Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-22
MANY DETECTIVES
Only Ten Per Cent of Kansas
School Children Are in
Good Condition.
.APlEA FOR PUPILS OF STATE
Or. Devilbiss Of State Board OF
Health Urges Better Sanitary
Conditions for Schools.

More than 80 per cent of Kansas |
school children are physically defec-
tive in some way and are In need or
physical, mental, medical or dental
treatment. This statement was made
by DR.. Lydia A. DeVilbiss, director of
child hygiene. Kansas state board of
health, in pleading for better health
conditions for school children.
.sThat 80 per cent of school children
who suffer from physical defects
which are mostly preyentable or REM
ediable and that a considerable per-
centage of those children are not in
physical condition to take the fullest
advantage of the education which is
provided for them and are not in
physical condition to be developed to
their fullest capacity, represents an
incalculable economic and social ex-
travagance,' said DR.. DeVilbiss.
Some of the practical methods for
providing proper public health protec-
ton for school children are: The en-
ployment of school nurses and physi-
clans, sanitary inspections by the
county health officer, the appointment
OF junior health officers in each school
building, standardization of rural
children and open air and open win
dow school rooms"
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Favor Coal Observation-Disclosures
tiaI movement of coal over all other
commodities handled in open top cars
will be sought by fuel directors of the
Midwest states as a result of the
meeting of the Kansas Fuel Admins
traitors Advisory Board. This action
was urged ON the government by the
board and meeting has been called
for the fuel administrators of six
states, to be held at Kansas City. The
administrators will discuss their
work there and if necessary go on to
Washington to lay their plans before
DR. Harry Garfield, national fuel ad-
ministrator.
Injured When Elevator FelI.-C. E.
Warner, head of the Warner Fence
Company and other Warner factories
at Ottawa, and H. w. Montfort, a
contractor, were injured when an ele-
vator on which they were riding fell
down the shaft. Each sustained a
broken leg.
No Meningitis at Post.-"Corporal
Alexander Christie, Company E, Four
Hundred and Tenth Telegraph Battal
ion, came to his death through alco-
holic poisoning, and not meningitis"
was the official statement made by
Col. w. A. Skunk, commandment OF
Fort Leavenworth.
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Four Deaths at Funston.-Four
deaths have resulted from cases of
spinal meningitis among the men at
Camp Funston, national army canton
ment, it was announced at the base
hospital there. Thirty-nine cases have
been reported, it was added. The four
deaths occurred, it was said, and only
the names of the men were available.
They were announced as Sam ]. Mar
tin, Willis Tace, Carl Jarboe and FL
mer J. MorreI Their records are
being traced. Every precaution is be-
ing taken, it was said at the base
hospital, to segregate men as soon as
they are discovered to have contract
ed the disease, and companies in
which cases have been found have
been quarantined.
x x
Atchison Firemen on Strike.-Eight
of the fourteen men in Atchison's fire
department went out on strike the
other day, leaving Atchison without
adequate fire protection.
X
Baked 700 Pies for Troops.-When
two troop trains, filled with more than
one thousand men, arrived at Good
land the other day they found seven
hundred homemade pies waiting for
them. The local Red Cross had heard
of their coming, and women baked
the pies as the feature of a brief
entertainment
Start Survey of New EIectric.-The
survey of the Wichita to Eldorado In
terurban has begun between Eldorado
and Augusta. 1t has been completed
from Augusta to Winfield and all the
right of way bought. The building of
the road will be started this year.
X x
poral Alexander Christie of Fort Leav-
enwortn is dead of meningitis, accord
Ing to unofficial but authoritative in
formation This is the first time the
disease has appeared there.
x
j. D. Botkin Has Breakdown. D.
Botkln of Greeley. former warden of
the Kansas penitentiary, who has been
speaking in Ohio through the prohi-
bit1on campaign, is in a hospital at
Columbus suffering from a nervous
breakuoWn He has been making
from eight to eleven speeches a day.