The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-05-10
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! crowded with young people getting
themselves a certificate which would
make it possible for them to resume
their school work.
Two Thirds Are Excluded.
Two-thirds of the six hundred stu
dents at the school were excluded from
classes by the order, but before noon
scores OF them had returned with the
mark of vaccination on their arms and
they resumed their work. Only small
number of children did not appear at
the school and no defiance of the order
OF the health department was in
evidence.
When it was time for the school to
open this morning full force Of
health officials under the leadership
OF DR.. e. Windesheim, director of pub
lie health, was on hand at the school
TO make the examination of the child
rem. The order provided that the
children to remain at the school should
SHOW that they had been successfully
vaccinated within one wear. Just
about two hundred of the children
passed the battery of examining nurses
and physicians and the remaining four
hundred children were, turned away.
Teachers Bare Their Arms.
The health department r. oe
derstood that what is seuce il, ne
goose is sauce for the gaader' ard six
teen OF the teachers in the schools
were ordered to bare their arms for
the vaccine points this morning. These
teachers had not been vaccinated with
IN the time set by the order and no
protest was made by them to meet
ing the demands of the health DEPART
ment. Director Windesheim personal
ly took charge of the work Of vac
cinating the teachers at the school and
other health workers gave attention to
pupils where it was found that it was
necessary to have the city act. It was
/ estimated that the vaccination of at
least two hundred of the children
would be completed during the day and
it was expected that the children
would all be back in school before the
lend of the week
"NO Serious Kicks" Says Loomis.
"No we have not had any serious
protests against this safe guarding of
the health of the children" declared
/ superintendent LoOmis of the schools
this morning after he had been adj
vised of the conditions at the Column
bus school. "The people seem to be
willing to cooperate in everv wav
possible in stamping out smallpox.
have had only one message in regard
to the action and this man suggested
the possibility that the board had
waited too long to demand the vac
cination of all the children."s
Many of the parents Of the children
in the district expressed their full ap-
proval Of the order of the schools and
the health department to make the
vaccination compulsory. It is not
planned at this time to extend the
order to other schools in the city, but
prompt action will be taken if cases
of smallpox appear in thu other dis
tricts. The department had one new
case Of smallpox reported from the
Columbus school district this morning.
Change Program of Others.
In order to throw every protection
possible about the pupils of other
schools the manual training and do
mestic science departments at the
Columbus school have been closed to
outside groups until the danger Of
contagion is over.
The outside groups affected by this
order include students at the St.
Thomas and the Salem Avenue schools
who have gone to the Columbus school
for work along these special lines. 1t
is thought probable that this work will
be resumed by these students within
a week or ten days.
It is believed that the vaccination
of the large number Of children in this
district will do much to work out a
hating of the spread of the disease
in Kenosha. Forty-three cases of the
disease were under quarantine in the
city this morning.