The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-07-08
PROTECT VERMONT
FROM POLIOMYELITIS
State Board of Health Adopts Rules
and Regulations Intended to Keep
Disease Out of the State

BURLINGTON, July s. = At the
regular monthly meeting of the state
board of health, steps were taken by
the members of the board towards
protecting Vermont children from pos
slble contact with infantile paralysis
which they might catch from children
who are brought to this city from
New York, where an epidemic is rag
ing. The following statement given
out by the board explains itself:
lnfantile paralysis epidemic polio
myelltls) IS prevailing to an unusual
extent III the city. of greater New
York.
Families in that city in which there
are children will naturally take such
children as far as possible into the
country. The state of Vermont has uu
usual reasons for taking extraordinary
precautions against this disease In
fantile paralysis is generally recog-
| nized as a contagious disease and one
that may be spread innocently by per
sons who have no clinical symptoms,
IN other words, by "abortive cases
or ''healthy carriers. - The state
| board of health of this state deems it
reasonable under the circumstances to
| make the following rules and regula-
tons; therefore, under the authority
of the Vermont statutes, the follow
| ing rules and regulations are promul-
gated:
l. No child under the age of -
| years SHALL reside in this state for "A
! period of more than q hours without
being reported by an attendant, parent
| or guardian to the health officer of the
| town or city where such child is, pro
vided such child has been in the city
| of greater New York since the Goth Of
June, 1916.
,. 1t shall be the duty of every
! housekeeper, manager Or proprietor of
! every hotel or clearinghouse where
such child is domicilcd, to Immediately
report such child, giving the name and
age, to the health officer OF his city or
| town.
3. Every such child shall be sub
jected to quarantine for a period of
two weeks from the time such child
! was last in the city of greater New
York
/. The health officer of every town
and city to whom such a child is re
ported shall Immediately serve writ
tea notice upon the head OF the family
in which such child is; this written
notice shall contain a copy of these
regulations and an order signed by
such health officer requiring such child
to remain on the premises in which it
Is at that time for the specified time
i of two weeks after last leaving the
city of greater New York.
! ). Each health officer to whom such
1 child is reported shall require Of the
attendant, parent OF guardian of such
/ child. a certificate in writing, duly
! signed hy Il legal practitioner of medi-
cine, certifying that the nose and
throat of such child has been thorough
ly washed with solution of tea
:! spoonful Of common salt in Il pint Of
i water once q day for a period of three
consecutive days. before the premises
are released from quarantine
Il G. No child under u years Of age
shall enter any house So quarantine,h
!. y placard containing the word
quarantiue' shall be sufficient evil
j, deace to all persons that the premises
are quarantined for the purposes of
these regulations.
! Nothing in these regulations shah
he construed to prevent other mem
bers of 4 household in which there is
a child as above described, who has
, left the city of New York since June
20, 1916, from attending to their usual
occupations.
The owners, managers or proprietors
of hotels and boarding-h houses may
: place no restrictions on attendants OF
guests in their hotels or boarding
houses further than the strict isola
ton of any children as above describe, 4
from New York city, provided such
E, children are isolated to the satisfac-
| ton of the local health officer and
their noses and throats irrigated a,
t specified.
Each health officer will see that a
copy of these regulations, with which
{ he is furnished, is eonspicuously dis
, played in at least three public places
5 in his town or city.
, These rules and regulations shall re
maia in force until further notice.
! Per order Vermont state board OF
health.
CHARLES F. DALTON, NJ. D.,
Secretary.