Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1904 — About Consumptive School Teachers. [ARTICLE]

About Consumptive School Teachers.

State Board of Health Bulletin Dr. I. M. Washburn, Health Offioer of Jasper county, writes: 'A young lady ha ing tuberculosis wishes to teaoh school. What is the law upon the subject?’’ There is no law whioh direotly forbids the employment of school teaohers affected with tuberculosis. There is, however, a law whioh says that persons having any infectious disease whioh is listed in the Rules of the State Board of Health shall not be allowed in the sobools. These diseases are listed in Bale 12, Book of Instructions, page 45: Rule 12 The infectious and contagion- dis-ens-e which shall be imm-diat \ rep rted 'o Officer Moving j.iri-dipfioH are hereby d--*: la red to On yellow fever, smallp' x. dhole* I '-*, membrau -us croup, scarlet i-ver, typhus f-ver, tvphoid fev*r, bubonic plague, 1-prosy and pulmonary consumption. Pulmonary consumption and typhoid fever shall not be quarantined, as *hey are to be reported for record only. Connty Boards, also City and Town Boards, have power to pass ordinances whioh would oover this matter. Any County Board may formally pass an order forbidding the employment of teaohers having tuberculosis or any transmissible disease. There would be jood reason for Buoh an order, because it is oontrary to the beet inprests of any person to be a teaoh* w who has a ohronio ailment or an infeotious disease- Ic is also clearly against the best interests of the pnpils and the community. Sick persons oannot possibly be good teaohers. A professional teacher who has tnberouloeis has our fullest sympathy, but it is not sympathy whioh governs in this instance.