Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-23

puDllC uealCn prODleInS. IL, therefore
needs help; it needs your help. This
splendid health corps should be en-
larged and better paid. Money should
be appropriated for distributing edu.
cational pamphlets, and Legislative
measures enacted to enlarge its scope
and expand its functions. Congress
fails to pass worthy health measures
largely for lack of interest. Proper
measures, that meet with your approx.
al, should receive your moral and ma.
teria1 support"
DR.. Rosenau, who, until recently was
director Of the governments hygienic
laboratory at Washington, is now at
| the head OF the department Of pre-.
ventive medicine and hygiene at Har.
ward university. Continuing his ad.
dress, which was entitled 1.-THE Or
ganization of Public Health Militia
in the Cause of Preventive Medicine -
the doctor said:
"Penhaps a better comparison show
ing the way in which the government
is more solicitous Of it's animal in
dustry and agricultural crops than it's
citizens, came to my notice during the
last outbreak of foot and mouth dis
ease.
When I reached Detroit, which was
the focus and storm center, was
surprised to find q small army of
trained veterinarians from the depart
ment of agriculture, in all some two
hundred graduate veterinarians. in the
field. During the last yellow fever
outbreak in New Orleans in 1908.
when there were 1886 cases and 455
deaths, the largest number of COM
missioned officers which the nublic
health and marine hospital service
had in that citv at one time did not
exceed twenty-one Had it been boil
weevil or hog cholera. or foot and
mouth disease, or some other infec-
ton that menaced our croDs or aninhol
Industry. congress would have open
ed wide the treasury purse, and an
ample number OF efficient and octiro
worker" world have been sent ir+o
the f1e'7 with authority to cope with
the problem.
"There IS more tvnhoid fever in this
country than in any other civilized
land. The annual total is * non
deaths autt oyer 25O.0NO ~oses. This
is a national disgrace and is due en-
tire1v to lack OF edar"atfon on tho
subject. We nrobably know more
about typhoid and it's methods. a.
sDread and the means Of its control
than we do of any other disease. Yet
right here in orr canital citv there is
an excessive ar"runt of tv0hoid ar1
this sad story finds repetition in all
our large cities. II the palb1ic were
taught to fear typhoid as it does
case Of cholera. there would soon be
AN end OF 1t.
I'm advocating public health mill
tia. in the cause Of preventive medi-
cline, do not mean a marching COL
umn Of men in uniform, armed with
and disinfectants. The
public health militia that I have in
mind calls for. the enrolment Of all
good citizens. Preventive medicine Is
the watchword of the hour and en-.
listment in the cause can come only |
through education.
when the people understand that
typhoid fever is as preventable as
are railroad accidents, we shall have
a casus 'belli. and the courage needed
for victorious campaign. The gov
now protects us from chol-
era, qephosy, yellow fever and other
exotic plaques; why should it not also
guard us against the dangers that are
as we'll as those that are but i
remotely emminent? Present dangers
such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, ty-
ohoid fever and infantf1e diarrheas
are infections which are the highest
Toll of death among US and are foe.
men worthy of our best Efforts