The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-07
PROTECT VERMONT
FROM POLIOMYELITIS
State Board Of Health Adopts Rules and
Regulations Intended to Keep Dis
ease Out Of the State.

Burlington July AT the regular
monthly meeting of the state board OF
health, held yesterday afternoon, steps
were taken by the members Of the board
towards protecting Vermont children
from possible contact with infantile pa.
ralysis which they might catch from chill.
dren who are brought 10 this city from
New York, where an epidemic is raging.
The following statement given out by
the board explains itself;
Infantile paralysis tepidemic polio
myelitisl is prevailing TO an unusual ex.
tent in 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 coun-
try. The state of Vermont has unusual
reasons for taking extraordinary precau.
tions against this disease. lnfantile pa
ralysis is generally recognized as CON
tagious disease and one that may be
spread innocently by persons who have
no clinical symptoms, in other words, by
"abortive cases" or healthy carriers"
The state board of health of this state
deems il reasonable under the circum.
stances to make the following rules and
regulations; therefore, under the author
ity of the Vermont statutes. the follow.
ing rules and regulations are promulgat.
ed:
/. No child under the age Of 3 years
shall reside in this state for a period of
more than - hours without being report
ed by an attendant, parent or guardian
to the health officer of the town or city
where such child is, provided such child
has been in the city of greater New York
since the 20th of June, 1915
?. Ii shall be the duty of every house
keeper, manager or proprietor OF every
hotel or boarding house where such child
is domiciled, 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 subjected
TO quarantine for a period of two weeks !
from the time such child was last in the |
,ity of greater New York.
4. The health officer of every town |
md city to whom such child is reported |
shall Immediately serve written notice |
lpon the head OF the family in which |
,uch child is; this written notice shall |
contain copy Of these regulations and l
IN order signed by such health officer re.
luring such child to remain on the prem
ses in which it is at that time for the
pecified time of two weeks after last
eaving the city OF greater New York.
5. Each health officer TO whom such
hild is reported shall require of the at
endant, parent or guardian of such child,
certificate in writing, duly signed by a
egal practitioner OF medicine, certifying
hat the nose and throat of such child
as been thoroughly washed with solu-
ion of a teaspoonful of common salt in a
int OF water once a day for period of
hree consecutive days. before the prem
'es are released from quarantine.
6. No child under Is years of age shall
nter any house so quarantined.
I. A placard containing the word
shall be sufficient evidence a
} all persons that the premises are quar- 5
ntined for the purposes of these reguIa
ons. a
Nothing in these regulations shall be |
,nstrued to prevent other members of a @
ousehold in which there is child as I
Dove described who has left the city OF e
ew York since June 20, 1916, from at }
ndlng to their usual occupations. r
The owners, managers or proprietors of r
,tels and boarding houses may place no V
strictions on attendants or guests in
eir hotels or boarding houses further b
ian the strict isolation of any children
above described from New York City. W
divided such children are isolated to the b
tisfaction OF the local health officer and
cir noses and throats irrigated as speci +
ID. t,
Each health officer will see that copy p
these regulations, with which he is G
rnished, is conspicuously displayed in Z
least three public places in his town "
city. K
These rules and regulations shall re
iin in force until further notice. G
Per order Vermont state board of nj
alth OF
Charles f. Dalton, VI. D.,
Secretary.