Show THE PUBLIC HEALTH ALTH RILL BILL ILL ILLI I N No M O WISER or more mOle beneficent legis legislation lee I Li lation has bu come COOM before the pros pres present ent legislature than Mouse house bill No 1 I wh b was w unanimously passed pe by the house last evening The bill bUl provides pr videe for tor the practical handling of conta rious diseases and for tor their proves prevention prey tion floe When it becomes a law as all w we have bave no doubt it will 1111 the state gov government ov emInent will be hO equipped equIp with a strong machine for tor the protection and betterment of the public health The bill bID provides for the increase of the salary of the tha secretary of the board ud i from 1000 to tEO MO annually Should I this bill become a law the tb total for fOI the board of health will wUl willbe willbe be about truly a very moderate sum Bum and insignificant when compared with the importance of the service to te tobe tebe tobe be rendered Such an ia appropriation means m an a tax of possibly 5 S cents centa per capita of or the t e states tate population It will enable the state board to employ a med mod medical medIcal ical health inspector and to send out outa a great amount of literature that can cannot cannot not pot but result ia la a corresponding lea les lessening of disease 4 The be provision for forthe forI forthe the increase of ot the salary alar I is particularly commendable ble and proper Dr T B Beatty whose stand tand tag ml aa as one of the ablest physic tans 15 ta In 10 the state is unquestioned has been beeD secretary of the board from front it ill Ita organization He lIe has ball done don donI I splendid service for the state ta and at a Ii salary eslary entirely tn inadequate to the responsibilities of the place plate from flOlD the altruistic motives mOtive that always alway control the real physician n His Ria great service nice niceto to the lbS tate state has bas been performed at an undoubted personal person i financial udal loss w Such Sucha a condition ee Uon the legislature ture should remedy The salary named in the bill btU billIs billis t tSa Is Sa none too high higa It may Y be too lit little t tie tle U but the secretary should ouid have at toast least 2 a year The TM bill biD should be r passed eel by III the tAle untO senate ate Just j as it If stands I I |