The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-06
LEVY PR { ACHES
HEALTH DOCTRINE
Richmond's Pure Milk and Water
Have Reduced Typhoid
Infection.

ANY disease which is infectious is
| prevcntable."
Ills was the basis Of a lecture last
night by DR. Z. c. Levy, city health
o!iicer, who spoke in the auditorium OF
the John Marshall High School. under
auspices OF tho Richmond branch Of
the Federation OF Mothers clubs, in
! the second OF a series OF six talks on
public health matters. His subject was
Nv hat Diseases Can Be Prevented. and
How"
! The large audience was made more
! thoroughly familiar with the subject IN
hand By the aid OF stereopticoR views.
which were explained By the speaker
IN the course OF his remarks
President +. w. Boatwright. of Rich
mond College. acted as master OF cerc-
monies, and before Introducing Or.
Levy spoke briefly on tile remainder OF
the series of lectures two OF which will
take place each month, on the first and
| third Thursdays
Get Hold EARLY.
! In beginning his address, DR.. Levy
said that the large proportion of pre-.
ventabie diseases fan In carly life, re-
| ierring 10 infantilc maia..ss
ite described how many of ,bc
plaques OF civilization are snrcad
Germs, he said. are responsible, ana
the transition of them from one BODY
TO another causes infection In mos,
OF tne diseases. It was pointed out, the
bacilli have been CLASSIFIED and are
| known TO medical science.
must not be thought that ali
| germs are harmful" declared the lac
."rer' rhere are poisonous germs ms
"cil as poisonous plants. Some arc
beneficial TO the system, while others
| are fatal. Some people are so nby-
sicaliy constituted that their bodies
VIII e%pel all bacteria. just as some
SOIL Is barren; nothing can be crown
| upon it," 81" -
DR.. Levy called attention to germ
orecoing IN milk and water, and pro-
! nounced these agencies to be the most
prolific. The crusade which has becn
| wased In Richmond for the past tire,
Years, he said, for pure milk and good
water has met with unusually salts
! factory results. and he declared This
city can now boast as fine milk and
i water supplies as any community
Reduction of Typhoid.
| He held that the plan Of scoring
/ dairies and requiring the dairymen 10
maintain sanitary surroundings has
caused Dig decrease In typhoid fever,
and to illustrate this point he dis
i played views of model dairy farms in
| this section and showed Il chart giving
the decrease Of typhoid fever in Rich
| mond since 1850
Il Will speak only briefly on the sub
| jcct Of tuberculosis" continued the
speaker. 1T is a subject to which the
| press has devoted thousands OF col
umns. and lecturers have preached st
| from tho platform so often that too
! much of the attention OF the public
| has been distracted to mis- one dis
| case. which Is in the preventable class.
! The world has been aroused. not to
say, alarmed, rs a result OF the cx-
| ploitation of the white plague"
| DIR. Levy took up in turn scarlet
fever smallpox, diphtheria diseases
| of childhood and referred briefly to
! sanitation.
The next lecture of this series will
be by DR.. Beverly Tucker on the sub
ject Of "Hygienic Management Of Ner-
vous Children" on January 10.