Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-10-31

for voters to quit sending men to
Congress, legislature or other po-
sitions, who have not sense to ap-
preciate the value of the neal.A and
lives of human beings.
For similar reasons State Board
with ample funds and laboratories
and with members SO compensated
that they can give their full time
to this life-saving work, is as i'm
portant as the Appellate Court could
possibly be. And, still more import
ant, board of health for each city
and county, or for the two combined,
with frequent inspections OF schools
diaries, abattoirs, bakeries, grocer
les, factories, tenements, sewerage
and garbage systems, and with lab
oratories to which any citizen may
bring water, food, drugs, disease
products, or anything else suspected
as a danger to his family, for an
alysis without personal expense, is
OF as much practical Importance as
any court or other of1cial agency
could be. And it is not worth while
to try to do these things without
health officer with special train
ing and aptitude for his work, and
such a salary that he can devote
his entire time to it; for no man
can be the kind of health officer
here described and practice medicine.
The positions are SO incompatible
that it would be just as reasonable
to expect a lawyer to act as Judge
and support his family by the prac-
tice OF law at the same time. It would
be the best of investment to pro-
vide such comprehensive health sys-
TENS everywhere, as substitutes for
the political make-shifts SO gener-
ally in vogue, because the greatest
annual tax upon our people IS not
state and national treasures, but
the long unrecognized tax for pre-
ventable sickness and funerals.
With such aims and possibilities
before it, fully realizing the magni-
tude of the reform, the obstacles,
and the self-sacrif1cing labor requir.
ed to cary it or, the American Medi-
cal Association with branches reach
ing into every state and county, and
about $4,000 members, joining hands
with all others, individual or organ
lied, who will take part in it, has
entered upon a board campaign OF
education which it is hoped will ul.
timately reach every home in this
land In the very nature of it medi-
cal men must lead this movement In
most communities, and to better
qualify them to do this, a carefully
planned postgraduate course, adapt
ed to the needs of all schools OF
practice, with weekly or more fire.
quent meetings, and attractive re-
wards for those who complete the
four years work, has been placed
within the reach Of the profession
of every county without cost. Thus.
in time it proposed that an up-to-
date doctor will be placed within
reach of every family now without
one and at the same time leaders
for this reform be developed or en-
couraged.
In addition to its scientific work II
is proposed that each county society
shall hold joint meetings with teach.
ers' institutes, womens' clubs, edi-
tors, lawyers, ministers, druggists,
business, labor and other organize
lions, for discussion and instruction
as to matters Of mutual interest.
Later, through teachers and others,
the aim will be to reach every school
child and family with practical in
formation as to the cause and pre-.
vention of sickness. In this plan,
the physician is also to be "a moral
AZ well as physical leader of his