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Pu PROTECTION HOOK & LADDER CO. [Rochester, Indiana] See Rochester Fire Department PROTECTIVE MEDICAL SOCIETY [Rochester, Indiana] MEDICAL SOCIETY The Protective Medical Society of Fulton County, Indiana, is the name chosen by the physicians of Rochester who have formed themselves into a voluntary association for the protection of themselves and their patients. The officers of the society are Dr. C. E. Gould, president; Dr. H. W. Taylor, secretary and treasurer. The members already belonging are, Drs. M. O. King, I. L. Babcock, J. N. Rannells, F. P. Bitters, C. J. Loring, A. Brown, W. S. Shafer, this city, and F. C. Dielman, Fulton. Later it is the aim of the association to have every physician in the county join them and it is expected this step will be accomplished in a short time. At the society’s last meeting a uniform fee bill was adopted and the entire schedule will soon appear as an advertisement in The Sentinel. There has been no increase made in the prices, but it has been arranged that every member charge identically the same fee. On this subject one of the by-laws of the association has the following: The members of this association are to negotiate and maintain a more uniform system of practice, irrespective of schools of medicine for the mutual protection of all the members of the organization and for a more uniform method of collecting fees for services rendered. Under the rules of the society all patients who are indebted to any physician by choice and not by force of circumstances, shall be considered delinquent if they refuse to pay for or make satisfactory arrangements to pay. If delinquent by choice no further services will be rendered to the patient or their family by any of the physicians. The society meets once each quarter. [Rochester Sentinel, Friday, March 17, 1911] PROTSMAN, MRS. H. C. [Tiosa, Indiana] [Adv] New Millinery at Tiosa. I wish to announce to the Ladies that I have a complete stock of new millinery goods in all the latest styles in ladies’, misses’ and children’s hats which I can sell cheaper than city stores where rents and insurance is high. Call and see the stock before you buy. MRS. H. C. PROTSMAN. [Rochester Sentinel, Friday, April 28, 1893] PROVINES HARDWARE [Rochester, Indiana] HARDWARE SOLD A. E. Marx of Royal Center, owner of the Garn hardware stock on north Main street, sold it Wednesday morning to John Provines of Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. Marx will return to their home. [Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 22, 1916] PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE [Fulton County] See Ambulance Service See Physicians See Woodlawn Hospital PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE INAUGURATED IN 1893 By “Old Timer” The year 1893 stands out in the memory of olde residents as a very significant period in local history. With it came the so-called Cleveland panic, the Chicago World’s Fair, and the first effort to control public health by law. People growled about the panic, marveled at the fair, and became resentful when the law undertook the task of enforcing sanitation and the segregation of contagious diseases.
Pu Dr. J. N. Hurty had just received his commission as State Public Health impresario, and Dr. J. W. Irons, who came to Rochester from Logansport in 1892, received the appointment as health officer for Fulton County. Irons was a young man - bright, colorful, efficient. Though only a year in this community, he had managed to build a very promising medical practice. He scoffed at the claim that people “caught cold” in open wounds, and propounded the infection theory. He argued that “Grandma’s neighborly interest” in a case of scarlet fever or small pox next door, was all right from the neighborly standpoint, but very disastrous from the health angle. He concurred with Dr. Hurty’s theory that contagious diseases should be quarantined. And last but not least, he proposed to see that the practice of grocery and meat men to display their foodstuffs on the sidewalk in front of their stores - there to be at the mercy of flies, dust and germs, was wrong. Enforced Law The first phase of the new public health service was to order foodstuffs removed indoors. This started a storm of protest from dealers and public alike. A “crank” they called him, from Logansport was trying to put into effect a lot of citified ideas. Indignant, they refused to comply with the order. Refusal brought about several arrests and according to those who recall the occasion, there was cryptic reference to riding the new official out on a rail. But Doctor Irons stuck to his guns. It was a slow, heartrending ordeal to change the mind of a community, but when anger had subsided, and calm reflection came, the health program appeared in its true light. Gradually the information came, and providently it was continued, until no more do we see the open sugar and coffee barrel, the boxes of dried prunes, covered with dust, and the platetrs of butter and lard standing exposed to every predatory germ which chanced to float by. First Quarantine The first record of death in a quarantined home occurred in 1896, during an epidemic of scarlet fever. Prior to that time, an examination of the records of undertakers in Fulton county shows that 75 percent of the deaths recorded were those of children. This calls to mind the references by older residents to “Black Sunday” in January of 1874, when seven children were buried in I.O.O.F. cemetry in one afternoon, while diphtheria raged from one end of the country to the other. The toll of this black epidemic stands material witness to the ignorance of contagion in the public mind of that day. Sanitation Big Factor Noticeable, too, in the records pre-dating the innovation of the public health service, were the deaths by typhoid fever. Open wells, little or no regard for the proximity of stagnant water, seeping sewage and other health impairing agencies were responsible. To checkmate this, the Health Officers in regular succession since Dr. Irons have worked diligently to eliminate such conditions, and as a result typhoid has practically disappeared. Birth, Death Records Contrary to the general impression, birth and death certificates were not required by law until the act of 1899. Prior to that time - indeed as far back as the early 80’s there was some effort made to record the vital statistics of the county, but some physicians were lax in their attention to this, and the result was that many births and deaths were not officially recorded. But with the turn of the century things changed. Since that time the record is clear and authentic. A Debt to Irons That the people of Fulton county owe a debt of gratitude to J. W. Irons for the excellent work done can never by denied. The fact that his efforts to innovate a new and much needed control of the public health caused so much resentment that he was finally compelled to seek a new community in which to practice, is indeed an indictment against the sportsmanship and good judgment of those who whispered against him. Bur fortunately his work and his unyielding determination to educate the people along the lines of contagion, infection and sanitation fell to competent hands. In the years which have
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