Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1915 — DR. HURTY NOT TO VISIT RENSSELAER [ARTICLE]

DR. HURTY NOT TO VISIT RENSSELAER

Writes City Health Officer He Is Sure His Work Is All Right and Recommends Vaccination. Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, who had been askfid by the school board to visit Rensselaer and pass judgment on the measures of prevention againkt a spread of the smallpox, (will not come here at this time as was expected, but instead has written letters to George A. Williams, of the school board, and Dr. M. D. Gwin, secretary of the city, board of health, in which he expresses confidence that the local health authorities will handle the situation all right and stating that unless called by the local heath officer he will probably not come.

The cogent argument of Dr. Hurty was for widespread vaccination as the only sure means of eradication and he said that unless this was done there was reason to expect that the disease would linger here all through the. winter and might develop in a serious form. Dr. Hurty went so far as to encourage the passage of a compulsory vaccination ordejr by the city council and that an appropriation be made by the council for free vaccination as ah emergency. No new cases are reported today and the five cases in four families in Rensselaer are all substantially well and will be out within a few days. Notwithstanding this fact it is wished to impress the fact on every person that the certain plan of preventing the spread is through vaccination and all should have this done, young and • old alike.