Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-07
STATE BOARD OF CONTROL
PLANS TO REGULATE TUeER.
cuLosIs HOSPITALS.
TO SEND INSTRUCTIONS
TO VARIOUS COUNTIES
institutions Must Be SO Arranged That
opsn-Air Treatment Can Be Ap.
pIied-Plans For New County In
stitutions Must 30 Approved by
Control Roard-State House News.
special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Noines, June 1.-THE state board
of control will send out in due time
definite instructions to continue with
regard to the county institutions for
the care of the INDECENT tuberculous pa
t.ents. Under the law as It now exists
the state board Will fix the standards
for these institution Certain require
rnents will have to be met before an
institution of the kind can be opened.
al if conditions are found to be not
UP TO standard, when inspection is
made, then the board will have author
ity to order an institution closed.
The instructions will be couched in
general terms. The county institutions
will have to be so arranged that the
open air treatment can be applied, the
food must conform to certain stand
ards, and there must be such super
vision of each institution as will mean
good care for each and every inmate.
The inspectors who make report on
the county farms and buildings and
their condition will also report on the
institutions for the care OF the tubercu-
lous. In the future where plans are
made for such institutions they will be
su. naitted to the board for approval.
The Iowa W. c. T. [. has had printed
for their own use 500 copies of the
pamphlet prepared by the legal de-
partment of the state regarding tenn
perance legislation and the rights and
duties of officials having TO do with the
enforcement. The pamphlet is popu-
lar one and hundreds OF requests have
come for single copies. II viii be IN
valuable in the matter OF the enforce
ment of the laws against illegal sales
of liquors.
The grand jury here is taking up the
matter of sundry complaints about
short-weighting OF customers in coal
and feed and a thorough probe is
promised with some prospective reve-
lations of interest. 1t is found that q
great deal Of short weighing has been
going on and that all ordinary means
of stopping the same have failed. The
only prosecution in Des Moines for
short weighing was one when the state
officials found that a coal dealer was
cheating the state.
The reports from veterinarians in
dictate that there Is far less Of swine
plague in Iowa this year than for a
number of years. Whether it is due to
The determined fight being made
against it, including the cleanup
propaganda, or to weather conditions,
or to both, can not be determined. But
the loss this year promises not to be so
large as usual and the serum factories
report a very less demand for the
serum.
The normal school department Of the
state department of public instruction
is still at work on several of the par
ochial schools of the state to determine
whether they shall be given authority
to graduate for teaching and be given
the same recognition as the state aided
high schools. Some Of these schools
have shown they have most excellent
faculties and are well equipped for the
preparation of teachers. Unquestion-
ably some Of them will be given recog-
milton and they will receive the same
supervision as the high schools sup
ported by the public.