TABLE OF CONTENTS The Department's Roll of Honor. Sanitary Control of Milk.... PAGE 330 330 338 Insanitary Conditions Responsible for Another Rural Typhoid Epidemic.... 351 Report Publisehed on Sickness Survey.... 352 Baby-Saving in Ohio During Earlier Half of 1918.. 353 Municipal Public Health Organization. By ALLEN F. GILLIHAN, M. D...... 359 Army Lowers Death Rate from Disease.. 363 Public Health Nursing Service - Report for June, 1918... 364 365 DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS BY DIVISIONS (JULY, 1918): Foreign Babies Need Health Safeguards..... .... 366 HEALTH OFFICERS' ROUNDTABLE - Prepare for Smallpox - Bid Our City's Health Record Public Health Notes From Over the State... 373 374 376 TABLE OF CONTENTS The Department's Roll of Honor...... EDITORIALS-The Whooping Cough Situation and the Local Health Officer - Negligence of Some Physicians Is Costing Baby Lives - Why Don't Communities Prevent Preventable Baby Deaths? - Schools Must Be Equipped to Care for Children's Health - Venereal Disease Sufferer Forbidden to Handle Food Supplies - Typhoid Prevalence Is High but Much Can Yet Be Done - Be Ready for Poliomyelitis Epi- demic if It Appears - People Anxious to Read Sex Hygiene Booklets - Urban Hog-Keeping Again Calls Forth Protest - Three More De- partment Men Enter War Service - Municipal Public Health Organi- Division of Communicable Diseases - Division of Public Health Edu- cation and Tuberculosis - Division of Laboratories - Division of Industrial Hygiene — Division of Sanitary Engineering - Bureau HEALTH OFFICERS' ROUNDTABLE- Prepare for Smallpox - Bid Health Officials Farewell - Why Not Vaccinate? - Dr. Smedley Enters 374 376 The Whooping Cough Situation and the Local Health Officer The seriousness of the whooping cough prevalence in Ohio this year is indicated in this month's report of the Division of Communicable Diseases. With the disease passing all previous records for cases and deaths, the necessity for strict enforcement of the quarantine measures provided by the new whooping cough regulations is great. In the past nine years whooping cough has taken a toll of 4,260 lives in Ohio, 4,085 of the victims being children under five years old. The yearly death average stands at 473 and the maximum yearly total recorded is 668 for 1913. The average of reported cases for the past five years is 8,577, with 1913 having the maximum case total of 10,064. These records, however, are insignificant by comparison with the totals thus far recorded for 1918. Case reports for the first six months of the year numbered 6,792 and July, when all delayed reports are in, will bring the total close to 8,300. That these figures indicate an actual increase in prevalence and not merely better reporting is proved by the |