Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-24
VARIOUS TOPICS
ARE CONSIDERED
At THE CONGRESS
Questions of Health and
Disease Are Discussed at
Congress of Hygiene and
Demography.

giene and Demogra ply today spoke on
"the school children of the stock yards
district
1T is a gray neighborhood-the Chi
cago stock yards said DR.. Hedger.
She presented the substance of an in
vestigation carried on under the direc-
ton Of the board OF the University OF
Chicago, and showing that almost SO
per cent of the children Of the stock
yards district showed material retard-
alton III the two schools in the dis
trict from which the 200 pupils were
studied.
I'm the region in which they i've"
she said, 1.-THE smoke comes down in
clouds and with 1t comes the smell Of
the fertilizer plants. This Is not con-
ducive to deep breathing or sound
sleep, and the children impress one as
lacking oxygen. ound-shouldered,
thin and rather pale. But the physi
cal findings, while alarming while
viewing the group as whole. are dis
tributed in such way as to make one
to suspect that all other causes have
more connection with the school re-
tardation.'
DIR. Hedger presented statistics to
ly in almost the direct proportion as
they received insufficient food. had
little room to live, were forced to sleep
in crowded beds, and had the reflected
worry from taxes and mortgages.
"rhey have not the spirit and the
nervous balance to make their grades
she said. IF the child grows inactive.
disconnected, becomes idle and Grim
i,,nI to. l,lI t.,l IL, I,n |.
err asked, cor is the Snug citizen who
lives on the fat returns of stocks,
whose money is made by the sweat and
blood and deprivation of the industrial
neighborhoods like this?"
Danger Of Fatigue.
With the assertion that Fatigue
was danger of occupation as truly as
any of the industrial poisons and must
he recognized as such if it is to be
combatted.' Miss Josephine Goldmarll
of the National Consumers league,
New York City. addressed the congress
on THE Study of Fatigue and It's APP
plication TO Industrial Workers"
'Thc essential injury of overtime is
due to what has been graphically
proved in the laboratory with the
ersograph.'' said Miss Goldmark,
because effort increases with ia
tigues; because work continued after
fatigue has set i'm requires so much
more subsequent time for recupera-
ton, but during a rush or overtime
season such time for recupcration is
necessarily lacking.
THE clerk who is kept in the great
department store until Il. IL or /
o'clock at night during one or two
frenzied weeks before Christmas, the
girl who works at fever heat stitching
women's waists In January for the
spring trade is not relieved of the ne
cessity of reporting for work the next
morning. She comes to work unrestcd
and with each day of overtime accu-
mulated fatigue necessarily grows.
1T Is precisely here that the aid of
science is so urgently needed and has
hitherto been almost wholly lacking"
Dental Hygiene.
\ G. Adolphus Enopf speaking on the
topic Dental Hygiene for the Pupils
of Public Schools" declared bad and
decayed teeth were a disease of the
masses as much as tuberculosis, and as
such must be combatted particularly
in children of school age
~ fter making an estimate that at
I per cent of all the children
school age of the United States
Re tuberculous, and calling atten-
bn to the last report of the commits
Psioner of education that there were
Y 100000 children attending public
schools in the country, DR.. Knopf de-
tlared there must be at least 500 900
:. tuberculous children in urgent need
of open air instruction. He quoted an
estimate that the average life of the
$4,000 children who die annually from
tuberculosis in the United States was
about ~ years. Figuring the cost to
the parents and community at only
S250,OOO per annum, he said the finan-
cial loss thus represented was $780,
100000 and children have died before
they have been able to give any re-
turn to their parents or the commu-
nifty.
Use Of Compressed Air.
r. Kennard Thomson. vice president
of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers of New York. advanced the
conclusion that many cases Of what
is called Caisson disease We're due moi
SO much to work I'm compressed air as
they were to work in foul atmospheres
Mr.. Thomson said that foul atmos-
phere, even at a very low pressure
was often more dangerous to men thar
much higher pressure where the ali
was not contaminated. To support
his contention he cited a number OF
cases in the work for the Lenox ave-
nue. bridge In the Harlem river tun-
mel, New York City. Considerable
trouble was caused by men complain
ing OF the bends when passing
through the foul mud in the bottom OF
the river.
Mr. Thomson directed attention &c
what he termed 1.-THE criminal folly Of
depositing sewerage In the Harlem
river" He declared that several tests
have provided that the tides did not
carry away all the sewerage emptiet
into the Harlem, the Hudson and thu
East rivers. because any excavation
will disclose a black putrid mud OF