The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 18, 1938, Page 3

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1938. EIGHT NEW COMMUNICABLE DISEASES ‘COUNCIL KILLS LIQUOR MEASURE (Continued zrom Page One) THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ! [rene TING TAN NATE. WASHINGTON NOTES SOSOOSEASSSSSSSOHSSSSSOSH SE SOLOS SESSSSSSSSOESEOED OIL SECRET REPORTED AT COUNTY HEALTH UNIT (By MISS NORMA DIAZ) The Monroe County Health unit, with Dr. J. B. Parramore, director, and Miss Norma Diaz, R.N., Public Health nurse, report the following activities for the month of January: New communicable diseases: Gonorrhea Syphilis, Tuberculosis, 1. Chickenpoz, 4. Diagnostic service, tions, 0. Epidemiological investigations, 8 consulta- Food handlers certificates is- sued, 13. Immunizations, Diphtheria, 48. Smallpox, 47. Public Health lectures, 2. Releases to press, 6. Schick tests: Positive, 18; neg- 58; no reading, 2. Specimens to laboratory, 20. Visitis to T.B. cases, 17. Visitis to communicable diseas- es. 36. Visits to schools, 23. Physical examinations Parramore, 60. Ingpections by Miss. Diaz, nurse. 193. Visits to homes,by nurse: Infants, 23. > Preschéolchildren, 2 School childrenp4. Diphtheria, 1 Chickenpox, 12. Midwives, 4 The Health Department is glad te renort there were no cases of diphtheria reported and the o1 ease that was carried from 1937 was discharged by the attending phvéician. Chickenpox was pre- valent the first two weeks but by the ‘end of the month most of thesé were discharred and re- turned to school. The principals of our schools have been very co- operative with the Health Depart- ment in reporting communicable diseases to us, also in arranging for immunizations, \ physical ex- aminations and exclusions from school for pediculosis or head lice, stabies, otherwise known as itch, ete. Classes in Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick, for the High School girls, are still in session. Literature on communicable dis- eases. prenatal and infant care and also on syphilis, has been giv- en to thé girls as reading matter. Prenatal “clinics -held at the Health Department this month were four, attendance 11. At these clinies, Dr. Parramore gives them a@ complete physical examination and takes their blood pressure and a specimen of blood to be ex- amined for syphilis. These moth- ers are visited in the home all during their prenatal period and advice given as to their general health habits, care of the infant layettes, baby’s bed and toilet tray. This month there were sev- en visits made to expectant moih- ers and sixteen visits to newly delivered mothers and their ba- bies. ative, by Dr. e the part taken in making a suc- cess of the scouts” er Three venereal cases were ad-' during, Scout Week. mitted, all of which are taking; Considerable discussion was en- treatment under Dr. J. B. Parra- z 5 lative to premiums more at the weekly venereal clin- ee ap ffici t ie on Wednesdays from 9 to 19|0% bonds of former officials no! a. m. Twelve home visits have having been paid to the bonding been made to cases concerning companies, who are endeavoring the importance of taking regular tg collect the amount due. The treatment. These patients have foeen notitied that ynleas Cheep sec] Dntet Wee Sennen be Se proper | port for treatment every week, a Committee for investigation. communicable disease sign will Fresh Water Proposition have to be posted at the house as'- A communication was read a quarantine. Thirty-seven treat- from J. Homer Sanford of New ments were given at the clinics York stating that he would like this month. é Treatments for trachoma on ‘ have the opportunity of mak- children are given on Saturdavs ing a survey of conditions of Key at 9 a. m. It is a disease of the West relative to the possibility of that usually starts as eranu-' grilling for fresh water. Mr. San- °y lation of the eyelids and if not ‘rd statin that bee bon name: taken care of will turn into tra-| . had choma. This is a communicable siderable experience along these disease and usually the child, lines, and stated that he may be when in school. has to be exclud- @ble“to solve the city’s problem ed until the physician has dis- for a supply of underground fresh charged him as cured. Six treat- Water. The matter was referred ments have been given during the = the Se Commission for month by the Health Officer. its, consideration. E Our midwife meeting this Dog and Bicycle Ordinances month was held on January 24° An ordinance restricting the at the Health Department, with Tunning of dogs on the strects, Miss Norma Diaz, R.N., presiding. unless they be carried on a leash, General discussion on birth cer | Was passed. This ordinance pro- tificates and their importance was| Vides that any dog caught run- our main topic. Each midwife in| ning loose will be impounded, Monroe County makes out the and will be released upon the birth certificate and takes it down Payment of a fee of one dollar for to ‘the registrar's office in Key | each day that it is held. In the West. A birth certificate is later event the dog is not called for sent to the parents from the Bu-/ after three days, it will be ex- reau of Vital Statistics, Jackson-| terminated by the city. A dog* ville, Fla. If this certificate is not | catcher is to be appointed’ and received, get in touch with the| paid twenty-five éents a head for registrar or the Health Depart- all dogs brought in. ment. An ordinance was also passed Florida’s motto for January, | fixing a fifty cents license for the 1938, was: One hundred percent | operation of bicycles. It provides Rirth Registration for 19387. that a tag must be displayed to There are many babies born that, denote that the required license do not have a birth certificate | has been paid. . made. Each baby’s birth should Key West Harbor Fund be recorded immediately by the A resolution was adopted, cop- registrar of births and parents ies of which will be sent Senators should make sure that it has been Pepper and Andrews and Con- attended to in the place where gressman Wilcox, relative to an they live. These certificates are appropriation for Key West har- then registered in the Bureau of bor. It was shown that $30,000,- Vital Statistics in Jacksonville for 000 had been recommended in the future reference, Complete and federal budget for improvements accurate birth registration is to rivers and harbors throughout needed for the efficiency of the | the country, and the resolution in . community’s organization and question calls on these represen- protection of child life: Birth cer-| tatives to make every effort pos- tificates are used in many prac-' sible to secure a portion of this tieal ways, such as: fund for improvements to Key 1. *To prove age and legitimacy | West harbor. of heirs. . | T. E. Price, attorney for Sam 2. Proof of citizenship and de Anderson, owner of Trumbo Is- scent in order to vote. land, addressed the council rela- 3. Establish the right of admis-| tive to the assessment on the sion to the profession and to, property at this time, which he j President Roosevelt says data from the Interior Department on During the testimony of Admi- ral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, Representative Church of Illinois wanted to know the nation’s oil reserve is “some- what more alarming” than he had believed, indicating a supply cap-| What matters were discussed by’ table of meeting demand only un-;an American naval officer in | til. November, 1941, and that to; London. The Admiral refused to |meet expected demand for the| answer the question at a public {next twenty years will require the} S€ssion because secrecy was of | discovery of 28 billion barrels of} vital importance to the interest new oil. TOWNSEND Dr. Francis E. Townsend, advo- eate of Old Age pensions, must serve a thirty-day jail sentence imposed after his conviction last March on a charge of contempt of the House, unless the Supreme Court consents to review his case. Dr. Townsend walked out of a House Committee hearing on May 21; 1936. FREEDOM Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, who led the Filipinos in a revolt against the United States after the Spanish-American War, will come to the United States this year to urge immediate and com: plete independence for the Is. lands. While suggesting a ten- year reciprocal trade agreement, the General wants complete free- jdom immediately even if the; trade concessions are not allowed. } He admits that the Islands might} face foreign invasion after achiev-} ing their independence. LEAVE CHINA | * The withdrawal of the Fif-; teenth American Infantry from; North China, after twenty-fiv years’ service in that country, may please the statesmen but the! doughboys find living in China pleasant. “Each enlisted man 'hires a servant for about $3 a month and the shining of shoes, polishing of brass and the clean- ing of rifles is an easy matter. JAP FISHING A dispatch from Mexico says that the Government has hired Japanese fishing experts to inves- tigate the fishing possibilities off the east coast, near the Texas border. Japanese fishing activity on the west coast of Mexico has been going on for many years and ;Tecently Japanese activity around Alaska has been the cause of strenuous protests at Washington. ‘The Japanese fishing methods are {said to threaten the extinction of | Salmon fishing in some Alaskan ; Waters. t ——s | The fifty-nine cents dollar is many public offices. stated was way in excess of its’ now four years old, having come 4. As evidence of legal age to/ true valuation. } into being on January 31, 1934, marry. 5. Todetermine the liability Trumbo Island Assessment The present assessment on the | when a presidential proclamation reduced the weight of the curren- of parents for the debts of a mi- | island calls for the payment of ' cy from 25.8 grains of gold to 15 nor. | about ten thousand dollars in tax- 6. In the administration of es- | es per annum, and Mr. Price stat-} $5-21. This raised the price of gold from $20.67 to $35 an ounce. tates,.the settlement of insurance ed that he felt that about one- | Thus, $4.033.000,000 of gold stocks and pensions. 7. In the enforcement of laws third of this amount would be more reasonable. To be exact, became $6,829,000,000. The pres- tent monetary gold stock in this relating to education and to child Mr. Anderson is willing to pay $2,- | country amounts to $12,755,000,- Jlabor. ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS | Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional a cre The brief convention,of ‘little business” men at Washington— called there at the request of the Preside@t, who said that_he want- ed the Views of ordinary, run-of- the-mill industrialists—“began in turmoil and finished the same way”, as the Portland Oregonian put it. Proceedings on the floor of the convention took on the na- ture of a riot, with scores of men all trying to speak at the same time. As a result, newspaper headinies very naturally treated the meeting as something of a joke. This was unfortunate—for, after the leveler heads among the naged to assume 3 reure of con’ over the rict- and the convention committ delegates mes ere was di- to deal ic anestios © needuced of treme Te he of Admin he Iavite Neat hausiness number influence ntended ean small busi Jidlw aligned behi ministration and its economic objectives ald disoute o that re Up hat conten- s gone a lon that their aside strong made up of rnational Problems Insep- Frow Local Welfare men who are representative of small business sentiment in this country—the delegates came from all sections of the country, and represented concerns grossing anywhere from $10,000 a year to $1,000,000. By and large, the convention's final reports contain ed direct and aggressive criticisr of the New Deal. Futhermore, the New Deal policies they criti cized most zealously are precise- ly the policies that have been con demned by large’ business. Ex amples. Th repe its tax of the ca convention demanded the of the istributed prof- d radical modification 1 tax—the two ing to big ‘esponsible and the or rigid or Act Labor and passage of a lav steel, automobile and that government th business be ocated a policy of its place mething that large been asking for four de nvention 2 less {such as that gov e low-interest loans were 900, which he feels is the proper amount, Mr. Price stated, and added that in this event he would pay the taxes at once. The coun- cil agreed to take the matter up for further consideration. themselves as being favorable ® the propositién and the matter was referred to the printing com- mittee for further consideration. The world’s fargest fruit juice plant is to be built in Honolulu lat a cost of $1,250,000. It will spec- ialize in the canning of pine apple juice. Payrolls of steel industry hit a new peak of $976,000,000 in 1937. 16 percent above the 1929 level. to small businesses). Further, speeches made on the floor of the convention were often strongly critical of the Administration, and, in some cases, of an outright denunciatory character. In brief. if, as it is supposed to be, this convention was honestly repre- sentative of American industry on its lower economic levels, the New Deal is definitely unpopuier. The, convention's reports have j H eae | . HOMES The new housing bill is expect- | ed to spur construction of around 700,000 small dwellings a year for the next five years. The shortage of small homes has been accentu- ated during the past few years and some economists think that home construction may have great effect upon the employment situation. RIP-ROARING The conference of small busi- nessmen was a rip-roaring affair, with sharply worded ‘resolutions toned down before being present- ed to the President. However, the attitude of the representatives of small business was something of a surprise to Administration officials. POEMS WANTED For New Anthology of American Verse Prizes offered. Manu- seripts also considere for book publication. Write: AMS EDITOR, 62 Grand Central Annex, New York, N. Y. KEY WEST PARK ——————_ LAST Shows—Rides WEEK nea Mabelle Mack's Trained Mule and Wild West Circus Jimmy and Alice Foster of Ken Maynard's Western Movie Star troupe—im trick and fancy roping —A SHOW YOU SHOULD SEE— and defense of the United States. Later, in an executive session, the matter was expiained. BANNED The War and Navy Depart- ments are preparing general or- ders to describe defense works and equipments which must not be pictured or described. The re- cent act of Congress perplexed ; Photographers who are fearful of imprisonment if they stumble on! the wrong picture. A list of pro- hibited zones and equipment is expected to be made public with- in the next few days. Cunningham takes Wannamak- r mile at Millrose meet before 16,000; his time is 4:11. The Great Wall of China has more bricks in it than all the buildings in Great Britain. Human beings breathe out enough carbon every hour to make a 100-carat diamond. Many deep sea fish have phos- phorescent organs which serve to give light around them and at- | tract prey. Dickens’ father was a clerk in the Navy pay office. The motive force of the flying fish comes sole from the tail. During the rainy season, bam- boo will grow as much as a foot a day. The first baseball league was formed in New York in 1857. ceccccsccecs Deliciously Fresh! — TRY IT TODAY — STAR > BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS TEXACO FIRE CHIEF GASOLINE PAUL’S TIRE SHOP Cor. 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