Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-30
REPORT Of THE
WOMENS CLUBS
WORK ACCOMPLISHED AND
WHAT IS NEEDED, WAS
THOR0LY DISCUSSED.
NET At new ROCKFORD

Slaughter House Should Be Close
ly Watched; Social Hygiene
Should be Studied.
NeRR Rockford, May ga Fifth
District Convention of Woman's Fed
Grated Clubs was held here May ~,
21, seventy.twO delegates being in at
tendance and many other visitors.
Mrs. w. B. Wanner of Wimbledon,
district vice president, occupied the
chair and was assisted by District
Secretary Mrs. H. M. Strand, also of
Wimbledon. The convention opened
with an invocation by Rev. D.. X.
Kirker and was followed by an ad-
dress of welcome for the city by DR..
Chas McLachlan assisted by Mrs. S.
N. Putnam on behalf of the local
clubs. Mrs. ]. Featherstone of Valley
City responded for the visiting clubs.
Mrs. C. H. Hayes favored the conven-
stion~ with a solo, and was followed by
Mrs:~-Frank Lyness of Fessenden and
Mrs. Frank White of Valley City, who
spoke respectively on Civic Work in
the District and "Civic Ideals" Prof.
Il. F. Ladd of Fargo talked on I'm
spection of Meats and Foods" An in
formal reception was held in the Com
'mercials Club rooms in the evening
after which q banquet was served in
the Newport Cafe, Mrs. Jas. A. Hanly
acting as t0astmistress. Mrs. H. j.
B~essessenr of Harvey, Mrs. Hopes Of
Darlington, MRS. Main of McHenry,
Miss Carolyn Wood of Valley City,
Mrs. j.. E. Fahrer of New Rockford,
Mrs. A. Baldwin of Fargo, Mrs. l..
White of F%essenden, Mrs. Wanner OF
Wimbledon, and Mrs. Murray of Gin.
cinnati, Ohio, all contributed to the
banquet program. At the last session
of the convention Mrs. NJ. A. Hid
reth of Fargo gave an interesting ad.
dress on Law as they Exist Relating
to \, omen and Children of the State"
Mrs. Louis Malm of Sanborn followed
with a discussion on Laws as
Needed" Miss Minnie Joan Nelson,
president of the North Dakota Fedora
ton of Woman's Clubs gave an in
teresting talk on the work being
done by the clubs OF the state. Reso-
buttons were adopted and Mrs. s. N.
Putnam nominated to succeed Mrs.
Wanner as vice president of the dist
riot. Following is a report given at
the convention by the recording sec
rotary, Mrs. S. A. Zimmerman OF
Valley CITY.
To the women of the Fifth District
AZ assembled:
Mrs. Zimmerman's Report.
First of all | wish to thank the in
dividual clubs for their prompt re-
plies to my inquiries regarding the
sanitary conditions of their communi-
ties-every club but one responded.
Only two of these had no real work
to report owing to- their having held
no meetings. Several, clubs have. aid.
ed the tuberculosis o.. Sanitarium at
Dunseith by way of money, boxes of
books, cushions, magazines, pictures
and canned fruit, all the clubs show
an arrest of thought along the various
lines this department of public health
Is working upon. The time has fully
come when every club is interested
in the conditions to make the general
health better in every community.
We no longer Give unto ourselves"
even though we did try to sometimes.
Concentrate on Three Sc.
This department desires in the
coming year to concentrate all it's
energies not upon the three RS, but
the three SIS, namely: Sanitation,
Sickness and Sex Hygiene. Under the
first head, Food Sanitation, we ask
for the betterment of conditions in
You community in regard to slaughter
houses, meat markets and bakeries.
North Dakota passed a law COMPEL.
ing the labelling of diseased meat.
However, too many local concerns
ignore this and if not watched will
esade the law, and you and | will be
the, ones to pay the piper" who in
this case would doubtless be the
doctor SO look to the sanitation in.
side and out.
Basement bakeries must 70 and
doors and windows properly screened.
o Aouu Hos d6ICcu " LANE up
the question of slaughter houses,
meat markets and bakeries in the
monthly Food E'ulletin' a copy of
which l have asked to have sent to
the president of each local club, in
this he will outline the work in such
u way as to serve as a basis for work
and study by the club women of our
state.
Need Legislation.
Under Sickness we greatly desire
to educate public sentiment to secure
hesitation along stricter quarantine.
why discriminate in contagious or
infectious diseases? Can we not work
Tor strict quarantine Of every such
disease, and then and only then will
mumps and measles become as scarce
small pox today. All sane and
right thinking people. physicians in.
cluded, urge this, for if a doctor is
any good as a doctor he can fine
another job nor lucrative and easy,
If all disease becomes banished. Let
US ask for compulsory medical inspec.
ton In both rural and town schools.
Mrs. E. P. Quain an Authority.
1t Is ours to disseminate the knowl-
edge OF the cause of tuberculosis, the |
danger from %contagion and care of
tubercular patients. The death rate
frnn1 this Apoo \ lz---