The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-08-25

forms promulgated by the nationa
b reau, so that the statistics are uni
form and easily classified. In thi
way it is not difficult to make total
or records, and state may max
contrasts with the reports of othe
states on various matters pertainin!
to vital statistics, or can draw con
illusions by comparison with the re
ports for the entire country.
| For instance, as practical ali
to the regular work of the stat,
board of health, by referring to thes.
statistics the authorities can dicvoe
If any particular disease predomin
ates in certain place, and with this
information can proceed to fight it
Too Much Heart Failure
Again, the medical profession is
aware Of the fact that numerous
deaths are indirectly reported by ig.
norant persons. Heart disease is Civ
en- as the cause for many deaths
when investigation shows that in
many such cases heart disease WASH t
the cause of death at all. In the
same way heart failure is made the
football of the cause of the death
game, and the abuse of this time-hon-
ored expression has become notorious.
It is said that more than 100 different
causes of death have been stamped
as heart failure, the presumption
being that because a persons heart
happens to stop beating when he
dies, ignorant people are prone to
assign heart failure as the cause of
death. One might as well assign the
cause in such case as lung failure or
kidney strike or refusal to work OF
the liver, or shortage of breath. The
time has come when such haphazard
methods must cease.
Babies Versus Pigs
THE United States government and
the various states has for years pail
special official attention to COWS,
horses, hogs and other animals. The
shelves Of libraries, and more often
the barns and refuse piles, hold
countless volumes of statistics and
general information on chickens and
sheep and other animals. But man
Is the most important animal, after
al. And the proper study of man.
kind is man. Why then shouldn't
we. pay as much attention to infor-
nation about ourselves as we do
about calves and colts?
THE same argument applies to 4
national department of public health.
In this country, If farmer has
Young pig that is i'll, or an old horse
hat has trouble with its teeth, he
ian get from the agricultural depart
nent, free of charge, the best posi-
de advice about that young pigs ILL
less or that old horses teeth.
"But If a woman has young child
hat is i'll, all the government can do
8 to tell her to take care of it her.
,elf. And as for old men and women
hat are i'll, having trouble with their
.eeth or any other kind of trouble,
he attitude of the government of the
United States toward them is practi-
ally expressed in the words, "Why
lon't you 60 and die if you are old
md helpless?'
Would Educate People
"The state sends out movable
schools Of agriculture and so forth to
each farmers and fruit raisers and
how to apply business
Methods to their. work in all lines;
low to get the most milk and butter
rom cow on the least money. and
low to feed it and treat it when it
S sick. So it goes on all the way
through. Fruits and vegetables and
larry products are important, of
course, because We live on them, but
ire they more important as products
han babies? Are they more import
Int than human life itself?
1--WE hope to teach the people,
through the aid of the press of the
state, what good can come out of
his kind of work, so that they will
and understanding, bein
with that work and coop
crate with and help us to do the work
light, for the common good of all
he men and women and children of
IDAHO. The dark ages Of public ig-
in regard to health matters
ire rolling away, and I'VE are on the
threshold Of the dawn Of bright
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