Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-07-06
School of Instruction Opens with
Large Attendance.
Governor Gatcs and Mayor Drew mt
First session--Dr. CavcrIy in Adj
dress Reviews Past Years
Work and Suggests Future.

last evening when the first session of the
school, which will cover three days time,
was held at the assembly hall of the
local high school There were about 400
present, including the health officers and
their ladies' There were also present a
number of Burlingtonlans who are in
| tersted in the work which the health
officers are doing. All of the sessions are
iopen TO the general public. the members
Of which are cordially invited to at
tend the sessions which will be con-
ftnued to-day, tomorrow and Satur-
Itay.
DR.. c. s. Caverly, president of the
Vermont State board of health, pre-
lsided over last evenings meeting, calling
] first upon Mayor Albert S. Drew, who
welcomed the health officers on the
part of the city of Burlington, Mayor
Drew said that In extending to the
health officers a most hearty greeting
Burlington was pleased and proud to
have men of their profession gather in
| this city because of their work which
went TO make the weak strong and
| which tended towards a healthy COM
munity from which the people as a whole
! derive the benefits. He spoke of the
progress made in the State since the last
meeting and of the long step towards
| the front taken by Burlington, which
! city since the last meeting has engaged
| an all time health officer, who is doing
! good and effcien: work.
Governor Charles w. Gates was then
! called upon to welcome the officers on be-
| half of the State. The Governor spoke of
! the interest he feels in the development
| of the State along practical lines. The
! more he has seen of the progress in the
State the past few years he said, the
| more optimistic he has become Of YER
! mont's future However, the small towns
! of Vermont mean more to the State than
many realize Vermont has been making
rapid strides along agricultural, indus
trial and commercial lines and the people
; of the State are now enjoying myriad
! privileges which their grandfathers never
even dreamed of. The public demands
! have also greatly changed during this pc
Rod of time, the more they have the
| more they demand In industry, COM
merce and agriculture we can CONNER
Cialize the benefits but the largest and
! hest product OF our State is our men
! and women and children and more impOr-
/ tant than the protection of the CONNER
Fetal factors is the nurturing of the health
of the States population. As a State we
are proud of the progress made along
Fthe lines of medical science and 1t is a
phaving such school for the health Off
1.-THE public good and go hack to their
thomes with new ideas of the preserva-
ttion Of public health. In closing he gave
= I,ao ut, oil 20 tbn toonn M
ivermont who are giving their attention
TO the public health.
Dr. C. S. Caverly responded to the
mattresses of welcome and also gave
mis- usual address to the health Off
tCers. In response he spoke Of Burling-
Mons all time health officer and of the
heed for such in all parts of the State
l1Ie made the suggestion to this city
mot to be too pcnurious with oui
,health officer now that we have him
working all time. All health Off
bCers, he said. are outragiously under
paid and none are very liable to be
'charged with grating. In an investi-
cation carried on by the American
Public Health association two or three
YEARS ago through committee picked
from all parts of the country il was
found that the scale of wages Of the
health officers ranged all the way from
122 to five-eighths of a cent per capita
tof population. If Burlington was pay
ing according to the percentage which
was figured should be paid it would
be paying from so to 90 cents pei
capita and the health department ant
officer would cost about $4,000 an
Inually. This would not be an eNtraVa
,Eant outlay and other cities and the
I1owns in the State should he paying
proportionately. Dr. Caverlys annua
address follows:
RESIDENTS ADDRESS.
The past year has not been entirely
uneventful, as regards public health. II
Vermont. Since our last school. six o.
! our number have died, viz, Milo Hines
of Lowell William Hudson OF Mlddlesex
Judge +. w Huntley of Duxbury, VII
! liam Nathaniel of Poultney. J. Henr,
tKidder of Wilmington and George vii
son of Hancock. In addition to this list
| should be recorded also the deaths o
, two veteran health officers. who's
! designations had been neCessitated h,
,inflrm health some months before death
These were: DIR. Charles w. Peck o
Brandon and DIR. II, o. Whpple o
Dandy.
We have escaped any seriously fata
or widespread epidemic. Infantil'
paralysis, which had claimed our atten
ton in 1914, occurred in scattering cases
not assuming epidemic proportions. Tn
lessons Of the 1914 outbreak, and tn
intensive campaign made, were not los
on our people. A year Of comparativ
exemption from this disease. however
should not deceive us. one and severa
years intervals have separated epidemi
years before. The campaign against thu
! disease Is still Oh. While Vermont ha
been unfortunate in the epidemic vista
tons of infantile paralysis, she is for
tunate in having the advice of some q
the best-qualihed experts, in treatin
as we'll as preventing it. This subiec
will receive attention at this school, AN
we all welcome the temperance q
| Doctors Lovett, Amoss and Martin /
| the State.
A mild form of smallpox has continued
| most inexcusably, in the northern par
of the state, especially in Orleans cour
/ ty The history Of this particularly out
break is not creditable to our STATE
The persistent cropping out Of thi
| loathsome disease over period of
| full year seems to us inexcusable, he
| cause, If its early recognition had bee
followed by an application OF the vel
| known preventive measures suggested.
should have been stamped out in fe'
weeks. The failure to do this. In thl
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