carding of lobar pneumonia, provision for laboratory diagnosis of pneumonia types, employment of an industrial hygiene specialist, establishment of a night clinic for venereal diseases and a milk pasteurization ordinance.

The negro population, numbering 10 percent of Springfield's total population, produced, in 1917, 25 percent of the tuberculosis deaths, 34.4 percent of the lobar pneumonia deaths, 23 percent of the typhoid fever deaths and 18.3 percent of the deaths of children under one year old.

The report called attention to Springfield's low diphtheria death rate 11.9 per 100,000 population. Dr. Starr attributes this record to the employment of laboratory methods of diagnosis, the use of antitoxin and careful isolation of carriers.

"Them's Our Sentiments!" Instead of saying "Yours truly," one Ohio health officer, whose correspondence the State Department of Health receives with interest, ends his letters with the words, "Damn the Kaiser!"

Making a Flyless Town Campaigns for the killing of over-winter flies before they had time to lay their eggs and enforcement of regulations for cleaning up manure piles, the chief breeding places of flies, have made Cleveland practically a flyless city, according to an article by Dr. Jean Dawson, for five years in charge of the city's fly-prevention work, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Bounties of ten cents per hundred flies have been paid to children for killing flies before a

definite date at the opening of the breeding season. The cash bounty is not paid after that date, as it is feared that the possibilities for profit might encourage some persons to allow flies to breed. One year prizes of shrubs and trees were given for flies killed during the breeding season, the idea being that children with enough civic pride to work for one of these rewards would not encourage the breeding of flies.

Failure to haul away manure for weeks and months was found to be characteristic of stable owners in all parts of the city. Investigation proved it impracticable to have manure hauled at city expense, and the value of the manure was found insufficient to pay private individuals for collecting it in any except the most congested districts.

Finally the scheme was devised of establishing one or more large boxes in each ward, to which stable owners must haul their manure once a week. These boxes are emptied by truck gardeners, who receive the manure in return for the hauling.

Inspection work to bring about the enforcement of the stablecleaning regulation has been done. by thirty girl students of the city normal school, receiving wages of $7.50 a week.

You and the Newspapers

The following letter to the Dayton News, over which the editor, by way of reply, placed the headline "We're Glad to Help," illustrates two points in the relations of the health officer to the newspaper the willingness of the average editor to co-operate in a worthy public welfare movement, and the duty of the health officer

to recognize such support when he receives it:

Editor The Daily News:

Dear Sir: The generous donation of space in your paper on behalf of the child welfare movement during the month of May was a marked factor in the success of this work.

One thousand two hundred and thirty Dayton babies were examined by the division of health, department of public welfare, and the Visiting Nurses' Association. This is certain to quicken interest in child conservation in this city, and should result in the saving of many lives.

On behalf of the above agencies I wish to thank you for your generous support in this campaign which marked the beginning in Dayton of the special child conservation movement which the government is promoting all over the country.

A. O. PETERS,

Com. of Health.

Health Officials Win Suit

Dr. A. L. Light, former health commissioner of Dayton, and Dr. A. O. Peters, present health commissioner, last month won a suit in which the plaintiff, William V. Nicum, asked $5,000 damages, alleging that he had been unlawfully deprived of his liberty by the enforcement of quarantine regulations at his home. The jury rendered its verdict after fifteen minutes' consideration.

Health Plans for Schools

The social service bureau of the Columbus chamber of commerce has recommended the adoption in that city of a system of school medical supervision comprising the following features: Close COoperation with the city board of

health program, a full time physician in charge of the work, one full time assistant physician for each 1,200 high school pupils, one full time assistant physician for each 10,000 elementary pupils, one nurse for each 2,000 elementary pupils, adequate free dental clinics, free baths, more open air schools, a properly supervised lunch system at low cost and development of a psychological department.

WILL PROTECT WOMEN

IN ORDNANCE PLANTS A bureau to look after the health of women employees in munition factories, arsenals and other ordnance plants has been established by the ordnance department of the Army. Dr. Kristine Mann, director of the health clinic for industrial women in New York City, is in charge. Later she will have a corps of women assistants, who will serve as health officers in districts where there are ordnance plants. Efforts will be made to have women trained for these positions by special courses in colleges.

The rights of illegitimate children and the State's responsibility for seeing that every child, no matter what his parentage, has the nurture, protection, and education essential to his usefulness as a citizen are for the first time given complete national recognition in the Norwegian laws concerning illegitimate children, according to a report issued recently by the Children's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor. These laws make the state instead of the mother responsible for establishing paternity.

Seven children died of whooping cough during the April and May epidemic in Tiffin.

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Salem health authorities are enforcing regulations against the display of food products on sidewalks.

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Rural inspection of Akron's milk supply has been proposed by Dr. C. T. Nesbitt, Akron health commissioner.

Quarters have been set aside at the Ross County infirmary for the detention and treatment of persons found infected with venereal diseases in the Camp Sherman extracantonment zone. Dr. Dana E. Robinson, United Robinson, United States Public Health Service surgeon in charge of sanitation in the zone, has announced a policy of strict enforcement of the state's new regulations for the control of venereal diseases. * * *

After only three years' use, Can ton's sewage disposal plant is inadequate to meet the city's needs. The plant was designed to accommodate a city of 80.000 inhabitants, according to city officials, and was expected to require no enlargelargement for ten ten years. growth of Canton has been so rapid that it is now estimated that $50,000 will have to be spent in enlarging the plant at once.

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Only six of Canton's twelve new wells for the city's water supply were completed May 1, the date set for the completion of the entire dozen.