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Show STEPS 18 PBW University Regents Decii Exclude Persons AffecjBP With Tuberculosis. W, ll ORDER EMBRACES TEACBraP STUDENTS AND EWoSw Persons Afflicted Will Bn amined hy Board of ThrijS Physicians, The University of Utah is amoSt,! first schools in the country to SF' ficial and definite action to prevB spread of pulmonary tuberculosis; bill eluding from its classrooms sjSl ,t 1 buildings all persons who are ahoMifl a physical examination to be.a. i with tho disease. For j-ears theMl J been a strong sentiment iu VbxM t ion. but it was only at a mcetingM board of regents held WeduosdajMjf. noon that this action actually izod into an official order of thriBilv by a voto said to be unanimous. Bi The factor which brought on tKC. cussiou at tliis timo and which ijKi tho board to action was the deS Prof. Goorge Clayton Gilbert laaM . Ton days before his death MrflB1 wan among the students. It t?'B generally kuowu, however, untllBBftf' his death that he was afflicted wiM.U disease. Subsequent invcstFBtffa showed this to be the case. -F.iJ In acting iu this manner and iBf tuberculosis on the list which wflMli' after bar pcoplo from ennovmg UieBiM 1 leges of the institution, ttio reeenEitf that they should do this, as theiEid' a public duty lo perform in procHi the greater part of the people iMP" State from danger. Members ofKtf ! medical fnculty hold that pulaEL tuberculosis is a contagious discasflM it is oasily contracted, and thatMRS bo readily contracted in the Echo'oBf especially in winter, becauso of. isting conditions which it is almV" y, possible to obviate with so mmjN'jSi in the samo room. Complaints Were Made, The matter of first taking thig'B?. . was discussed by the regents laiB"" at their first meeting following tbMM of Professor Gilbert. Prom tES'1 sources, such ns the alumni asgotjBR tho faculty of the institution, pR and f rionds of the institution, BonjK-plaint BonjK-plaint had como concerning tho jSHi-i exposure of students in tho caseHRj fessor Gilbert nnd others in timeJHl the caso of Professor Gilbert b'eujMj most recent and most striking MHfj of his death after so short an uHS Also in the past there have bceomH dents at the institution whfrb 9H cated that sentiment favored onuiHj tion. Thus, in the case of Prof. GefiH R. Matliews, who was one ol. ftB beloved men in the institution1 'bwBl ISO 4 to 1S9P, it is understood tteK retirement followed because bfE known to be afflicted with tbe'Ajpi It was given out at that time'tJHn rotirod voluntarily because of uljHi It has been learned subscquenfHpi those at the head of the institntMHlf gested this action to eliminate tiH?! siblo contraction of the disease bjKL with whom Professor Mathews ;C4Bki contact. lm Protection of Students. Hf But in the protection of the.ijBg from this exposure, tho regenfjKTjt they arc doing nothing which. TtML be for tho best .interests of tliHL. flictcd with the disease. In aiEHLt this phase of the subject, DfP. mer, a member of the board of,Kp indicated that- it would only heK vated cases in which this actiosHKh be taken. He explained furtherH&, student afflicted and in the aoMfei stages of this disease needed tcHf) the fresh air, rather than in thBKj room, and that health was a majEJ1 first consideration, no matter IKll sirous the student might bo iKiT The action of the regents BimpljKt! tuberculosis alongside such otbtHk tagious diseases, as smallpox, dipK and scarlet fever, diseases wlilN generally recognized as dangerouBp public health. ?ATfc!l The committee appointed byj'Kj gents at the meeting in May nK: posed of the following: Dr.MBi G-. Plummer. chairman; Boss Aiflltiu R. W. Fisher. T. B. Beatty, R.Z ards and John Sundwall. 3rKd!j wall was subsequentlv excnSedKJS was compelled to bo absent frosflMrZ meetings. "lKfe Beport of Oommitteo.'B The report, which this commiijKf with the- regents, and which Blwta proved by that body on WodneAMi? as follows: 'KK TTo tho Honorable, the Board o'fHA of the University of Utah, BaSMni City, Utah: We, your committee. appolnted-B slrier regulations relating to tlteMj!'N tion of pulmonary tubcrculosfs'.JMR 5 University of Utah, beg leave -tdBPfai as follows- "Bt4 Whereas, pulmonary tuberculoBf tfe contagious and an Infectious :flFi j spread by means of tho score tloiiMIfc fa off from the respiratory paseaEMPte sons affected, and KBJNiw Whereas, the disease has bcenHk to exist among the teachers and of the University, and "'i'Hr Whereas, the presence of PiBfcSi affected Is a constant menacMp, health of thoso with whom tfUflMjT In contact; and further, that tJBH welfare Is endangered bv conflniMf,! doors, and .Ht Whereas, the disease can he:JH v by the exclusion of Infected pernH Jffl Wo respectfully recommend iM.-!; Board of Regents of tho UnlveW. Utah reserve the right to have eBRiy. by a committer or three of tnMRWj; clans of tho medical dcpartnientMfcM. University of Utah, any teach6rrHf"Ul or omployee believed to be suffo.njBfc pulmonary tuberculosis. And wMbr, recommend that the teacher, sWBSSl employe so affected bo allowed tBB t of an otitsldo physician lo be preBRlr take part In tho examination. HB And further, should the cxaniCJ disclose the presence of pulmonargfiS culosis the Board of Regents 'SL elude from the University of MBgJIi-from MBgJIi-from any and all of Its brancntf teacher, student, or employee so JBt No rule similar to this ,04eMi2! force in the public schools of SaRr Citv. although there is a KHHir which forbids the employment "BC1 ers in ill health. 'Ssj, No precedent for this action "(jvv schools iu the country was 1V0JB tho regents of the University as they did, but they felt hat duty to I he public dcinnnded 8Mjrj tion, though it be somewhat D01j |
