The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1908-11-17
INTERESTING
ADDRESSES
At High School Friday Night by
Supt. Harris, Institute Con-
ductOr AiIeman, DR.. Moss
and DR.. Martin.

| duO LIT. MdTlI0.
Owing to the cold and disagree
able weather Friday night only a
| small crowd was present in the
High School Auditorium to hear
the addresses by our new State
Superintendent of Education, T.
H. Harris, and State Institute
/ Conductor L. j. Alleman.
Hon. F. V. Nouton presided at
the meeting and introduced the
speakers.
Dr.. N. P. Moss. president OF
the School Board, was the first
speaker and spoke most enter
tainingly on school hygiene, or
schools as safeguards To public
health, with special reference t.
tuberculosis.
He argued that children should
be instructed In the proper care
Ot the bOdy as an essential step
in the development OF their minds
and morals, pointing out that the
relation ut the ply sical upbuild
ing of the body to the attainment
Of the best results in the mental
training nf children emphasizes
the need for instruction in prac
tical hygiene, because of the def
nite results to be obtained
through the process of habitua
tion i'm mbibed at school. Children
should be gwen incentives to
healthful living, they should be
taught at an early age not to put
anything into their mouths ex.
cept food and drink, to peel all
the fruits they eat. and to avoid
kissing any one on the mouth as I,
this was not an uncommon way of
communicating disease. Breath
ing exercises, he said, should
form an important part of the ,
curriculum of every public
school. and organized play, phys
ical training, vocal music. read
ing and elocution should be util !
lied as means to hygenic i'm
provement. The proper heating.
ventilation and sanitation of
school buildings we're named as !
fundamental elements to be con-
sidered in the problem of school !
hygiene.
DR.. Moss referred to the 9th
International Congress on Tuber-
culosis held in the city of Wash
ington last month, as an event of
SURPRISING Importance intended !
to illustrate the worlds work in
it's struggle against q disease !
which is destroying the popula-
tion of the United States alone, at !
the rate of 100000 a year. The
record of definite progress which
has been made toward the con
troll and cure of consumption in !
the human race, as shown at this
congress, was most encouraging, !
he said, and it was the duty of
every one to help in the work of !
checking the spread of this, the
greatest disease foe of mankind. (
An idea of what can be done in
this direction was given at the !
congress by the famous German
scientist, DR.. Koch, who asserted
that through the systematic ap-
plication of scientific and practi.
cal corrective measures, the
death rate from tuberculosis had
been reduced one half in Prussia,
within the past thirty years. :
Pursuing his subject further,
DR.. Moss explained that the war
against tuberculosis was being
com batted by many forces. and
that through the untiring re-
searches of men of science the I
ultimate facts as to the nature of
the disease encouraging data
were accumulating rapidly. It E
was for US to eagerly adopt the :
means offered to the practical !
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