Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-10


Nssz State Department |
of Health, has been appointed meui-
cal director by Col. Edward Martih'
Commissioner of Health. he sue
ceeds DIR. Fred C. Johnson, who mas
been on leave owing to illness
Twenty-eight appointments ol
medical" inspectors for to"hsn.p
schools and two other appoih'ihen
have also been announced. .Johh IL
Deatrick of Gettysburg, has peen
annointed health officer Oh Auah
COUNTY and w. G. Housewortn, y,
Hummelstown, special inspector i
the bureau of drug control. ra.
Medical inspectors namea sser
Fulton county. DR.. J. W: WEEK MWork
Licking Creek township; ser fosn
countv Dr.. John Meisenhelder,
West Mannheim; DR.. w. warren
RAMSEY. Peach Bottom; Washlng-
ton county, DR.. C. c. CracIaiI'
Donegal: DR.. Thomas M. Fa1ols'
E1co Roscoe. Stockdale and Alien
DIR. w. E. Martin, Amweh' pa
county, DR.. l.. f. Crawforo' Iylom
and SNYDER; Chester county, Dr, uus
Holcomb, Elk, New LONDON sems
Upper and Lower Oxfora' P.,.inr. Aud
Sedford county. DR.. I. c. Strayer,
Rloomfield; Berks county, DR.. j. .
Rorneman, Earl; Cambria, DR.. =: -
Custer Daisytown; DR.. c. J. Blpp,
Portage; Center county, DR.. Harses
s Braucht, Miles; DR.. j. V. fostSr'
Ferguson; Cumberland, DR.. L. w.
Preston, North Middleton; Delaware
county, DR.. E. K. Wolf, Swarthmore
borough; Erie county, DR.. }. Z. Dou-
VILE. Greenfield; Fayette county,
DIR. ]. s. Hoover, Jefferson; Luzerhe
county DIR. G. l.. Hoffman, Wyom-
ing borough; DR.. D. A. Hart, slo-
cum; Mercer county, DR.. A. l. Hoon'
East I,ackawannock; Mifflin county,
DIR C. H. Brisbin, Decatur; Schuyl-
kill county, DR.. Mary B. klngspuiy'
Norwegian; Westmoreland county,
DIR. A. ]. Bearer, Arnold and upper
Burrell; Carbon county, Hr. hopel'
Chrissman, Packerton; Huntlnsoon
county, DR.. J. G. KoShland' penn'
Columbia county, DR.. j. X. Mon.-
gomery, Center, Catawlssa' m''
Pleasant and Main.
"Whcn an employe is injured In
the course of his employment II is
the duty of the employer to furnlsn
him with such labor as he Is aple 10
perform and not to cast the puruen
of finding employment on the in
jured employe," declares the state
Workmen's Compensation Commls-
sion in an opinion by Commissioner
Paul Houck in enunclatlng again
the policy in regard to employment.
This decision was given in Bates VS.. L
Mosser Company Lycoming
county case, and the employer Is IN
formed that until such time as the
claimant secures employment the
defendant will be obliged to pay him
compensation as for total dis
ability" In Peris VS.. Pittsburgh
Steel Company, an Allegheny case,
it is held that where an injured
workman has become insane ana IL
is sought to charge it to the original
accident the matter must be brought
UP by a person competent to act Tor
the insane person.
The Pennsylvania State Industrial
Board has named new approVals
committee and established a tenn
porary museum for safety devices in
the offices of the Department OF
Labor and Industry in this city.
Over 130 devices have been deposit
ed and William Lauder, former sec
retary of the board, has been named
as curator. The new committee Is
composed Of James c. Cronin, men,
ber of the Industrial Board, chair
man; DR.. Francis D. Patterson,
chief of Industrial hygiene Bureau;
John H. Walker, acting chief of in
spection, and Fred ]. Hartman, sec
retary of the Industrial Board.
Governor Sproul has been invited
to attend the Altoona Chamber of
Commerce annual dinner. u
The new Lancaster troop of State
Police has rounded up men who are Il
reported to have confessed to 81 4
robberies in the northern end of
Lancaster county according to q re-
port coming to headquarters to-day L
For some time thefts in the vicinity
of Lancaster and Elizabethtown and
robberies near Mt. Joy have been
keeping the State officers busy and
when 20 bushels of corn were stolen
from near the barracks few nights
ago wheel tracks gave clue which
resulted in arrest of William Brown
a probationer from the eastern peni-
tentiary, and William Horn and
Jacob Schuter, both under 20. They
confessed to State Policemen to the
robberies, Sergeant Campbell, of
the troop, recovered an automobile
stolen from Clayton Keener, of near
Colebrook, in eight hours after 1t
was reported.
Members of the State Board for
Registration of Nurses will attend
the Philadelphia convention on No
vember II.
Senator Il. L. Eyre, who recently
said he would don overalls and WELD
a pick to mine coal if a shortage
occurred, has been sent a silver
plated pick by an admirer.