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UNION RECORDER. MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.. AUG. 25. 1927
Dr. Sam Anderson
Reviews County
Health Work
(Continued from front pagei
cat>es and to remove them as a fur
ther source of infection to the oth
er members of the family. The oth
er lies in the prevention of tuber
culosis. and this prevention must be-
trin with children at an early age and
when they are probably more sus
ceptible to the disease.
The Problei
they
1. What mu‘t w
vanced tubercular
be allowed to ren
infect their entire families or must
we construct a small county saiiito-
ruin :n which to confine them. (Ad-
be admitted to the state institution
at Alto due to insufficient financial
maintenance on the part of the
2. What must we do with the ev
ery increas amount of venereal dis
ease in ail forms, and especially
3. What must be done with the
highly suspicioned that tuber
culosis it* contracted mainly in infan-
is very rea
sonable when we think of the way
aod when we think of the thousands
that are raised in improper en
vironments. When mothers are
too proud to permit tbeir in
fants to naturally nurse, those in
fants miss a foundation of vitality
right there that they will never be
able to gain no matter how they are
fed. the quality or the amount of
food. Right there is the determined
point of a human’s vitality, and will
't'h thv »d- ! n th!oftt ; yea " '•"«'* ’'o''-"' hi> \
immunity from a great number of
that they have been successfully in-
uculatrd and vaccinated attainc. ty- and wfcich , b , j(
phoid and smallpox. Hardly a »cck .„„„ ku .... , k
passes that the commissioner of
health i** not called upon to issue
such certificates to those who rue in
these two states. Is not that econo
my on the part of the taxpayers of
those states?
After three years’ public health
work in Baldwin county, the com
missioner of health offers the follow
ing problem* for solution, and the
following conclusions of past efforts:
thousands of mothers are quite indif-
j ferent as to the quality and the hy
giene of the cow’s milk that she
I feeds h;r child. What does it matter
if the cow furnishing the infant’s*
| food happens to be tubercular? Do
I see? Do the majority of mothers
I know how pure nnd how free from
| disease germs is the milk that they
buy from dairies fer their infants?
nder do they
ever increasing amount
we take steps to prtven
a ill the people continue t
if mental
cs?^Must
The
•oline and oil
ed fo'
purity for your automo-
_ ! bile, but sre you dairy products and
* he animals producing them tested?
| Do they know whether the milker at
4. What must be done toward the i th > e dair >' ka * tuberculosis or not. or
complete eradication of diseases com- 1 ' vhen the cattle were tuberculin test-
ir.on to our ccmmunity and which are j cd hi j t? \\** do know that a breast
prt-v; ntible. and which yearly we are j fl ‘ d ch 'ld properly thereafter will
paying derriy in the f-*rm of taxes , neVl r *how signs of tuberculosis, and
and unnecessary expenses? :i ‘ an - v t:me during life.
5. What must we do in order to During the past few years: About
live in comfort from the harmful: **ne hundred sixty oil inspectors,
disease transraitt:ng insects that have j How many dairy inspectors? How
been with us for so long? What do j many food inspectors?
they do. j 160 or more oil inspectors for np-
t». v\ f:at do we owe to the school | proxinmtely 200,000 automobiles
and pre-school children ,n the w a y iH ow many dairy nnd foood inspect
c. giving the best advanuges? Do tors for 3t00 o.OOO people’ The
we not stop to th:nk that any money ; amount of money pnid in Ux<>R un _
and any time spent in giving a child I necessarily « n preventible disease
t C xery bert a<lv “ n ^ s ,n hut an contrncted from bad food and other
investment in good future citizen- J ho w long, will we continue
• to pay t
sand times more than that amount
spent on the hazard of bad oil and
possible fraud toward machinery.
Now if one does not believe that
let them calculate for themselves the
amount of money spent on inssne
asylums*, prisons, hospitals nnd hnv-
ing finished that, try and calculate
the loss in efficiency of those who
have recovered from any or all of
the preventible diseases.
It does Bren like a pity that
continually hn\*e an increase in
amount of venereal discares. Who
does not shudder at the very name
syphilis? Greatest care must be ta-
7. What ie our duty toward our
families in regard to our servants,
who handle our food, who prepare
it. who supply us with it, our ser
vants who wait upon ue, our chil
dren? What, too, is our duty in re
gard to our servants?
8. To what limits must your city
and county go in regard to helping
solve the problems of keeping you
and your families well and happy;
and what is your relation to your
city and county?
y. What must be the attitude of
the health department toward the
10. All and all, what benefit has j hen in regard to that disease pnrtic-
been drived from the service of fulljulariy. There must be a great amount
I of education among the youth of the
I. In retard ,o the tubercular cas-1 '» nd regard to venereal diseases,
es in this county, a few in the past :
years have themselves made sani
tary arrangements in rtgard to liv
ing. There are no means at the dis
posal of the health department in
taking care of these advanced cases
which cannot be admitted to the
lone state sanitarium, and all that
the health officer has been able to
is to instruct them in sanitation
and return them home. There are
just two remedies to the situation, a
county sanitarium to enre for these
public health work?
and whose first responsibility is it
the matter of education? It is the
mothers and fathers responsibility,
they must first of all take care that
these diseases are not contracted
from the employment of i
fected servant in the home. Their
children must be educated frankly
morally against such. Think of the
thousands of dollars annually in the
form of taxes that we are paying to
treat some syphilitic, to feed his or
her family, to keep them in some in
stitution, the insane asylum for in
stance where they in no instance are
able to repay one cent in the form
of helpful work. Ofter the occasion
arises whereby the health offic?r
must go with some such pauper syph
ilitic before the county commission
ers asking that they care for this per
son. or family, and they must be
cared for my friends with money
that you pay as taxes. How long,
how Ion, will we continue to pay un-
How 16ng will it take the people
to discover that a great number of
the inmate? of the insane asylum,
and the prisons are there as a result
of some preventible disease, and
that the stlre way to reduce the num
ber of insanities and crimes lies in
the preventing of the preventible dis
eas s responsible for such. Is it more
economical to prevent disease than
it is to pay ye-.r after year to keep
these people confined who do not
contribute one penny to the state
revenue, and in addition whose whole
families mu*t be cared for? That
is for every one to answer,
•e all know that practically
the year around the following dis-
* common and prevalent;
typhoid fever, the dysenteries, the
intestinal purasites, diphtheria, pcl-
agra, tuberculosis, the skin and
train diseases, malaria and venereal
diseases. Yet in spite of that knowl-
dge, few are afraid of any one or
all until they strike home to you.
and then, it in too late. For most of
mmon diseases of this section
there is no specific cure, but there
a specific prevention.
What must be the tax expense for
a family or s-veral families orphan
ed by any of the preventible dis
eases?
In the eradication of harmful in-
cts there are a few simple rules
that everyone can adopt:
Break up all breeding places,
stagnant water for mosquitoe>, man-
e plies for flies.
2. Remove all source of food for
these insects. (Screen every home),
(Every hom e in the flood zone is
screened and was screened before
the great flood), can you answer the
question as to why they are screen
ed? Why were there no epidemics
following the great flood in the Mis
sissippi valley? Did their investment
in public health pay in that instance?
Was not their investment less in
amount that if great epidemics of
preventible disea.-v had happened?
3. Sprinkle seme lime over the
contents of an open privy. Notice
the flies that crawl over your dinner
table afterwards and see if the fly
feet are not covered white with the
lime.
W hat about the school child? ! much to do and cannot devote his
If your child has hookworm or time to the prevention of the tom-
other intestinal parasites, these mon diseases. Likewise the health of-
worms get the food that your child fleer has so much to do in the sup-
should get and as a conrequence pression of the common preverrible
your child is undernourished, he is diseases, that he has not time to do
pale and anemic from lack of blood, J act ual treatment. The health, officer
the tissues arp WonlconoH nnrtirnlnr. i-t . . , . ....
the tissues are weakened, particular
ly the brain, and you find a dull,
lazy, sleepy child who is unable to
learn his lesson and to keep up with
the rest of the clast. In addition to
all this, with a weakened undernour
ished body, your child is susceptible
to any disease imaginable, but more
particularly, tuberculous and pneu
monia.
Bad teeth, chronically infected
tonsils and adenoids, bad eyes, all
cantribuw toward making your child Iney , noum „ jm „
dull. Do you feel like workmg when !h , health dep „ tme „. and thc
vou are tack. Vou do not, and neith-j tJ , commit a is , 0 treat and to
v °’’ I' 1 ' .... . I * eC( I- That my friends la very wrong
lour duty to your child i, to pro- indced . Th( , he . lth dep „ tm( . nt jn the
:t him against ..! disease, that can first place was not created for such,
be prevented, see that he has the and j n the , econd place afu . r a ser .
very best of advantages of environ- vant has faithfully aerved
physician trained in public health
work and employed by the county
for that purpose. People should not
apply to the health officer for treat
ment for his duty requires that he
shall refer you to a private phyiscian
u-hefe you rightfully should go, and
that the health officer will surely
do. There seems to be a feeling on
the part of a few that when after
a servant has served them faithfully
for years and is no longer able to
work, they should turn him
-. the very best of food, and ...
building a strong body the other die
ses not classed as preventible will
• prevented easily.
Does your child enjoy a good nour
ishing school lunch? If not it cer
tainly* should. A child continually
infested with itch ar.d head lice but
reflects on thc cariessnere of its par
ents, and if the parents have little
or no pride or care for their children
they expect other people the county.
ind by virtue of age and dis
ease is no longer able to work, it be
comes an une.scapable duty and obli
gation on the part of his master to
provide for him. The health depart
ment and thi county commissioners
have no right under the law to em
ploy public funds in the maintenance
of such cases, and hereafter if af
fected in this manner, please do not
refer such cases to there departments
for them? A child who
continuously infested with these
loathsome filthy things does not de
serve a place in a public institution
with other children who are kept
clean, and it certainly is the attitude
of the health officer to keep such
children excluded from school until
they learn to keep clean also. It is
but a lesson for both parent and
child. A citizenship which is not
built on some degree of pride is cer
tainly a great tendency toward crim
inality. Follow your court records
and ree if that is not invariably cor-
The relation between the city and
rounty and the health department:
The health department is created
and adopted as a state unit operating
a county or district for the pur
pose of suppressing disease, prevent
ing disease, and educating the peo
ple in regard to the conservation of
human life, and human energy. The
health department is not created for
the purpose of treating any care,
that is the business of the family
physician and it rightfully belongs
him. The family physician has too
K UNEASYJLEEP
Hbw Wen All to Placet, ”
Sojr* Lady Wko Teflt How
Cardai Helped Her Wka
Ske Was Ru-Dowm.
Hopkins, 8. C.—Mrs. G.W. Arrant*,
of this place, says:
*1 was suffering from spell* of
weakness These would come on me
suddenly and I would have to give
up and go to bed. For several
months I did not sleep well at night
and got no rest from sleep. I was
very nervous. I could not near the
least noise. The children worried
me. M» nerves were all to pieces.
*1 bed taken Cardui several times
before, so I sent at once for some
and began to take it again. At the
end of a short time 1 Aft Beach bet
ter, so I kept right on taking Cardui.
Whan I would feel a nervous spell
coming on^l took it more frequently
"I* can certainly aay Cardui helped
me wonderfully, tor after a time the
imw misuses disappeared entirely. I
could sleep at night and my genaral
health was better. My appetite pick
ed up and I enjoyed my meals, too.*
Thousands of other women have
told of the benefit they have receiv
ed from the use of Cardui Keep it
on hand, to take when needed.
A medicine of long-established
SOUTHLAND COACHES
Leaves Milledgeville 9:30 A.M. and 3:00 P.M.
Leaving Macon 1:00 P.M. and 5:15 P.M.
Two Coaches Each Way Daily
One-Way Fare $1.25
14 PASSENGER NASH SEDAN
TERMINALS
Milledgeville—Baldwin Hotel
Macon—Terminal Hotel
When your city declares and puts
into enforcement an ordinance re
garding matters of health it is the
duty of every citizen to immediately
co-operate. The ordinance is for the
good of every citizen, and is careful
ly constructed so as not to work a
hardship on unyone. Whenever an
ordinance Is rigidly enforced or
whenever a warning come? from the
health department you may know
that the matter is of a serious na
ture and ar. ultimate danger, nnd it
is the duty of every citizen to imme-
diaetly co-operate. Only bad citizens
will require the law to be enforced
its limit.
In its dealings with the public the
health department is strictly non par
tisan, non factional and whatever the
health officer attempts to do is pure
ly what he considers is best for the
people and as outlined by his duties.
His every effort officially is but to
ward the conservation of human life
and energy, and toward saving you
thut unnecessary expense in money,
life and health produced by the dis
eases* should never exist in this mod-
What things that have x,
ton.pli.hed in public he.lt, * f*
the put year, i, du ">
the health officer, but to the C c, f 10
ation of the citlien. their realiuf"'
end intelligent understand,,,,, "
through thi. intelligent underiu"
,ng and cooperation « d c m , nd , '
the suppression of these prevent,hi,
diseases, and a consequent cessation
of the unnecessary expense paid o*
on them. This money « n and h*
now oeen spent elrewhere to
greater advantage, and the day „
not far distant, at least it U tb*
fondest hope of the health officer
when there will not be one single’
P«nny paid out on the inefficiency
of disease, and when w e shall see
the population of prisons and a*-,
lums decreases by preventing the
cause sending the poor unfortunates
there. Then w c shall .1] be more
prosperous, we shall be happier. * e
shall have money to spend on things
more worthwhile, then we shall have
good business with inefficiency re-
duced to a minimum, and w e shill
be very glad that we invested finin-
cially, mentally, physically, all co
operatively in helping public health
work to eliminate the waste that for
years we have known, and which
for years has kept us earthly poor.
Disease and death are no longer
just eventualities that are liable :«»
happen before our three score years
and ten. God has mercifully given
man a mind which in the past few
yeary has nearly wrought miracles.
Recall to your mind the wonderful
progress and discoveries of the past
ten years, public health and science
stand out most prominently and most
undeniably. Truly, what hath God
wrought? Man’s failure to profit by
these modem truths makes him *
poor manstill, and he will always 1*
poor until he accepts good busint- .
Help your health department to
help you keep well, healthy, happy,
and prosperous. Nothing of practi
cal value in a civic or community-
way can be done without your full
•operation and appreciation and
plea is “Help your health department
help you.”
A Sur« Sign.
t.airlock Combs—“Too bad Ka.^-
erine didn’t didn’t write you today.”
Whatren—“Who said Katherine
didn't write me?”
Hairlock Combs—"Nobody did but
I just handed you a piece of gun
and you took off thc wrapper, threw
the gum in the basket, and now
you’re chewing on the paper.”
These Hot Summer Days
EAT BENSON’S
BREAD, PIES AND CAKES
Baked Fresh Daily
And they Are
DELICIOUS
BENSOIN’S [j BAKERY ft
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GINNING
We have thoroughly gone over our machinery and it
is humming like a, Waterbury Watch. Our gins are
specially built for Boll Weevils, Hard Locks and Dirty,
Trashy Cotton. Our samples will bring from one-fourth
to one-half per pound more than the regular equipped
gins. They are also geared to low speed, 425 revolutions
per minute, and will not gin-cut on dry cotton.
We believe it will pay you to drive a little farther
and wait a little longer and gin your cotton with us.
OUR PRICES AND SERVICE WILL BE IN LINE
AT ALL TIMES.
In the gin business since Billy was a kid.
Chandler Bros.
Milledgeville, Georgia