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Exhibit. The exhibit made one stand during the month of August, the same being at the State Fair, August 27 to 31, 1917, inclusive. Approximately 8000 pieces of literature on various health subjects were distributed.

Nursing Service.

Miss Claire A. Booth of Cleveland, who has been one of the Cuyahoga County Tuberculosis Nurses for the past fourteen months, has taken charge of the public health nursing service in Zanesville under the direction of the Zanesville Welfare Association.

Miss Elizabeth Corcoran, who has been the Tuberculosis Nurse for city of Hamilton for five years, has resigned to join a Columbus unit for Red Cross service. Miss Ethel Johnson of Cincinnati has succeeded Miss Corcoran in Hamilton.

Miss Helen Lendfear has resigned as public health nurse for Norwalk.

Miss Mary A. Beaver has resigned as public nurse in Cambridge to take up hospital social service work in Youngstown.

Miss Mary Holz, employed by the commissioners and by the Anti-Tuberculosis League of Tuscarawas county has resigned to become the school nurse for the city of Niles.

The George T. Perkins Visiting Nurse Association of Akron has given up its nursing service, as there has been a complete reorganization of the public health nursing of that city.

Mrs. Josephine Bifoss is organizing a nursing service in the United Alloy Steel Corporation of Canton. Mrs. Bifoss was for two years Superintendent of Nurses of the Canton Children's Aid Society.

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Tuberculosis Hospitals

Admissions and Discharges.-From August 1st to August 31st, inclusive, 381 notifications were received, 182 of which were of admitted patients, 199 of discharge patients. Of these 296 were referred to local public health nurses for investigation and report: 2 to health officers; 4 to other State Health Departments; 19 were investigated by division nurses; 13 were found where histories were not obtainable; and 47 were pending, investigation.

Of the 121 notifications pending investigation on July 31, 2 were found whose histories were unobtainable and 15 were investigated by division nurse. Ten notifications of patients who could not be located were returned and 47 now pending cases were added during August, making a total of 161 on August 31st.

NOTIFICATION OF TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS AND DISCHARGES RECEIVED DURING THE MONTH OF AUGUST.

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Cases of tuberculosis arranged according to the U. S. Census Classification, reported in connection with gainful occupations:

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J. F. Granger, formerly assistant engineer in charge of sewers of Marlborough, Mass., has been appointed on the staff of the division of sanitary engineers of the state department and assigned to special work on sewerage.

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HEALTH OFFICERS' ROUNDTABLE

BENSE ACT CRIPPLED.

An opinion of vital interest to cities, sanitarians and public health officials generally was given to the State Department of Health by Attorney General McGhee, interpreting House Bill 262 by Representative Ellis of Geauga County, which wrote into the statutes certain amendments to the so-called Bense Act.

These amendments which, it was insisted at the time of their passage, were merely to take care of a local situation, it now develops, practically destroy the main purpose of the Bense Act, which was to force purification of public water supplies and the abatement of stream pollution nuisances within the state.

The Bense Act provided that municipalities could issue bonds to provide for water purification and sewage disposal to prevent stream. pollution, when ordered so to do by the State Department of Health, without submitting the question of such bond issue to the vote of the people.

Amendments to this law in House Bill 262 provide that the question of such bond issues shall be submitted to the vote of the electors.

Sanitary engineers and public health officials of national repute. have frequently cited the Bense Act as a model for other states and regarded it as one of the most efficient weapons in the war on typhoid fever. Geo. A. Johnson in his work on "The Typhoid Toll" referring to the Bense Act of Ohio said: "There is need of more legislation of this kind which leads to the protection of the public against Such power, placed in competent hands, and with sufficient funds to enforce it, cannot but do immeasurable good. Too much reliance is put on moral suasion in such matters nowadays. The money can always be found if it has to be found, and many a man has put off the urgently necessary visit to the dentist because of the physical pain incident to such a visit, and the strain on his pocketbook; but he is always happy and satisfied when it is all over. It is precisely so with forced expenditure of public money for water purification. The thinking citizen realizes that he is taking chances with disease whenever he drinks a glass of contaminated city water. and yet is ready with excuses, chiefly of a financial nature, for not helping along the campaign for pure water; but no matter what he finally is compelled to pay for it, when he realizes how he has been benefitted he is perfectly satisfied, even though for a time he is obliged. to go without new paving in front of his house, apologize to visitors for his antiquated city hall, or something of the sort."

The question of submitting bond issues for such improvements to the vote of the people is not the only change effected by the amend

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