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Equipment and Nature of Improvements in Condition or the Year 1906-Cont.

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Map showing location of Creameries in New Jersey, 1906.

Report of the State Board of Sanitary

Examiners.

BY A. C. Hunt, M.D.

To the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey :

GENTLEMEN-The law which inaugurated the licensing of health officers and sanitary inspectors was passed in 1903, and become operative January 1st, 1905. The act is found in chapter 215 of the laws of 1903. At a meeting of the Board of Health of the State of New Jersey, held December 18th, 1903, the following persons were appointed to serve as a board of examiners: William H. Murray, M.D.; M. N. Baker, C.E.; A. C. Hunt, M.D.; Mr. D. D. Chandler and Mr. D. C. Bowen. The board of examiners met for organization in Princeton, March 16th, 1904. At this meeting William H. Murray, M.D., was elected chairman and A. C. Hunt, M.D., secretary and treasurer. Topics were assigned to the various members of the board in order that each member might bear his full share in the preparation of questions to be presented to applicants for license at the examinations. The dates for the examinations were fixed for the first Wednesday of June and December in each year. At the meeting of the board of examiners held in Newark on May 4th, 1904, it was decided that a grade of seventy-five per cent. should be required of successful applicants, and the office of the board of health of the city of Newark was selected as the place in which the first examination should be held, on June 1st, 1904. Upon the above-mentioned date the examination was held, and ten applicants presented themselves. As a result of the examination the board presented to the State Board of Health the names of five persons as eligible to receive licenses as health officers, two as sanitary inspectors of the first class and one as sanitary inspector of the second class. Two of the applicants were rejected. The next examination was held by the board December 7th, 1904, and there were twenty-five applicants for license. Of this number seven were recommended for licenses as health officers and ten as sanitary inspectors of the first class. Eight applicants failed to pass the examination. At the examination held June 7th, 1905, forty-one applications were received and thirty-six individuals presented themselves for examination. Of this number six were recommended for licenses as health officers, twelve as sanitary inspectors of the first class, and one as sanitary inspector of the third class. Of those who were recommended to the State Board of Health as inspectors of the first class it was suggested that in one instance a special license be issued as to the qualifications of one of the inspectors for house to house inspection only, and in another instance the license was limited to proficiency in plumbing and drainage. Seventeen of the applicants failed to pass a

satisfactory examination. At the examination held December 6th, 1905, twenty-nine applicants were examined. Of this number six were recommended for licenses as health officer, and nine for sanitary inspectors of the first class. It was also recommended that a special license be issued to one of the applicants for meat inspection only. Thirteen of the applicants failed to pass the examination. A special examination of applicants for license to serve as meat inspector was held at the State House, March 20th, 1906. Three applicants presented themselves, and of this number it was recommended that two should receive licenses as meat inspectors. At a special examination held May 2d, 1906, two applicants presented themselves for examination, and after examining the papers presented the board recommended that one license as health officer should be issued and also one as sanitary inspector. At the examination held June 6th, 1906, thirty-one applicants presented themselves. Of this number seven were recommended for licenses as health officers, five for licenses as sanitary inspectors of the first class, and eight for licenses limited to plumbing inspection only. Eleven of the applicants failed to pass a satisfactory examination. The recommendations which have been made to the State Board of Health by the sanitary examiners have been concurred in by the State Board of Health, and up to the present time thirty-two licenses have been issued to health officers, thirty-nine to sanitary inspectors of the first class, one to sanitary inspectors of the second class, one to sanitary inspectors of the third class, three to meat inspectors, eight as plumbing inspectors, and one of the licenses was limited to house to house inspection. At the examinations thus far held a number of persons have presented themselves who were, on account of the lack of preliminary education, totally unfit to fill the positions for which they were applicants. It is evident from the experience thus far gained that in future some method of instruction must be provided if the class of men who are desiring positions of this character is to be further improved.

First Annual Conference of State and

Local Boards of Health.

HELD IN THE STATE HOUSE, TRENTON, OCTOBER 19TH AND 20TH, 1906.

In the program for the meeting the following announcement was

made:

"The activity of local boards of health in New Jersey in the enforcement of laws and ordinances for the protection of the public health varies from zero to a high degree of efficiency, and but little uniformity exists in the measures which are employed in the different sanitary districts. This great contrast in the operations of the different health boards is partly due to the lack of opportunity which has heretofore existed for comparison of views concerning common problems with the officials of other districts. The act approved April 8th, 1903, which provides that future appointees of local boards of health shall be qualified for the duties which they are expected to perform, promises to effect valuable improvements in the service, and annual meetings of these officers and other delegates from local boards of health, for the discussion of questions relating to their work, will tend to prevent the repetition of errors in administration and give to each individual the advantages which attend the experience of fellow-officials. Every municipality and every township should be represented in these annual gatherings by at least one delegate, for doubtless the most useful directions in which sanitary procedures can be applied will be pointed out, and suggestions from the most capable and progressive local officers will indicate the methods by which the highest degree of efficiency can be attained in promoting the public health."

The following act authorizing the conference was approved April 19th, 1906:

"1. The board of health of the State of New Jersey is hereby authorized to appoint a time and place for a conference, once in each year, between the members of said board and delegates from the various local boards of health in this State, for the consideration of questions relating to the prevention of the spread of dangerous communicable diseases and the promotion of the public health.

"2. Each local board of health is hereby authorized to appoint one of its members or officers or employes as a delegate from such board to attend every such annual conference, and the actual traveling and hotel expenses of each delegate so appointed shall be paid by the treasurer or other disbursing officer of the township or municipality within which such local board has jurisdiction, upon presentation by the delegate of a certificate of his appointment and a bill of his expenses duly verified by affidavit.

"3 This act shall take effect immediately."

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