Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-08-10
From The Magazine Press.
Excerpts OF Opinion from the Leading Writers of Today

sketches in the American is Ernest
j. Lederle.
A far vis'oned planner, an ener,
getlc and kindly admins rator, with
German crougl ness, Yankee shrewd
ness, and universal humanity, strong
patient, able, just, judicious.
That's Lederle.
The pubic health of New York
City, an immense, congested, squalid
metropclis-a hi e, necessarily busy
rushing roaring-a clutter of five
mill n human beings, many very fill
thy and most of them careless.
That's his job.
Public health is a purchasable
commodity, how much do you want tt
buy?"
That's his platform.
New York Ciy's death rate per
thousand dropped from 20.01 in 1904
to l .13 in 1911, the lowest in the
story of the city.
That results.
New York has at present a lower
death rate than Paris, Rome, Vienna
St. Petersburg, Washington, Phila-
delphia Cincinr atti, Newark, Buffalo
and Boston. She is about even with
Chicago and San Francisco. Cleve-
land is lower, so is Los Angeles.
New York's achievement stands out
however, when you remember that
these are young cities with popu-
la ion mostly beyond infancy and be-
low cd age, thereby giving an age
ouping favorable to low mortality
which is not the case in New York.
Lorden and Berlin have lower
rate 40 and 1911, respectively. But
the birthrate in New York is 25
per cent higher than In Berlin and
10 Ter cent higher than in London.
Big cit es are cruel to children, SO
wi the higher birth rate comes the
high death rate.
In 1910, $4,000 children under two
y airs cd di d in New York, of them
Is 600 W re less than one year old.
Give a guess Milk? Prec sely, you
que sed it the first time.
Iedrele laid down the law that all
mi sold in the city should be class
if ed into three grades:
(A)-Suitab.e for infants and children.
(B)-Suitable for adults.
(C)-Sui a lie for cooking and manu-
featuring purposes.
All m Tx sid in grades A and
must comply with high special re-
quiIements or else be pasteurlzed.
He opered fif cen milk stations
where infants supplies can be had
and ms ructicn is given in the care
and feeding of babies. This work is
as vet barely begun-but in 1911
the deaths under two years have
dropped from 1929 to 1854. Two
thousand babies net is something OF
starter.
Good Housekeeping contains
sketch of the one DR.. Wiley, well
worth the reading.
"Dr. Wiley is crank on the sub
iect cf pure food,' was an express
on often heard In the corridors
and comm ttee rooms of the nation
al capitol long before people real
lied The necessity of a pure food
law. In those days DR.. Wiley haunted
the committee rooms and corridors
trying to impress upon legislators
the necess ty for national laws which
would preyent the sale of impure,
mis- andled and adulterated FOODS ana
drugs.
The pure food law came SLOWLY.
First it was applied to foreign I'M
portations. 1t was all right OF course,
t, bar out impure fools made by for
eli ners. Then pure food law was
passed which af ,ected only Washihs-
ton. Anything could be tried In
Washington, seemed to be the idea
of the Congre sren. Finally the pre-
sent pure food law was passed.
DR.. Wiley has been doing much TO
secure this legislation, has given adj
vice and help to the men who iram-
ed it. and in fact, had been SO con-
spicuous in the movement for pure
food, that the administration OF the
law was placed in his hands. When
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