Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-11-05
'r''TH BOARD MAKES REPORT
VermOnters Awakening to Need
of More Sanitary Conditions.
Epidemics of Measles and Grip N-oNght
an Other Diseases with M IN
crease in Dcnths durira
the Year 1913.

Board of Health of tho state
ia now ou the press and 'u, IL
Dee sent broadcast through ,h
'cw days. Tho report t. "0ntai''.' 'r"
Volume this year and much mU. 'rIW
than those formerly rendered ,Nouc Of
tnp completeness of the report has been
.ust hut largo number of the town charts
md tables which have been regarded rs
useless. have been done away with. The
export covers tho time from January |,
1912, to December e. 1913.
The members Of the board are DR..
'harlcs s. Cavcrly Of Rutland. president,
nr. Henry y Holtou OF Brattleboro DR.
r. Thomas Kidder Of Woodstocl and Or
e. r. Dalton Of this city. The report as
given by Dr. Dalton a. secretary and eX-
ccutive officer of the board follows in
Hart:
The biennial period of 1912 and 1913 has
heen one Of continued activity in all mat
ters relating to public health, owing to
the results obtained by research and in
vestigatlon. old ideas are giving place to
now, and the reports Of this period reflect
in way the changing attitude assumed
ny the State Board of Health Of Vermont
and its officers toward many of the ques-
tons involved in public health work. The
continual educational campaign which has
been carried on by the board during sew
eIal wears past Is also bearing fruit in
the awakening of the people to the need
VI l''V'' s 80 ,,
advice the part of the board The in
spector is kept constantly on the road
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The control of commandments diseases Is
a problem whose results must ne reckon
"a ny lIt' ibIIll'iI ''9'''' w 81 ~ - '''''
rather than by biennial terms. Viewed in
the large. these results are most SittlS-
factory, showing tho saving IF hundreds
Of lives.
Th, results ar. especially marked il
those diseases whose causes are known,
and against which protective measures
IAN be- nroporlv Instituted Typhoid fever.
diphthoria and smallpox are examples of
diseases low we'll under control. No one
need h.,.. tvnhod fever if the ordinary
proca o. If cleanliness are observed,
and ', death from diphtheria Is an
nnne Loss being IN every ease pre-
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e''r incroaso IN pneumonia
t,,hercu,os,s whoopinr cough and scarlet
fever and a consequent increase in deaths
from all of these diseases Until the pub
lie at large come to recognize the great
danger In allowing the spread OF measles,
whooping cough and influenza. the history
of the year 1913 as regards deaths from
communicable diseases VIII hr re0eat"d
again and again.
DIPHTUEEiA
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NJ tho Isr,or towns Lon wing the greater
part of the State remarkably free from
this disease. The solution of the diph-
iberia problem, now that anti-toxin has
provided the treatment, lies. without
doubt in the discovery Of carrier cases.
Medical inspection of schools should be
- great factor n the accomplishment of
this result There were sos cases reported
IN 1912 with Is deaths, and 3i1 reported
cases i'm 1913 with - deaths
SCARLET FEVER