Show HEALTH LEAGUE IS ORGANIZED Aggressive Branch of National Movement Is Successfully Launched in Utah TO FOSTER LOCAL CLUBS AND PROMOTE LEGISLATION TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC The organization of ot the Utah Health 4 League was perfected at a meeting held in n the lecture room of ot the Packard lib library library last night Judge W H King who was to have hae presided over the destinies of ot the league eague was waa unable to be present on account of ot sickness and Dr J I E Tal Tat Talmage Talmage mage filled the vacancy very ery capably Tho The constitution ond and bylaws were adopted and nine directors were elected The following are the directors who vho are given power to choose their officers and conduct the entire affairs of ot the W V H King Kins J E Talmage John Dern Heber Beber J Grant M S Browning of ot Og Ogden Ogden Ogden den C A S F P E Clark of ot Logan Senator J A Hyde of ot Nephi and Mrs M N MA NA A Empey of ot Salt Lake The constitution provides pro ides that the dues for members shall be 2 initiation fee and 12 Z 2 annual contribution The object of ot the league shall shan be the promotion of ot the tho pub public public public lic health It t shall shan study the sanitary questions and needs of ot the state shall shan assist In ire securing the enactment and en enforcement enforcement enforcement of suitable laws for the pro pre prevention of ot disease and shall shan further the dissemination of ot information relative to o othe the public health It shall shan aid in the movement to establish a national bureau of ot health and shall and foster local ocal health organizations as branches of the parent league throughout the state A local league may be bo organized in any an city town or precinct of ot the state by fiVe or moro more contributing members bj by b adopting a constitution and bylaws no not inconsistent with the constitution and by br bylaws bylaws laws of ot the parent league Arguments in favor tavor of ot laws Jaws providing for health and the prevention of disease were w re delivered by members of the league last night The foIling laws were endorsed an their adoption by tho the legislature urged by the league Expectoration law licens licensIng licensIng Ing ins and regulation of ot dairies tuberculin testing of dairy cows COWl regulation for tor the prevention of ot blindness law to prevent I the sale of Impure ice Ic Rev Re E I Goshen was a the first speaker j He lIe brought forward statistics to show t what had been accomplished for public health In the past few centuries He lie showed that the death rate in Panama In under the French was in the thousand and under American govern government government ment It was only 33 per thousand Mr Ir Goshen condemned the sloppy and un unsanitary unsanitary unsanitary sanitary condition of or the streets during four or five of or the year and also alsot t 1 condemned the habit of ot expectoration in inthe inthe Inthe the streets of or the city I 1 Dr F E Z Jones Jonell spoke generally along the lines on which the league had been organized He said that legislators were J more concerned about the protection 01 ot of animals than their own and their neigh neighbors neighbors neighbors bors families He contended that the state of ot Utah should employ the entire time of ot one man to look after the health of ot the state Ho held that the public health was of ot more importance than the flocks and herds In the state He urged the prohibition of ot milk He spoke for tor a more moro sanitary condition in cow barns barn and cow yards ards He Ho said that contaminated water should be prohibited water from the ditches and shallow wells Dr William C Ebaugh who is at the head bead of the department of ot chemistry was the last speaker and read a most practical practical I heal paper on the relation of chemistry I to public health laying special emphasis nn en water supply and Its preservation from impurities and contamination |