Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-24
NOW IS THE TIME
 TO PLACE SCREENS
Monthly Bulletin of State Board of Health Offers Suggestions For Ex- termnination of Ely.

Monthly Bulletin of State Board of
 Health Offers Suggestions For Ex.
 terrnination of Fly.
 The May bulletin of the State Board Of Health issued on Tuesday urges the extermination of the fly. On the third page of the bulletin is the fol- 1 tor:
 To the Citizens of Connecticut:
 The State Board of Health Bulle- tin has been published reularly for the last thirty years. During most of this time it contained information and statistics of particular interest to physicians. health officers and regis trars, but during the last few years. owing to a public demand for more general information on health sub- Jects, It was necessary to enlarge the publication from time to time With l this issue it is still further enlarged ! and we are glad to do so. because we appreciate that the knowledge esf danger without the knowledge of how to avoid danger is a sorry plight
 Almost every one knows that the fly and mosquito are dangerous-that the diphtheria or typhoid carrier is a 1 mepace, and that the milk and food consumed may cause illness. So now what every body wants to know is how 1 to get rid of the fly and mosquito in | tect the carrier of disease, and how to assure ones self that milk and food is safe and wholesome.
 | This bulletin we hope will supply l this information and much more of a similar character. It shall be our endeaxor to make it of interest and i value to every citizen in the state of ] Connecticut.
 | Remember it is your bulletin and you, by suggestions and cooperation, can be of great assistance.
 Contributions and comments are solicited and all queries on health matters will be gladly answered by l the Editor either personally or in the columns of the Bulletin.
 Put; Up Screens!
 ! Until the fly is exterminated req sonable amount of protection can be secured by screening the home. Now is the time to place your screens. a June fly is as dangerous as an Au- 1 gust fly.
 i pr. Samuel G. Dixo,,. commissioner of health in Pennsylvania says about
 Tt is obvious that bacteria intro dnced from fly contact with food, or or food containing bacteria from i other sources, are the likely causes l of large proportion of our annual death harvest among young children.
 The Yellow Band.
 l Whooping cough caused the death of Al children in Connecticut last l tyear-many more were mained for life rom the effects of thss disease. One l hundred and forty mothers are mourning, the loss of their children from "only a child's disease
 Even physicians thoughtlessly ad- wise parents to take their children affected with whooping cough to the | a inc rNTe sn1 5 l caution them about exposing other children. Summer time Is coming whooping cough will appear at the beaches and hotels and children will play together. Why not recommend that the child afflicted wear a yellow band on the arm as a notice and a warning to others-ir will protect
 some children and may save life? Trenton, N. J. and New London, I Conn, have made the wearing of the yellow band compulsory in lieu of
 house quarantine. and find it accept able to the people and more satisfac-
 tory in preventing the spread of the disease than the prolonged, partially
 observed quarantine of old.
 Reporting By Physicians.
 Infants having diseased eyes: Sec.
 ton 25y5 of the General Statutes
 reads as follows: Should one ol both eyes of an infant become in. I time within two weeks after it's birth the midwife, nurse, or attendant hay. ing charge of such infant shall report
 in writing, within six hours, to the . health officer or board of health of the
 city, town or borough in which tht parent of the infant reside the fac . that such inflammation, swelling, ol
 redneSs of the eyes exist Every per. son violating, the provisions of thi: section shall be fined not more thar
 two hundred dollars Diseases of a venereal nature: Sec
 tion 2034 of the General Statute, reads as follows: Every physician ! shall report in writing every case o . cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever 1eprosy, smallpox, diphtferia. men
 branous croup, typhoid fever scarie
 fever, diseases of a yenereal nature or other contagious or infectious dis
 cases occurring in his practice to tn,
 health officer of the town, city ol
 borough in which such case occurs , within twelve hours after his recNsri tion Of the disease. provided in report ) ing any disease of a venereal nafurt l the name of the patient suffering iron . the s5ne shall not be disclosed Ever 7 person who shall violate any provision . of this section shall be fined not nor : than. twenty-five dollars"
 The venereal diseases to be reuort l ed include: Syphilis in any, stage 5 chancroid. and gUnococcuS infection . of any kind (includtng gonococcli
 arthritfs), irrespective Of the possi : the disease at the time of diagnosis. 2 Reports Of cases of venereaI dis : eases are made solely for statistica 2 I purposes, without revealing the iden Etity of the patients, and no attempt
 VIII Ls made by the local health au 8 c4seS.
 Fngsicians are requested tc ansl,,d