The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-24

all immoral women arrested are to be
examined fer venereal disease, and IL
found to be infected, they are to be
informed and quarantined- For the
present, they Will be kept at the state
detention hospital at Leavenworth-
Treat Men and Women Alike.
Instructors are to be given to all
physicians il the state to report any
cases of venereal disease coming to
their attention, as they would report a
smallpox case, and the infected person
will be iatsFnea- Men as well wo-
men found to be suffering from such
diseases will be quarantined.
The measures inaugurated for the
eentroi Of social diseases IN Kansas are
perhaps the most drastic ever put in
to practice from the scientific and
public health standpoint Heretofore,
the isolation policy in treating vener-
cal diseases has been confined to To-
military camps Now the practice
Is to be state wide. Only officials are
to cooperate with the health officers
to give the matter special attention
in the large towns. Captain Willard
KnowIton, of washing ton, who is en-
gagged in similar work for the army,
has been detailed to assist the state
board of health The movement is
primarily a military emergency meas
ure-
In connection with the detention
policy, a campaign of education will
be carried on in every county of the
state, by means of circulars distri-
buted for general reading, exhibits,
and public speeches.
DIR Sippy on Program.
DIR. ]. J. Sippy. of the state board
of health. was on the program OF the
afternoon for an address on Health
in the Public Schools" He spoke on
the division of that work into the two
departments of school building inspec-
ton and the control of contagious di-
seases among the children He has
plan for shutting out certain forms
disnaissing all the children who have
been exposed to disease By this sys-
tenn. a card index is kept in the
schools, which contains information
on the Individual pupils. furnished by
parents. telling what CONTAGIOUS dis
eases the child has had, which would
render it immune from a second at
tack In case measles appear in the
sehsel. all children ,xha have already
had the prevalent form of the disease.
kept away. Doctor Sippy also pre-
scented a plan to assist in keeping the
school surroundings sanitary and at
the same time promoting the educa-
ton of the children in hygiene This
plan advises the election of the school
children. one serving for each room
for a week at a time. to assist the
health officer in reporting unsanitary
conditions, and by making suggestions
of improvements.
Doctor De VilbisS Speaks.
The morning session opened with
an address by DR.. Lydia Allen Devil
bliss, head of the Kansas bureau of
child hygiene. Her speech touched
on the war program for the conserva-
ton of child life. 'All organizations
concerned with child welfare" she
said, ARE being co-ordinated under
the peculiar stress of war conditions.
Work for children at this time is sec
ond in Importance only to work fe<
the army in the field, and this is so
stated by President Wilson When
the soldier returns he has the right TO
expect that his children will be liv-
ing under better conditions than when
he left"
Doctor Devilbiss spoke Of the diff
culties in child welfare work by rea-
son of malnutrition, which. in the