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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1921 HEALTH AND WEALTH Health and wealth are synonymous terms In that the possessor of the for mer Is also the possessor of the latter. People usually look upon health as a thing to which they are entitled, even after violating the laws of nature. They consider wealth as a goal to which they cun only hope to attain by attending to their business affairs with the utmost diligence. They realize that negligence in their business will mean the loss of dollars and cents to their pockeUq yet they seem to think that negligence in the case of their bodies will .not have a similar effect tipon their health. ‘ Consider fqr a moment the people of your community. What is the en deavor of those whom you engage in Conversation? In the great majority if instances, is it not the desire to accumulate material things? This is all well and good. The ambition of every man should be to ipiprove ls condition materially, at least to that point that may be termed independent. But is not health Just as important, and, upon second thought, will It not be considered more Important than wealth of material things? Some people are so dilegent in the race for the accumulation of money that they often make of themselves wrecks by disobeying the sim ple laws of nature relative to the up keep of that most wonderful mechan ism called the human body. After the race is won and their goal is reached, they will invariably see, probably too late, that It would have been far bet ter to have been less diligent in busi ness or social activities and have giv en more rest and care to their bodies. We would be far better off in the long run if we would spend owe half as much thought upon the care of our physical selves as we do to the pur suit of riches. The poor man with a sound body is far more happy than the invalid rich. The sick man is a liability to his State, while the well man is an asset. The cost for the care of one sick per son will be more than sufficient to maintain the health of a score of healthy people. So important was this matter to the people of Georgia as a whole that the Legislature a few years ago created an organization known as the State Board of Health whose duty it is to advise the people and help them to avoid sickness and to maintain health. The State Board of Health will be glad to advise your community in re gard to remedying any unsanitary con ditions and impure water supplies which would invite the outbreak of an epidemic of some kind. It gives in struction how to successfuly combat carriers of diseases such as flies, mos quitoes, etc. Their laboratories aid the physician in making diagnoses of diseases such as malaria, typhoid fe ver, diphtheria, gonorrhoea, syphilis, etc., free of any cost to you. They manufacture and distribute to you free of charge typhoid vaccine and the Pas teur treatment for bites of rabid ani mals. You are supplied with diphthe ria antitoxin and smallpox vaccine at a cost far below market price. The amount of work done by the State Board of Health and the number of people which they are enabled to serve is either limited or enlarged each year by the amount of funds set aside by the Legislature for this work. It has for a long time been recognized as a fact that the healthier the people of a sttae are the greater are the assets of that state and the more pros perous, happier and more content are its people. FREE POST-GRADUATE COURSE GIVEN BY EMORY UNIVERSITY. GEORGIA PHYSICIANS INVITED The week of July 11 to 16, inclusive, la one of the considerable moment to the physicians of our State. Through the kindness of Emory University a week of intensive study of the ven ereal diseases has been arranged. Six days with six periods each have been agreed upon by the faculty. The fore noons will be devoted to lectures by the professors and from two o’clock in the afternoons until night clinics will be under way at all the hospitals in the city, but especially at Gray Clinic. Invitations have been sent out to every physician in the state, and when this article was written 300 had accepted. The course is entirely free; no charge whatever is made and the prospect is that Atlanta will bo the Mecca for hundreds of our doctors for the period mentioned above. It is a wonderful opportunity. It Is a possible that reduced railroad rates will be granted,, and the chairman of the convention bureau has the matter of hotel accommodations under his care. The Chamber of Commerce are giving their attention to the matter, and the Fulton County Medical So ciety will be on thfe job to make the stay of the physicians pleasant as well as profitable. This is the first time that a Univer, sity has arranged an Institute-Clinic for venereal diseases, offering it free to the medical profession, and it is to be commended for its public spirit in so doing. PREVENTS MALARIA There is a treatment that prevents malaria and all those who live in sec tions where mosquitoes thrive should be sure to make use of it You should We Give Away $lO to our Customers Every 2 Weeks--D™gco; consult your pnysician ana get him to prescribe the prophylactic , treatment and see that every member of the family takes It. Get rid of the breed ing places of the mosquitoes and screen your homes. marriage BILL BEFORE LEGISLATORS Hon. J. B. -Moore, of Baxley, will introduce and push for passage a law for the protection of the women of our State, known as the Marriage Law. This requires an examination of the man not less than fifteen days before the date of issuance of a marriage li cense, and a certificate from a reputa ble physician that he is not infected with a venereal disease. If you would like to see this law en acted, write Mr. Moore about it. It is perhaps hard to believe, to you who do not know, yet it is a fact that the physicians of our State treated one man out of every 67 between the age of 20 aDd 25 for a venereal dis ease last year. We do not know how many were not treated by reputable physicians or how many depended on the dangerous practice of buying pat ent remedies and self-treatment; the number must have been considerable. Remember, 65 per cent of all abdom inal operations done on women are due to gonorrhoea and 90 per cent of all blind babies are innocent suf ferers from this disease. Where $300,000 Goes Harvesting Wild Oat Crop The penal Institutions of our State will run a very high rate of infection in the venereal diseases. The State Board of Health has the opinion that at least one-fifth of tbe prisoners have syphilis. The very fact that they have this disease may account for their in fraction of the law, and it surely does account for their Inability to perform a a day’s work. Putting the Academy for the Blind with its blind from birth, the Insane Asylum and the penal institutions to gether, venereal diseases in these in stitutions are costing the taxpayers of our state over $300,000 per year, yet we hear of various methods of tax raising schemes being discussed to in crease revenue. We hear of reduc tion of operations for many and varied laudable causes, and what is being done to reduce this particular enor mous expenditure? What methods of law enforcement do you know of, how many landlords and taxicab operators have had their property confiscated be cause it is or has been improperly used? Why not cut off the expense of the taxpayer before it begins? Those who are infected should be treated at least until they are non-in fectious, but why not remove the cause of the infection? Why not invoke the good laws on our statute books, es pecialy the Acts of 1917-18? The grand juries, the solicitors gen eral and the judges should have the aid and assistance of all good citizens and clean up the state. We need our laws enforced to prevent infection. We need ample funds to treat those in fected and the continuation of the free Wassermann test for diagnosis. WHAT GEORGIA DOCTORS THINK The recent annual meeting of the Georgia State Medical Association went on record favoring our State Board of Health and endorsing it and its work. This Board being one of such importance and its work so close ly identified with the people and oper ation so necessary for the general wel fare of the State as a whole, we are reproducing the resolutions from the Minutes of the Associafton for the in formation of our readers: Georgia Medical Association, Annual Meeting, Rome, Ga., May, 1921, de sires to express its appreciation to Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, Commission of Health and Secretary of the State Board of Health, to the Board of Health and to all the directors of the different departments of the State Board of Health for their effective and most efficient work during the pres ent administration of the Commission er of Health. Secondly, the Medical Association of Georgia desires to ex press its approval of the workings of the Ellis County Health Law. This is illustrated by the tremendous im provement in counties since the Ellis law has been put into effect. Second. The Medical Association of Georgia wishes to call attention of the State Board of Health, the Governor and the State Legislature to the ef fect that less than one per cent of the State appropriation of the State Legislature is for the protection of the people’s health and that the people's health with limitations is purchas able. Lastly. The Medical Association of Georgia desires to call attention of the Governor and the Legislature, the State Board of Health, to the tact that Georgia appropriates less per cap ita for health and to the State Board of Health than Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida* Georgia appropriates only $3.01% per capita, Alabama 6.03, Vir ginia 4.07, North Carolina 7.09, South Caroline 9.02 and Florida 18.02% per capita for the protection of the people’s health. Respectfully submitted, STEWART R. ROBERTS, M. D. RALSTON LATTIMORE, M. D. R. M. HARBIN, M. D. GRACE WOOD The School For Backward Children To Open Dr. George H. Preston, of Baltimore, In Chargo The work of preparing the houses and" grounds at Graeewood, the seat of the new State Institution for Back ward Chilrden, is going forward under the supervision of Dr. George H. Pres ton, the recently elected superintend ent. Dr. and Mrs. Preston have been at Graeewood fflr several weeks, mak ing a survey and getting everything in shape to opei the school as soon as possible. The buildings are being overhauled, the farm straightened and a dairy herd bought. The prelimin aries are well in hand and at no dis tant date the doors will be thrown open for the care of those children of our State who require special train ing. Graeewood is eight miles from Au gusta, Georgia, and was bought by the State from the Tuttle-Newton Or phanage. It is a beautiful location; the houses are of solid concrete and concrete block, they are exceptionally well constructed; the cottage plan is carried out; the dairy is very fine; an electric light plant is installed, as well as a water system. The extent to which this school can be operated, of course, depends entirely upon the lib erality of the legislature toward this much needed institution. The number of pupils to be admitted will depend solely upon the maintenance fund voted. Those who wish further in formation, blanks for entrance, rules under which the school will operate, etc., can communicate with Or. George H. Preston, Graeewood, Ga., who will be glad to furnish any information that he can. This is the season of the year when the physician is busy with intestinal diseases, and most of our thought and endeavor go to typhoid, dysentery and sick babies. It is well that we give them our attention, but do not for one minute forget that the venereal dis eases are constant; they do not know seasons, and as compared to the entire list run from 1/5 to 1/4 of the whole; do not forget that syphilis is the great est kiling disease. Remember that venereal diseases result in institutional care and cost the taxpayers of Georgia over $300,000 per year for maintaining institutions for them. It is very gratifying to all who are interested in public health to know of the very strong and complimentary resolutions adopted by the State Medi cal Association at its recent meeting at Rome, commending and endorsing the present State Board of Health. The newspapers of the State are es pecially glad to know that the public health w r ork as done the past year has the approval of this scientific body of men. We of the fourth estate have done our bit and we are proud of it. The citizens of our state who are interested in the health of its people should make it their business to see that the members of the legislature are made acquainted with their views. We think that our lawmakers wish to be representatives indeed and in truth of your wishes, but how are they to know what you believe unless you tell them? Make it a point to tell them to vote for all measures looking to the better health of our State. The season is here for typhoid fever, dysentery, "summer complaint” and "teething babies,” all of which means that you are getting human excretions by your mouth. Who ever heard of "teething babies” in cold weather? Ba bies must not cut teeth except in "fly time.!' Ee sure your water and milk supply is clean and good; screen against flies and mosquitoes; vaccinate against typhoid and keep everything absolutely clean. Atlanta with her 1,100 feet altitude will be the host to hundreds of our physicians, July 11 to 16. A free post graduate course has been arranged. Many of the physicians from this section will be in attendance and enjoy the high attitude, as well as profit by the Institute-Clinic. Keep your well, cistern or spring clean and be sure that no surface water gets into the supply. If you use a wooden curbing about and over your well, see that it is properly con structed, as filth from the feet will carry’ disease germs and get into your drinking water. Hundreds of the best physicians in Georgia are planning to spend their vacation in Atlanta this summer, in attendance on the Institute-Clinic of Emory University, week Of July 11th. Some of the leading doctors of this country will attend. More than 20 per cent of the chil dren born in Georgia in 1920 were not given the same consideration which the intelligent fanner gives his standard bred pig. for he registers his pig; the babies were not. The State Board of Health urges you to use typhoid vaccine; use it now. The disease has increased over 400% in the past 30 days. Clean up your premises and watch your food and water supply. THE WINDER NEWS The Atlanta Journal, of Thursday evening, June 16, in closing its leading editorial, “Education and Health,” says: “If the public health officials of Geor gia were given funds sufficient to in struct and aid the rank and file of the people in even the rudiments of hygi ene and health, the mortality rate in thi3 Commonwealth could be reduced to the extent of saving millions of dol lars and thousar’’ of lives a year. The statistics concerning college women illurtrate by only one province, and that not an extensive one, what can be achieved for human welfare under the va3t empire of education. The oppor tunities lie thicji and unending. We need only to use them.” To all of which this paper wishes to say, Amen, SO MOTE IT BE. 559 people died in Georgia last year from malaria. In some particular lo calities this is a considerable problem. There is no necessity for the infec tion, as we have a specific remedy. We advise all those who live in dis tricts where mosquitoes are hatching to consult their physician and get his advise about taking the prophylactic treatment. He can give you the neces sary directions. The babies during the hot summer weather are very’ liable to have bowel disorders. See that they are kept away from flies, that they have plenty of fresh air, good clean water and proper food. See that no contact is had be tween the sick and the well. One in every 29 deaths among white women between 10 and 20 were due to puerperal septicemia, or childbed fever, in Georgia last year. The filthy midwife or a dirty nurse is to blame for a majority of ♦hese deaths. Be on the safe side; get your physi cian to send to the State Board of Health and get a supply of typhoid vac cine, and take iL THE STATE’S BEST ASSET. Health is the basis cf life; the health of the child is of fundamental import ance. In 1920, 35.5% of all deaths in Georgia were of children under 14 years old; of this number 31.7% were of infants and pre-school age children. We have done some effective work along the lines of the health of the school child, but this is practically only 10% of the problem, the field of the infant and pre-school age child having really not been touched. Unfortunately, mankind tends to work on the “after the fact” plan; we wait until some evil occurs*then strive to correct it. Disease is not only caused by disease germs transmitted by flies, impure water, etc., but of equal importance is the state of the individual’s resistance. We should not wait until the child is sick and then take it to a doctor. We are treating the child as “the nation’s best asset” only when we keep him well. As some one has said, “the way to keep people from dying is to keep them well.” The most effective agent to keep your baby well is a Children’s Health Center. There are 30 of these Chil dren’s Health Centers in Georgia, do ing splendid work for the children of their communities. Why not have a Children’s Health Center in your com munity? Write to the Division of Child Hygiene, State Board of Health, At lanta, for information. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN The Georgia State Board of Health, we are told, often receives letters from people setting out in detail their ail ments. symptoms and conditions; the appeals the sufferers make are pa thetic; the writers are in distress; some cases are more than likely men tal only. The State Board of Health is al ways glad to hear from any citizen of the state; it is delighted to be of any sendee that it can; in fact, that is what it is for, but so many people expect the impossible. It is, for ex ample, impossible to get a prescription by mail for any malady; it is impos sible for anyone to prepare a remedy that will fit any kind of disease or be suitable for anyone other than the one for whom it is prepared. No one can intelligently diagnose or prescribe for anyone without a thorough exam ination; anyone should see the truth of this statement. No one can sit up in an office and concoct a few gallons of stuff that would be of any service to the one taking it; it is unreason able to suppose that such a thing can be done. If you are sick or need medicine consult your own physician; have him make a thorough examination and if he is not satisfied call in or visit a consultant, for in this way only can you get scientific advice; in this way only can you secure the proper care and attention. Take no sterotyped remedy; take no patented medicine so called, and avoid those who use such methods of treatment Every individ ual is a problem unto himself or her self and should so be considered. We have as honest physicians in this county as can be had anywhere, and they can give you the personal service that each ill person deserves. Really whether you are ill or not we do not know of an investment that would pay you better than to have a thorough examination at least once a year. The State Board of Health will make all the laboratory examinations without any expense to you oj to your phy sician. .. Meeting of Executive Board W M. U. of the Appalachee Ass’n. Mrs. B. H. Jenkifis, who is the dis trict Superintendent of the W. M. U. of the Appalachee Association, called a meeting of the Executive Board com posed of the officers of the Appalachee Association last Wednesday. The Executive Board and a few vis itors arrived at the beautiful subur ban home of Mrs. Jenkins about noon. An elegant course luncheon was served the guests, after which a devotional and business session were led by Mrs. Jen kins. Plans were made for a young people’s rally at Center Hill on the third Satur ay in August. Mrs. John W. Mears, Jr., will have charge of the program. Dates were agreed upon for the lect ures to be given by Miss Susie Eubanks, who comes to the association in Au gust. She is sent by the Baptist Board and will visit all the churches possible: 2nd district —2nd week in August. Ist. district—3rd week in August. 3rd. district —4th week in August. A program was also arranged for the Woman’s Association at Bethel Thurs day, September the Ist Those present at luncheon with Mrs. Jenkins and at the executive meeting were: Mrs. B. H. Jenkins, Supt., Monroe. Mrs. H. H. Cobb, Sec., Watkinsville. Mrs. Emory Harris, Ist district Sec retary, Bethlehem. Mrs. W. S. Walker, 2nd district sec retary, Monroe. Mrs. M. A. Anderson, 3rd district Sec retary, Watkinsville. Mrs. W. C. Robinson, Treasurer, of Monroe. Mrs. J. W. Mears, Jr., Chairman of the Young People’s Work, Monroe Mrs. R. R. Burger, Pub. Supt. Wat kinsville. Mrs. E. M. Williams, visitor, Mon roe. Mrs. B. S. Walker, visitor, Monroe. 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