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- BREERIE RN A S B
TUBERCULDSIS AND =
- Splendid Woark for Labor Unions.
'} Al workers on machines realize
that the machine, to do its maximum
work, must be kept in perfect re
pair, and every effort is made to keep
it so, but only a few persons seem to
apply the same logic to that most
wonderful machine, the Human Body.
Why will people, othérwise intelli
gent, disregard all rules of Nature,
every law of hygiene, in their treat
ment of the body? Ordinary mach
inery can be placed, but one capnot
buy another body if this is worn out.
An abused stomach may never be
polished up so that it is as good as
new, an eye that is punctured cannot
be replaced as s -a broken buib. A
lung affected with Tuberculosis can
be cured, but the lung tissue which
is damaged is not replaced by new
lung tissue, but by scar tissue which
does not function as lung tissue, but
rather at a patch that holds the re
aining _lung tissue together so that
it may function.
The working man must bear always
in mind that it is best, of courg:, to
prevent injury to the body machine,
but that showld such injury occur, im
"Miedtate steps should be taken to re
pair the waste in health, as in -
chinery, before the break becox
'@fi NI TS T Y
" The writer is especially interesged
in the waste due to Tuberculosis. Tu
berculosis is the most frequent and
widespread of all the causes of death,
and takes it toll in the period of
greatest usefulness, between the ages
of 15 and 50. About 10 per cent of
all deaths are due to this disease.
Tuberculosis is, to a great extent, a
class disease; it {s more prevalent
among the poor than the well-to-do,
80 that it is a sociological problem as
well a 8 a medical one; it is a disease
that all classes must join to fight.
The Labor Unions have, or should
have, a special interest in the Anti-
Tubervulosis Crusade. The laboring
people are sufferers to a large degree
from the waste due to this scourge.
Do the Unions take sufficiently ac
tive part in the Crusade? The various
Unions could do an immense amount
of good for their members f{f they
would M€lp in the sale of Tubercu
losis Seals; if every member were
brought to realize that early symp
toms of the disease are not stormy in
their onset, but insidfous; 1t they
would bring the force of their organ-
Jdzations to bear upon the legislators
trom their districts to parsuade them
of the necessity of appropriating suf
ficilent funds to properly care for
those persone affected with Tubercu
losis.
The Printing Pressmen’s and As
sistants’ Union of North America, the
Ladies’ Garment Workers' Union, the
Workmen'’s Cirele of New York, the
Central Federation of Labor of Al
bany, the International Typographical
Unlon, have established Sanatoriams
for their members. Other ,Unions
might do well to foilow their example.
v vNothlnx can further the cause of
the working men better than improv.
ed health, and notfiig 80 increase
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X pdrnen 1‘
w. LONGEVITY ~
R
It is worthy of intérest that the mo!
span has beep dily Increasing and
with it life efticiency. According to
figures from the Bureau of Census
and other reliable sources, the com
plete expectation of life in the orig
inal registration states in 1901 was
49.2, in 1910 it was 51.5 and in 1920
it was 54.3. It will thus be seen that
nearly five years have been added to
the average duration of life in the
past twenty years, or an average of
three months every year.
It has been held that this, in a great
measure; has been due to the marked
decrease in the death rate of acute in.
fectious diseases through a better un
derstanding of their cause and pre
vention. It is worthy of note, how
2ver, that the chronic degenerative
diseases that through the first decade
shown quite a marked decrease. It
is interesting to know that tubercu
losis has shown the greatest decline
of any because of the active organized
afforts for its control. From what has
been accomplished in this disease
through education of the masses of
the people as to its cause and pre
vention we may infer that like results
can be secured by rational application
of a general publicity program for
Brights, Diabetes and Heart Disease,
for these are more amenable to con
trol through right means of living
than is Tuberculosis.
The greatest killing disease is Syph
ilis. It should be promptly and
continuously treated until cured in
every case. It is said that 10 per cent
of all our marriages involve a syphil
ftic. It is a disease that ig directly
fransmitted frofh mother to child. K’
is often accidentally contfacted, The
State makes free Wassermann exam
irations of blood for this disease, and
will be glad to answer any question
that you may ask.
s
Owing to a lack of appropriation
your State Board of Health cannot
come to you as # would like to do, but
you can come to your State Board.
Write them about any matter, ' per
sonal or general. If of general inter
est they may be able to send some ot
the staff to see about it, or at last
they will be glad to take up your prob
lem with you by correspomdence,
which, of course, will be regarded asg
confidential it vou so desire,
S W 3 e A o w=
The Typhoid Season,
- Enlist and Fight It
| 'The State Bureau of Vital Statistics
iadmes you to leok for Typhoid Fever
‘during the néxt three months, for
‘during that period of the year more
;than 70 per cent of all deaths from
‘that disease occur. There were §2
cases of Typhoid Fever reported dur
ing the entire month of May, but dur
ing the first half of June there were
‘93, and the disease is on the increase
at this time of the year, as it is
every year. In 1919 there were 477
Typhoid Fever deaths in a total of
“21,606; in 1920 in a total of 35,575
there were 549 as compared with 798
typhoid deaths in a total of 32,977 in
1921, anp increase ,over the year before
of 249 deaths, and unless some effort
is made this year will show a greater
number of deaths than did 1921.
To prevent Typhoid Fever you must
understand how it is caught. Two
classes of people scatter this disease
—the one who is sick with it and the
other who carries the poison in the
bowel after recovery from the disease.
In order for a person‘to catah Typhoid
Fever he must swallow some of the
excreta from such persons. To es
cape this disease a person should eat
food and drink water which is not
mixed with such discharges. The fly
carries this discharge from the sick
room or the privy to the kitchen or
dining room and places it on the food,
or the excreta may have washed from
the privy into the well. There are
other ways that the discharge from
the sick may get into the mouths of
well persons, i
o TSNy \
Every person should be vaccinated
against this disease excepting qertain‘
circumstances which your family phy
gician will explain to you. The entire
house should be screened against flies.
A city or town’s water supply sh&td
be tested at regular periods to see
that it is pure. If you get water from
a well and have not a sanitary privy
or youwr well is not properly curbed,
you should boil all water before drink
ing. A plan for clirbing your well or
for building a sanitary privy will be
furnished upon request to the State
3oard of Health, Atlanta, Ga.
If one of your family should take
Typhold Fever, ask your physician
what you should do to protect the rest
of your family, and follow his direc
tions to the letter. If you wish litera
ture on this disease your State Board
of Health will furnish it.
Authorities say that of those who
have Typhoid Fever, one person out
of every ten dies. If this is true,
then there were 7,980 cases of Ty
phoid Fever in Georgia last year.
These people were @jck more than
23,940 days, and at only $l.OO per day
there was a loss of more than $23,940,
not including any medical attention or
drugs or the time lost by those who
waited on them. Nor do these figures
take into account the sorrow in the
800 families which these deaths
caused. Typhoid Fever is a big ques
tion; it should havé your most cgre
protect your family against this dis
ful thought gnd you should not only
ease, but also your meighborhood
Let us begin NOW to take the meces
gary steps to escape this disease.
Mahy 3% ighorant and know no bet.
ter than to eat filthy food and drink
polluted water, and you, dear reader,
cannot do a better thing for your ac
quaintances than to tell them how to
escape Typhoid Fever, A il
W g o SRS TN A o o
GEORGIA'S DEATH RATE;
LET'S MAKE IT LOWER
Georgia has no greater advertise
ment than her low death rate, for in
1921, of which year the mortality of
rertain months was audited by the
Federal Cemsus Bureau recently, her
death rate was 10 per 1,000 popula
tion, while in 1920 South Carolina
showed 14, Virginia and Florida 13
and North Carolina 12, according to
the latest printed report of the Fed
aral Census.
Georgia is nmow in the registration
area for deaths, Her death rates will
be published by the Census Bureau.
Her general, as well as her Tuber
culosis, Cancer and other specific
rates, are so low when compared with
‘he neighboring states that the rates
will be questioned.
~ Georgia has no greater pull for peo
‘ple or investments than her good
health as shown by her low mortality
rates, but these rates must be based
on records, the completeness of which
cannot be contradicted.
[ There is a law in Georgia prohibit
ing the burial of any dead person
mntil a death certificate has been
filed' and a burial permit secured. The
enforcement of this statute will pro
test Georgia’s records and will estab
lish these rates beyond question,
“STARVE THE RATS.”
Do not keep food exposed or in pa
per or cardboard containers.
Food protected in glass, metal or
wooden containers cannot help feed
these pests. They will leave before
they will starve.
Trap ®hem.
Set plain spring traps glong base
of walls where rats run.
No bait is needed. Be careful in
handling traps and keep children
away.
Poison Them.
If traps are impracticable use Bar
ium Carbonate, mixed with four times
as much flour and make into a dough.
Provide proper garbage cans and
xedp them covered at all times.—
Department of Health, Newari, N. J.
The health of ony community is of
paragsount importanre
. . i
“Kissing Your Sweet
heart” Condemned by
. .
Editor in 1909 Paper
By Raymond Rice
In glancing over.a 1909 copy of
the Courier our eyes fell upon a glar
ing headline which read, “Kissing
Your Sweetheart.” Of course we
stopt immediately and read the lines.
It was sure a real treat to find out
that they had bad flapperts and flop
pers away back in 1909. -
It would be cruel not to let the
other readers of the Journal get ‘to
read this splendid editorial. So we
are publishing it below:
KISSING YOUR SWEETHEART
} There are about forty-nine boys
iout of every' fifty that will kiss a
sweet girl when an opportunity is
given, and about one girl in every
fifty that will kiss her sweetheart
when she gets a good chance. When
a boy kisses a girl, it will be told in
confidence by orie boy to another till
it is known in the whole community.
When a young girl allows a young
man to kiss her, she never tells it.
That’s the difference.
Really, in the sight of God, it is
no more harm for a girl to kiss a bhoy
than a boy to kiss a girl, but the
world looks upon it as being no harm
forl the boy and a great sin for the
girl.
The truth is when a girl allows her
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' I \HE real ditference:
between good
banking connections
and poor banking
service may mean the
-~ difference between
a successful career
and a stunted one.
Think that over!
Poor Richard says:— .
“Wways toking out of the mesttubard
sweetheart to kiss her, she goes one
step too far. She oughtn’t to do it.
Every young man gives his sister this
kind of advice, regardless of what
he tells the other fellow’s sister.
If any young lady in the country,
who has been kissing her sweetheart
happens to read this article, we hope
that she will take these lines to her
self and never do it again until she
agrees to be his.
' At any rate, there seems to be a
general agreemernt that good citizen
ship requires the other fellow to obey
the Volstead law.—Warran Chron
icle.
It is only fair to say that few rail
road brakemen can support families
on the knowledge that a few railroad
presidents of the present are brake
men of the past.—New York Tele
graph.
The Government could probably
pay off the national debt if Mr. Las
ker could arrange to send some of
his liquor-selling ships on an inland
voyage.—Nashville Lumberman.
When you hear some folks calling
the bonus an insult and others ealling
no bonus an insult, it looks as if our
soldiers were bound to be insulted,
no mater what happens.—New York
Telegraph.
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For sometime we have been handi
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We now have the most modern punips
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We also handle Fisk and Doss Tires.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1922
