Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-25
COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM TO BE
PUT INTO EFFECT RECORD
ING STATE OF HEATH.
REPORTS ON CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES MADE DAILY
Blank Cards to Be Provided For
Reports and Compilations Will BE
Made Every Month-Typhoid Fever
and Other Serious Diseases Also
Must Be Reported.
BY Associated Press.

Des Moines, Oct. 25.-By Nov. l
the state board OF health In Iowa
hopes to have In working order one
of the most complete systems for
the reporting Of communicable dis
eases that there Is in the country.
The mayor and council Of each
town or city, or the trustees Of any
township. shall constitute local
board of health within the limits of
such towns, cities or townships in
Iowa, OF which they are officers. The
town, city or township clerk shall be
clerk of the local board. which
board shall appoint a competent
as its health officer, who
shall hold office during its pleasure.
The duties OF the local boards of
health are to enforce the rules and
regulations of the state board of
health and their own rules and regu-
lations.
The state board Of health viii
shortly distribute to these local
boards of health postal cards to be
mailed to the state board each day
by the local boards. These cards
will be filled out with q report Of all
communicable diseases occurring In
the community they come from dur
ing each twenty-four hours. The
local boards shall also keep records
Of these diseases in chart book to
be furnished by the state board: and
at the end OF each month the local
board will send In q summary to
the state board, giving the number
Of communicable diseases reported
during the month. BY this method.
the state board hopes to be able to
keep q check on any possible cpl
denies occurring turnout the state.
and to be able to dispatch the collab-
Grating epidemiologist to any COM
on the shortest possible no..
tice to aid In fighting any disease.
In many OF the larger cities Of the
state there are. Of course, highly
organized health departments to
which local physicians are obliged to
report communicable diseases. But
this new method will enable the state
to keep q check, and to be ready with
assistance when It is needed.
Quarantinahle Diseases.
According to instructions sent out
by DR.. Guilford Sumner, Of the state
board of helath, the following dis
eases are subject to guarantees:
Scarlet fever (including scarlet rash
and scarlatina), smallpox. ,diph-.
liberia (includins membraneous
croup) Cholera lepdosy cerebrospinal
anterior poliomyelitis.
Spanish influenza, bubonic plague,
or any other infectious or contagious
disease In the discretion Of the
state board of health. All Of the fol-
lowing diseases are subject to pla-
card: Whooping cough, measles.
mumps ana chickenpox.
It shall be the duty OF the mayor
Of every city or town and the clerk
OF every township, In their respective
jurisdiction, to report to the secre-
tary Of the state board Of health,
within twenty four hours after be-
ing notified thereof, every case Of
quarantineable or placord disease re-
ported to them; and upon receiving
notice Of the subsistence Of such
disease. likewise to Immediately re-
port that fact, together with the
mode of termination. whether by
death or recovery.
In addition to the above quaran-
Unable and placard diseases, the
following diseases are to be recorded
when they occur. All these diseases
in addition to the above must be re-
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with the rules Of the Iowa state
board Of health, viz, chancroid,
gonorrhea, syphilis. anthrax Gin
man), opthalmia neonatorum, pei
lagra, pneumonia, puerpera1 fever,
pulmonary tuberculosis, (consump-
tion). rabies (hydrophobia), typhoid
fever and typhus fever (spotted or
putrid fever).
Three classes Of cards will be fur
nished for all local boards Of health,
as follows: ~ cards for Immediately
reporting quarantinable and placard
diseases: (2) cards for reporting ter
mination Of guarantees and pla-
cards, together with the mode Of ter
mination. whether by death or re-
covery; ,(3) cards furnished by the
government and which are mailed
without postage, giving q monthly
report of all the diseases mentioned
for quarantine, placard and addition
al diseases required by the United
States government. The monthly
summary report is to be mailed in
time to reach. the collaborating cpl
demiologist before the fifth day of
the succeeding month. II no cases
have been reported, the summary re-
port Is to be mailed as promptly as
report of the disease.