HOME AND EDUCATION
Hunt, Caroline L. & Follette, Belle Case La
HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Government Care...
...If we want pure food, cold storage conditions regulated, mosquitoes, flies, rats, and other carriers of fever and plague exterminated...
...another relates to "How Insects Affect Health in Rural Districts...
...The latest report from the Bureau of Education is a volume on school houses in their relation to health...
...It is therefore, an appropriate function of an institution like a government, existing for the sake of self-protection, that we should fight disease...
...One firm, E. W. Burt and Company, calls its new walking shoe by the euphonious name of "ground gripper...
...The need for the establishment of a national health department is most pressing...
...The natural body to do it, is some central body for the whole, and bulletins of this kind at the present time would be welcomed with extraordinary avidity by the people...
...He further says crime could be reduced one-half in twenty-five years, "by better medical treatment in the community from which the criminals come and the improvement of the general conditions of the lower stratum of the community...
...The posters are printed in English, Hebrew and Italian...
...You cannot only, as Dr...
...Ogden, Henry N. Rural Hygiene...
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...Irving Fisher, Professor of Political Economy, Yale University, said: "I venture to predict that one hundred years from now the most important function of the leading governments of the world will be to fight disease...
...While the book as a whole has met with a most favorable reception, it has been criticised for its failure to mention the hot air furnace as a suitable means of heating and ventilating houses...
...THE OPINION seems to have gained wide credence that the department is to be organized to promote some school of medicine...
...Yes sir...
...The book which is entitled "Rural Hygiene" is published in Professor L. H. Bailey's Rural Science Series...
...L. H. Gulick, Director of the Department of Child Hygiene of the Russell Sage Foundation, and President of American School Hygiene Association, said at these same hearings: "We are compelling 800,000 children of New York City to sit down five hours a day...
...It is nobody's business to find out how that affects human growth, —whether sitting down five hours per day is to result in as adequate and vigorous adult life as some other conduct...
...The expectation is that through these children, coming as they do from all parts of the city, the Museum will become much more generally known...
...finally it lays hold of it with the toes and by pressing downward and backward, it moves the body upward and forward...
...I found the children the other morning in the lecture room, where lantern slides of some of the pictures and pieces of sculpture they had just seen in the galleries, were being thrown on the screen, and the children under Miss Hopkins' lead were telling their impressions and observations, thus fixing in their minds descriptions they could pass on to those at home...
...Another method adopted by the Museum for advertising itself is its children's parties...
...It seems to me a reflection upon our national intelligence and a commentary on our commercialism that the nations of Europe should have Departments of Health and Education and we should be content to have these great fundamental subjects scattered about in different bureaus, as though they were of secondary importance in our national life...
...Frank Billings of Chicago, Dean and Professor of Practice, Rush Medical College, said: "There is not anything that is making such rapid advance, perhaps, as the conservation of health, and yet it is done by private capital, and the states...
...In the windows of shops in all quarters of the city you will see posters inviting the public to visit the Museum, to which admission is free on Saturdays and on Sunday afternoons...
...I do not think that commerce can be weighed in the same balance with human life...
...Woods Hutchinson, the well-known writer, and Professor of Clinical Medicine, New York Polyclinic, said: "We believe it would be to the advantage of the country in every way to have as a member of the cabinet * * * a man who has been scientifically and, if I may say, humanitarily trained...
...HOME AND EDUCATION The home is the real seat of government, and the Wise Men of all nations bring their gifts to the cradle Conducted by BELLE CASE LA FOLLETTE and CAROLINE L. HUNT Government Care of Public Health THE SPEECH of Senator Works of California from the standpoint of a Christian Scientist in opposition to the bill so ably championed by Senator Owen, has attracted wide attention to the subject of establishing a National Department of Public Health...
...New Book on Rural Hygiene ARECENT CONTRIBUTION to the literature of Rural Hygiene has been made by an engineer, Henry N. Ogden, Professor of Sanitary Engineering in Cornell University and Special Assistant Engineer in the New York State Board of Health Department...
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...In exaggerated cases flat foot ensues...
...Thomas Darlington, President of the Board of Health of New York City, said: "It seems to me that a department which is so important, reaching the births, deaths, marriages, food, child hygiene, the care of infants, the prevention of blindness, and the thousand things—that a department of that kind should have a cabinet officer...
...It relates to plague prevention work,—cholera, leprosy, small pox...
...M. Kober, Dean and Professor of Hygiene, Georgetown University, made this suggestion: "There is every reason to believe that the work of the Bureau of Education would be materially strengthened by close cooperation with the new department, especially in matters related to school hygiene, the physical development of children, and by the dissemination of facts concerning the prevention of diseases, and the time may come when the transfer of the Bureau of Labor and Education may be considered wise and expedient...
...The ground gripper is not beautiful, for it has a bulge by the great toe which gives to the wearer a toeing-in appearance...
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...But it is certainly a comfortable shoe to walk in and it seems to have the effect of strengthening all the muscles of the foot...
...After once wearing a "ground gripper," one demands that all shoes shall give the same free muscular action...
...434 p. $1.50...
...You are cordially invited to come with your family as often as you can and stay as long as you like," the poster says, and every Sunday afternoon scores of Italians with their families accept the invitation, and get the "pleasure, profit and inspiration" which the poster promises them...
...Every morning during July and August of this year, a group of forty or fifty children is being brought to the Museum, where they are taken charge of by Miss Dorothy Hopkins, a trained story teller, who has been engaged for this purpose...
...If advertising is a good thing, why should it be used only for the purpose of calling public attention to things which are for sale, and which will put profits into the pocket...
...The Boston Museum of Fine Arts evidently believes that this is a legitimate and desirable use of advertising...
...and secondly, that special emphasis is laid upon the interdependence of rural and urban communities in matters of health and of cummunication of disease...
...A flexible sole and room to grip are said to be necessary to healthful and natural walking and orthopedic surgeons have created a demand which shoe dealers are trying to meet...
...One report of the Department of Agriculture, is a treatise on the extermination of hydrophobia...
...Children are not naturally sitting down creatures, and it alters their physiological processes...
...Can you not imagine the delight of the Italian immigrant, whose early life was steeped in art, when he learns for the first time from a poster in the window of a shop in the wretched quarter where he lives, that there is a place in Boston which offers him a view of beautiful things, and which cares enough about having him see them to invite him in this public way and in his own language...
...The foot touches the ground first at the heel and then at the outer side...
...if we want child labor laws, limitations of hours of women's work, proper health conditions in our public schools, then we should favor a National Depart-men of Health...
...If the children of Boston can learn to enjoy works of art as children, a more wide and real and intelligent enjoyment of art may be expected in another generation than exists today...
...New York, The Mac-millan Co., 1911...
...And why not...
...If you take the statistics of death it will be found every year in this country as many people die from preventable tuberculosis as were killed in the Civil War...
...SCATTERED THROUGH all the various departments, State, Army, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, these subjects are now being considered in various ways...
...Wiley said, fit men so they will resist disease, but you can fit them and condition them so they will resist temptation...
...This chapter, and the last six chapters of the book which are devoted to specific diseases, to the way in which they are communicated, and to the best methods of controlling them, make a comprehensive statement of the present-day health problems in rural districts...
...Shoo fly...
...Why should not a city make use of it to call the attention of its citizens to the opportunities and advantages its institutions offer them—opportunities and advantages which in benefiting the individual, benefit the city also as a whole...
...All of the people are vitally interested in the proposed Department, While only about one-half of them are directly interested in the Department of Agriculture...
...The people are less protected from disease and death than are their cattle and hogs...
...Free transportation to and from the Museum is furnished them, and on leaving each is given a postcard with an illustration of some one of the objects they have been shown...
...The omission was doubtless accidental but it is nevertheless unfortunate in these times when farmers should be urged to introduce modern improvements into their homes for the sake of lightening household cares and promoting health...
...The better interests of the whole people would be better safeguarded if it should be under a cabinet officer...
...These brief extracts from the views of liberal-minded men, advocating the establishment of a national department of health, indicate the naturally scientific and humanitarian field it would occupy, and how remote it is from any narrow medical school consideration even in the minds of physicians...
...Why should not churches make use of it...
...But if we believe disease and sickness deplorable facts in human life, just as we believe health and vitality desirable conditions, then we must be anxious that the work done by our government for these objects should be encouraged, correlated, and brought to the highest efficiency...
...Nothing could be more erroneous...
...George H. Shibley, a resident of Washington in high standing, devoted to public interest, whose wife is one of the ablest osteopathic physicians in the country, made this statement to the Senate committee holding hearings on the bill: "It being a settled fact that the control of the licensing system is in the States, and there being in the States no tendency to surrender that power, it follows that the osteopathic physicians, the hemeopathic physicians, and the ecclectic physicians, whose occupations are licensed under state laws, are in no danger from a National Health Department...
...And all for little Willie.—Chicago Tribune...
...But there is a further purpose in the minds of the Museum trustees...
...A properly conducted Department of Health can do for the people in general what the Department of Agriculture is doing for the fanners...
...Have you some ba-cilli...
...The Museum Bulletin which describes these parties, says: "The real object of the plan is to teach large numbers of children to regard the Museum as a place for genuine recreation...
...The opening chapter of the book, which is upon the subject of Vital Statistics of Rural Life, contains much interesting material which, if not new, is at least presented in a new form...
...We must concede that if one believes there is no such thing as sickness or disease, then all scientific research into cause and prevention, quarantine and sanitation laws, and crusade against carriers and sources of contagion, must appear useless...
...This ground-gripping motion of the toes involves the use of some of the large muscles of the foot and if the toes are not able to grip, the muscles become weak and flabby...
...I pick up at random from my desk a report of the Marine Hospital...
...Yes sir...
...The groups are made up at the various settlement houses and playgrounds in the city...
...if we want the spread of tuberculosis, meningitis, and children's diseases stopped...
...It publishes municipal ordinances, pertaining to public hygiene, care of milk, protection of food stuffs, garbage collection, sanitary and plumbing code...
...Advertising Public Opportunities DURING THE RECENT big convention of advertising men in Boston, a minister of that city announced as the title of his Sunday evening sermon "Advertising Religion...
...Considering the writer's two connections, with the engineering profession and with a board of health, we are not surprised to find first, that an unusual amount of space is given to the structural side of hygiene, to the details and cost of installing wells, storage reservoirs, pumping machinery and sewage beds...
...Ground Grippers" AGRIPPING of the ground with the toes is the last part of the motion involved in taking a natural step...
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...Shoo fly...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 34
