Number SUMMARY OF WORK DONE IN DISTRICT NO. 3 From July 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 45 General sanitary surveys of cities and villages 29 Special sanitary surveys nuisances, toilets, etc. 40 Special surveys in re health organizations 4 Special surveys lumber camps 8 Special surveys vital statistics 18 Special surveys investigations venereal cases 2 Special surveys prosecutions venereal cases 6 Special surveys investigations influenza 40 Special surveys investigations diphtheria 28 Special surveys investigations diphtheria deaths 18 Special surveys investigations smallpox 21 Special surveys investigations scarlet fever 14 Special surveys infantile paralysis 3 Special surveys meningitis 17 Special surveys typhoid fever 10 Special surveys calls for diagnosis 1 Special survey of maternity home 8 Special surveys meetings, boards of health, etc. 23 Special talks parent-teachers meetings, etc. 1 Special investigation suspected disease in cheese maker 3 Special investigations nuisance at cheese factories 1 Special prosecution slaughterhouse 12 Special surveys rural and other schools 4 Special surveys of disease in schools, itch, etc. 1 Prosecution for not reporting disease 12 Special conferences and health meetings attended 1 Special investigation tuberculosis in paper mill 1 Special investigation chicken-pox in schools Special schick test and toxin-anti-toxin in four communities 12 Special county health committee meetings attended 20 Special talks in schools 1 Special county nurse investigations 2 Special investigations t. b. in schools 1 Inspection pea cannery 1 Special survey in larger city 40 Special visits to perfect health organizations Number SUMMARY OF WORK DONE IN DISTRICT NO. 4 From July 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 49 Surveys boards of health, meetings, organizations, etc. 16 Inspections, school buildings with health officer 7 Surveys of school toilets with health officer 12 School surveys with county superintendents of schools 9 School surveys with school boards 13 Schools surveys with county nurses 3 School surveys with teachers 17 Attendance county committees on health 60 Assisted health officer in diagnosis or quarantine 3 Special investigations with county nurses 23 Special conferences with committees 29 Special meetings with town and village boards and city councils 3 Sessions with Red Cross sections 3 Sessions with associated charities 4 Farmer institutes 1 Investigation city water supply 1 Investigation sewage construction 2 Investigations baby farms 1 Investigation lumber camps 1 Investigation defective death certificates 1 Investigation health of school bus driver 2 Investigations health board organization 3 Investigations complaint of neglected children A-1 Number of schools where children were examined. 37 817 Venereal cases committed to state institutions by order of court 16 15 Venereal Cases Investigated Resulting in conviction for incests. Aided physician in diagnosis Number of schick test examined Annual school meetings Public Addresses Teachers institutes and school board conventions Training schools Schools-common, high, parochial, academies, normals Public meetings Nurses training schools Hospital medical staff County fair at fair grounds County medical societies Nurses training school W. A. T. A. Meeting of butchers Committees on public affairs Talks to county boards State board exhibits at fair grounds Insanitary drill grounds Nuisances Investigated Slaughterhouses 1 Creamery and cheese factories Stock yard Insanitary buildings Cesspools Municipal dump Manure piles City sewage Standing pools Insanitary barn yard Insanitary hide house Defective sewer Restaurant waste Smoke nuisance 13 4 1 5 1 Heads of families for not reporting communicable diseases For practicing illegally as midwife Midwife for failing to use prophylactic in eyes of baby at birth Aided dairy and food inspectors in prosecution 33661122 Miscellaneous Aided in establishing city water and sewer system. Circularized three counties with circulars on communicable diseases. Aided in forming milk ordinances in two cities. Made seven local health surveys. Survey of all rural schools is Eau Claire, Monroe, Pepin and Jackson counties. Survey of antitoxin in stations of 4th sanitary district. Survey of Winnebago Indian settlement. SUMMARY OF WORK DONE IN DISTRICT NO. 5 From July 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 Nature of Survey General sanitary surveys of health units General surveys of slaughterhouses Special surveys of slaughterhouses Special surveys toilets, sewers, nuisances, etc. Specail surveys polluted water supplies Special surveys for influenza Special surveys for typhoid carriers Special surveys for tuberculosis Special surveys for venereal diseases Special surveys for diphtheria Special surveys for scarlet fever 37 4 1 3 11 12 9 18 39 33 9 29 The following is a tabulation of the diphtheria antitoxin, tetanus antitoxin, smallpox vaccine and anti-meningitis serum distributed by the State Board of Health during the calendar years of 1920 and 1921: REPORT OF THE BUREAU OF SANITARY July 1, 1920 to June 30, 1922 On page 130 of the State Board of Health report for the biennium ending June 30, 1920, a definite program for future development in the control of public water supplies, sewerage and waste disposal was outlined. This provided for quarterly inspection of all public water supplies secured from surface sources or depending upon purification, annual inspection of supplies from shallow wells and biennial inspections of deep well supplies. Sewage treatment plants were to be investigated once each year where there was not careful local supervision and otherwise as frequently as necessary to secure effective results. Specific complaints in regard to industrial wastes were to be investigated and where there was apparent serious stream pollution, voluntary investigations were to be made. The 1921 legislature, however, failed to make the additional appropriation necessary to carry out this program as a result of which the work has fallen far short of the aim therein outlined. Notwithstanding this handicap, there has been considerable progress. Essential improvements have been made on a number of public water supplies and in some instances new supplies have been developed. No constructive work has been done to secure effective operation of sewage disposal plants nor in regard to the disposal of industrial wastes. All complaints have been investigated, but in many cases, not as promptly as is desirable. In general, it may be stated that while specific complaints have been investigated, little constructive work has been done. Personnel Our regular personnel has consisted of State Sanitary Engineer, Chemical Engineer and Secretary. Accumulated funds allowed the employment of an additional engineer during the summers of 1920 and 1921, but not for the year 1922. Summary of Work Done A complete tabulation of the work done and activities of the Bureau of Sanitary Engineering may be found in the appended tablespublic water supplies, Table II; sewerage, Table III; industrial wastes, Table IV; plans approved, Table V. A summary and classification of the activities, however, is given in Table I below: |