The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-06-14
WOULD UNITE ALL OFFICIALS
order Is Issued to Clean Up At Once All
Cess Pools In the City and Make Ar
rests of People Insisting on Main
tanning Bad Housing Conditions.
What's the matter with the health

What's the matter with the health
Department.
This was the question put up to DIR.
Herbert G. Wright, commissioner of
public health, at session between the
commissioner and members of the
health and sanitation committee of the
Common Council, held at the City Hall
on Monday evening, and the answer
was, 'Lack of cooperation.
The committee met with the commits
sioner to consider some plan for main
tanning better guarantees and some
plan for securing a united effort on the
part of people of the city and members
Of the various municipal boards to CO.
operate to make conditions better.
The discussion of the big problem
brought out fact that there had been
a clash of authority between the health
department and the school board That
TIE fullest cooperation had not been
apparent between the school nurse and
the healo'. officer. That there had been
differences Of opinion in regard to the
removal Of quarantine signs and that
this difference of opinion had brought
widely diverging paths.
The committee decided to call
meeting with the school board with a
view of making some provision that
the city school nurse be employed I'M
der the direction of the health depart
ment instead of uncer the direction of
the school board in order to properly
coordinate all features of the battle
for the protection of the rublic health.
DR. Wright talked frankly with the
committee and declared that quaran-
tine conditions had suffered in Kenosha
on account Of this lack of cooperation.
He intimated that it was even possible
that there had been unnecessary spread
of contagion and possibly deaths on
account of lack of a unity Of work in
departments.
The council committee is determined
to bring about changed conditions re-
lating to quarantine and it is possible
that grist Of ordinances will be sug-
gested to the council with a view of
giving the health department further
power along these lines.
The committee discussed spring and
summer clean-ups in Kenosha under
the direction of the health department
and the first spring drive is to be made
against cess pools. just about this
time of the year cess pools in many
parts of the city become the matter of
lot of complaints. The complaints
this year are more numerous than ever
before and the health commissioner
was directed to take immediate steps
to clean up these places and remove the
menace to health even though it be-
comes necessary to make fight in court.
The commissioner was instructed to
give publicity to lot of ordinances
and state laws. The people are to be
told that it is against thee city ordi-
nances to have pig pens in Kenosha;
that it is against the law to keen the
pig in the parlor, or to let the children
sleep with the colt and the calf in the
barn, and that it is against the law to
keep chickens and pigeons under the
houses. 1t is claimed that all of these
things are being done in some of the
districts of the city, peopled by the
foreign born.
AS result of the meeting on Mon
day night, it is expected that general
cleanup of all these Objectionable fea.
lures of city life will be inaugurated.