The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-14
FEWER SHIPS
 LOST ON LAKES

Detroit, Mich., Jan- 14.-Marked reduction in the number of marine disasters on the Great Lakes during the 1920 season. compared with 1919, is shown in the records of shipping companies here. During 1920 there were eight vessel losses and 29 lives . lost, against 19 vessel losses and 80 lives lost the preceding year.
 The 29 persons who lost their lives last year perished when the steamer Superior City sank in Lake Superior off Whitefish Point. This occurred on the night of August 20 after collision with the steamer Willis L. King.
 The collision is said to have been due to fog. The Superior City sank so At the regular meeting of the Board of Health Commissioners. held Jan. 4 10th, 1921, the following ordinance was adopted. ....---- An Ordinance Governing the
 Physical Examination of
 Food Handlers.
 Employment of Persons Af-
 fected with Communica-
 ble or Venereal Dis
 eases Prohibited.
 No person who is affected with any infectious disease or with any com municable disease in a communicable form shall work or be permitted to
 
 drink is prepared, cooked. mixed. baked, exposed, bottled, packed, handled, manufactured, offered for sale or sold. When required by the , Health Officer of the City of Bridge port. any person employed in any such place, shall submit to a physical , examination, said examination must be made by a reputable physician in good standing in his profession and approved by the Board of Health Commissioners, said examination ] shall be reported to the said Board of Health upon blank forms furnished by said Board of Health, showing the result of said examination properly filled in and signed by the examining physician and returned by said physi- :, within forty-eight (4S) hours after 1, said examination. 1. Certificates to Be Issued by the
 Department of Health.
 When such official blank properly filled out and signed, shall have been filed with the Department of Health, and shall have met with it's approval [ specifying the date of issue thereof shall be issued by the department of Health to the person so examined Such certificate shall specify the date of such examination and shall state that the person to whom it was issued : was free from any communicable dis ease or vepereal disease in communi- cable form on the date of such ex- | animation. Such certificates shall not : he transferred and shall not be used ; by any other person than the one to whom it has been issued
 . Conditions Under Which Ger
 tificateS Are Issued.
 Certificates issued by and under the provisions of this ordinance may < be revoked and a re-examination re- # quired of the former holder of the same at any time when in the opinion of the Board of Health or the Health Officer, the circumstances may war rant the same.
 Any person. firm or corporation, who shall employ or keep in their em- plOy any person or persons of whom they shal have knowledge of their be- ing affected with any infectious dis ease or with any venereal disease in communicable form, sha1 lbe fined not less than ten ($10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred. ($100.00) dollars, for each offenSe. "A written notice to any person firm or corporation from the Board of Health, stating that they have ir their employ a, person or persons af Eected with infectious disease o1 ' with any yenereal disease in a com municab1e form, accompanied by copy of the examining physicians cer. tificate reporting the same, shall con. stitute sufficient Knowledge upo1 which a conviction may be determin cd
 Board of Health Commissioners.
 H. Coon, M. D.
 Health Officer f fa4A v~a