The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-30
BOARD OF HEALTH.
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of the Congregational parish house into
an emergency hospital Saturday after
noon under the direction of Miss Carolyn
Fandel, superintendent of the Mutual
Aid association. Miss Fandel went with !
a physician to the Fort Drummer heights
section, where a family of seven, includ
ing baby, all were i'll and it was imme
diately apparent that they must be |
moved to other quarters 1t was ar
ranged by some of the church officials
and members of the committee recently |
appointed by the county Red Cross |
branch to look after the nursing situa |
ton in this locality that the parish house |
should be used and during the afternoon |
Is cot beds were set up by members of !
the Boy Scouts. Patriotic league, and
Red Cross giving valuable assistance. |
BY $50 o'clock the seven patients had
been moved in and telephone installed.
Miss Fandel, who is to be commended
for the expeditions manner in which
she contaminated the arrangements, is
| looking after the emergency patients
with competent assistants, but she Is in
need of more nurses.
John Kali and family. who have oc-
| cupied the parish house, have moved to
| the home OF relatives.
| This afternoon two more patients
| were brought to the emergency hospital
| and another is to come later. One of
| these has pneumonia and one of those
brought in yesterday has developed
pneumonia.
Miss Frances Stellman, tie Thompson
foundation nurse who went to Boston
| last week to assist, has been asked TO
return here, and she Is expected tonight.
Miss Stone of Boston. who has been in
| Berlin, n H.. doing emergency work. has
been asked by telegraph to come here
to work with the nursing force which it
il hoped viii be brought together as a
result of the canvass begun today TO
mobilize those who are willing to take
instruction to help meet the local stu
alton
Secretary Charles F. Dalton Of the
state board of health has sent the fol-
lowing additional Instructions to health
officers throughout the state;
While the state board of health prob
ably will not issue any order for the
general closing of schools and public
assemblies in the state, attention Of
health officers is called to Section 6221
] which provides that health officers
Il May order churches and schools and
| all places of public entertainment to
be closed and may forbid and prevent
the assembling of people in any place
when the state board of health deems
: that the public health and safety so
demand and provided that said state
: board of health so certifes to said health
: officer"
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: the prevalence or virulence of the epi-
9 demic in their own communities is such
: that special precautions are necessary
! the state board of health will approve
{ orders closiRg schools and other public
i places.
{ Isolation of persons affected with in
! fluenza should be continued for at least
Z week and longer if the acute or com
; plicating symptoms persist. Persons ex,
Z posed to the disease should be required
I to separate themselves from the publ,
i for period of at least four days from
I the time of exposure. Houses in whic2
i the disease is present should be pla
4 carded with sign bearing the wore
i Influenza. Health officers SHOULD
: make it plain to all persons that tn
disease is spread by coughing AM
: sneezing in public or around other PEG
: PIE.
y Fable funerals will be permitted
\ in case Of persons dying from tn
l disease or its complications, but person
4 who have been in intimate contact wit
4 the case or who are then sick with tn
disease should not be allowed to al
Z tend such funeral
Il Cases and deaths occurrinq durin
I the week should be reported TO iii
4 state hoard of health every Saturda
SO that TIE state record can be telt
graphed 10 Washington on Monday.