BULLETIN OF THE VERMONT STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. Volume VI. No. 1. Issued Quarterly at Brattleboro, Vermont. The Bulletin is published quarterly by the State Board of Health under the authority of Section 5 of Act No. 90, Legislature of 1900. It will be sent to all Boards of Health. A copy will be sent to any person in the state upon request addressed to the Secretary, Henry D. Holton, Brattleboro. NEWS ITEMS. All persons receiving outfits for samples of water to be examined at the Laboratory are most urgently requested to fill and return them promptly. Any delay in returning them prevents others from using them and delays the work of the Laboratory. SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION FOR HEALTH OFFICERS. The Seventh Annual School for Health Officers was held, as indicated in our last Bulletin, in Burlington, opening June 19. It was considered by those who have attended previous Schools to be the best of all in point of interest and information imparted. Two thirds of the health officers of the state were present. Those towns, whose health officer did not attend, thus failing to perform his duty to his town to gather for himself the knowledge which the state provided for him and which is so much needed to enable him to perform the official duties which devolve upon him, we leave for the present, to judgment of the public. The following is the list of those towns not represented in the attendance upon the School. Addison County.—Bridport, Bristol, Ferrisburg, Goshen, Granville, Hancock, *Leicester, Whitney. Bennington County.-*Manchester, Peru, Pownal, Sandgate, Searsburg, Caledonia County.-Kirby, Ryegate, Sheffield, Waterford, Wheelock. Essex County.-*Bloomfield, Brunswick, Canaan, East Haven, Guildhall, Franklin County.-Fairfield, Richford. Grand Isle County.-Every town represented. Lamoille County.-Cambridge, Elmore, Johnson, Wolcott. Orange County.-Newbury, West Fairlee, *Washington. Orleans County.—Albany, Barton, Brownington, Craftsbury, Glover, Jay. Lowell, Troy, Westmore. Rutland County.-Chittenden, Clarendon, Danby, Mendon, Pittsfield, Pittsford, *Poultney, West Rutland. Washington County.-Duxbury, East Montpelier, Moretown, Woodbury. Windham County.—Athens, Brookline, Dover, Dummerston, Grafton, Halifax, Marlboro, Newfane, Westminster, *Whitingham, Wilmington, Windham. Windsor County.-Andover, Baltimore, Hartford, Plymouth, Pomfret, Sharon, Windsor. Unable to attend on account of sickness or disability. Phil B. Hadley of Brown University, reviewing the subject of evolution, draws the following conclusions: 1. That the advocates of evolution cannot prove that life germs arose by natural processes. 2. That evolutionists show an utter inability to prove that there exists a universal law of development and improvement. 3. That they cannot prove lower species of plants can be transmuted into higher. 4. That in all excavations not a single connecting link between species has been discovered. 5. That physical and mental science proves it to be impossible for an animal to come into possession of a human soul, human mind, or human body. 6. That geologists have silenced the voices of the advocates of the animal descent of man. 7. That all scholarly men and scientists are not evolutionists. 8. That many who once upheld evolution are now abandoning it. There need not be a moment's hesitation in saying that the hypothesis of evolution, with all the other speculations attached to it, has collapsed beyond the hope of restoration. TYPHOID FEVER. The importance of every local health officer looking after the water used for domestic purposes in his town is a duty that cannot be too carefully performed. ⚫ It is a well recognized fact that the typhoid fever germ is a water-born germ and that the outbreaks of this disease are most often traced to the water supply. The whole number of cases reported for 1904 was 461. (Were all cases reported?) Number of deaths from this preventable disease, 107. The prevention of this disease must rest with the local health officer. Every case should be reported and an effort made to determine the source of infection. The expense attending these cases is appalling. The following is a low estimate. For each case: Doctor's bill, with medicine, $50; nurse, four weeks at $15 per week, $60; wages, 35 days at $1.50 per day, $52.50, making the cost of each case $162.50. The contract has been awarded for a new bacteriological building at the University of Minnesota. It will be built at once and will cost $100,000. Dr. George T. Moore, physiologist, in charge of the laboratory of plant physiology of the Department of Agriculture, has resigned. State Sanatorium Appropriation. The Rhode Island lower house has passed the bill establishing a State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, appropriating $48,000. 126 Issued Quarterly by Vermont State Board of Health, December 1, 1905. Entered October 21, 1901, as second-class matter, Post Office at Brattleboro, Vt., CONTENTS: The Prevention of Infection in the Family and Disinfection in Tuberculosis, by Edward R. Baldwin, M. D., Saranac Lake, N. Y. Adirondack Sanatoria for Tuberculosis.-Some Suggestions for Vermont, by The Duty of the Local Board of Health in the Campaign Against Tuberculosis, Is Medication of Service in the Treatment of Tuberculosis? by Dr. C. W. Peck, Address on Tuberculosis, by Hon. Henry Ballard, Burlington. The Tuberculosis Problem, by W. N. Bryant, M. D. The Sanitarium, by D. D. Grout, M. D. Vermont Society of Tuberculosis. |