Show I I I I II HEALTH BOARD DENIES PETITIONS Some Somo Earnest Discussion Indulged In Before Commissioners DU DR SPATES WISHES to 10 li II II lii of As stat stated t J In Saturdays Issue of lie News the county boArd of health met ant amid was In the midst of Its d de when hen our report cl closed Thu of the tho boards meetIng tas thu filIng of two petitions on one sent In iii front the principals of the county district and amid the tho other signed J by John 11 and other real rell dents dentt of the count county These The e petition In effect asked th the county board of health to modify or change Its order out about ChrIstmas time lime where bl b all children were nN to tobe tobe be excluded from the on antI and after atter January The petitIoners that out Of the school districts there twentythree how having not a 11 single Ingle case caM of SmallPox or other contagious within their borders antI they asked the bears tu to tomake make Its order apply alpy only to ta the thIr teems districts district affected rite fhe question the then II BrotH arose as to whether the county board change or modi modify modify fy Its lis order It if such In iii OilY any way WIY ar ury from ur or be contrary to lie State board of health order The State hoards boards ohler was read end and compared with the county boards or orIter orden den Iter which County Attorney Christen semi salt said were exactly one anti the same lime thing they both covered the same ground This left lie county count boon board discretion In the lie matter mattor as the tiie hat had simply acted In accordance with the State Stale boards In The board th thep n by unanimous vote ote denied the pa as to or changing the order that has hOIl gone forth forthA forthA A A port part of the petition signed anti sent In by School O Oscar Van Cott J It and Pe Ie Peter Ieter ter J called ailed the boards attn thon tu to time the fact that while children were excluded from the be because cause not vaccinated the they mIngled tu lu gether In dances s And other gatherings Mr Van on Cott asked ok privilege to speak peRk which was lie He in III substance said That the vac vaccination vaccination orders that had gone forth were Incon inconsIstent and unreasonable In that they sere at the Ito schools and wore vere impairing their work while the dances churchIll churches find amid all other kind of gatherings were allowed to run without molestation He that hat the dunces should If be first t the churches next the horns horn next und and the last he favored n a closing of at nil all these gatherings it If uny attempt was walt tobe to 10 be made to stamp out II pox lie HI sold said tie hI favored vaccination but he lid nl want Vahit to U the schools bear th this whole whale burden lIe also 1180 said the tho nation of the tho had aroused thit ordes were cre inconsistent Dr nUtt the did not desire to re the tho schoolS but what the they hall had done they hey thought was wall for the tho best Said that 1 lie e accorded with Mr lr Van Cotts Cotte views and faor favored vaccinating ever ery loan woman and chIld In the State Slate But ns as title this could not be clone Ione they had lone the lie next befit beat by vaccinating the tho school children would go n a long way toward eradicating the disease lie stated there hall had been Jeen about S throughout the State and anil the State board held that the whole State was wa infected and that the vaccInation or nr ller der should enforced 1 In ever die lie He said indIgnation hall had Hn been among th the people against vac and that claimed the dIsease was not smallpox but the he held It was which opinion ha ought to prevail lIe Ita stated thAt himself with others of th the State board had obtained assur anees from Snow that h lie favored efforts to check the disease and amid would prevent the opposition which Dr claimed was dl directed ted against the tue efforts Dr BeaUy In speaking characterized the opposItion that had hul arIsen to the boards orders as unlawful Chair nan Anderson of the count board against this AS tIme the order the people tIme the option or of ng n their children nut sending Item to school or ke ln them home hence henre there here could be nothing unlawful In the thelI lI of the tho parents Dr BenU Beatty od ad 1 that the executive committee of the State board loard or of health issued the order and sent It out before the board hall hail ratified It and County Count ChrIstensen 11 was asked to give Ithe its hili opinion later on us as to whether this was WIS binding before ratificatIon After the thc tort foregoing matters hati been determined the question ot of th the count taking some action lookinG to towan wan aard th the ot of dances dancH rod soci titles and other gatherings In In accord moo Ance with the of the tue petitIoners was taken uit anti and discussed resulting In n n a consisting of the count and nd Dr Anderson I he heng ng appointed with power to net his will investigate this formulate rules to prohibit uch gatherings If possible The cent rate for vuc OC mating or of indigent parents a extended to 1st which Ihl he county will Jf pay payIn In addition to the members member of the there were pre present ent about thirty county trustees who ho sere not at all leased with the action token taken on theIr They ma may take the mutter nto court and n a meeting has hall been hued for tor morning ot at Murray t which this phase of the tho question will be nr Ir Beatty one statement that I S of at unusual Interest to the people of If which Wl Wa that the State board of f health internist to continue Its of et orts until every person In the StAte was rae vaccinated lIe He held hehl that the tate boards order applied to a county It t there was waa no smallpox In that ty I as they considered the whole State Stat l anti the order should apply throughout the State |