THE MICHIGAN DAILY
JIll FAVIRING HEALTH
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WILL ALSO PROVIDE FOR STATE
ADVISORY COUNCIL AND FULL
TIME SALARIES
Lansing, March 10-Representative
George H. Townsend's bill to provide
for the creation of a state advisory
council of health and for the appoint-
'ment of county health officers in all
counties of the state at fixed, full time
salaries, will be reported out favorably
by the house health committee soon,
it is understood.
According to officials of the state
health department if the bill becomes
law the death rate in Miehigan from
communicable diseases would be cut
at least fifty percent.
Under the terms of the bill 41 health
officers would be appointed at salaries
of $3,000; 12 at $3,500; 2 at $4,000,
and 1 at $4,500. The total /cost in sal-
aries would be $177,500, one half of
which would be borne by the state and
the remainder by the counties employ-
ing the health officers.
Considerable interest in the pro-
posed measure is evident in capitol
circles. Supporters of the bill base.
their principal argument for its pas-
sage on a recent report prepared by
the state health department. Accord-
ing to figures listed there deaths from
communicable diseases have averaged
from twenty to more than 100 per-
cent higher in portions of the state
not having the services of full time
health officers than in the cities where
full time health officers are employed.
Under Rep. Townsend's law, they as-
sert, the percentage of deaths would
b e no higher in the country than in
the city, because of the enforcing
clause in the measure which compels
employmqit of a full time health offi-
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At present in Michigan there are
abo'ut 1,600 health officers, according
to Dr. Olin. Of this number very few
are employel full time and only about
600 of them are physicians.
SKYLIGHTS, NEW
PROBLEM BEFORE
RESEARCH BOARD
Investigation of the efficiency of
various kinds of skylights is the latest
problem which has come before the
University's industrial research de-
partment, maintained for the service
of state manufacturers and engineers.
Prof. H. H. Higbie, of the electrical
engineerinig department, has been
given charge of the experiment, which
will consist of testing different ar-
rangements and patterns of glass used
in skylights. The method of procedure
will be to place a light of a definite
intensity ,in a box and determine the
proportion of illumination coming
through the skylight, which will form
one side of the box.
Prof. A. E. White, head of the Uni-
versity's new department of industrial
research, is in receipt of a letter from
M. J. Murphy, of the Murphy Chair
company, of Detroit, giving the manu-
facturer's opinion of the- new depart-
ment. Mr. Murphy was greatly in fa-
vor of the idea of the co-operation of
university and manufacturing re-
search, saying that the industries of
Michigan should not be slow to take
advantage of this opportunity.
Experimental work on a new type
of compensator has just been com-
pleted by Prof. B. F. Baily, of the elec-
trical engineering department. This
problem was submitted to the indus-
trial research department by a Detroit
engineer.
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City News
E. H. Allmendinger, for many years
proprietor of a bakery at the corner
of Packard and Arch streets, has re-
sumed business at the old location.
The equipmen~t is all new, with a ca-
pacity of 500 loaves of bread a day.
The grocery store owned by Mr. All-
mendinger will be continued in con-
nection with the bakery.
A considerable quantity of merchan-
dise was recovered by the police from
behind the new University hospital on
Ann street Wednesday morning. The
goods, which include gloves, rugs,
linens and other furnishings, were
stolen from a Michigan Central freight
Car.
At a meeting of the building associa-
tion of the Chamber of Commerce held
at the Catalpa hotel Tuesday evening,
H. C. Prettyman was elected head of
the association for next year. Trus-
tees were chosen ands the deed to the
property recently purchased as a club
honu was acited .
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