City appropriations for 1918 in Columbus included these allowances for public health work: Administration $5,274.60, laboratory $4,512.42, sanitary $13,366, tenement inspection $2,019.85, food inspection $17,801.59, quarantine $1,285.50, medical inspection $5,456, district physicians $3,600.

The board of health has called upon the city council for an additional food inspection appropriation. Unless the allowance is in

creased, the board declares, four meat inspectors will have to be dropped and meat inspection practically abandoned, confining the activities of the bureau to milk inspection. The effect of this policy, the health board predicts, would be to make Columbus a dumping ground for diseased meat.

Upon notice from the board of health last month that an epidemic ofof smallpox threatened the city,

the Columbus council authorized a bond issue of $5,000 to pay for preventive measures.

At least two Ohio educational institutions the Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati - have required their students to be vaccinated or to show evidence of recent successful vaccination. The State Department of Health aided in the work at Ohio State by inspecting scars and issuing vaccination certificates.

Oberlin's board of health has a woman member. Mrs. W. F. Thatcher has just been appointed

to the board. Columbus' only woman health board member, Miss Jennie L. Tuttle, who has served for several months filling out an unexpired term, has been given at regular four-year appointment, dating from February 1.

The State Department of Health has ordered discontinuance of polChagrin Falls. The town of Willution of the Chagrin River at loughby, on the river below Chagrin Falls, is contemplating the use of the stream as a source of water

supply.

A campaign to raise $5,000 for the support of public health nursing work was carried out in Mansfield in February.

Columbus must find some new method by which to dispose of its sewage, according to the annual report of Waterworks Chemist C. B. Hoover for 1917. Hoover said that the watersheds of the Scioto River, the Olentangy River and Alum Creek are inadequate to care for the wastes which are left even after treatment of the sewage at the disposal plant. The total daily volume of the city's sewage averages 20,000,000 gallons and during 44 per cent of the time between July and December, 1917, no water whatever flowed over the crest of the storage dam above the city.

Pumping of water into Lima's new billion-gallon storage reservoir was scheduled to start March 1. Enough of the reservoir to hold

half its ultimate capacity was completed before cold weather forced a suspension of work.

Nurses of the Dayton Visiting Nurses' Association made 49,805 visits during 1917. They attended to 7,578 new patients and cared for 540 baby cases. They treated 178 new cases of tuberculosis and 1,001 old cases. Financial needs of the

organization for next year are estimated at $10,293.

Patients treated by the twentytwo nurses of the Toledo District Nurse Association in 1917 numbered 9,093. The total of visits was 68, 263. The association cared for 2,538 babies and distributed 5,810 quarts of milk for use of babies.

Akron's Health Problem "No city in the United States has a greater problem in health conservation than Akron, where the enormous transient population and the inadequate housing facilities present extraordinary opportunities for disease," said Dr. C. T. Nesbitt, Akron health commissioner, in a recent address.

Dr. Nesbitt said that Akron had three natural health advantagegood topography, good climate and good water but that the city also had handicaps, among which he named: a one-third efficient sewer system, inadequate methods of garbage collection and disposal, and insufficient control of food and milk inspection.

The appropriation ordinance in Akron for the first six months of 1918 carried heavier grants for health work than the city had expended in the past. The total amount was $40,371.72. It will allow considerable extensions in work, which the new commissioner now has under way.

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Chlorine Treatment Retained After considerable discussion, Springfield has decided to continue.

the use of chlorine in disinfecting the city's water supply. Objection was made to the chlorine treatment on the ground that it gave a bad taste to the water. As a result there was for a time considerable leaning among city officials toward installing the violet-ray system of disinfection. Investigation, however, convinced City Manager C. E. Ashburner and other officials that the chlorine process was preferable.

The violet-ray system of purification is in a more or less experimental stage in this country. It is used only in a few scattered instances and these are in small cities whose water consumption is relatively low. The principal objection to the process is its high cost as compared to chlorine treatment.

GOAT MILK FOR BABIES

Baby's goat may be a highly thought of member of many households before the war is ended. In fact, the New York agricultural station has already given serious consideration to the possible use of this fun provoking animal by households with young children.

Thus "Goat Milk Good for Babies" is the subject of a bulletin recently issued by the station. The bulletin states that from the station's experience with goats it would seem that only in exceptional cases where the use of otherwise wasted feed would reduce the cost of keeping, or with exceptional animals, could goats be expected to produce milk as economically as cows.

For family use, however, in places where it is impossible to keep a cow and where a goat or two could be kept, these animals might prove valuable aids in maintaining babies or small children in good health.

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Goat's milk is palatable, nutritious and easily digested. It is very helpful in certain cases of poor nutrition, and is without odor when drawn under proper conditions and with proper care. thermore, the station states, it is practically free from liability to transmit certain certain diseases, like tuberculosis, which may be transferred to children from cows.

Of course, the odor from goats is decidedly unpleasant at times, but as this is mainly due to the male, the annoyance from this source may be reduced to a minimum where only a few doses are kept and under proper conditions.

DR. R. H. BISHOP, JR., Cleveland Commissioner of Health, in Cleveland Plain Dailer.