The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-01-17
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HEALTH CONFERENCE CALLED
BY STATE BOARD. =
Meeting Will Be Held at the stats
Capitol Building on Thursday,
Jan. "a.

Denver.-Steps to establish an edit
cational bureau in connection with
the Colorado Health Board are to be
tol called for jan "a. The object Of
the bureau is to comply with the re-
| quest OF the War Department in car.
ing for tuberculous soldiers who have
been sent home. To date the Army
and Navy Departments have sent
back 175 soldiers.
| The conference will be held between
members of the health board. Dr..
Erlo E. Kennedy. secretary; city and
county health officers, county commits
sioners and officers of the local med
ical societies throughout the state.
The presence in the city of county
commissioners and other officials to
attend the National Western Stock
Show has assured Secretary Kennedy
Of n large attendance at the confer
ence
The health board at its last meet
ing passed resolution urging Gov
ernor Gunter to appropriate $4,000
from the war funds to aid in the es
tablishment OF the bureau and to rem
der medical assistance.
The proposed bureau Is based on
the recommendations of the War De-
partment and indorsed by the health
board as follows:
1. Establishment of a bureau for
tubercular and social diseases by state
health departments.
2. Provision in principal cities for
tho aunnraSsion of social ovj1a aud thp
isolation and treatment of individuals
in public institutions.
3. Commitment to institutions OF
diseased persons for industrial train
ing.
4. Compulsory and systematic
treatment of all infected persons
when necessary for the protection of
health.
5. Establish in principal cities So
cial disease clinics.
G. Posting certain placards in var
ious places
Z. Lectures and educational exhib-
its by health board.
8. Elimination of advertising spec
ialties of mems diseases and sale of
disease nostrums.
An especial appeal to Colorado for
the adoption of the foregoing program
has been made by the United States
Public Health Service; the War and
Navy Departments; Rupert Blue, ser
geant-general OF the health service,
and DR. Franklin Martin, chairman OF
the advisory committee OF the Council
of National Defense at Washington;
No Registered Man Eligible to Enlist.
Many men Of draft age have mis-
interpreted the conditions Of army
enlistment at the present time. Maj
C. N. Barney said. mo registered man
is eligible for voluntary enlistment in
the regular army. except medical, den
tai, veterinary and engineering stu
dents who are already enlisted in the
reserve corps, to be withheld from the
draft, and men who have been passed
by the examining board to be aviation
cadets" Voluntary induction into mil
itary service, through the draft law,
into the ordnance. quartermaster and
aviation sections. has been closed
since Jan. /. according to a telegram
received by Mai. w. A. Spangler OF
the provost marshal's staff.
Naturalization Of Thousands Invalid.
The first papers in naturalization
granted several thousand forefgn-born
residents of Colorado and perhaps
500, 900 such residents of other states
previous to Sept 81. 1906. when the
present naturalization law went into
effect, are invalid, through a decision
of the United States Supreme Court,
according to bulletin received by
l Paul Lee Ellerbe, Colorado agent OF
naturalization of the Department OF
Labor. Mr.. Ellerbe notified clerks to
all naturalization courts to refuse to
complete the naturalization OF foreign
born residents who took out their
first papers before this date.
Muster In First Company State Guard
The first company of fifty of the
State Department of Safety was mus
tered in by Supt. Frank Adams, and
members of the department SO far ac-
cepted are from all parts of the state.
The men of the first company have
been selected with special care. Rep
resentatives from many walks of life
are among them, and they were re-
quired to stand a rigid physical exam
nation before being sworn in.
Approve State War Bond Purchase.
The State Land Board unanimously
approved the purchase by State
Treasurer Higgins of state war bonds
to the amount of s4G5,O0O with cash
in the state school fund.
Would Force Germans to Help.