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DIVISION OF PLUMBING INSPECTION

Inspections made

Conferences held

Plans examined

Summary for October

Certificates of approval issued.. Orders issued

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OHIO CITIES ENGAGED IN WORK TO PRODUCE BETTER PUBLIC HEALTH Exxpenditure of $1,000,000 for sewer improvements is on Lima's 1918 program. The plan includes erection of a disposal plant, removal of all open sewers ptying into the Ottawa river and construction of an intercepting sewer along the river. The improvement is in response to an order from the State Health Department, which demands that the work be completed by October 9, 1918.

Lima's new waterworks will be in operation soon after January 1. It was scheduled to start operations on December 1, but delay in receipt of machinery caused postponement. The new plant will have a capacity three times that of the present one and will provide the city with its first filtered water.

A bond issue of $2,800,000 for sewer construction which will put a stop to pollution of the Maumee river and other streams about Toledo, was approved by the people of the city in the November election.

Approval by the people of Springfield of a half-mill tax levy, running for four years, for hos

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MORTALITY RECORDS

OPEN TO PUBLIC USE Physicians, public health and social workers are invited to make use of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company's collection of mortality statistics, in an announcement recently issued by the company.

"These statistics," says the announcement, "present the principal cause of death among white and colored wage-earners in the United States and Canada. The material covers more than 10,000,000 individuals for each of the six years from 1911 to 1916.

The company says it hopes by this offer to aid in the study of disease and disability among wageearners, and to stimulate medical investigation and research.

Inquiries should be addressed to the Statistical Bureau, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, I Madison Avenue, New York City.

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HEALTH OFFICERS' ROUNDTABLE

New Akron Health Officer

A new arrival will take his place among the local health officers of the state December 3 when Dr. Charles T. Nesbitt assumes his duties in that position at Akron. Dr. Nesbitt comes from Wilmington, N. C., where he has been engaged in public health work for seven years. He succeeds Dr. J. J. McShane, who resigned several months ago.

Dr. Nesbitt was graduated from the University of Maryland in 1893. He holds both medical and surgical degrees and has studied in Europe. He was a surgeon with the army in the Spanish war. He is 44 years old.

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Lead was the poison present in posed. Other poisons noted were 10 plants, with 70 persons exchlorine, ammonia, lye, lime, hot fuming sulphuric and hydrchloric solutions, nitric acid, hot metal, cleaning solutions containing caustic soda and potash and potassium cyanide.

Care for Expectant Mothers

A maternity welfare bureau will be put into operation early in 1918 by the Cleveland health depart

ment. It will save the lives of thousands of babies who die because of improper care of the mother before child birth, according to Dr. R. A. Holt, chief of the bureau of child hygiene in the department.

Last year in Cleveland 632 babies one month old or younger died. These babies and 700 others which were stillborn could for the most part have been saved had mothers received proper prenatal attention, says Dr. Holt.

Dr. Holt will have direct supervision of the new bureau until a physician has been appointed to take charge, when the conduct of the bureau will be turned over to him.

Combine for Health Work

The Cincinnati city health department, Anti-Tuberculosis League and Council of Social Agencies are co-operating in a movement to unite in a public health council all agencies working for public health in Cincinnati.

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