The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-10-23
LARGE CROWD HEARS
DR.. ]. n. M'CORMACK
Typhoid Fever Lecture At
tracts a Goodly Audi
ence at Towle's.
MANY DEATHS PREVENTADLE
If Proper Canton Esrcised No Need
of Malignant Epidemics-
Filth Responsible.

DR. ]. Mccormick secretary of
the state board of health of Kentucky,
addressed a good sized audience last
night at Towle's opera house His sub
ject might be called The Physician
His Relation of the Community at
Large" with the subsidiary head of
Our Preventable diseases" The lee
ture lasted nearly two hours and COW
cred wide field. Speaking of the
preventable diseases, Dr. Mccormick
said in part:
"One-third of the people sick in this
state last year, and every year and
one-third of those you took to your
cemeteries, were sick and died of dis
eases which your medical profession
could and would have prevented if they
could have had the intelligent cooper
alton of your people You had In that
year 4,456 deaths from consumption.
which means that you have about 90
600 cases of this disease in your state
constantly. The common impression
is that this Is an inherited malady, but
| this is an error No matter what your
mother and father died of you can no
more have consumption except by get
| ting into your body the germs from
the previous case than you can raise
corn or wheat on one of your rich
| farms without seed. If all the expec-
torated matter and the other infecti-
| Gus discharges from every case of this
| disease now in your state. could be
collected and destroyed until they re-
cover or die, there need never be an
| other case within your borders unless
| IL be an imported one.
i
ease of children caused by using dirty,
adulterated or spoiled milk out of 49,
| 600 cases. We often speak OF the
slaughter of the innocent by Herod, but
he was a novice in the business as
compared with our modern cities. You
shudder with horror over the loss of
| life on the Larchmont and in the New
York Central wrecked the other day.
and properly so, but more babies die
| needlessly every week in your state
| during the hot season than there were
people killed in both of the disasters.
and 1t goes on almost without COM
ment. And It would be cheaper for
you to inspect the dairies. or sterilize
the milk. and save these babies than il
would to bury them.
You had AS deaths from diptheria
/ anu SIdE4tA 1SNSE oAN OA 4tsWtN cases,
and distinctly preventable. You had
S4S deaths from typhoid fever during
that year. This means. according 10
the best estimate. that YOU have about
10000 cases OF this disease. No one
| can have it except by getting into
their mouth and stomach some OF the
discharges from bowels or kidneys of
| some one who has it This is not a
| nice thing 70 think about But nice
people ought to think about il and stor
doing IT In cities it often comes from
the use of infected water. as in the
epidemic now at Scranton less fire.
quently in the milk. sometimes on the
| hands cooking utensils or food Ir
| small towns and country districts
typhoid fever is usually carried by the
ordinary house iy, as It was al Chi
| camauga and other military camp:
during the war with Spain. IN short
during this one year, you had 10.71'
deaths from preventable diseases"