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FOOD POISONING
FOOD HANDLERS
The proper handling of our food is
very important to prevent contamina
tion, to prevent spoiling and to know
that those who have the care of it
are free from contagious disease. Of
course we will need to have the proper
ordinances passed by our towns and
cities, but it goes without saying that
all who handle our food from the time
of its reaping to its consumption
should be well, and they should also
be clean. We have authentic cases of
illness due to this. One outstanding
case of food contamination is that of
apples eaten by school children,
bought at a fruit stand near the school.
Quite a number of children developed
sore mouth and, on investigation, it
was found to be syphilitic ulceration.
In hunting the cause, it was found that
the apple vendor had syphilis, and
it was his habit to spit on his apples
to polish them and make them attrac
tive. Of course this left the syphilitic
germ on the apple, with the result
above stated. Other diseases than
syphilis are distributed the same way,
tuberculosis, for instance.
We should do all in our power to
see to it that handlers of food have
a certificate of freedom from diseases
that can be passed on to another.
Raw food of course, is more
dangerous than cooked food. When
we say cooked, we mean thorough
ly cooked. Only last . ear we had
several deaths from Botulism in
Georgia. This was, and is always, due
to raw food or canned food that has
not been cooked well and long enough.
Typhoid fever outbreaks are often
traced to food, the food being con
taminated by a chronic carrier of the
typhoid germ. Dysentery is another
disease that we often get from food or
water. There are others, but the ob
ject is to call your attention to the
necessity of the control of food prep
aration, handling and keeping.
EARLY DISCOVERY FOR
QUICK RECOVERY
Great stress is now being placed
upon the value of annual and semi
annual physical examinations for the
discovery of the indications of dis
ease before the actual on-set. A
number of Insurance Companies,
through the free examinations and
health service given their policy hold
ers, claim that they are saving hun
dreds of thousands of dollars yearly
through the reduction of death claims
that their previous experience led
them to expect.
Though the death rate from tuber
culosis has been reduced more than
half in the last twenty years it is still
one of the most costly diseases, and
probably thj one of all that cripples a
family most. In the case of no dis
ease is the value of proper physical
examinations better illustrated than
in that of tuberculosis. In fact the
possibility of cure is in proportion to
the early discovery. An examination
that is worth while in the case of tu
berculosis does not consist merely in
looking at the tongue and asking a
few questions. It means a thorough
chest examination with the use of the
stethoscope, and, if there is the slight
est indication of trouble, then resort
to the X-ray.
If the examination is made and the
danger discovered in the early
stages, so much the better, for such
examination, in nearly every case,
means prompt recovery under proper
treatment since tuberculosis is now
considered one of the most curable
diseases. The treatment, however, is
not medical treatment in the strictest
sense, but rest, food, fresh air. sun
light, and exercise all of which can
be better given, and often given only.
In a sanitorium, and under medical di
rection.
And here is the most valuahle sug
gestion that those who kno-v most
about the tuberculosis canipa'gn have
to offer —the things that cure tubercu
losis will prevent it. This means that,
under normal living conditions, one
need not have tuberculosis.
The Georgia Tuberculosis Associa
tion, 131 Capitol Square, Atlanta, will
be glad to send to any physician, in the
state, free of charge, a booklet, issued
by the National Tuberculosis Associa
tion, entitled, “Diagnostic Standards."
The Association also has quite a list
of folders, pamphlets and booklets
that are sent free of charge to patients
and persons interested in the cam
paign. Quick response will be made
to r.ll inquiries.
A MILD FEVER—WHAT IS IT?
It is thought by many of our medical
men, which thought is concurred in
by our State Board of Health, that we
have in the Southeast a mild fever,
sometimes not diagnosed, that is really
a very mild typhus. It Is sometimes
called Brill’s Disease. All such cases
should be carefully watched, as this
is a communicable disease, the mi
crobe causing it being transmitted by
the bite of some insect. Our physi
cians, as well as the public, should be
on their guard. •
At 12:15 each Monday WSB Radio
Station will broadcast a five-minute
health message. Listen in at this
hour, central standard time. These
talks will be made by some member of
the State Board of Health.
May Day—Child Health Da/. J
Hoover Radios Flood
Situation
Since our last issue the nation’*
l most disastrous flood has continued
to spread with increasing rapidity
and federal and state officials ‘made
no effort to conceal their apprehen
sion of the dangers yet to come.
Driven madly by the slowly-mov
ing flood crest, the Mississippi river
swelled over a part of the levee at
I Vicksburg, Miss., flooding the lower
section of the city and sloughed off
a hundred feet of the main levee at
Glasscock, La., twenty-five miles
south of Natchez, Miss., threatening
inundation of Concordia and part of
, bordering parishes.
Increasing volumes of water flow
ing through the three gaps in the
Arkansas river embankments rapidly
were making complete the flqjding
of southeastern Arkansas, inundat
ing the town of Gould and adding to
the flood depth in half a dozen other
towns which may be destroyed.
Flood waters around Yazoo City
and farther northward in Mississippi,
continued their spread, devastating
new fields and causing half a mil
lion dollars worth of damage to cot
ton stored in a compress in that city.
Desolation wrought by “the most
dangerous flood our country has
ever known in its history,” was pic
tured for the nation Saturday night
in a radio address by Herbert Hoov-
er, secretary of commerce, who just
had completed a week’s survey of
the swollen Mississippi river from
Memphis to New Orleans as the per
sonal representative of President
Coolidge.
Before he faced the microphone
over which he painted the dreary
picture, Secretary Hoover joined
with Major General Edgar Jadwin,
chief of the army’s engineers, in a
statement that stronger, wider and
higher levees afforded the only hope
for relief from future floods. Re
forestation, flood control works in
the upper reaches of the river and ,
other ideas presented for controiling
the father of waters were held un
feasible.
Ruin to 200,000 persons, 6,000,-
000 acres flooded, $200,000,000 dam
age, thousands still clinging to their
homes where upper floors remain
dry, more thousands needing to be
removed in boats and established
in great camps on higher ground,
and yet other thousands camped
upon broken levees, was a view of
disaster given by Mr. Hoover
over the radio.
“In the miles of river below Vicks
burg, which has- not yet been
reached by the crest of the flood,
the battle to control from breaks
in the levees is still on,” he said.
“The question in the mind of ev
ery man in these districts tonight
is ‘will the levees hold against the
approaching crest?’ ”
He pictured thousands of men
“strung mile upon mile working in
long strings like ants piling the
levees higher and higher,” and add
ed that while important levees have
been held against the water ene
my, “what the result of the fight
may be no one knows.”
“But if our engineers should fail
in the fight at any section to hold
the lines, the forces of relief are
tonight mobilized for instant action
at every point,” he said.
1 “I am confident that we shall have
.little loss of life even if the worst
comes, yet we would have much
I destitution and suffering if breaks
come.”
He listed these homeless:
Three thousand in each of Illinois,
Kentucky and Tennessee; 20,000 or
! 30,000 in Missouri; 150,000 flooded
lin Mississippi and 160,000 in Arkan
sas.
J “Six millions of acres of land al
ready have been flooded,” he con
tinued as he brushed in the lines of
the forbidding picture,
j “Over $200,000,000 damage al
ready has been done. The cattle and
the mules have been drowned by the
thousand and the seed has been
swept away. The land in the flood
ed districts will be under water for
a month or six weeks. The camps
jmust be maintained for that time,
j Immediately the land is drained
planting must he done again.”
I Secretary Hoover, speaking with
the desperate scenes still fresh in
his mind’s eye, appealed to the na
tion for help for the stricken Missis
sipi valley.
| Pater (over long distance) —“Hel-
lo, John. Why didn’t you make bet
ter grades?”
j John—“ Can't hear you, father.”
Pater —“I say, couldn’t you make
better grades?”
1 John—“ Can’t hear you, father.”
j Pater —I say, John, do you need
any money?”
| ,T-)hn—“Yes, sir. Send $50.00,
1 father.”
FLOOD PRESENTS AMERICA’S
GRAVEST HEALTH PROBLEM
Memphis, Tenn.—The flood situ
ation in the Mississippi valley pre
sents the gravest health and sanita
tion problem America has ever faced
outside of wartimes, Dr. William B.
Redden, national medical officer of
the American Rod Cross, in charge of
I health work in the flooded zones,
said here Thursday.
| “There are registered with the
Rod Cross more than 200,000 refu
gees and this surely represents less
than half the actual number, since
, many fugitives of the flood are be
ing taken care of in private homes
and because many refugee camps
have not registered their citizens,”
Dr. Redden said.
I “The entire water supply in the
flooded areas is out of commission,
there is no easy way to handle
waste, crowding offers all the haz
ards and dangers of the worst type
of concentration camp and the cli
mate itself is contributing to the
danger.
“Danger to health will not reaeh
its peak until the waters recede, for
it is then that stagnation, putrefae
i tion and germ-breeding sections af
fords an ideal breeding place for
germs and for decay and putrefac
tion.
“A groat mass of men, women and
children, their physical strength al
ready weakened by exposure, has
been crowded into refugee camps at
various points. Once you get a con
tagious disease going, it moans al
most 100 per cent infection.
“There are two important ways
of combating typhoid fever, small
pox and other diseases which are
likely to take hold if proper sanita
tion is not employed. The first is to j
vaccinate everybody; this is individ- ’
ual and certain; the second is to in
sure safe water and milk supplies
through proper sanitation and the
isolation of all cases of disease im
mediately.
“Doctors and nurses in the refu
gee camps are keeping an everlast
ing vigilance and co-operation of
every one is requested.
, A call was received by Dr. Red
den to send a physician to meet the
coast guard fleet at Yazoo City,
Miss., which is to go to St. Joseph
Ark., and other points for flood
work. Vaccines and medical sup
plies were sent to numerous points
Thursday. •
THE “LONG GREEN”
Money is money under any and all
conditions, but in its transfer from
one person to another it has many
special names. Here are a few of i
the terms in common use.
Wages for the workman; salary
for the office force; emolument for
the clergy; honorarium or fee for
the medical man; dividend for the J
shareholder; remittance for the boy !
or girl at college; alms for the beg
gar; alimony for the divorcee; dowry
for the widow; legacy for the luck
heir.
Indeminity for the litigant; roalty
for the literary man; interest for the
money lender; stipend for the col
lege professor; retainer and fee for
the lawyer; commission for the
salesman; premium for the insurance
.agent; “dot” for the engaged girl,
and “dough” for everybody, to say
nothing of “kale,” “mazuma,”
“jack,” and other appellations not
yet admitted to good standing in the
dictionary.
I The foregoing, from the New
York Times, leaves much unsaid
about “the stuff that makes the
mare go.” Some of you have been
paid the good old “spuds ” at the
week-end and called it “cash” while
the other called the stipend by the
old war-tjmc appellation, “spon
dulix ; still other fondled their pay
envelopes in the Middle West, and
called the income “iron men”, “silver
babies,” “cart wheels,” “washers.”
The average worker refers to his
possessions, of the “long green” with
affection, at least until ‘’his bird
seed has gone to the winged ones
of the air. By the way, what is
your favorite name for the “shekels?”
The fellow with the “geld” may
call his “bundle”, a “roll” of “simo
leons,” and when his roll is gone, as
likely as not he will say that his
“spinach has wilted.”—Allith Bulle
tin.
TAPS
The machine broke down. No one
in the plant could start it. They
called an expert who socked it twice
with a hammer. The machine start
ed.
The bill was $250.00. When the
superintendent recovered his breath,
he demanded an itemized bill. He
got this:
Tapping with hammer $ 1.00
Knowing where to tap $249.00
JUDGE RUSSELL FAVORS
DAHLONEGA AS SITE
FOR MINING SCHOOL
Dahlonega, Ga., April 27.—Chief
Justice Richard B. Russell, of the
Georgia supreme court and chairman
of the board of trustees of the Uni
versity of Georgia, was the main
speaker here Tuesday at a Memorial
day exercise sponsored by the local
chapter of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy and the forensic
council of the North Georgia Agri
cultural college. After a musical
program by the college band, the
speaker was introduced by Colonel
R. 11. Baker.
During his address, Judge Russell
sounded the keynote for the estab
lishment of a mining school, second
to none, at this branch of the state
university. He said that it was his
belief that Dahlonega, located as it
is in the heart of the Georgia fgold
fields and in a rich mineral belt, of
fered the best site ip America for
the teaching of mining on a large
scale. He declared that in his opin
ion the greatest field of usefulness
open to the youth of Georgia was
through technical training, to learn
!to utilize the vast natural resources
with which the state is endowed.
AGENTS GET “GRANDPA”
STILL SATURDAY NIGHT
J The largest still ever known in
Northeast Georgia was destroyed by
Prohibition Agents Roscoe Kimsey
land Bush and Sheriff McGee of
Gwinnett county and his son, Dick
McGee, last Saturday night about
twelve miles south of Lawrenceville
near the Walton county line.
The officers had received a tip
that a still was being operated in
the section, and they made the raid
Saturday night about 10 o’clock.
The still was warm, but the operators
had also been “tipped” and had left
the scene ahead of the officers.
Upon taking an inventory of the
outfit before destroying it, the offi
cers found the following: Two 300-
i gallon wood steamer stills working in
unison, and operated by a 15-horse
power boiler, 35 fermenters, 16,000
gallons of beer, 900 pounds of sugar,
36 bushels of meal, and 594 gallons
of whisky.
There were eight 60-gallon barrels
of whisky placed on a hill near the
still, and the balance was in one-gal
lon cans. Six of the fermenters were
new, but it was evident the still had
been in operation for some time.
The officers said the still was ca
pable of turning out six hundred gal
lons of liquor a day.—Gainesville
News.
HEALTH PROMOTING VALUE OF
SUNLIGHT REVEALED
i
It has been observed in recent
years that something more than cor
rect eating habits, adequate sleep,
and recreation is needed for normal
health—sunlight is a necessity. The
vigor which accompanies a good coat
of tan is a matter of common note.
I According to research workers
scientists are reaching the conclusion
that the health-giving portion of the
sunlight is probably that called the
pultiaviolet. This is weakest in the
sunlight of the late fall, winter, and
early spring, but there is enough
available to make it worth one’s
time to get outdoors as much as pos
sible on sun-shiny days.
1 Most people feel better during
the spring, summer, and fall, than
during the winter months and this
difference in well-being is thought
by some scientists to be due to the
difference in the amount of ultra
violet light available.
It has been found that a person
is not benefitted by the ultra-violet
rays if he sits in a sun-parlor or an
automobile where the sunlight has to
pass through glass. Experiment has
shown that these rays will not pass
through ordinary glass.
The amount of the health-giving
portion of the sunlight increases
through the spring months until it
reaches a maximum during the sum
mer. Persons who add plenty of
sunlight to their diet are les3 likely
to need a spring tonic.
CHILD KILLED BY BAT
IN HANDS OF BROTHER
AT A BASEBALL GAME
Milledgevillc, Ga.—Henry McMil
lan, two-year-old son of M. F. Mc-
Millan, was killed here Tuesday
when he was struck by a baseball
bat wielded by one of his brothers.
The child was watching a game
near the state prison farm, in which
his brothers and other boys were
playing. One of his brothers swung
st a J>all, missed it, but hit the small
boy cn the head. The child waa
killed almost instantly.