The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-05

on the planet and be safe, as to life
and property. Politically that may be
true. but from sanitary standpoint, it
is very far from the truth How many
of you dare venture into Havana, Ma
tanzas, Vera Cruz or Colon, during the
yellow fever season? And yet, you all
believe that proper sanitary govern
ment would make life safe against yell
low fever even in Havana, and the
world looks to the medical profession
to set the pace that shall bring the
state to the ideal condition of sanitary
supervision Our duty as Sanitarians
is not to the dead but the living and
the unborn. We must provide for our
own welfare and the welfare Of the
generations to follow. Sanitary regu-
lations dominate onr seaports and
quarantine stations And sanitary sci
euce sits sometimes in legislative and
municipal councils, and ought to pre-
side over the school board But unfort-
unately, the public school seems to be
the last fortress to yield to the reign
of sanitation That may be because
sanitarians are not school teachers, and
school teachers are not sanitarians-
The school teacher is an A B man or
woman. concerned chiefly in crowding. so
much spelling, SO much reading. wr1tIpg
pupils before examination While the
poor victims Of this crowding process,
sanitary conditions, listen calmly ana
proudly to the reading of their own death
fessor does not call it by that name
But stunted tree never becomes king
of the forest and stunted child never
becomes king of realm, except in Spain
pIause.)
1t is the boast Of America that she has
outdone the world in her fight against the
literary ignorance OF the masses. Can we
boast as much for our fight against SAM
tary ignorance2
Unless it be the home, there is no
place in the world where the sanitarian Is
are the nurseries OF the state, the cradles
of the government, the proving grounds
and spiritual giants OF the race IN our
day and generation the race comes TO ex-
aItation through the school and therefore
every phase OF school NE needs sanitary
supervision, to the end that coming gener-
atoms may De strong ana greal- " : nus
not only have sanitary supervision over
our schools, but sanitary science must De
taught in them
Real sanitation is just beginning, just
creeping out of the shadows into the
dawn and just beginning to lisp Few
Simple notes in the grand anthem of phys
throurh whose doors the tramp of march
ing Generations shall be heard to the end
of time There the properly equipped
medical man shall be the High Priest Of
hairs and untottering steps, with its clear
eyes and ringing voice, shall Join N the
grand anthem of race rejuvenated and
brought back to the span OF a thousand
years"
In his paper on Relation of Disease TO
Crime" Dr. z. NJ Hoover of Halstead
said:
Tt has always been taught and believed
that from the soul of man originates all
the evil that men do. 1t seems as if the
impetus to crime rushes out from man 3
inner consciousness, uninduenced by phys
ical structure and that when man reaches
the state of intellectual decision of right
and wrong, a failure to do right implies
a degree OF moral turpitude betting the
sin And it is a fact unworthy our boast
ed civiIizat ton that while science has long
regarded the helpleSsneSS OF our habItual
dorninarI n6fe the idea Of revenge rather
han ref rTT71
reformed many criminals, and it must be
changed so that men VINO are napItuaI
criminals would be taken to some sani-
tarium and there examined, and science
should find out why this being IS a habit
uaI criminal. and then treated by such
process that will strengthen the brain CEN
ter that controls good thoughts and will
brain that are largely controlling this body
for evil
both sas c aus f b go hane IN Of
law. The brain controls mental action,
that disease of the brain must inevitably
lead to more or less disturbance of phys
tca1 action or function
IF we bear in mind how a healthy brain
grows it will be easy to see how disease
into a criminal! Let disease !rr1tate
part of the brain from which evil propen-
stiles spring and the tendency to them will
of course be exaggerated If the desire
to do a certain crime has its seat in GER
produce an increased desire, and If at
such time opportunity IS offered, the man
becomes a CRIMINAL
The last paper to be read was by Dr.
Geo. W. HOgeboom of this city on Med
ical LegislatiOn and was especially inter-
esting to the medical men from the fact
that a move toward securing desired leg
islation will be made by the three societies
at the next session Of the legislature At
the conclusion OF the paper the doctors
unanimously adopted a resolution COM
mending the stand taken by DR.. Hoge-
boom.
DR.. Hogeboom said:
1T cannot be for a moment doubted
that the most benehcent power of the law,
which the courts say in numerous decis-
ions may be interpoSed to absolutely pro-
to prevent cEalatanry and quackery
preying upon the ignorant and unfOrtun-
ate in matters of life and death That the
legislative powers may be SO exercised is
existence in many II not most OF the
states The recognition of the right to
pass such laws by the legislatures and
courts is complete everywhere. and it is
tereSted in protecting the public from
Quackery and fraud in the practice of
medicine and the exploitation of all sorts
of cures that such laws have not always
been successful
NO prohibition law of this character is
ever more than approximately successful
because the rewards of this uefarious trade
will constantly induce more or less of its
followers to run the risk of conviction and
punishment But a good law, plainly
devised for the public benefit to meet
the approval of all good and wise men of
wha tever calling, may be enforced to the
largest degree. because all such men will
be interested in its enforcement"
To Preserve New York's Water Sup
ply.
Albany, N. Y. May 5.-Gov Black