Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-11-22
INSTRUCTIVE ADDRESS
ON IMPORTANT SUBJECT
County Health Officer Love Gives
Institute Members Some
Valua BILE Information.

By request of the members Of the
Josephine County Teachers Institute
the Courier herewith publishes por-
tion of the able address delivered by
County Health officer DR.. Love, at
the Institute. last week, as follows;
1t is evident from consideration,
from all that has been said, that the
tender years between early childhood
aud adolescence must be safeguarded as
far as may be against both tubercu-
losis infection aud predisposition to
it. La Fetra says: "The school
must cultivate first health. strength
and energy, after these should come
honesty, courage and patriotism, then
the ability to speak, read and write
ones own language, together with
knowledge OF arithmetic. Upon
this foundation all else may be built.
The most important part of any
school, pablo or otherwise, Is the
lighted and the desks SO arranged that
the light comes preferably from the
left side or rear so az to prevent
shadows falling upon the writing.
The number of square feet Of win
dows should equal one-fourth the floor
space Of the room.
The ventilation OF the room should
be ample. The temperature should be
from 60 to GA degrees for large pupils
and from "a to 6S degrees for the
smaller ones. During childhood and
youth everything must be done In the
schoolroom to favor the development
of sound physique. There should be
games, athletic sports and manuel
training. Someone has said that
"Many of the problems iu moral and
intellectual training must be referred
to the playground for solution. The
amount of study or muscular exercise
which produces normal fatigue in
healthy child may produce abnormal
fatigue in one physically below par.
The offspring of alcoholic or neurot.
ic parents, the anaemic CHILDREN, the
mouth breathers and those who have
defect of sight or hearing, or which
grow rapidly and especially young
girls, are very susceptible to collapse
from over@ork These abnormal
strains are most apt to show them
selves in the spring after the indoor
life of the winter. Awakening un-
fIeshed in the morning is one of the
early signs of abnormal fatigue Ina
biiity 20 concentrate the attt ntion,
loss of memory. irrtability aud worry
are other signs. Doctor Caille says;
1.-The days vi brutaly whip nR
children are past. We are now refined
and whip their brains TO DEATH. In
many schools the children must DO
one of two things: either they must
take cold lunch or must rush home,
gulp down warm meal iu the good
old American fash ion. aud rush back.
This is harmful During the period
of active growth there should b.
plenty of wholesome food taken with
decent regard to the capabilities Of
the digestive tract. Some authorizes
would have tuberculosis children ex-
cluded from the school for their own
good, and in order that they may not
be source Of infection to others.
1t is highly essential that every
consumptiye alloWed to attend school
should be required to carr, on meas.
ures TO prevent communicating his
disease to others. Teachers and older
scholars should be fully instructed IN
the cause and prevention of tubercu
losis, and especially should the
teacher watch such symptoms as
mouth breathing, swelling of the
glands of tue neck, pc sIsteut dry
cough, oatarrhs and running ears, paie
or feverish easily fat gued nervous or
fretful children aud most especially
those who have persistent headaches.
Certainly ptives should not
teach school. Apar, from lhe posi-
bility Of them injecting susceptible
scholars, the occupation is an indoor
one in which their chances of re-
coyery are not good No o0nsumptive
suould be employed about a school
house. The sohoolrooms should be
flushed, with air during every inter
mission, ana the entire tchoolrCom
should be dislniected at Least once
every three mouths. Seas and decks
SHOULD be constructed To suIt 9 size
OF the child 20 as to obviate stopped
and cramped positions which may coui-
press tue chest and prevent deep,
natural breathing
| had thoughJ tnat this was neither
tie time or the place to III Dtion tue
tlea imtnt Vi IuucICuloelsi Dul Npu
will pardon me. | am sure for saying
one word before | close | want to
emphazise the fact hat tile drug treat.
msnt of tuberculosis has been weighed
10 the balance and found wanting.
II you have tuberculosis and FL
yourself up on cod liver oil, Beech
wood Creosote and coogll syrul
containing morphine or other seda
tiyes there will be a neck and mech
race as to which will have the honol
Of killing yvu the disea,e or treat
ment. But on Che other hand 90 out
of doors, stay out day and night, sum
mer and winter. eat five square neal
day and this treatment persistent,
carried out for months or years i
necessary, will result in core in
large per cent Of cases of incipien
, tuberculosis.