The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-25
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES Only
City Physician Need Not Treat
Any Other Kind.
classification Does Not Include
Typhoid, Says Porter.

..r didn't know until / read II TINS
,,o-,inr that DR. Lull was nghtlhs
-. =, said Commissioner W L. Porter
..,,,t now that he is I'm going 10 get
. .o,,,ta of wards of mosquito netting
to protect myself"
After which remark COMMISSIONS
- r,sde formal request on George
p HAYDEN. city attorney, tor an oplll,
ION IN the division OF the ineu ~
,.y,rL- between city and county
o1tDIor was in Porter's nahus VIM
a short time and it bears out ms coii-
tentiou with the county .,,a oi+,,
.+sorneZ. which is based upon one siN
en- nv the attorney general II Is up 70
tn comfy TO take care OF All Cd9e9
s4.lnese among INDECENT poor anu -
oV contag ious and infectious =.
e,ceut insofar as tn city ASSUMES ie
n ltates that under the law. where
- lie. .odoDts rules and regulations LII
tba control Of ntagious dlsedSS -
citv then assumes the respols1 Dii4Is
for the treatment OF such diseases -
-te+es that under the law Il Is up "
~ cir1- to take care OF SICK tran
sients-people who are not reslue NJ
- rbe civ or cOunty-but thal IAc
county : responsible for the expense
incident thereto - r,,i,iop is
e,,.or,,bla to commissioner Porter ana
= is hased upon and backed oy an
a-frfor from the attorney generai on
ne same subject written upon the
onsst of W. L. Atchison, county at
torney r,r
From reading the statute covering
che noint reads the opinion OF Al
tornev Hayden, there is in my nina min.
no oIestion that as a general PROPOSE
tior the county shall be haole lot my
necessary care Of the indlSeht Pool
and is only relieved from ines ~ -
when the city takes upon 1tselt the re-
eronsibility of the health or the city
..Tba+ said Porter. referring TO the
orinfon ..is the contention l have beeh
ma kfne-that the city Is respoHslo ,l
orI,r for what it undertakes Ana we
- not undertaken and do not intend
10 undertake responsibility Tor the
treatment Of the INDECENT poor lhdl
mas always been the countys business
md will continue TO be so lar as my
department is concerned doi |
blan,e the county for trying 10 saduie
This work and expense upon the city
Tbat's- the way for the commissioners
to cat down their expenses
where Docs Typhoid Belong.
Dr. c. c. Lul, county physician,
who states that he alone is fighting
Commissioner Porter. in discussing
fused 10 treat made reference 10 a re-
cent case of typhoid fever Porter
held today that typhoid fever doesn't
come under the head of the diseases
the city has assumed responsibility for.
He's doctor and yet he calls ty-
phoid fever contagious disease. sa.d
Porter. Everyone knows typhoid
fever is not contagious 1t Is IN IN
fectious disease and as such viii not
be handled by this department. I'm
til the county began trying to make
a record in saving money the county
physician handled all the infectious
diseases
DIR. Lull stated today that his de-
partment and that of Commissioner
Porter made an agreement months ago
under which the city physician was to
take care Of all contagious diseases
and that Porter is backing up Por-
ter, on the other hand. stated that
there has been no backing up on his
part: that the city physician has been
treating al contagious diseases and
that the trouble lay in the fact that
Dr. LuH classifies contagious and IN
fictitious diseases under one head and
refers all of them to the city physi-