Cañon City record., 1910-06-09
From Mondays Daily.


Ito keep a complete record Of
births and deaths.
2-To stamp out existing conta-
gious and infectious diseases.
$40 protect the life and health of
the citizens of the state.
4-To assist school boards, munic-
ipal health officers, medical societies
and other health agencies in correct
ing the physical defects and promot
ing normal, healthy development of
the young.
5-To aid in removing obstacles in
the way of scientific investigations
and experiments whose object is to
find out the cause of disease or to
relieve suffering and save human life.
1.-THE Duty of State Board OF
Health Should Be:
Ito keep complete record of
vital statistics. In connection with
the recording of births. the name, age,
race, nationality, occupation, resi-
dence physical condition and char
acteristics and predisposition or tend
ency to disease of the parents, to-
gether with the physical condition of
the child should be carefully re
corded. The pointing out of physi-
cal defects and tendencies to disease
will serve as danger signal, and
may be OF great service both to the
record of the cause of death. accom-
panied by an outline of the post
mortem findings, whenever possible,
would furnish information of yer,
great value to physicians and the
science of medicine, and in the pre-
vention of disease.
To establish complete system OF
inspection for such contagious ana
infectious diseases as smallpox, scar
let fever. diphtheria, measles, whoop-
ing cough and chickenpox. which
should all be quarantined until all
danger OF injecting others is past.
Why quarantine for such mild dis
eases as measles and whooping
cough some may ask? Because in
children under two years of age. the
20 per cent. or one in five of those
attacked by the disease, and In some
severe epidemics Ii reaches from 3.
to so per cent, and among babies and
young children whooping cough is q
very deadly disease. and In severel
forms may kill one-half Of those at
tackled. while IL they can be keptl
from taking it until they are four
years old, scarcely any die. Cases of
tuberculosis. typhoid fever and ma
laria should be very carefully man
aged, 50 that the disease germs can
not be conveyed from one person to
another.
The very careful investigations of
recent years have proven that the
germs of typhoid fever are often car
ried by flies, and that malaria is al
ways conveyed from the sick to the
well by certain spicies or kinds or
mosquitoes. IL the manure piles and
other kinds of filth in which flies
breed were promptly removed and
cleaned up, there would be no flee
and much less typhoid fever. and II
old cans. buckets, barrels. pools and
swamps of stagnat water were gotten
rid Of, there would be no mosquitoes
and malaria would soon become a
thing of the past.
Against the great White Plague"
which causes the loss of thousands OF
lives and millions of dollars a year
in every state of the union, the state
tematic and rentless warfare, and IL |
every possible way it should be i'm
oppressed upon the people that this |
deadly scourage is largely prevent /
able, and that by working together
,in the right way 1t could, to a large
extent be wiped out.
:. 3-This warfare against contagious
and infectious diseases should be in
the hands of thoroughly trained sani-i
tarians or persons who have been
specially prepared for the work. You
Flkht just as well put some ward
politician at the head of a great en-
gineering project. or in control of a
system of railroads. and expect to get
good results. as to expect some un-
','preparsd doctor at the head of the
healfh department to make good Our
lives and health are the most prec-
,fous and hfEhg valued things we pos
,isess I I i'd Sthe World, and their care
sf6tId be placed in the hands of
those thoroughly competent to pro-
tect them. 81"