Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1923-06-22
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The Harrisburg Register says:
"Harrisburg's dairy conditions are not
sanitary and are unsatisfactory to the
state health officials. An ordinance
will be presented to the city council
that will prevent any man or men
from peddling milk within the eorpor-
ate limits of the city without first
complying with the state law In every
particular relative to sanitary CON
ditions and the sanitary rules In hand
ling milk"
1.-THE recent examination Of the
school children of Kane county. say :
the Aurora Star SHOULD serve a use
ful purpose. Ii will call attention 0.
parents to many defects in health Of
sheir offspring that they did no. sns-
poet. One of the commonest of these
detects is underweight, which in it.
self, is ofren an effect of some ur-
suspected disorder. However, in most
ca es, in mis- land of plenty, X can
usually be overcome by careful feed
,ig and regular hours"
I'm order to give definite rulings
n regard to the installation of the
necessary equipment in Nelson park, !"
says the Decatur Review, ian officer
of the state department of public
health will come to Decatur. This
subject will be taken up and septic
tank problem rules will be defined by
this health officer"
The LaSalle Post in discussing the
problem of destroying the breeding
places of mosquitoes suggests: THE
movement to have school children,
during these spring days, ferret out
these places Is wise one. In their
wanderings about the children visit
many spots overlooked by their eld-
ers. If they report every breeding
place of the mosquito that they finu,
a long stride shall have been taken
toward Kidding US of the pests"
The report of the health depart
ment at Rockford for the first four
months of the present year shows 230
deaths and All births. The increase
in births Is probably due to the more
perfect registration there.
Health and sanitary authorities"
says the East st. Louis Journal, "are
watching the progress of an intensive
anti-mosquit0 campaign now being
launched at Belleville. The campaign
aims to eliminate this irritating and
costly summer pest, and federal and
state aid has been secured in the war
which was launched by the Greater
Belleville Board of Trade and which
has the support of the city authorities
and the leading civic organizations"
The public water supply at Plain
vile which is secured from a public
well has been found by the state de-
partment of public health to be of
satisfactory sanitary quality. The
water is pumped into a cistern by
windmill, and is then drawn from the
cistern by hand pump. The depart
ment urges the authorities to install
a well with power-driven pumping
equipment and distribution system
so that running water may be avail
able to all parts of the village.
The most dangerous individual in
handling milk is the person with a
mild" case of scarlet fever or a
mild" case of septic sore throat or
typhoid fever, as they are undetected
often by the individual or by other
members of the household.
The Effingham county health nurse
recently examined the pupils of the
Beecher City schools, The Beecher
City Journal says: "Out of 102 pupils,
30 were found to be seven pounds or
more underweight.
In speaking of public Fairgrounds,
the East st. Louis Journal says
Teach the young boy or girl that
the city park system is to be enjoyed
and used. While every effort is made
to make the parks and Fairgrounds
beautiful it really is the aim only to
make them attractive--attractiv to
the little fellow who must have his
ball game and to the larger fellow
who wishes to lounge within the shady
confines of the nearest to Mother Ma
ture that the city can afford"
Indirect human infection of milk
may come through persons who have
been in contact with cases of con-
tagious diseases and who carry con-
|tagion from the patient to the milk,
or infect the milk by adding impure
water, or by fly infection of milk
utensile and milk bottles which have
been nj houses where infectious dis
eases exist.
According to the State Journal
POST children are registered at the
six health centers of the Springfield
Bureau of Child Hypiene. The at
tendance for the month of April to-
tailed AIS"
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