The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-12-19
WASTE OF LIVES RUNS
INTO THE MILLIONS
Physician Tells of Easily Avoid
ed Sickness---Doctors Held
in Distrust.

New Haven. Special: That one-
third Of the 100000 persons who were
III or died last year could nave re-
manned in perfect health through tho
observance Of simple health rules was
the statement made by DR.. J. N. Nc
Corllack. chairman of the committee
on organization of the American Medi-
4 cal association. DR.. Mccormack was
speaking before a meeting Of the COM
mittee OF 100 in 'Wooley hall, Yale uni
versity.
Much Of this suffering was due, he
continued. to the fact that the laymen,
as a whole. regard physicians as work.
ers In the occult field, not practical.
and unfit to make the laws of the state.
This belief, he said, continues even to
the legislators. DR.. Mccormack said
In part:
"A an argument for peace we are
told that 10000 men died as a result
OF battle In both armies during the civil
war. AS an argument for better health
laws and policies, we tell you that $780,
600 people died Of tuberculosis In the
United States during the last -four
years, n that at least half a million
are constantly sick of it. Should rot
an el1ort pc made to prevent this dis
ease as well as typhoid fever, diph-
liberia. scarlet fever, cholera infantum.
d~ysentery, and the other domestic pes
tilences.
Spanish-American War.
During the Spanish-American war,
we lost sixteen OF our vigorous Young
soldiers from preventable disease, for
of each 100 of them were inmates Of
our hospitals during that short strug-
gle from the same class of diseases.
Bad as Is this record for the nation.
The facts and figures make that for
your own state even worse. During
the year about one in ten of your
deaths were from consumption. It Is a
common opinion that this is an inher-
lted disease, but it should be known
that even II your father and mother
died OF 1t, at the worst you can only
inherit the kind Of constitution which
makes you especially liable If exposed.
70 IL. But no matter what you have
sumption without getting into your
the germs from a previous case
than you can raise corn on one Of your
farms without seed.
You mad a large death rate from ty-
phold fever and o have thousands Of
is not only a p~reventable disease. but
the most typical of the filth diseases. In
cities 1T usually gets into the mouth
through infected water. Instead Of
by this we are rapidly con-
vertlng our streams and lakes into
-" se"SiS anu pools, regardless OF
the complex sanitary and economics
thus created of our own gen
and the teeming millions to fol-
low us.
Seeks Central Health Bureau,
You had last e a heavy sick and
death rate from diseases Of children.
caused by the use of dirty, adulterated
or spoiled milk. You had many deaths
end u sickness from diphtheria ard
scarlet fever, all distinctly preventable.
and still more from pneumonia, another
germ disease which we ought soon to
De able greatly to restrict or entirely
prevent.
"A great central health organization
1t Washington, endowed in accordance
with n power and wealth Of our fed
raj government, is Just as much a me-
'esslty, II u people are to have the
benefits of modern scientific knowledge
applied to their daily needs. as the SUI
'reme court Of the United States"