OHIO STATE BOARD OF HEALTH PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT THE OFFICE OF THE BOARD, COLUMBUS, OHIO. Containing Articles on The Relation of NOTE-This number contains Title Page and Index to Entered as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Columbus, Ohio. Offices and Laboratories of the State Health Department are located on the Ohio State University Campus. The offices are in Page Hall; the Laboratories are in the Hygienic Laboratories' Building. Director and State Inspector A Dollars and Cents Argument for Tuberculosis Sanatoria. 62 64 The Mayor's Mistake...... 64 The Importance of Birth Registration.. 65 The Relation of Industry to the Health Department. Dr. C. D. Selby, 66 Prosecutor Reminds Doctors and Midwives of Law. 71 School Board to Compel Vaccination of Pupils and Teachers. 72 The Ohio Institute for Public Efficiency; Its Relation to Health Departments. Fred C. Croxton, Director, Social Welfare Department, Ohio Institute for Public Efficiency, Columbus... The American Academy of Public Health...... The Present Status of Milk Supervision in the Cities of Ohio. Dr. Frank G. Boudreau, State Epidemiologist..... Association Urges Higher Development of Dairy and Milk Inspection.... Water for Drinking or Culinary Purposes Provided on Cars and Water for Drinking Purposes Provided at Stations by Interstate Interstate Transportation of Persons Having Contagious or In- Sanitation of Camps Occupied by Migratory Workers.... Investigation of Lead Poisoning and Lacquer Fumes... Eleventh Conference of Ohio Tuberculosis Hospital Superintendents.... Summary of Notifiable Diseases Reported During December, 1916... 95 Mr. Health Officer, Send Your Summary Reports Promptly. Continued on page 60. 96 98 PAGE Trachoma Investigation Progressing.. 98 Conference of Pennsylvania Physicians Called By Department of Labor and Industry 99 Activities of Division of Public Health Education and Tuberculosis.. The Public Health Exhibit at Marion. 100 101 Report on State Health Exhibit..... Child Hygiene Exhibit Shown During Farmers' Week. 101 102 Report of the Division of Laboratories for January.. Public Health Nurses and Their Work.. 102 103 Railroad to Co-operate With Health Officials in Its Territory. 112 EDITORIAL SECTION CHOOSING THE POUND of cure. The board of health of a city in eastern Ohio recently ordered the vaccination of all school teachers and children in the city to the number of over 5,000, following the discovery that a pastor of a church had smallpox, according to a local newspaper. Another town in northern Ohio is facing the necessity of spending $10,000 to handle the smallpox situation, council contemplating the transfer of funds to the health department for this purpose. It is generally accepted that vaccination against smallpox if generally practiced will practically eliminate this disease. Statistics collected over a period of years in Germany where vaccination is most strongly insisted upon, show what results can be accomplished. Evidences equally convincing can be shown by many communities in the United States. With all this evidence before us and with the technique of vaccination perfected and performed as it is today, it is surprising that we permit smallpox to the extent that it is found in Ohio. Dr. Carroll Fox of the United States Public Health Service, now in Piqua, says that he is for abolishing quarantine of smallpox cases and letting the patient and the exposed person run at large. Then if any unvaccinated person gets the disease, it is his own fault, but after recovery patients should be fined and imprisoned. All of which is merely another way of saying that if any persons or communities get this disease, they have only themselves to blame for not protecting themselves by vaccination,, deliberately choosing the expensive pound of cure rather than the ounce of prevention. It was recently reported that a prominent citizen of Ohio who was interested and active in social welfare had written to Governor Cox and to Speaker Hopple of the Legislature urging certain legislation affecting, among other things, health administration. He recommended that the powers of the State board of Health and of local boards and health officers be enlarged, and was quoted as follows: "They should have the power of compulsory commitment to hospitals and compulsory detention therein, and this authority should not be interfered with by habeas corpus proceedings. Their rules should have the force of statutes. They should be empowered to take pre |