The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-04-05
STEPS ARE
TAKEN BY STATE TO
SUPPRESS GREAT EVIL
Venereal Diseases Declared Con.
tagioua Infections and Com
municable State Board Of
Health Gets Busy.

At u regularly called meeting ct tho
state board OF health bv pr j. \
Mas,ic. its president which was
held lee santa Pc March 20. health
regulations were adopted which. IL d.
estimated. win work ~ least 60 ccr-
tury's advance tn hygi"nic iud Eiu.
itary regulations for the homo AMI
the community.
br Ma~sic submitted thcS, cpoo1.
making regulations 90 a group of dis
tiuguiShed physicians nf the stai"
VINO were visiting here yesterday to
meet Dr. Jump The meeting aud
discussion Of The new health prom
uganda took pace bon the Tart room
OF the Alyaradu early yesterday "Nc-
ming
The Revolutionary feature ot the
new propaganda briefly rs his u
declares AL Vcncrcnal discascs to ro.
contagious, Infectious and cummuni
cable" and dangerous To public
health" u defines these ,cncrcul
diseases "a be syphilis. gouorrhct
! and chancrUid
The meusur prov ldes that an phys
I icians must report such diseases by
| number Ia the state board ut health
that an such cases must be instantly
Isolated and -quarnutircd. aud TIA"
aulrautiucs zouc definitely defined
and scrupulousIy guarded ard The
public protected.
Il provides that IL "A local physi
clan for any reason does not examine
, and report such cases, that such at-
tcctcd parties may be examined DN
city or county physicians.
II also provides FOR disciplining and
even the arrest and Imprisonment "a
of physicians who wiifully neglect or
refuse to comply with the Lew health
regulations.
II dcslnres hat hotels and rouming
houses, shown to bc used for i'm
= moral purposes. are nuisanccs. and =
menace to public health, just h sane
as the regular red light districts. II
also provides for legal regulation for
such places. which poVision VIII
eventually put them out Of business.
The regulations are so specific au1
are such an innovation, that IN Ma
sic has decided to make "a tour of tho
state next month. as head of the state
board ~ health. and In public addrc~-
ses and in private talks. acqu,tipt III"
people with their new dutiCs iU their
relation to the public wclfarc.
Massie will be- accompanied on this
itinerary by Licut0naut Paul papenuo
" the United States army sanitary
service. who win aid Dr Mnssie In
explaining the new rulings 20 the pru.
pla of the towns and cities,
Speaking of the advance h|yg'ouic
and sanitary drive for better men aul
women, for a nobler humanity pr
Massio said
"Thc social c,il is growing steadily
and b. was In the cards Ia do som 20
thing worth while for It's suppression,
when his great war wa thrust upon
az.
Then the matter was brought ho'n"
90 as In n u~ortentiuus. practical way
- was found hat an alarming u
her 80 our BOYS wore incapable ~ Of
r,c'irc service. because OF yeucrcal
Diseases. This inefr.cicncv ranged Al
the way from ten per cent, "a a hun
drod per cent. to the man.
Then Gnclc sam took hold oi the
matter and Is regulating It iu relation
To environments Hut IN" soldiers ~ .
out ana are poisoned M adjacent con-
muuittc-. So our wi'y uncle decided
to take steps cu~mmcusurat" with thu"
luminous situation and IA" state ar"
cooperating with him
when these diseases and the places
hat harhor them are declared NUS
anccs and q menace 90 public health.
they are thus placed under tho ban
" 3ll state laws.
"S" The states throughout the uniun
are either now cooperating with the
federal government or VIII do 90. boz q
short tWr
T.YHs has already raised , fund "f
$3.50. 600 fog this work Arizona Utah.
/ Colorado. Kansas and New McNi0'
are following close after Texas.
when this altruistic work is thor.
ouEhly organized the United states
viii have advanced one hundred
wears towards the plateau 81 q higher
ethics and q nobler citizenship
-auY sosp-