The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-09
AN APPALLING WASTE

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London. Oct. a-The appalling waste
of life. how hundreds Of thousands OF
needless deaths might have been pre-
vented every year. were the subjects
OF discourse by two eminent medical
men of London the other day. Sir
Charles Crichton Brown, while deliv-
ering an impressive warning to stu
dents against the materialist school
of philosophy. quoted some startling
statistics regarding the waste of HUI
man life by deaths from preventable
diseases and predicted that in another
forty or fifty years mortality from
preventable disease would have dis
appeared.
The aim of many modern physioio-
gists is to bring their science into
line with other material sciences" he
said, by showing that all physiolo-
gical phenomena are but complex pro-
blems of physical and chemical ma
ture.
Build Up New Theory.
Determining their laws and meas
uring their constants by physical and
chemical methods. the new material
lists have dissipated the phantom of
vitality. have left us plants and ami
mails as more or less complicated ar
rangements of proteid substances re-
spending in a very simple way to the
ordinary physical forces that we see
around US. They leave us for q brain
of mass OF gluelike substance, nine
tenths water. with little PHOSPHORUS
thrown in, traversed by waves of ply
steal forces, and nothing more.
Your object and aim will be to
obviate the tendency to death. In 1904
the last year for which returns are
available. there were $40. 1874 deaths
in England. OF these very consid-
cradle proportion were what might be
called lives thrown away. In fact, the
debt to nature is overpaid each year
to the extent of 100000 lives. The I'M
necessary leakage is still going on in
all directions.
"Of every 1000 born 145 perish
within the first year of life. Mothers
as we'll as infants are needlessly sac
rificed. tuberculosis still carries of
10000 victims annually, but the NOR
tally from it has fallen steadily dur
Ing the last three years and there are
good grounds for hoping it will be
stamped out in another forty or fifty
years."
Worry Cause of Disease.
Taking as his text that prevention
is better than cure, DIR. A. T. Scho-
field, at the opening series of the
Gresham lectures, also referred to the
enormous number of premature deaths
In the United Kingdom every year.
AS the ratio of illness to deaths was
about thirty to one, there must be
some 100000 unnecessary preventa-
BILE sick beds in the same time. Worry
and anxiety about health were the
surest way to disease. The great rule
for the average man was keep your
weight and don't worry"
Palpitations and pain in or near the
heart, he said. might safely be ignored,
at least in the vast majority of cases.
That organ was most difficult to in
jure. 1t could stand any reasonable
strain. Regard health, he advised,
with wide Indifference, and never
diet" Moderation in food is all that
is needed. not "munching clubs"
where forty bites per mouthful must
be counted. Hostesses did their guests
poor service when they pressed them
to eat once they were satisfied He
was happy, he said. to think that he
had In the cases of several families
stopped the intolerable blunder of spy
Ing upon the guests plate.