River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-02-03
State Capitol News
Free If Vaccinated
BY VIM. j. Anderson

Madison, Wis.-Here is good news
for families who have smallpox in
lection in their home. The State
Board of Health has issued an order
which permits members of households
in which there is smallpox to go in
and out as usual only so that they be
vaecinated. Any case of small pox
in the house will be quarantined but
no. restrictions will be placed upon
any others in the house if they ere
vaccinated. So positive are public
health officials of the efficacy of vac
cination that the State Board of
Health has modified the existing rule.
Hereafter it will be necessary for per-
sons having the disease to be quaran-
tined and other persons in the family
permitted to be released Immediately
after vaccination.
City Milk Prices
Madison still pays less per hundred
to producers for milk than any one Of
the twelve cities of which the Divis-
ion of Markets keeps record. The
Madison price is $500 per hundred
and the retail price is ten cents per
quart. Amigo pays farmers S2.75 and
retails at the Madison figure. Super
Tor pays the highest, 1925 per hum
dred and charges the most per quart,
IA cents.
Dogs and Sheep
A proposition by some members OF
the Legislature who are opposed to
the present dog and stock law to
change the law so that it would apply
only to those counties where sheep are
a speciality is rot very likely to make
much Roadway. Sheep are kept in
varying numbers in every county in
the state, and the sheep, whether in
small or large numbers, it is held, are
entitled to protection.
New Health Requirement
The State Board of Health, at its
annual meeting on Wednesday took
action to dispense with terminal or
aerial disinfection of premises
thera has been case of infectious di-
seasa The phrase refers to the GUS
tom of burning formaldehyde gas in
homes after certain dangerous COM
municable diseases have been present.
Health authorities still believe in the
efficacy of this system, but only when
it is done thoroughly, and that is very
seldom. The requirement will call for
a cleaning of walls and woodwork as
high UP as an ordinary person can
reach; cleaning of all lodges on which
dust may lodge; thorough airing and
where possible summing of bed-cloth-
ing; removal and summing of draper
les, rugs, etc. The lifting of termi-
nal disinfection does not mean the
discontinuance of concurrent dlsln-
fection,n or immediate disinfection OF
body discharges in certain diseases.
City Water Blamed for Typhoid
Because of the high death rate from
typhoid the city of Sheyboygan has
been ordered to treat its water supply
with liquid chlorine.
Unmarketed Spuds
Growers and dealers are beginning
to figure on the amount of potatoes
that will be left ur1marketed in the
state at the end of the present ship
ping season, says the Division Of
Markets. There is very little doubt
but that there will be hundreds
Of thousands Of bushels Of potatoes
left unmarketed and reports have
come in that some farmers are Begin
Mug to feed potatoes to their stock
The River Falls Laundry
The Division Of Markets is ceiling
attention to the successful operation
of the cooperative laundry for farm
ers at River Falls. This institution
was inspired by former Dean Henry
of the College Of Agriculture. Tt did
business amounting TO S6,31A in 1920
and realized a substantial profit.
Bill To Abolish Board of Education
The direct conflict which those IN
terested in educational matters have
long forseen. between the state de-
partment of public instruction and the
state board of education, was precip-
itated on Friday, the Goth, by the in
PRODUCTION of a bill by Assemblyman
Olson to abolish the latter board
Whether this board which was Great
ed during the Phillip administration
will be abolished or not, 1t is reason
ably certain that there viii at least
be clear definition OF the powers and
limitations Of both the board and the
state department of public instruction
No Gross Extravaganza
The excess expenditures above APP
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