Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-09

- become Serious,
according to figures given out by
the State Employment Bureau mere
to-day. During the present week
the bureau had 1878 offers of JOBS
to be filled and only 5,262 appli-
cants, while during the week pre-
vious there were S,292 openings
this week exceeded the applicants
by 5,2S2 and lash week by 3,757.
The unemployed soldier needs not
be idle long. Last week 3,675 jobs
were offered to returned service
men and only 1874 were found to
fill the places all at good wages.
The shipyards would like the bu-
reau to provide 1,005 riveters at
once and the Goodyear company, of
Ohio, has applied for 500 able
bodied men weighing 140 pounds or
over for production work, offering
40 cents an hour to beginners and
so to so cents for skilled men. The
offer has gone beginning with jobs
aplenty at home. A peculiar condl-
ton is shown in the wages of skilled
mechanics as compared with those
of college graduates. A State College
graduate engineer, for example, Is
receiving only $1,S00 for his serv-
ices whereas the bureau has been
able to place mechanics at $4,000
year and over.
Sewer PcrmitS-Permission has
been granted by the State to Bald
win township, Allegheny county, to
make extensive developments along
the lines of sewer extensions, sewage
plant and water supply improvement.
Other communities granted permis-
sion to extend sewers include the
city of Bradford, Mexican county;
the borough of Elizabethtown, Ian
caster county; the borough of Lew
istown, Mifflin county; the borough
of Dunmore, Lackawanna county;
the borough of Throop, Lackawanna
county; the borough of Forty-Fort,
Luzerne county, and Myersdale.
Ncncral Quarantine The State
Health Commissioner is empowered
by a recently passed resolution of
the advisory board of the State
Health Department to quarantine
cases of veneral disease when lin
the opinion of the attending physi-
clan or the county representative of
the State Department of Health the
character, occupation, habits or
neglect of treatment make those in
fected menaces to the public
health" This is a radical step in
the control of social disease in Penn
sylvania, which has not heretofore
come under the control of the State
Health Department to this extent.
Physicians are not required to re-
port such cases, but the State
authorities are empowered to estab
lish quarantines the same as for
any communicable or contagious dis
ease where the conditions warrant,
the usual penalties to apply for
violation. The advisory board has
also empowered the State Commits
sioner to regulate funerals, under
takers being forbidden to provide
clothing, draperies, carpets, rugs or
artificial flowers for funerals in pri-
Vate houses and restrictions are
placed around funerals of chicken
oxi victims. All newspapers notices
of such funerals must state the
cause of death. Another resolution
of the advisory board requires all
houscholders, hotel or lodging house
keepers to report all persons in their
employ not being attended by
physician who have any outbreaks
on their skins, who have sore
throats or violent coughing or are
too sick to play or work. These
names must be turned over to local
health authorities for investigation.