] Illinois Opens War
on Venereal Diseases
Springfield, 111.—What is declared
bv members of the state health advis- j
ory commission to be the most drastic)
and advanced set of rules for the con
trol and suppression of venereal dis
eases existent in any state in the Union
was promulgated for Illinois here to
day by Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state
director of public health.
Under authority granted the state
director of health by the legislature,
the rules have the authority of law
and are backed up by a penalty clause
which subjects violators to a fine of
$200, a jail sentence of six months, or
both. The rules give specific legal
background to the campaign against
venereal diseases being waged by
Health Commissioner Bundesen of Chi
cago, and give authority to city and
county health departments to go even
further in attempting to eradicate
■ syphilis and gonorrhoea than Dr. Bun
desen has attempted to go.
The three regulations which make
the most drastic changes in the old
venereal dieease rules are. in summar
ized form, as follows:
All persons who have exposed tbein
selves to venereal disease but who are
not found to be infected, may be held
by local health authorities as l'sus
, pected contacts” for the period of in
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cubatiOD of the suspected disease—ten
days in the case of gonorrhea, aod 30
days when syphilis is suspected.
Refusal of a suspected person to sub
mit to examination by health authori
ties “shall he prima facie proof that
such person is infected and shall au
thorise and justify quarantine and iso
lation of anv such persou aod the
placarding of the premises,” another
rule states.
No physician or other person shall
issue certilica.es of freedom from ve
nerea! diseases to any person known to
be or suspected of practicing prostitu -
tion, under another rule. Under paiu
of revocation of their licenses to prac
tice medicine, this third rule will put
an end to the lucrative practices of
some physicians of examining inmates
of disorderly houses “at so much a
f
head and issuing health certificates to
them,"1"
Rule 7, which gives authority to
health officers to deal with “suspected
coutacts,” is as follows:
“Any person known to be a common
prostitute ... or any man con-'
sorting with a common prostitute or]
inmate of a house of ill fame caught in i
association with a common prostitute |
or inmate of a house of ill fame shall be
deemed to be a suspected case of ve
nereal disease or an infective carrier.”
Names, addresses, sex, age, color,
marital oondition. occupation, and the
uame and address of the infected per
son's employer, must be given under
the new rules.
Druggists who sell preparations for
the cure of vonereal diseases are re
quired. under rule-8, to report by name
ar.d address purchasers of such pre
parations, unless the purchase is ac
companied by a physician’s prescrip
tion.
Under rule 17 local health authori
ties raav define the limits of the area
in which diseased persons are to be iso
lated This rule also specifies that such
persons may not handle foodstuffs,
work in a barber shop, or practice
1 medicine, dentistry or nursing.
H. Moses, a well known Juneau
trader, was in receipt of a letter re
cently from a brother in Germany, who
deplored the fact that lie owed the sum
| of 0,000 marks and was unable to meet
the obligation. As the present value
of the German mark is somewhat de
flated, Mr. Moses forward to his brother
from a Juneau bank New York ex
change to the volue of-$200, and as one
dollar of the American money pur
chases 1.000 marks, less than four dol
lars of the remittance will pay the debt
h is German brother owes, and the lat
ter will have something like .'514,000
marks left after discharging the debt.
Mr. Moses also sent an American draft
for 8100 to a niece in Germany, recent
ly, and she wrote him that she is now
looked upon there as an heiress.
Assistant District Attorney E. B.
Collins, who returned to Fairbanks a
few days ago from an outing in the Cir
cle district, reports that conditions are
looking good over that way, but there
is a very apparent need of more and
better roads. With improved trans
portation conditions Mr. Collins be
lieves the district would forge ahead
rapidly, as there are large areas of
good ground there awaiting develop
ment There were nearly twenty guests
at the Circle Hot Springs when he left
the resort, and there were more com
ing. The place has been well filled all
winter.
Dr. W. F. Green
McGrath, Alaska
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