The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-03
CLOSE CITY STILL


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10th Porter and Clark assured the
delegation that every effort. would be
made to protect them in their business
and to- cause them as little trouble and
| loss as possible
At the conference of the city and
state officials in the office of City At
torney Hayden, Doctor Sippy ex-
planned the situation at Wichit9 and
| told how the business men there have
gotten together and are helping the
l.authorities in every way they can. He
told how regulations limiting only a
certain number of persons to a GER
tain floor space have been adopted,
how the street cars are running with
windows open and with limited.
| crowds and how the merchants are
scattering their popular wares in diff
ferent parts of their stores to prevent
large crowds around few counters.
Both Doctor Sippy and Lieutenant
Shelton stated that there is no doubt
about the effectiveness of the closing
order and Doctor Sippy stated that a
| chart of the state will show better
than anything else how the disease
increases and the number of cases
grow in places where there are no re-
strictions and how there is q falling
off as soon as restrictions are, placed
in force.
Regulation and Cooperation.
IF any one regulation would wipe
Jul tIc ulStdSs tneEe WOulu ne no
trouble and we would be able to han
die the situation easily" Lieutenant
knolton said: But it takes every
Kind of regulation known to science
and also the earnest cooperation of
every individual in a community to
prevent a spread of the disease
Doctor Sippy impressed upon the
city health officials that the greatest
danger in the disease does not come
from the severe cases but from the
milder ones which are neglected and
which: are considered as colds or in
significant ailments. Persons so af-
flicted," he said. go about their usual
duties and endanger the lives of every
one they come in contact with
The Symptoms.
mo certain systems of the disease
can be relied upon,' Lieutenant Knoll
ton said. IF you do not feel good it
is best to take every precaution and
isolate yourself at once. Sometimes
the disease begins in the form of
cold, sometimes there is a headache,
sometimes it starts with a sneeze and
sometimes there is no particular pain
or ailment other than a general feel
ing of weakness and lack of energy
Commissioner Porter has issued in
structions that every physician and
every patient be watched, and he ex-
poets to make arrests every time there
Is violation of the regulations. This
morning it was reported that a man
came to the city health office and
asked for a permit to work stating his
doctor had pronounced his wife and
child ill of influenza. The records did
not show these reports had been made
to the city health department, and if
justified by an investigation, it was ex-
pected warrant would be issued for
the physician at once.
Should Shop Early.
Doctor Sippy says that while it is a
fact that fully so per cent of the bust
ness of the city is done in the after
noon, the women shoppers can make
their purchases just as easily during
should do SO in order to help insure
the public safety. He also says that
those who work in offices should go
to their homes as soon as they quit
work and that it will be much better
if they would walk to and from their
homes. He suggests that those who
have automobiles can materially aid
IN relieving the street car congestion
j if they will pick up persons who are
| waiting for cars as they pass along.
| In his talk to the business men this
morning DR.. Clark explained the reas-
on the first outbreak of the epidemic
was handled thru an isolation system
instead of a quarantine and told why
| this system had been abandoned in
| FAVOR OF a strict personal quarantine.
"In the first outbreak we were un-
| familiar With the methods that should
be used in handling the disease and so
we relied upon the advice of the Unit
| ed States public health service which
| had had opportunity to study it in it's
previous outbreak in eastern cities
This advice was that quarantine regu-
| latlons were not practicable and that
/ isolation of patients seemed to be the
best method of procedure. We follow
ed this method, as other cities did.
U Il
satisfactorily we then changed to the
quarantine system which we have now
! put in force"
Law UphoIds Health Officers.
Doctor Sippy stated this afternoon
that despite the fact that Wichita is
now under closing order in the face
OF a local court order restraining the
health authorities, the ruling of the
wichita court will be brought before
the state supreme court at the earliest
possible moment, and George p. Hay
den, city attorney, showed conclusive
ly that there is both a state supreme
court ruling and United States SUI
preme court ruling which shows the
health authorities have the power to
enforce whatever regulations they see
fit when they are allowed to be judges
OF conditions, and he has assured the
local health authorities that no court
order can interfere with their work so
long as they are taking steps deemed
essential to the safeguarding of the
health of the public.
G. l.. Hooper, manager of the Or
pheum and Iris theaters. who has been
one Sof the principal DIRECTORS to the
regulations placed in effect in the city,
according to DR.. H. L. Clark, today
gave the Topeka State Journal the
following reply to a statement made by
Doctor Clark Monday:
HOOpcr's Statement.
In looking over the evening State Jour
nal of yesterday. 1 find 1 have gotten
free Of charge quite a quantity of free
publicity, strange to say. At any rate. I
admit part of it is true. but not all. Let's
go. back to experiment No. l. On October
the Sth, that shall never forget especially
the sound Judgment of our board of health.
At 10 30 In bed with my head cut off, but