Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-14
PHYSICIANS Plan Education OF the
Masses in Proper Mode
Of Living.
TO START IN THE SCHOOLS.
vo,nr Boys and Girls VIII be Taught
hygiene and the Prevention of Dis
ease as Part of Curriculum.

,,,ore the convention closed yester-
a.. afternoon and who will serve
n;r The next meeting Of the society,
mich will meet at ogden, October.
l'T PRESIDENT. DR.. Il. C. Rich, of og-
aan. drst vice president, DR.. l.. w.
cnow Of salt Lake; second vice presi-
Ssnt. Or. f, w. Woodring Of Mount
ntoosont third vice president DIR. G.
" states of Franklin, Ida; secretary,
nv " Brown Ewing of Salt Lake;
,yeasurer. DR.. j. n. Harrison OF Salt
tske, member of the board of coun-
aIiors DR.. T. s. George of Ogden.
Dr. 5. c. Baldwin, of salt Lake, was
.hoscn as the society's representative
~ tbe American Medical associations
convention, which meets at Chicago
this summer
The following resolution introduced
nv Dr. S. II. Allen. was unanimously
aIonted. "That the Utah State Med
ical association offer lis services to
the general public. through the
sobools to educate the people on per-
sonal hygene and the prevention Of
disease
10 make free distribution Of diphtheria
anti-toxlne, according to the proyi-
sions of resolution introduced by
DIR. f. II, Raley and adopted by the
convention
banquet at the University club
hrnuqbt the convention proceedings to
an end Or. L. w. Whitney was toast
MASTER toasts were responded to by
hrs II. ID, Niles, II. G. Rich, II. n.
Mavo Mayor Bransford, Judge w. II,
ZINC prof Horace Cummings, DR..
Robert Gillespie of oregon, and
Jndge C. w. Morse. The feature of
fho evening was the address Of re-
firing President III. ID. Niles, who
,poke as follows:
First Of all / desire to once more
eSpress my appreciation OF the great
honor YOU have done me in electing
mo ia the highest office within the
Gift Of the medical profession of this
state.
one of the duties that fall to your
president is the preparation of an an
nual address on this occasion, the
subject that | shall present for your
consideration is one that, to my mind,
has more to do with the benefits that
may come Of conforming to laws, and
the evil that Inevitably comes from
trying to evade them, Then and not
TIL then viii the best fruits of our Ia
bors he made manifest.
The lawmakers and those who exc
cute the laws Of this nation will then
realize that when they take the oath
Of office they assume the sacred re-
sponsibillty Of protecting and foster
Ing the health, as well as the wealth
Of the public Laymen who visit our
prisons. poorhouses and asylums,
from curiosity, sympathy or other
motiVes VIII know that disease is the
chief cause Of crime, poverty and in
sanity and they will leave these insti-
iutons stimulated to search out and
support all rational measures for the
prevention OF this great causatiVe fac
tor of human misery The sympa-
.hetc interest felt by those who read
The many accounts of the raVages of
contagious diseases In communities
and families, will be mingled with
determination to correct the flaws in
Dur laws which permit these aWtul
salamties to occur,
The mentally deficient, tho moral
perverts. and the physically deformed,
that may be found on the streets OF
our cities any in many homes. will not
only excite the pity of thoughtful OBJ
servers but they will furnish them
with sad reminders Of q citizens duty
to prevent these sorrowful afflictions,
as far as possible, by the enforcement
Of suitable marriage laws, and the pro-
viding for the further enlightenment
VI pdISHlS ana tSdcHelS'
WHITE MANS PLAGUE.
The silent but pItiable plea for pre-
tentative medicine made by 10000
men, women and children who are now
dying In this country from tubercu-
losls will be heard, and mercifully
answered by an intelligent public that
will have learned that tuberculosis Is,
to large extent, perhaps wholly, a
preventable disease.
The more we study these questions
the more evident Il becomes that
large proportion of all human mall
aides, with all their immediate suffer-
lngs and remote consequences, are
due to ignorance or wilful negligence.
The remedy is obvious The ignorant
should be taught. and the Wiltully
negligent should be restrained-by
popular sentiment If possibility
stringent laws, II necessary. Prevent
able disease should be regarded as
more of "A disgrace than misfortune;
since the disgrace belongs TO the many
who can but will not use preventive
measures, while the misfortune be-
longs To the few. who would il they
knew how, protect themselves from
disease, To passively permit a pre-
'entable disease 10 torture our fellow
Creatures is but lite better than TO
actively inilict unnecessary distress up
ON our fellow creatures. A properly
enlightened public would instruct the
Ignorant, restrain the wilful, and re-
form those who would willingly per-
my or wilfully. infllct avoldable human
suffering
Thoughtful members OF the profess
SION have long been alive to these edu
eatlonal needs OF the public, and var
lous plans have been suggested fo
disseminating information upon medl
cal subjects among laymeni such as thu
Introducing OF semi-medical studio!
M our high schools, the adding OF o
, snort postgraduate course To our reg
ular college course. and the employment
OF popular lectures to interest and in
stuct laymen IN subjects relating [,
medicines, hygiene, etc
These plans are all in the right al
fectlOn and worthy of commentator
bui ! canpot bring myself TO belieY,
lhai they alone VIII suffice 10 meet on
present emergency, We cannot fail [,
Teuze that we stand face 10 face will
most lamentable conditions. with IN
iaw Of many human beings depending
upon our action, and we must choos,
me promptest and most effective moan
content with halfway measures,
CALL TO THE PRESS.
II Is my sincere conviction gentle
men, that the time has come IN the evo
lutlcn Of scientific medicine when II W.
hre 10 do our full part In establishing
sueh relations between the general pub
re ana the medical profession as VII
ptlng the greatest good 10 the creates
uumber we must educate the peopl
trough that greatest of all educators
..tHs Ia