The Secretary stated that Martin & Son had refused to continue to send the Board vaccine virus with the privilege of returning unopened packages, and asked for instructions for future arrangements. He was instructed to procure virus by telegraph order when it was needed.

The President appointed Dr. Miller Chairman of the Committee on Adulteration of Food, Drinks and Drugs.

Dr. Wise made some statements in regard to the injuriousness of public exhibitions of hypnotism, and suggested that the Board should take measures to have it suppressed in our State.

On motion Dr. Wise was appointed a committee of one to draft a bill for the suppression of exhibitions of hypnotism in Ohio, and to secure its introduction before the present General Assembly.

The Secretary stated that Mr. Kean, Representative from Carroll county, had called at the office and requested that the Board recommend some change in the laws regulating the establishment of local boards of health. In Carrollton they could not succeed in finding six men who would serve as members of a board of health, and Mr. Kean suggested that the law be amended so that the council could act as a board of health. The matter was informally discussed by the members of the Board, the plan of Mr. Kean meeting with many objections.

Dr. Hoover spoke of the importance of the work of the Legislative Committee, and named as its members Dr. Wise, Prof. Nelson and Dr. Miller.

Prof. Nelson gave notice that at the next meeting he would offer an amendment to the by-laws or rules of the Board relating to the Standing Committees.

The Secretary stated that the well at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, which had been condemned by the Board, was still in use; that the Trustees had asked for an appropriation to re-plumb the entire building. The matter was referred to the Secretary with instructions to consult the Attorney-General, and to have another analysis of the water made before. taking final action.

The Secretary recommended that a joint meeting of the Board and Superintendents of Schools be held in April.

On motion of Dr. Conklin, the Secretary was instructed to arrange for a conference of the Superintendents of Schools and the State Board of Health, at the time of the April meeting of the Board. Dr. Miller extended an invitation to hold the meeting in Cleveland, and suggested that it should be at the time of their spring vacation. On motion, the

invitation was accepted. The Secretary was instructed to arrange the program.

Dr. Hoover spoke of the law providing for the appointment of inspectors of nuisances, and stated that the Commissioners of Franklin county had taken no action upon the complaint of the Board in regard to the nuisance affecting the water supply of the city of Columbus. Dr. Hoover moved that the matter be referred to the Legislative Committee with instructions to secure an amendment so that the law should be mandatory in its provisions. Carried.

Dr. Wise stated that Senator Hart had requested that the Board should adopt a rule regulating the time of quarantine in infectious and contagious diseases. The matter was referred to the Secretary, with instructions to submit rules to the Board for approval.

There being no further business, the Board adjourned to the lecture room of the Congregational Church, to attend the Convention of the State and Local Boards of Health, held January 29 and 30, 1891, where the following program was given :

PROGRAMME.

1. Introductory Remarks

Dr. Thos. C. Hoover, President of State Board of Health, Columbus.

2. The Inspection of Schools and School Houses

Dr. T. T. Church, Health Officer, Salem.

3. The Collection and Disposal of Night Soil and Garbage in Villages and Small Cities.

Dr. Wm. H. Bell, Health Officer, Clifton.

4. What may Boards of Health do to Prevent Typhoid Fever?— Dr. H. C. Houston, Health Officer, Urbana.

1. The Hog-pen Nuisance

SECOND SESSION.

Geo. P. Hunter, Esq., Warren.

2. The Use and Abuse of Disinfectants

Dr. C. O. Probst, Secretary of State Board of Health, Columbus.

3. The Evolution of a Board of Health

Dr. T. Clarke Miller, Health Officer, Massillon.

4. Does Sanitation Pay?—

E. T. Nelson, M. A., Ph. D., Member of State Board of Health,
Delaware.

THIRD SESSION.

1. The Inspection of Dairies and Milk SuppliesDr. G. A. Collamore, Health Officer, Toledo.

2. Vaccination

Dr. S. A. Conklin, Member of State Board of Health, Canton. 3. The Regulations of Burials for the Prevention of Infectious DiseasesDr. H. T. Sutton, Health Officer, Zanesville.

APRIL MEETING.

The April meeting of the Board was called at Bellaire, on the evening of the 1st; arrangements having been made to hold a public session on the night of the 2d to consider the questions of sewerage and water supply of Bellaire.

Present: Dr. Hoover, Prof. Nelson, Dr. Conklin and the Secretary. On the 2d, at 9 A. M., the meeting was called to order by the President, Dr. Hoover. The Secretary announced that a quorum was not present. Prof. Nelson stated that a majority of the members of the executive committee was present, and asked the Chair if this committee could properly transact the business to come before the Board.

The Chair decided that such business as the executive committee could properly transact during the interim between meetings could be transacted at this time.

The Secretary presented a communication from Mr. Tuttle, of Chicago, requesting permission to disinter and remove the dead bodies of his children from Zanesville to Chicago. These children had died of diphtheria, and the body of one of them had been brought from Chicago to Zanesville for burial, and through a false certificate, and the opening of the coffin, had introduced the disease into Zanesville.

On motion, the Secretary was instructed to say in reply to Mr. Tuttle's request that inasmuch as the rules of the Board relating to the transportation and burial of dead bodies had been violated by him on a former occasion, his request would not be granted.

A communication from Dr. Formento, of the State Board of Health of Louisiana, was presented, in which the writer stated that their Board was considering the adoption of a rule requiring (cases of membranous croup to be treated as infectious, and requesting the opinion of the Ohio Board as to the advisability of adopting such a rule.

The Secretary was instructed to say that it was the opinion of mem

bers of the Board that membranous croup should be placed under the same restrictions as diphtheria.

The Secretary made a full report of his action to close the well at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and of the action of the Governor to the same effect.

Dr. Conklin moved that the Board serve notice on the trustees of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum to close their well by May 1st.

Prof. Nelson called for a decision of the Chair as to the right of the executive committee to act on this question.

The Chair decided that the committee had authority to take such action. The motion was then carried.

On motion the Secretary was instructed to consult the AttorneyGeneral in regard to the authority of the executive committee to act for the Board in ordering the well at the Deaf and Dumb Asylum closed.

Mr. Wilson, of Bellaire, was introduced and made some remarks on the sewerage of Bellaire.

The committee then adjourned.

Members of the Bellaire water-works board escorted the Board to points of interest in connection with the water supply; and later, members of the local board of health conducted the Board over the district of the proposed new sewer.

In the evening a public meeting was held in the city hall, when the questions of sewerage and water supply were freely discussed. The following report of the meeting, including the recommendations offered by the members of the State Board of Health, is clipped from the Daily Independent for April 3, 1891:

PUBLIC MEETING OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, HELD IN BELLAIRE, APRIL 2, 1891.

A public meeting of the State Board of Health was held in the city hall last evening. Members of the council, the water-works board, the local board of health, and other citizens, were there to greet the members of the State Board.

Dr. Hoover, President of the Board, opened the meeting by explaining the object of the Board's visit to Bellaire. He said the Board had come here, not because it was con sidered that Bellaire was in need of an investigation by the Board of Health, but because the Board quarterly visited some of the cities of the State, and were specially interested at this time in cities getting their water supply from the Ohio river.

He explained briefly the purposes of a State Board of Health, and referred to some of the things it had accomplished. Since coming here, he said, the Board had found that a question of great importance to the health of the city was the subject of much discussion. This was the question of the introduction of sewerage for the Fifth ward, and more particularly, what was to be done with the sewage. Dr. West, the health officer, was called upon to make a statement in regard to this.

Dr. West said that Bellaire had a bad reputation for healthfulness, which was not altogether deserved. He did not question the fact that it had a bad water supply,

hough this was not greatly worse than the majority of Ohio river towns. There had been no bad epidemics in Bellaire, he said, in the past eight years, except an epidemic of fevers, which he considered simple continued fever. Prior to this the city had suffered with a bad epidemic of diptheria, though the cause of this had not been clearly established. The death rate of Bellaire, he stated, was not large, and had decreased in the past three or four years. At one time the First and Second wards had been the most unhealthy parts of town, but since the introduction of sewerage and other improvements this had been changed. He was inclined to think the upper end of the city the most unhealthy. He advocated sewerage for the Fifth ward, and thought some change should be made in the water supply.

Dr. Probst, Secretary of the State Board, said he could corroborate what Dr. West had said in regard to the comparatively low death rate of Bellaire. He said it was a little below that of Columbus and Dayton, and considerably below that of Cincinnati and Cleveland. But in judging of what the death rate should be, the zymotic diseasesthose that were preventable should be considered. The death rate from typhoid fever had special significance in judging of the purity of the water supply. Bellaire in 1888 had reported 8 deaths from typhoid fever, 7 in 1889, and 12 in 1890. For the past three years this would give for Bellaire a typhoid fever death rate of 9 per 10,000 inhabitants. This, he said, was much too high; as high as in Cincinnati, where the death rate was considered excessive, and more than three times as high as in New Orleans, a city without sewers, but with a water supply which could not be polluted by sewage, as it was all from cisterns above ground. He said that whenever a city had substituted a pure for an impure water supply there had always been a great reduction of the deaths from typhoid fever.

Prof. Nelson, a member of the State Board, said the members, since coming to the city, had been over the entire ground, and had endeavored to fully inform themselves of the situation. He made a clear statement of the conditions found, and said the question narrowed itself down to the disposal of the sewage from the Fifth ward so as not to pollute the water supply. He was decidedly opposed to stopping the sewer at Indian He said the increased sickness in the Gravel hill territory was, in his opinion, due to the great pollution of the soil there, which would be remedied by proper sewerage.

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Mr. James Wilson said that the question of sewerage was of the greatest importance to the citizens of Bellaire. The sewer of the Fifth ward would undoubtedly be built; but he did not favor making Indian run a receptacle for sewage. He thought the solution of the question was to carry the sewer across the run, and then take it to the river below the mouth of the run. He did not believe the water supply was greatly polluted, and especially by sewage from Wheeling.

Mr. Gallaher said the Fifth ward was undoubtedly having a considerable amount of sickness, more than other parts of the city. He once thought this might be due to the water, but he was now satisfied it was from lack of sewerage. He said he could count twenty-five privies in the alley back of him; and he thought the residents of the ward would be in danger until the sewer was built. He doubted if the sewage in Indian run would pollute the water supply, but thought it was much better to change the location of the water-works than to chance the system of sewerage. He said the Fourth ward sewer had been emptied into Indian run without a protest.

Mr. Walters said he wanted to state that that had not been done without a protest; that the water-works board had entered a formal protest against its being done.

Mr. Barnard said he decidedly protested against emptying the sewage into Indian run. "Why," said he, "I once had a man construct a mill race in this run, and the man came to me and said, 'Mr. Barnard, I think you are a great fool to put a race in such a place where I have to go to the river when I want to water my horse.' Now, a stream where a man could not water his horse for five weeks will surely not have water enough to carry away the sewage emptied into it."

Mr. Norton, city engineer, was called upon to make some statements in regard to