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Expect increase The Ac an e Press Wednesday February 2 1972 per cent abnormal TB RD tests reveal This Christmas Seal campaign compares favorably contributions but more is needed This was the report of choir man of the 1071 Christmas seal campaign at the regular monthly of the and Res pirator Disease Association held recently in the board room of the Oak villi Trafalgar Memorial Hospital respirator diseases to their fiht against TB the and Association has taken on and expense in its efforts to help people suffering from diseases of the respirator particularly in the anas of bronchitis and ma Over 10 per cent Urea lest accomplishment has been demonstrated in an extensile propam of Pulmonary Function Testing a continuing program of the association The unit has visited industrial firms throughout Halton County testing employees in order to detect abnormalities in the respiratory system As a result unsuspected cases been detected and referred to the individual s doctor The testing is done free A trained technician has been imploed the Association to conduct this lecliniuui conducting the testing program reports that to the end of 1795 tests hid been conducted in Halton County Of over per cent indicated Mine form of abnormality in breathing These were all referred to the individual s doctor for further testing to dttect any possible disease and for treatment by the doctor Mrs Brown stressed that the purpose of the test is not to diagnose but rather to detect any abnormality in the breathing pattern She also observed that in the areas where the greatest number of abnormalities were tht environment and working conditions were generally dirt and dusty that the persons involved were older in age and were mostlj medium to heavy smokers Take tour January meeting of the Association was held in the Oak Hospital in order that the Hoard of Directors could be conducted on a tour of the Inhalation Department Charles Chief Respiratory Technologist of the Hospital conducted the tour and explained the function of the equipment used in inhalation therapy He pointed out that some of the equipment in use was donated by the Halton Couit TB Association Mr Ludlow commented that the work of the Association was proving Education mill rate may be up two mills TICKLE BOX by Ted Trogdon Municipalities In Halton County can expect an increase in their mill rates of about two mills for education purposes Bill told a press conference Wednesday that the two mill increase was only a personal guess is finance chairman for the Halton County Board of Education He said expenditures at the secondary school level were expected to increase by about eight per cent and by about 11 3 per cent in the elementary school system Ceilings set down by the provincial government will allow per pupil costs in the elementary panel to rise by per pupil from had no control over the factor or the municipal apportionments to and at the secondary level by from to 100 Grant structure said provincial Two problems that could grants would be weighted this hamper the board are the year taking Into consideration availability of grants in March areas with fluid population and salary negotiations special education especially Priestner told reporters that If small board depressed areas the grants t available by those with old buildings and March It could alter the board allowances for experienced staff schedule Halton will benefit a little from grants for an experienced staff and because of the fluid population explained municipal levies were calculated on the provincial equalized assessment factor He explained the board During an open board meeting Wednesday the board reviewed the budget Trustees learned expenditures had come to within per cent of the projections for that year ITie net for the year was 264 Decide In February from Family Planning Snowmobile ban delayed Snowmobilers won be forced off county roads for another month anyway A by law banning them was deferred for one month when County Council met Tuesday of last week Prior to the county council meeting a delegation of from Hornby and had met with the roads committee asking that three roads and especially be exempted from the by law Will Inspect It Council to Inspect the road and see if an exception Is feasible on The delegation argued the ruling won J rut them off from lane areas of land they now use Roads committee chairman Don MeMillan told council that moving the by law back until the meeting would almost make Its effect negligible because there be for any long period of after the end of February Society recommends pets immunized against rabies In recent years rabies has spread from Northern to Southern Ontario concentrated mainly in the skunk and fox populations Over the years there have been a number of localized scores in which domestic animals were suspected of being rabid disease has been endemic In the Naturally there will be fox and skunk population for in administering such a many years requirement but these difficulties same reaction certainly could be overcome given the co- does not apply to the dogs and operation of the Federal Health cats which arc kept as pets in large numbers in the Province typical frightened reaction rabies scare Is all too TREE cutters from the Moffat Removal firm began last clearing land it the corner of Church and Mam Streets where the old Beverly House once stood to make room for the construction of a new six storey apartment building building is being erected by Noble Construction Port Credit Staff Photo These scares have always to Humane Society resulted in a reaction on the part rabies of a very naturally concerned human being will produce a wave general public Any animal of pet killing a reaction which Is behaving strangely has been generally unreasonable and thought to be rabid when in uncontrolled When this occurs beneficial in that early detection and treatment was enabling the medical profession to cope with the diseise in its early stages Mr Mcbadden in his report to the Board of Directors pointed out that white donations to the Christinas Seal Campaign this year have actually surpassed la much more Is needed to continue the active program to which the Association has committed itself He stated that the projected goal of the Campaign has not been reached but that Campaign still has until the end of January to reach that ton I fact it was nothing of the kind But to be on the safe side Medical Officers of Health have always as a general policy required animals that have bitten anybody even if the bite was little more than scratch to be held In quarantine Rabies is a disease communicable to man and is the concern of the Federal Government Department of Agriculture Health of Branch and of course the Medical Health Officers of the country diseases are more frightening Some years ago the Ontario Humane Society reached the conclusion that the real danger to the general public lay in the possibility of rabies becoming commonplace in the pet animal population particularly dogs and cats Instinct helps Most people can recognize when a wild animal is behaving abnormally When a muskrat attacks a large dog there is something very obviously wrong When a timid secretive fox becomes bold brash arid quite fearless then obviously something is equally wrong The average person Is instinctively cautious of wild animals It Is probably this instinct which has prevented the public from being seriously exposed to the danger of rabies despite the fact that the thousands of perfectly innocent healthy pet animals are killed frorthtirakc of health of the general public the Ontario Humane Society recommends compulsory rabies as only sensible solution of Animals Branch practicing veterinarians Government of Ontario Department of Agriculture Veterinary Services Branch and the Ontario Humane Society its Branches and Affiliated Societies and municipal pounds A HOFFMAN dpi milnst J I Si On Telephone FLORIDA from FEATURES OF TRIP Air 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