Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-02-05
INFLUENZA CASES
ARE WELL SCATTERED
State Board of Health Gets Re-
ports of 11S During January,
Aiburg Having 81 of Them
Only Two in Chittenden Co.
Both in Burlington

All the district health officers in the
State were present yesterday for a con-
ference at the headquarters Of the State
8oard of Health, in connection with the
regular monthly meeting of the state
BOARD last evening. The district heatn
Officers met yesterday afternoon in the
! rooms OF the State board and talked over
manJ problems in connection with their
| work. including better ways of quaran-
timing, and the use of different kinds
Of forms for reports.
In connection with the State board
meeting. there was discussion OF the
"tlu' situation in Vermont. There are
not enough cases in the State to make the
situation very dangerous. and these cases
are pretty well scattered, but the State
board is doing everything in its power
TO keep the disease from spreading and
becoming an epidemic such as prevailed
| IN the fall of 1918 and such as has started
this year in other places.
There were 11S cases of influenza re-
ported in Vermont during the month OF
January. Alburg had the largest num-
Der or any one place. there being 81 re-
ported from that town. Rutland is next
with ID cases. Only two cases have been
| reported III Burlington during the month
Hof January. and there have been NJ other
/
P1S cases reported from Rutland county,
1.-THE town of Castleton having four; Pitts
ford, 10; Poultney, four, and Rutland.
IL.
lrfusnza cases in other counties of the
| State were reported as follows: Ben
ningtoi- 10; Caledonia, IL. Grand lie,
%. Orange. L.; Orleans three; Washing.
ton. one; Wirdham. two Windsor, five
With the exception of chilJrer's dis
eases, there are no. large number of
contagious diseases in the State Cor this
time OF year. The report of thu state
board Cor the month of January shows
the following contagious diseases in tie
State during the month. Measles 4s7 ions
| in Chitterden county and that in Bur-
| lington); chicken pox 1885, (27 in Chitten-
| den county, - in Durlington): whooping
| cough 3oi tChittenden county SO; Bur-
ington 20 humps S1S. (Chittenden coun-
! ty 81. Burlington six, Shelburne 9(, scar
| ct fever, r. eight in Chittenden county,
7 three in Shelburne, five in Westford)
Typhoid fever. l. Zone in Chittenden coun g..
| ~ and this in Essex) diptheria, II tsev-
en- in Chittenden county, three in Bur-
| liDgton); corebro-spinal meningitis, one
| German measles, seven none in Chit
tenden county,; erysipelas, two lone in
Burlngton); pneumonia, Il Zone in Bur
| lington
The report Of tho state Laboratory of
Hygiene for the month OF January shows
the following examinations made during
the month: Diptheria, 3H; typhoid few
er, 80, malarial fever, one; tuberculosis.
,1i9 specimens of blood for tine Wasser-
man reaction. LES, 126, gonorrhoeal, g.; wa
tor examinations, Is: milk, lis; milk for
| chemical only. 10; market milk examina-
tons, IL; food II; drug examinations. 81
autopsies to complete returns where no
foul play was suspected. two: miscel-
laneous examinations in connection with
same, two: medico-legal autopsies. two
miscellaneous examinations, IA; total
LOO.
| The report from the State laboratory
shows. also, % cases of syphilis in the
State during January, with seven of these
in burlington, q cases of gonorrhea, and
five of these in Burlington.