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Show IDAHO IS . IMPROVING SsssssaasiaBSSSMaaBaaaaasBSSBBSBI Bill Presented Creatine a " Board of Health for That State. A bill wlll.be introduced before the Legislature of Idaho this session creating creat-ing a board of medical examiners and, from all accounts, will be passed. Idaho la one of the three States in the Union that is without a board of medical examiners,' and the people of the State have come to realize the necessity ne-cessity of bavins; such a body to look after the sanitary conditions of the State. . The present bill has been under discussion dis-cussion for some time, but action in the matter was greatly stimulated by the recent outbreak of what was at first supposed to be "dob Itch" in a number of communities of the southern part of the State. : The Board of Health of this State pronounced the disease smallpox, and placed a quarantine on Idaho, and compelled the people in the afflicted districts dis-tricts to observe certain sanitary measures mea-sures before it would raise the quarantine. quaran-tine. Idahoans did not like to be dictated dic-tated to by another State, so they have concluded to create- a board - of their own. |