The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1907-12-17
were last year 100000 deaths and

were last year l,oOO,OOO deaths and
100000 cases Of sickness, of which
the doctors know that one-tnird were
preventible and should not have oc-
cured. By cooperation Of our law
making bodies sickness and death
would be decreased by at least one
third. For that legislation congress
has been appealed to without avail,
and the legislatures of many of the
states have done little or nothing.
Thousands Of dollars are appropriated
annually by the congress of the Unit
ed States and by the legislatures Of
the several states to stamp out scab
in sheep, tuberculosis in cattle, and
other diseases Of animals, but no
hand is raised to prevent consuhp-
ton and other prevenible diseases
among men. The time has come when
it must be everywhere proclaimed
that people are more important than
sheep. I repeat that, in the state Of
Maryland, onethird lof the deaths
ought not to occur. Take tae case OF
consumption. There is a wide spread
impression that it is an inherited
disease. but I affirm that no matter
what you have inherited, you can not
get the disease without the germs en-
tering your body from some one else.
If all expectorations could be de-
stroyed, there would be no more con-
sumption. Now one person out OF eV-
cry seven dies Of this dread disease.
It is a sad condition but one that can
be guarded against and overcome.
The same fact is true Of the death
Of thousands Of infants, the result OF
weaving them too soon and feeding
spoiled milk. Herod killed only a
few male children; by laek Of pro-
per care the modern Herod is de-
strovine thousands of children with
out regard to sex. In this CONNER
cial age it is strange that it is not
realized that it would be cheaper to
save the children than to- bury them.
Then there is that disease, typnold
fever, with its thousands OF victims
This is a disease which is a filthy
one and a reproach to family and
community. In our great ceaters OF
population; typhoid germs are car
! ried in the water supply and in poi.
luted streams. The pollution OF
streams and soil is poisoning the Wa
ter and the earth and the air for the
unborn generations who will follow
Us, and who will suffer even mora
than we do unless proper preeautlon-
arv measures are adopted and put IN
to practice. The germs Of typhoid
fever are also disseminated IN milk
and by dirty hands. In small Scom-
muaities like this it is carried en-
tirely by flies. At the Chickamauga
camp it was found that the flies that
collected upon the piles Of filth all
disappeared from these at meal tlme'
An experiment was tried. Flour was
sprinkled over the fly covered heaps
of foulness, and the flies we're thus
marked as the hunter Of bee tree
marks the bees. These marked Ines
we're afterward found in the mess
rooms, crawling over the food OF the
soldier boys. Cultures were taken
from the feet of these same flies and
millions Of typhoid fever germs were
found. Another fact was clearly
seen, that while typhoid fever pre-
vailed in the tents Of the private
soldiers. The officers escaped. Tne
secret was in the fact that the OIL
GERS. tents were screened against the
flies, while those Of the private Sold
iers we're hot. These same facts have
been verified in civil life. There IS
onlv one breeding place tor theS'
thew breed only in. the heaps OF man
,,re in the stables and stable yards
they have no other breeding place e1-
cept in filth, and they sometimes ira
vel from IA to l-2 mile from tne ne
place where they are bred 1t Will
be an easy thing to break up their
breeding places by screening al! man
nre bins, or by mixing lime IN the
piles thus making them more va1u.
able for fertilizing purposes. wa
plead with the people to screen tnell ti II
houses and thus keep out the thes
and call upon the newspapers to hep :
disseminate this information an ane
urge the people to act upon it, Taf
o,.orooo American will send Tor tne