The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1920-07-09

Montana is one of the two states
that have buildings devoted entirely
to public health service,
The Treasure state has attained
this distinction through the compile
ton of the state board of health
structure at Helena across the
street to the south from the capitol
proper, at a cost of more than $780,
600. The edifice will be dedicated
during the convention of health Of
ficers in July and it is probable that
the dedicatory ceremonies will take
place on the evening of the twelfth
at the hands of Governor S. V. Stew
art, who will be asked to officiate,
according to DR.. w. F. Cogswell, Sec
rotary of the board.
Several of the departments of the
board started moving into the new
building last week and are practical
ly installed in their new quarters.
The laboratories will have to remain
in the restaurant building until the
benches and other equipment can be
installed, according to DR.. E. D.
Hitchcock, chemist in charge.
On the first floor of the new
building will be the office of Mrs.
Sara Morse, secretary of the tuber-
culosis society; Mrs. Laura ]. Reid,
in charge of the child welfare work,
and H. M. Shea, in charge of the food
and drug division. Also on this
floor will be store room.
On the second floor will be the Of
flee of DR.. Cogswell and that of Dr.
John j. Sippy, state epidemiologist.
There is a large vault for storing the
records of the board. A large room
has been devoted to library purposes
for the physicians of the city and
state. The building will also have
the offices of w. H. Fluhr, state dairy
commissioner, and Frank ]. O'Don-
nell, scientific assistant of the United
States public health service.
The third floor is devoted to the
laboratories, there being two, one of
them the private laboratory of DR..
Hitchcock. These laboratories are
as modernly equipped as possible,
each having hot and cold water, COM
pressed air, vacuum, gas and sewer
connections. Also there is a private
office for DR.. Hitchcock. This floor
contains a refrigerator room, the
most modern system being employed.
Also LQeT6 Is du luCuUdlOT IOOIU anu
a store room.
On the roof-there is a regular
roof gardens the habitat of the
guinea pigs and other animals that
are kept for experimental purposes.
A sort of tower is where they are to
be kept in screen cages. A runway
has been provided that they can get
out into the air. Here also is found
a cremator so that all dead animals
can be burned. right where they die.
This plan of keeping the animals on
the roof prevents the odor reaching
other parts of the building.
The building is we'll lighted, ex-
ceptionally so. 1t is fireproof and
comfortable. The main door faces
the north. Spacious offices are pro-
vided for the stenographers and
clerks, eliminating the crowded con-
ditions that prevailed in tbe'offices in
the old quarters. The laboratories |
will be the last to move in, it is ex-
pected, as benches must yet be con-
structed.
This building, especially the labor
atory department, is of great benefit |
to the physicians and medical pro-
fession of the state. All kinds of
work is done and the board of health I
serves the people of the state here in
countless ways.
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