El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-15

water and Benedict. a single cent for
promoting the well being of babies.
Thousands have been expended in
stamping out cholera among swine. Not
one dollar was ever devoted for eradi-
eating pneumonia among human beings.
Hundreds of thousands are consumed
in saving the lives of elm trees from
the attacks of beetles-in warning
farmers against the blights affecting
potato plants and in importing Sicilian
bugs to fertilize fig blossoms IN Cali
fornia."
Many to Die This Year.
DR.. Pease stated that a million and a
half persons must die in the United
States during the next u months-that
equivalent to 100000 persons will be
constantly sick and that 5000 600
homes consisting Of 25,O0o,OOO persons
will be made more or less wretched b.
death and sickness.
In great measure as a result of this
speech, a committee on national health
was organized. 1t really originated in
the medical profession some 20 years
ago but its recent reported success has
been largely due to the reinforcement
received from laymen.
The tuberculosis crusade has now be-
come largely a lay movements and 10
its success is doubtless due in part
the growth and strength of the work
for national health bureau and this
growth and strength is no where more
forcibly indicated than in president
Taft's last message where he calls at
tention to the fact that "for a consdi-
cradle period movement has been
gathering strength especially among
the members of the medical profession
in a favor of a concentration of the
instruments OF the national government
which have to do with the promotion of
public health"
Committee Spends $50. 900.
This public health organization.
known as the committee of one hun
dred. consists of the leading heath
men in the United States outside. of the
medical profession, although a few ply
sicians are also included. representing
medical hygienic organizations.
1t has expended nearly $50. 900 in
campaign of education. and has distrfb
uted ~ different publications Ube
total number of pieces of mail matter
sent out is nearly million. News
paper clippings in the office of the
committee in New Haven, nearly fiji
two enormous scrap books of 500 napes
each.
An equally important branch of nub-
hcity is that through the magazines.
several of which give regular snaca 70
questions of health, and as q New
York paper recently had it. one of the
chief joys Of the circulation managers
heart lies in the subscription nossi-
bilities of articles on tuberculosis hook
worm, pellagra, cancer and other grim
maladies.
Gift From Rockefeller.
1t was largely through the work of
the committee of one hundred that
president Roosevelt added public health
to his conservation program and in
vited the president of the committea To
become member of the conseryation
committee and to write report ON This
aspect of conservation His comn,ie-
sion on Country Life also included n,b-
lie health questions in its renort If
was undoubtedly partly as conse-
quence Of this last report that Nv
Rockefeller was spurred TO make his
famous gift of 100000 to eliminate
the hook worm disease on the south
ern farms.
Life Insurance Men Aid
Recently the committee proposed +o
the Association of Life Insurance Pres
idents that it was just as ESSENTIAL TO
their interests to decrease death rates
and lengthen life, as it was for fire