Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-05
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spread OF smallpox has seldom,
oeen as spectacular and attended BY
as many unusual incidents as the
outbreaks which have occurred in
nan oozen counties since the early
part OF October. According to men
connected with the State DEPART
iheht OF Health the smallpox cases
are not out of the ordinary, from a
numerical standpoint, but thew have
maze localized outbreak ks which haye
corrugated many brow in the state
anu county health services and the
uoH.HIS wo,'i1 nave been wondering what
ton ana Happen next. While the Clin-
Ton and Clearfield county outbreaks
nave peen remarkable, there wasS
ABOUT all the excitement anv one
could wish right here in Dauphin
SSountN' To begin with when the
uisease appeared in the labor camp
aDove the city and men started to
attenpt to escape it furnished
enough thrills for a movie and the
recent 1amboree among some men in
lodglnghouse uptown which had
oeen supplied with rum read like n
scene from western mining town
urania. Then up in Erie county
snlalipo& broke out in the barracks
industrial
concern is herded. 1t is interesting
to note that the case in that countv
came from Ohio and the infected
persons who started the disease at
the hamlets of Trout Run and Blue
Ball up the state, also came from
me buckeye state. And if one could
tnlnk iilk Oh means to spread contagion
nothing better than a stagecoach
and country post Office on one hand
ana an election board on the other
| could be beaten. AS a result peopIe
, who got mail and who voted are
being hunted up by doctors and CON
Vlnced of the importance of vaccin-
alton.
George Edwards, chairman of the
| state commission to devise the Penn
sylvania banking laws, who was here
yesterday for meeting of the COM
mission, is well known in banking
circles. lie is thoroughly interested
in the work of the commission and
expects to make monumental re-
| port. 1t is of moment to note that
more than one federal Chartered
bank has come into the state sys-
tenn in recent months.
|
State officials will cooperate with
the federal government in the taking
or military census designed to Sc
cure information regarding enemy
| aliens and while awaiting a sum-
mons from the national authorities
will work out some plans for the
utilization of hundreds of state in
| spectors and attaches. The idea of
a military census was suggested by
the late Adjutant General Thomas j.
| Stewart shortly before the outbreak
of the war and the rush of providing
national defense stopped any move
| that Olrpptinn Do1,
| acting state commissioner of labor
! and industry, declared that his de-
| partment was ready to take up the
matter Mr.. Palmer said that the
department had made a census of
foreigners employed in industries,
but it was chiefly to find out the
number and no data such as would
| be required now was available. Mr..
Palmer said that there could be used
100 factory inspectors in the depart
ment together with some 600 boiler
! and 800 elevator inspectors in state
service and that If the inspectors of
the Health department and its med
ical officers and men connected with
other branches of the government
could be organized the work could
| be rushed through in cooperation
| with the federal government. The
| idea would be to use state inspec-
| tors with men in charge of munich
pal statistical bureaus all to be as
sociated with the federal officers and
working on a definite plan. ~
| militarized census would seem to be
the thing we need" said he. Col.
] Frank G. Sweeney, chief draft Off
! Ger, said that he expected there
would be more or less difficulty over
| the Austrians as soon as war is de-
| clared as there are thousands in the
| iron and steel mills. Fortunately,
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! siderable information through the
| registration and possibly this could
! be utilized.
Hens that roost in trees are not
apt to be good egg layers and far
! mers who have not chased their
! chickens out of trees where they
| have roasted during the summer are
| solemnly warned by bulletin of the
| State Department of Agriculture to
do so at once. The state authorities
are urging farmers to get rid of the
old hens and not to bother about
keeping those which are not up to
pat because OF the high price Of
feed. But good layers should be
penned up now and not allowed to
roost in the trees until the flowers
begin TO bloom in the spring. The
bulletin says: 'Tn any case with al
most any sort of n house, ii is better
TO have them in II nights as against
In the trees. If the house is too
warm or the pullets are housed too
late there is sure TO be seminole
or n fall mott and all chance OF
eggs will go -glimmering. If they
are kept In day and night they must
be especially fed and get special at
tention. The poultryman calls this
handling" and Is the very reason
he wants his birds IN and under
cor "ol, so ne can get the maximum
OF good feed into them and the max
imum of eggs out OF them"
WELL KNOWN pEOpf e