The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-18
pr. Mccormack and Prof. Fisher Speak on Methods of Reducing Sick and Death Rates.
IMPORTANCE OF DIET YALE MANS SUBJECT
Tells How it Affects the Endur-
 ance and Increases Power of the Human
 Body.

9O0Js
 Under the auspices of the Associated Civic societies of this city and of Yale university mass meeting was held yes erday afternoon in Woolsey hall on he matter of increased health regula-. ion by the federal government. Gov rnor woodruff was the presiding of- Fer of the afternoon and after brief hddress introductory of the meeting in- reduced the speakers. There were two addresses on the program, one by pr, VI. N. Mccormack and the other by lProfessor Irving Fisher of this city
 pr. McCormack spoke in part as fol- lows:
 'The trouble in the past has been That laymen have always looked upon medicine as one of the occult sciences, Doctors, their methods and everything Concerning them, certainly in recent Fears without intention, were kept In #he realm of the weird, the mysterious, # lmost the supernatural and hence they &aye always been easily misrepre- Rented and constantly misunderstood. &rhis has brought so much disaster Epon the people that the time has come Nor it to end, and with this view in- end to lift the veil and have you see Eny profession just at it is.
 '"This evil has existed so long, how Ever, that it had created a public sen &iment, fixed habit of thought with Nhe people, which did not disappear with the removal of it's cause, and, to- Hay, almost as much aE a generation go, there is the widespread feeling Mhat we are not a practical, un1teC body of men, and consequently canno be safely entrusted with the admins. ration of public affairs.
 You will first be shown how this has Affected us as nation. In actual dol- hrs and cents the waste from pre- entable sickness and death Is esti- hated to amount to more than the Axes paid for all purposes. During he last year 1,500,O0O persons died'
 Ind 4,200,00O were sick, involving the
 omfort and material prosperity oi
 900, 900 homes and 25,000,00o peo- He. Medical men not only believe |Ehat at least one-third of this was
 istinctiy and practically preventable yith existing knowledge, but that this night be extended to other diseases
 Ind the proportion constantly in
 reased by such broad scientific re-
 earch and collective investigation as he federal government should be con
 ucting every day in every year, and or which doctors have appealed in % lain for a quarter of a century. As | In argument for better health laws < nd policies we tell you that 750,O0O eople died of tuberculosis in the Jnited States during the past four ; ears, and that at least half million Ire constantly sick of it. Should not 'n effort be made to prevent this dis ase, as we'll as typhoid fever, diph- E s1eria, scarlet fever, cholera infantum, vsentery and the other domestic pes x fences? Within the last ten years the
 apartment of agriculture has ex- # ended over $40,000,Q00 in the inves- N gation and extermination of Texas z, ever in cattle, cholera in hogs, pests
 cotton, corn, potatoes, grapes, fruit
 nd shade trees, warning farmers
 gainst frost, and other proper and
 roftable activities affecting interests
 aving recognized commercial value thile medical men, as has been said X ave failed to obtain assistance il
 heir unselfish war against pestllenct " necting men, women and children.
 During the Spanish-American wa
 ye lost sixteen of our vigorous youn' X oldiers from preventable disease fol :. very one lost in battle, and that 8i
 ut of each 100 of thefn were inmates
 f our hospitals during that struggl' rom the same class of diseases,
 Bad as is this record for the natio Y he facts and figures make that flo
 our own state even worse. One-thir
 the people sick in this state las
 ear and every year, and ene-th'rd c
 hose taken to your cemeteries, wer < ok and died of diseases which, pres
 nt knowledge makes practically pre-
 entable. During the year about on
 ten of your deaths were from con ..sSumption, and you now have yer
 lrge tubercular population. It is
 ommon opinion that this Is an inher
 ed disease, but it should be know
 hat even if your father and mothe . led of it, at the worst, you can onl
 merit the kind of constitution whic
 makes you especially liable if expose .I if. but no matter what you have in
 erited you can no more have con Y umption without getting into you < ody the germs from previous cas
 han you can raise corn on one (
 our farms without seed. If all tn
 xpectorated matter and other infec
 ous discharges from every case nov
 your state could be collected an
 estroyed until they all recover or di
 nd proper attention could be given
 entilation, open air exercise, and tn 2. punishment of those in any way pre-
 isposed to it. you need never h V
 mother case unless it be an importe