Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1909-03-31
food Health Should be more
Contagious Than Disease

An nteIesting address was ue-
livered Saturday night in the Un-
versity chapel by DR.. j. N. Nc
Cormack of Kentucky, chairman
of the Organization Committee OF
the American Medical Association.
His theme was "Things About
Doctors Which Doctors and Other
People Ought to Know" DR.. Nc
Cormick spoke again Sunday al
ternoon in the chapel to large
audience composed entirely OF
men, made up largely of students
and cadets. :.
DR.. E. civilians, State Health
Commissioner, followed DR.. Nc
Cormack in brief talk, and re-
ferred to the Importance OF proper
health legislation, 80 that the
State Board of Health might work
Systematically and effectively in
stamping out many diseases that
now curse the people. He said the
State Board is doing much good In
circulating the State Health Bull
letin which contained valuable ar
,icles from lesding physicians on
measures of prevention.
The distinguished speaker was
greeted by a large and cultured au'
dience. General E.W. Nichols pre-
sided and presented the speakers.
DR.. Harry D. Campbell made a
brief address on the lines OF the
subject of good health, basing his
remarks on the story OF Luke the
physician. At the conclusion OF
DR.. Campbell's address, Mr.. Frank
T. Glasgow was presented, who, In
a brief and felicitous speech, in
troduced DR.. Mccormack. After
IDr. McCormack's address DR..
Charles Manly was presented and
spoke briefly of the Importance OF
good health and good morals.
DR.. Mccormack 10 an interest
ing spec ker. He is thorough at
home with his subject, and 10 REQ
oenized as an eminent authority
on sanitation and good health gen.
srally. He drew his numerous
illustrations from wide expert
ence.
DR.. Mccormack prefaced bis
speech with an Introductory state
ment, a present ation of bis Gre
pentials, as it were, in order that
his audience might realize at the
beginning of his address that he
spoke as one with authority. DE
spoke in the light of an expert
ence that has come to few men,
For thirty years he has been a
State health official in Kentucky,
and during that time he has Cons
stantly represented his profession
before the State Legislature. and
often before the Congress at WASH
ington. Once or twice almost
every day for six years DR.. Nc
Cormack said he had spoken tc
popular audiences on the suo1ec'
of health and sanitation. be has
visited nearly all the States, ano
MANY counties, and Eas been able
to make a studY of doctors and OF
what the people think Of them In
worry broad way.
DIR. Mccormack spoke in part al
follows:
"The greatest asset of this ma
J ton. or any other, is that repre-
, sented in it's vigorous population
= it's healthy children, women arc
men. Farms, mines, forests, fact
cries and similar sources of indus
: trial or commercial wealth hav
little value except as there is suci
: a population to operate and EMO,
y them. The annual drain upoi
this asset from diseases now recog
nized as preventable, and from
r vicious and immoral living, is es
: timated at one third OF the entir
sick and death rate. The recog
e milton of this drain and its cause
d. and comparative study OF the re
( suits of improved sanitation II
J.. other countries and in some sec
n lions of this country, has so i'm
pressed the political economists o
our great universities that througl
g the proper section of the Areri
v can Association for the Advance
Q ment of Science they have organ
e lied the American Health league
with headquarters at New Haven
Conn, already with thousands o
: members, to arouse and educat
n public sentiment in regard to 1t.
n .sThese economists figure .ha
# there 10 an average of 1900, 90
@ deaths in this country Annually
); with 1900, OoO cases of sickness
Il affecting the comfort and materla
= prosperity, of 5000, 900 hsfhes az
s 25, OOO,O 600 people. They tell u
that over one-third of this enor
nous sick and death rate. u Ia.
= upon the people ain ost teyon'
:. calculations distinc ly and prfct
}. ically preventable. Al an argu
a ment for peace, it is shown tia
:, 2lO, 900 men were killed in. bot
"a armies during tine five years Of CD
q Civil war. As an argument to
:, healthier and better living, 1t !
. shown that 100000 persons hav
- died from tuberculosis In tn
70 United States within the last fiv
.oS fhat prphahlV owe