The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1916-08-24
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poses Of this clause Jurisdiction Is Civ.
en- such city within four miles from
the corporate limits thereof"
Special Order Given
You will notice that by this section
patients may either be confined or
removed-that is, they may be kept
within their own houses or removed
to place where there will be no dan.
ger of their spreading the contagion.
Now it is we'll established fact OF
medical science and acknowledged by
physicians everywhere that tuberculo-
sis is contagious diease and even
before the act providing for County
hospitals was passed those who SUI
fered from 1t could have been quaran-
tined under the above provisions. But
by the act of March 5, 1915, (See statu-
ties of 1915 p I'D it is expressly de.
clared by our legislature that tubercu.
losis is an infectious and communi'
cable disease, dangerous to the public
health" and after the passage Of that
act all the previous acts of the legis.
lature regarding quarantine applied
to tuberculosis in the same manner
as to smallpox, diphtheria and other
similar diseases.
There could be no more appropriate
place for such removal than tuber-
culosis hospital and if such hospital
were established all the council would
have to do would be to provide for
the removal thither of such persons
as the city or county health authori-
ties might determine to be dangerous
to the community. .e 80
Considers Same Matter.
A committee appointed jointly by
the Social Service Bureau and the
tuberculosis association, con-
sisting Of A. M. Gardner, L. S. Bow
man, county auditor, and myself, con-
sidered this matter and came unani-
mously to the conclusion that tuber.
cular patients could thus be quaran-
tined in county hospital if neces-
sary and their condition was danger
Gus to those around them. l referred
to this law in my own argument be-
fore the commissioners.
Now it is not every case of tuber-
culosis which is dangerous, or needs
thus to be quarantined, but where a
patient is suffering in advanced stages
of the disease in crowded quarters
with others, particularly children, con-
stantly around him and in contact
with him, such quarantine is neces-
sary and ought to be enforced. Yet
it cannot be done if there is no place
to send him.
City Has Jurisdiction.
1t will be noted that the city has
jurisdiction for FOUR miles from its
corporate limits. That embraces
practically the whole of Wayne town
ship and considerable part of Bos-
ton, Center and Webster townships.
including even part of the town of
Centerville. The population in this
district comprises considerable ma.
jority of that of the whole county.
It is in the crowded quarters of a
city where men live close together,
often amid unsanitary surroundings,
that the disease is most prevalent and
the danger greatest. Certain dis
tricts in Richmond described by DR..
Perry in his survey are centers of
infection which can only be eradi-
Gated by providing some place where
those afflicted with the disease can
go and cease to be dangerous to those
around them. If, therefore, there were
no other provisions for quarantine ex-
cept the above the construction of a
hospital is still imperative Inhab-
itants from all other parts of the
county being of course admitted to
share its benefits to an equal degree.
Other Provisions Made.
But there are other provisions. Sec
ton 1918 of Burns Annotated Statutes
being Acts Of 1908, provides, that any
county or local board of health shall
have power to remove from any hotel,
boarding house, boarding school or
other building of like character, tene.
ment or apartment houses, to a proper
place designated by such board, per-
sons sick with any contagious, infect