New Britain herald., 1918-06-11
MAY ELECT HEAD
 OF HEALTH DEPT.
Postponed Meeting This Alter
 noon But No Candidates

The adjourned meeting of the health board will be held this after noon at o'clock when another at- tempt will be made to elect a, chair man. Chairman George II. Bodley, M D., has several times refused to again accept the office. so have both Dr. T. E. Reeks and H. T. Bray on account of stress of other business and, it is understood, Lawyer M. H. Camp, recently mentioned, does not care to take the position as he be- lieves that a physician can best con- duct the office.
 The Tuberculosis Menace.
 The health department, through it's clinic and by the efficient work in it's own laboratory and it's own nurses, is Waging an energetic cam paign against tuberculosis and the following warning, appearing in the monthly bulletin, gives some timely advice
 ''TuberculOsis is responsible for more deaths and illness than any other disease. It is however, curable if treated in the early stages. There are far more cases of tuberculosis in
  and yet it is a common thing to see persons splitting in public places. If such persons are open cases of pull monary tuberculosis they scatter the microbes of the disease broadcast, for later on, when the sputum dries and becomes pulverzed, the microbe ad herring to dust particles may be in haled by many of us Recently, in Chicago, of 165,700 people examined, 14.2S2 cases of tuberculosis were dis covered, and of these only f per cent had been previously reported to the health department. One moral de- rived from this is that splitting in public places, except into receptacles provided for that purpose, should not be tolerated even in the case of ap parently healthy individuals.
 If we are to get results in the fight against the disease we must not only adopt precautions to prevent the spread of infection by open cases but we must discover the early cases; for the latter a comprehensive system of school medical inspection would be of great value. Further everyone should be examined by a doctor once a year and especially if one is losing weight or has st cough or frequent colds; this is particularly true if there is already a case of tuberculosis in the home.
 ''The Tuberculosis Clinic, in which we have the cooperation of the So- ciety for Prevention of Tuberculosis, and of certain of the city physicians is open on Tuesday and Thursday at 3:3O D. m.
 "Three thousand eight hundred and eighty five yard inspections have been made during April and May in the "Clean-u campaign. Complaints about dirty yards will be gladly re- ceived by the Health Department
 Departmental Reports.
 The monthly report of the tuber- culosis department shows 204 cases carried over from the previous month death and eight cases were discharged. The tuberculosis nurses have made AT calls during the month of May and have also consulted at 64 office calls. Regular nursing care has been given to seven and an equal number of clinics have been held.
 Under the head of food inspections, 3S3 stores, bakeries, etc, were exam ined during the month and 33 pounds of meat was destroyed A total of 277 meat boxes were inspected and three were ordered cleaned. Eleven stores were also ordered cleaned. The plumbing inspector made a total of 145 inspections last month in addition to issuing a largo number of permits and conducting a number of individual Investigations. At the slaughter house the receipts totalled $67.10. The number of cattle inspected was 76. while S6 calves and four hogs were inspected. One animal was condemned and parts of eight others were con- demncd. A total of 105 samples of milk were collected and four dairies were inspected. The milk eXamina- tions showed large traces of dirt in the milk collected from l.. Dworin, A. W. Hall, H. Larson. H. c. Nelson, George Pascus, Hyman Shapiro and NJ. Scjring &5 Son.