Certified Servants

Englewood. N. J., on the highlands opposite Manhattan, is a community of wealthy burghers, like Banker Seward Prosser, Editor Bertie Charles Forbes, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Mental Hygienist Clifford Whittingham Beers, onetime Second Assistant Postmaster General Warren Irving Glover, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow. Intelligent, they make certain, when they hire servants, that the help are healthy. But they cannot be sure with whom their employes run around on off days. This became shockingly evident when Dr. John Hawkins Irwin, Englewood health director, traced the eye infections and subsequent blindness of several Englewood children to gonorrhea in their nursemaids. So Englewood burghers had the Common Council pass an ordinance which went into effect this week. Like a similar ordinance of Newark (only other of its kind which Englewood knows of), it requires that every domestic servant in Englewood possess a certificate of health. Said Englewood's Health Director Irwin: "This will serve to keep out undesirables and it gives every employer a weapon which he should have. Domestics are in the same class with food-handlers, barbers and beauty parlor operators, all of whom must undergo the same examinations to prove themselves free from communicable disease.''

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