwork in houses where a sufferer
from tuberculosis has died before
such dwellings shall be occupied after
death OF a victim of the disease, will
be made mandatory.
The segregating of the laundry OF
tuberculosis sufferer and an abso-
lutte purity of ice cream sold in this
city are among the requirements that
will be incorporated in the new or
dinances
Need for Fumigati0D.
DIR. Thomas P. Prout, member of
the health board, and a member of
the committee which has in charge
the revision of the health code at
last nights meeting of the board,
called the attention of his colleagues
TO the necessity for more rigid meas
ures regarding the fumigation of
buildings where a death resulted from
tuberculosis. The physician declared
that he had knowledge of case
where a family moved into house In
which a victim of consumption had
died and one month later an infant
in the family died from tubercular
meningitis. This case, in the opinion
: of the physician, concliusively proved
the inadequacy of simply fumigating
n house.
Despite the fact that physicians re-
port to the Health Board all cases of
contagious disease, Health officer
Max Cotton asserted that there have
sbeen tuberculosis cases here, OF which
sfhe board had no information until a
sday or two before the death of the
Sufferer
Only recently the health officer
stated, a case had been reported to
him day after the death of the pa
tient This condition arises from the
fact that many victims Of the disease
are attended by QUITO town physi-
clans, the local doctors being called
only when death is near or has &C.
ieurred. Just haw to remedy this con-
dition is a perplexing problem con-
s fronting the local health authorities.
Impure Ice Cream.
Commissioner Michael J. Kenny ex-
pressed the belief that of equal i'm
portance with a pure milk supply Is
the question of protecting the health
of children against impure iee-cream.
AS much of the ice-cream sold here Is
manufactured In nearby cities this
matter has in the past been difficult
one for the board to control, but Il
is expected the ordinance revision
committee will master 1t.
The health officers monthly report
showed that twenty-three diaries had
been inspected during October and
but two were found to be below the
standard OF maintenance. Another
inspection will be made of these with
in the next few days. For the first
time since the installation of the city
laboratory twenty specimens of con-
tagious disease we're examined.
There were nine tubercular cases,
five diphtheria and six typhoid. OF
the former three were found to be
positive while the others all proved
negative