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The Commoner.
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CONSERVATION OP RURAL
HEALTH
(Continued from Pago 11.)
Such dependents are natural pro
ducts and very costly to the public
RELATIONS TO TOWN AND
CITY LIFE
Practically all country people go
to town with more or loss frequency.
Too many of them go thero per
manently. Tho small town especi
ally is an outcrowth of the demands
of rural peoplo for trading, church,
social me, and vice. The small town
in Nebraska is an index to the
economic, moral, educational, and
health conditioner its community.
The larger places become more
specialized in business. They com
mercialize everything, including
recreation and virtue. Such places
are confronted with more health
problems than the country and town,
but by greater care, decrease the
handicap. Good business in the lar
ger towns and cities demands clean
streets, healthful water supplies, and
sanitation in the homes and places
of business. By these and other
effective means the death rate is de
creased. In some places tyohold has
nearly disappeared. Likewise diph
theria, tuberculosis, etc., are notice
ably on the decline.
Many young people leave the coun
try for the town. Their health and
vigor are a distinct gain to urban
life. A good many rer.irftrl fnrmorc
with ungrown children go to town
permanently. This often results
oaaiy especially for. the children.
Old men from the country do not as
a rule know how to live in crowded
places. They sit on boxes and
counters, and talk much, but say
little of value. They vote against
town water supplies, sewerage, etc.
The children, having no regular du
ties, drift into habits that would put
the town boy to shame. The average
farmer should retire on the farm
where he can best live.
The following suggestions are in
tended to have importance for rural
people while in the town or city:
1. Do not drink water from a
well located too close to a source of
pollution. Some small towns have
no public water supply, but secure
drinking water from many wells bad
ly located. In fact, the house, privy;
and well are placed on a single lot as
a' rule.
2. Do not eat figs, dates, and
other fruit exposed to the street.
They are apt to be covered more or
less with small particles of manure
and many germs that have come
from the street and the sputum of
the walks. Flies and air currents
are carrying such material to fruit
stands and stores and thereby conta
minate the food that is exposed.
Apples are in Borne cases polished
by fruit venders using spit and the
sleeve. Lemonade and pop-corn may
or may not be clean.
3. Select a sanitary place in
which to secure a meal. Let the
food be wholesome rather than
dainty. A little observation will
show that most restaurants are quite
clean, yet there are a good many in
which the environs at the rear of the
buildings are dirty in the extreme.
Do not eat in unclean places. It is
good economy in the long run to
patronize moderate priced places
not the cheapest. '
4. Select a hotel with consider
able care while remaining in a city
especially so if not acquainted. Most
of the high priced places are safe,
both as to sanitation, fire, and mor
ality, but some of the cheaper
places, especially those advertising
rooms to rent" are positively bad.
Never ubo a dirty towel.
5. Do not become an habitual
loafer in town. Many farmers de
velop the habit and transmit it to
their children. It is better economy
to go to the town, for business or
other helpful, purpose and to return
homo soon or early. Purposeless
loafing leads to neglect of farm work
and usually to the loss of the farm.
Tho town has provided places to
hitch teams, but no rest rooms for
people. Such a place is very much
needed for the women and girls, for
they are now required to walk the
streets or stand around in the stores
till the men are ready to go home.
The ill-effects resulting from this
neglect are more marked than is
usually supposed. Let the country
people share the expense of a rest
room. Some have suggested that
me cnurcnes mignt be thrown open
lor tnis purpose.
' C. Drunkenness should be avoid
ed. It does not add to the dignity of
a rural community. It decreases
human resources and degrades a
community's health and morals.
7. Avoid immorality while in the
city. The results of carelessness in
this direction are evident at thous
ands of places in the country, as
shown by persons suffering from
some of the worst diseases known
to man. Our survey has, through
hundreds of sources, been enabled
to gather definite data to show the
effects of tho social evil on country
people. The fact is that the worst
contribution from the city to the
country is the diseases contracted in
this way. Let it be known also that
the country should assume its full
responsibility in the rAGrulntinn nn
control of this great problem, which
results, in considerable part, from
the demands of rural HfA Mn-.r
persons who have given serious and
careful thought to the problem are
of the opinion that the present state
laws governing the social evil are de
fective. They claim that the public
health is suffering more than it
would if the evil were segregated and
rigidly controlled. Be that as H
may, many practicing physicians- re
port an increase in the social
diseases.. Just what measures will
ultimately be taken to rid society of
immorality and the bad effects con
nected therewith is not known. One
thing is sure, namely, that the sub
ject must be handled primarily from
the standpoint of health and its con
servation. THE PROMOTION OF HEALTH
THROUGH EDUCATION
The length of human life is in
creased about in proportion as the
people are educated to live clean
lives nhvsicallv nnri r.fv.QY.tr,
Where ignorance and' - superstition
are most in evidence there also are
contagion, disease, degenerates, and
short life. Certain it is that our
system of public education has been
a great factor in conserving the
health of the individual andisbciety
It may be said that public expense
for the education of the youth is
justified many times oyer in that it
decreases criminality, develops health
and morality, end trains for service.
No one will question the fact that
bad health is a cause of crime.
Furthermore, ignorance causes pov
erty, crime, and sickness. Our great
est safeguard, then, will be in the
education of the youth for proper
living.
The following copies from an
address by Dr. R. H. Wolcott, dean
of the medical college of the Uni
versity of Nebraska, plainly show tho
importance of education along the
lines of health conservation. Therein
is also outlined the position our
medical college is to assume in pre
ventive medicine. Dr. Wolcott says:
It is a matter of congratulation
that education today is becoming
constantly more practical. We are
training our boys and girlB more and
more for the business of living, and
living so as to be efficient members of
society. Courses in hygiene and sani
tation should bo in every school, and
tho country schools need such work
as much as the city schools, or mote
"JSTot only should the peoplo be
taught personal hygiene and be made
to understand the Importance of
keeping themselves clean, but they
should be taught community hygiene
or sanitation, and made to under
stand the necessity of keeping the
surroundings of the home and the
community clean. Science has taught
us not only that disease germs-swarm
in filth of all kinds, but -that in
sects which abound ahmir. im nr m,
means of transmitting those disease
germs to us directly by bites or in
directly by transferring them to food
or other objects we put into our
mouths or bring in contact with our
bodies Flies breed in filth, carry
filth, and disseminate the disease
germs in filth. Mosquitoes transmit
malaria as well as other diseases.
The amount of malaria usually found
in a new country is due to a lack of
clearing of the land and deficient
drainage of surface water. But
ponds do not breed most of the mos
quitoes which trouble us in our
homos, for in ponds fish and other
animals serve to keep down the num
bers. On the contrary, they are
mostly reared in rainwater barrels,
in old casks and cans partly filled
with water, in unused wells, and in
other places about the house where,
free from the attack of enemies, they
breed in swarms and develop in a
few days after a rain or during
rainy weather.
Not only is it desirable that there
be instruction in the schools in these
matters, but it is hichlv dMirnhip
that communities, even farming com
munities, take means of informing
themselves on these subjects. There
ought to be meetings of the people
addressed by physicians and others
who can explain these questions to
the community, and in which the con
ditions may be thoroughly canvassed
and measures taken to alleviate
those -which are unfavorable. Par
ticularly should communities every
where uphold all1 duly constituted
health officers, including the local
and state boards of health. Usually
only the existence of an actual epi
demic can arouse public opinion.
How much better it would be if pub
lic opinion could be so educated as
to make it possible to prevent the
epidemic.
The greatest development in the
field of medicine today is in the direc
tion of protective medicine. The
great research laboratories are every
where studying the problems of how
to prevent disease, rather than how
to cure it. The strongest anriimmir
in favor of the maintenance, of state
schools of medicine lies in the fact
that in such schools the faculty, paid
by the state, must of necessity feel
an individual responsibility to the
people of the state, and their time
outside of their teaching work will
be .devoted, not to private gain, but
to research into the cause and nature
of the diseases found within the
state, in order that such knowledge
may be turned to the advantage of
its citizens. At the same time the
students graduating from such a
school should be made to feel that
they have a debt to the state which
haB provided them with the means
of securing their professional train
ing, and it can be confidently ex
pected that from such a school will
come doctors better trained and more
disposed to lead in the field of health
conservation than those who come
from privately endowed institutions.
The medical college o the state
should also take the lead in the edu
cation of the public to understand
these matters and to .appreciate tho
value of highly trained medical ser
vice. In common with the medical
collegea of other state universities,
the medical college of this state is
looking forward to -widened activi
ties In these directions, and to a lar
ger share In the great work of health
conservation among our people."
Strong ideals, backed by rcstotles
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