St. Tammany farmer., 1911-07-29
HEALTH CAR
RETURNS |
The Doctrine of Good Health
Preached On the Road.
Advertises that Yellow Fever
Is No Longer in South.
Found Some Things Abroad
to be Copied at Home.
Trips Through the Parishes
to Soon Be Resumed.

Bowling, president of the Louisiana
State Board of Health, and his staff
of lecturers and demonstrators re-
turned here. yesterday afternoon in
the private Car owned by the board
and popularity kqown as the Gospel
of Health on Wheels. As result
OF the trip the work OF improving
public health conditions throughout
the whole country has received q
great impetus in the thirteen states
visited by DR.. Dowling and his staff.
DR.. Bowling, DR.. Beverly w. Smith,
vice president of thesboard; DR.. Sid
ney S. Porter, state sanitarian and
director of the Hookworm Commis-
sion, and Miss Agnes Morris, of the
Louisiana State Department Of
Health and Education, left New Or
leans on June 19, upon the invitation
of DR.. A. w. Evans. chairman of the
public health section OF the American
Medical Association to bring this
states exhibit to the meeting OF the
association in Los Angeles. An timer
airy was then arranged so that the
car might make brief stops at the
principal cities en- route, with view
of demonstrating tie valuable work
the Louisiana State Board of Health
IS doing and what can be done by
any other state for the betterment
of local conditions, for pure food.
pure drugs, better doctors, cleaner
homes and higher health standards.
Health officers and physicians In
the cities visited were astonished at
the scope of the plans which have
been put into practical execution by
DR.. Bowling and the Louisiana State
Health Board, and they expressed
their surprise at the wonderful re-
suits accomplished at such expense
for equipment and maintenance.
without exception said DR..
Bowling yesterday, they asked what
had been appropriated for
this work, imagining Inat the sum
was very large. Among the visitors
impressed were Lieutenant
George B. Young, MD, recently ap-
pointed health commissioner of Chi
cago; DR.. Clarence st. Clair Drake,
of the Chicago Department of Health;
Governor Shafroth, of Colorado: Ex-
Governor Charles M. Barber, OF
and DR.. M. Goltman,
of health in Mem
phis."
In summing up the net results OF
the trip, DR.. Bowling said that not
only had they been able to preach
the gospel of good health in all the
states through which their route lay,
but, as we'll, they have been able to
to thousands of people
what a great country is the State OF
I'VE impressed upon all
our hearers in the cities and towns
where We stopped that although in
the past Louisiana has at different
periods known yellow fever in more
or less severe forms. those days are
gene and the whole state is now
absolutely clean and yellow fever
and malarial fevers are conquered
here. fell quite sure that we con-
vinced our hearers that here the
white man has as good chance OF
longevity as anywhere on the globe;
that this state has advantages superb
o. to those of any of the states
which we passed; that here
we have great sulphur and salt
mines, great oil and gas fields, and
that almost every farm and garden
product known can be successfully
and proftably grown at some season
of the year. Every day is practically
a work day, we impressed upon them.
"Nor did We miss an opportunity
to refer them to conditions which
exist in our larger state schools, and
we impressed it everywhere that
among the 1000 students that
during the year 1910,
there occurred among them but two
deaths. took especial pride in re-
ferring to the health conditions that
exist in the school at Natchitoches,
where last year there were 1875
and during the year not
q single case OF sickness developed
among them. also told them of
the reports upon the health condi-
tions in the several parishes of the
state: of the 1883 convicts In the
farm colony at Angola, where but
one death occurred last year. We
drew line diagonally across map
OF the state, showing the death rate
at Shreveport at 1872 per 1000 in
habitants; at Alexandria, 14.44 per
cent; ut New Orleans 1923 per
cent; at Monroe, 1904 per cent.
And we especially called their at
tention to the fact that the colored
death rate was largely in excess Of
the whites, due to the unsanitary
habits of the race, but habits which
we are now endearvoring to correct"
I'VE took great pride" he said,
"in referring to the fact that the