El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-11-07


in public health work in recent
years has led the sanitarian to
cherish the belief that with a proper
education of the people along neaIJA
lines, 10 years may be added 70 our
journey from baDyhOOd 10 old age me
average citizen of Massachusetts, where
sanitary progress has been marked Is
living more than 20 years longer IN tne
administration OF president Id1L lIlan
he lived at the time George Washington
became president The women Of the
country are seeing their ives IeuSII
ened more rapidly than the men, IN
Europe the average age of the woman
is approximately five years greater al
death than that Of the men, Whlle ud-
tiOnal statistics on this subject are
wanting in the United States it is be-
lieved that the women make ever d
better showing in this country
Best Insurance Risks.
When the sanitarian predicts an al
ditiOnal Is years in the lie span "
the individual, he takes no account OF
the accumulative effect OF naLoh
wide practice of the laws Of hygiene;
The insurance companies nave LOtLu
that the best risk IS not always LLS
man with the finest physique puI Us
ually the one who most careIully Oh
serves the laws OF personal ny54sIlS-
Then again this estimate uoes ny
take into reckoning OF pOSLpOn-nB me
disability of old age. 1t has usually
been the accepted theory I4dL o-u
age" cannot be postponed nov e.
a
assert that there is p0sslDlllly on
discovery of the conditions WhlCA
lead to the infirmfues OF OLD 80
and their partial elimination ne
presumption OF the poS I3s ol-l 80 does
ding Is years TO the IKE span uSoS22
not assume any knowledge DeyOhu lildt
already possessed by the sam JsIle-ll- -
is believed that the cause OF Cel--G-
and satisfactory method OF prey SnL-
ing it ultimately will be found. Like
wise. there are many other diseases
against which satisfactory preF5LL-e
measures have not yet been dlscoVsIeG
which NAV stfU 20 the way of typhoid
fever and tuberculosis under Lutu-
discoveries and their application
Seven Wort Diseases.
Seven of the 90 diseases TO WnlcI
human flesh is heir, and all OF WaIch
are well understood TO-DAY, are IeSpol-
sible for a shortening Of the nIeS o.
the people to the extent on az lSaSI
eight years. These diseases are IN
terfc disorders tuberculosis OF lHs
lungs, meningitis, bronchial-p ne uIIlol--t'
typhoid fever, pneumonia and violence
1t is therefore. asserted that when me
public insists on pure water, pure
milk and pure air, ana pr0LeC llo-l -
life and limb in the United states, Jne
average individual will have eight
1T has come to such a state in the
sanitary world that the sanltarlan
takes the death rate from lEpnC-u
fever as the best indication OF ln6
General condition of the health Of the
people Of a given community. Wnen
he knows how many people ule ~ -
typhoid fever I'm certain comm -l y,
he is able to draw LalrIy aCI-- ~
picture of the sanitary condition OF
that community.
Mani other elements enter into the
hOpefulness Of the sanltaElan LoI ~ -
future While he realizes that Lle
gOvernemut can never act as q ma
maker for the people, and that iron
clad laws fOrbidding the marriage OF
any but healthy persons can never pc
enacted. at the same time he believes
that a widespread sentiment against
tbe marriage Of unhealthy lndlFlQu-
ais can be brought about, and tlaL
time have as much preJudlce against
marrying those who are not healthy as
they, now have agai INST ed MARI iiiS
Danish sickness.
The results which grow out or a
lenEthening Of the lives OF the people
OF the United states by 10 ca
are so many and so consequential as %
DEFY accurate forecast 10 DS4Hl
with, fl viii Danish at least one Il-Io
of the sickness in the United Slat5s-
1t is estimated that more than S,O00.-
600 persons IN this country are SICK
on any given day in the year con-
seCuentIy the reduction OF the DEAN
rate to the extent OF e1pandlns. -, "
term Of life ] 3 years would save surfer
ing equivalent TO that OF LUuu,UuV
people for 800 days, or for Iour Gay s
suffering for each individual In Jne
entire United States. Counting an OF
the doctors bills. drug bills, and loss
Of time, to say nothing OF the human
woe involved. this would amount 70
an annual saving equivalent 70 me
Capitalization Of the average American
citizen. It takes Just as long, ana
costs just as much TO grow man
who is to live so years as II does one
who is to live 80 years. All Of the
added years that are put 70 MS IRE
are years Of efficiency and earning
That the United states is destined to
come to the front in the promotion Of
the public health is the belief Of
those who are entitled to speak with
authority. A school for sanitary Of
ficiaIs is now maintained at the ny
gieuic laboratory Of the United States
in Washington. The laboratory first
Of all takes all young otucers en-
gagged in the quarantine and OIner
services OF the country and puts them
through a course OF preventive med1-
cine. In addition TO this. these classes
are open to the public health oIIlclals
cipalires. Some or them come 70
Washington and spend from six weeks
TO four months taking this course. The
higher institutions Of learning are be-
ginning to establish courses in pre-
ventive medicine and economic biology,
AND the indications are that the next
25 years viii see strides OF progress
which viii completely eclipse the work
e
New Discoveries Help.
There are wonderful possibilities in
new discoveries which viii ultimately
add greatly to the health Of the people
at large. One can scarcely imagine
what relation the discovery Of a para
bolic illuminatOr would have to the
public health, and yet if is probable
that truths undermined of a decade ago
will be made clear through ii. With
such an illuminator DR.. NJ. Doyen, Of
Paris, has been able to render visible
minute particles which hitherto have
eluded the most perfect microscopes.
BY his studies with this instrument he
has practically demonstrated that each
human life is @ great battlefield in
which millions of beings never cease
to attack and repeL and where the
black flag Of no quarter always is
hoisted.
If the defenders of our citidel OF life
are victorious we remain we'll; if they
fail then death becomes our portion
MetchincOff first discovered that the
white corpuscles Of the body are de-
tenders Of the human system against
disease They OverpOWer nOXiOus mi
crobes by the billions and act as the
scavengers which remove the waste of
our cellular housekeeping system.
There are three kinds of white corpus