The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-10-24
Health Officials Consider
Plan for Gradual Reopen
ing of the Schools
OF the City.
ALL MUST Be EXaAINEDFIRsT
Plan Provides for Opening High School
on Monday Next and Other Schools
Later-Must Have Sanction of
State Board of Health.

Plans were being worked out today
for the reopening of the schools of
the city and Il is expected that the re.
opening will be started on next Mon
day morning with the Kenosha High
School. The plan had not received the
final sanction of the Board of Health
today but it is expected that it will
be sanctioned before the day is over.
The High School would be opened i.
Monday, the Junior Frank High School
on Tuesday and the Lincoln Junior
High on Wednesday. The plan would
provide for the reopening of the ele-
mentary grade schools on week from
Monday.
The school officials and the members
of the Health Board viii insist on
every possible safe guard being placed
about the returning students. Physi- Z
CLANS and nurses will be sent to ev-
cry school for the examination of the
sts AID hefere theY 20 II the
+ciass rooms they will be required to
pass an examination to show that they
are free from infection.
The formal order of the state board
of health providing for the closing of
public places has been extended to De-
tober 28th and in order to reopen
schools here it will be necessary for
the reopening to have the sanction of
DIR. G. A. Harper, Secretary of the State
Board of Health. It is believed that
this sanction will be forth coming if
the local board gives support to the
movement. The school principals were
in session this afternoon to work out
more fully their recommendations to
the health department and Health Com
missioner Windesheim' held long CON
ference with Superintendent Bradford
on Tuesday afternoon at which the plan
was discussed. The opening of the
schools will be the first letting up Of
the ban on public gatherings in Ken
osha. The ban on the theatres and
moving picture shows and on public
assemblages will be continued, later it
is probable that this will be kept up
until the state ban is lifted. Theatre
owners have made no representations
to the Health Board for the reopen
ing of their place and they have de-
clared that they are satisfied that the
board viii lift the ban just as soon
as it is safe to take this action.
Only one new case of influenza was
reported TO the health department in
the past twenty four hours and it IS
believed that the physicians are now
reporting all cases. Many people were
still desperately Ill with pneumonia in
the hospitals and homes in the city
but the death rate on Tuesday was
the lowest the city has had reported
in more than three weeks. One death
from pneumonia was reported since
Tuesday at noon and up to noon to-
day.
More systematic reports of conditions
are now being asked from state and
federal health boards and the local
health department has been instructed
to send kilograms daily to the National
Board of Health showing the spread
of the disease in Kenosha and Kenosha
county.
Physicians and members of the health
board were unanimous in believing that
the epidemic was receding in Kenosha
but they were still counciling against
false optimism and the members of the
health board declared that it would
be better to keep the ban on public as
.semblages too long than to lift it too
soon.
PERS.
Evan Pfanmiller left on Tuesday for
Garden City Aviation field in New
York where he win begin his training
for service in the aviation corps OF
the United States Army.