Thirty-three inspections were made during February, in factories, school and university buildings, state institutions, stores, public buildings, hotels, hospitals, military barracks and other structures. One factory was ordered to install plumbing in accordance with the code. Certificates of approval were issued for two factories, one store, one hotel and one railroad freight house. Thirteen plans were examined -five for public schools, seven for state institutions and other public buildings and one for a church. A three-day meeting of the Ohio Master Plumbers at Dayton was attended. Two conferences were held. HEALTH OFFICERS' ROUNDTABLE Cambridge Enforces Vaccination To check the spread of smallpox in Cambridge the city board of health passed resolutions requiring school children to be vaccinated and directing "all persons owning or operating any place of business or pleasure where persons are allowed to work or congregate" to enforce vaccination on pain of having their businesses closed. "Quarantine will help to hold the disease in check for a while, but will not eradicate it from our city as general vaccination will," declared Health Officer O. F. Lowry in an official statement. Charter Framers Discuss Health Akron's charter commission, which is formulating a new charter for the city, is giving much attention to provisions for the health department. Members appear to agree that the health problem is one of the greatest menaces to the city's progress and development, and that wide powers ought to be given to the health department to enable it to handle the situation effectively. Volunteer Health Workers Cleveland is enrolling women as volunteer health workers. These volunteers do field service in company with the health department nurses, clinic work and office work. Some donate the services of their automobiles, permitting nurses to cover large territories. A series of six weekly lectures is being given the volunteer workers. The work is being carried out in co-operation with the public health committee of the Women's Committee of the Council of National Defense. Health Officer Replaces Board Miamisburg has abolished its board of health and provided for a health officer to draw a salary of $300 per annum. Dr. C. S. Judy has received the appointment. Oppose City Hog-Keeping The Wooster board of health has gone on record as opposed to any relaxation in the regulations against keeping hogs in the city. Dover council has refused to grant a request of the mayor that the bars be lifted. Health Officers Re-chosen Dr. H. E. Welch, for 25 years health officer in Youngstown, has been re-elected for 1918. U. D. Ward has been chosen as his own successor in the post of health officer at New Philadelphia. Makes Figures Tell Truth Honesty in submitting municipal vital statistics was notable in the 1917 annual report of Dr. A. L. Smedley, health officer in Hamilton. In stating the city's death rate for the year, Dr. Smedley based his rate on the population shown by the liquor license census, 41,337, which made the rate TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE EDITORIALS - Army Reports Progress in Venereal Disease Battle- Why Not Call a Spade a Spade, Mr. Editor? — Protection for Muni- tion Workers Subject of Study Health Officer Should Stay on His Own Side of the Fence - Babies Are Dying; What Are You Going to Do About It? "They Have to Have It, So They May as Well Get It Now" See That Soda Fountains Are in Sanitary Condition - Nurses' Organizations Meet in Cleveland - Physicians' Committee Enters Cancer Fight Depreciation of Water Purification Plant Is Dangerous...... 138 Cause and Prevention of Furunculosis and Wound Infections Among Ma- chinists An Investigation by the Division of Industrial Hygiene, R. Sanitation of Camp Sherman Extra-Cantonment Zone, Chillicothe, Ohio, by D. E. ROBINSON, Surgeon, U. S. Public Health Service..... Maternity Hospitals as a Rural Need, by FRANCES M. HOLLINGS HEAD, M. D. 158 Notes on Child Conservation Campaign.... Governor Gives Support to Children's Year.. January Baby Deaths in Ohio Cities and Counties. DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS BY DIVISIONS (MARCH, 1918): Division of Communicable Diseases..... Division of Public Health Education and Tuberculosis. Division of Sanitary Engineering.. Division of Plumbing Inspection.. Division of Industrial Hygiene. - Investigating Arsphenamine - Akron Is Districted - Springfield Is- sues Bulletin - Favor Full-Time Commissioner - Typhoid Poorly Re- |