Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-16

who publishes patent medicine adver.
tisements and who has constantly
fought the medical profession. Mrs.
Diana Belais, a trustee, Is president
of an anti'experiment society. DR.. G.
s.. Carr. another trustee. has been
I advertising over his signature the
Peruna Drug Co. There was recently
found on the v Of n Of his
sheets, his picture with the i2scrip.
ton: "All drugs are pOisons ;all
druggists are prisoners" On the rer
verse side Of the sheet was the ad.
vertisement: Prescribe Antikamnia
and Codeine tablets in Ia grippe.
headache, etc" Several more OF the
trustees and advisory board are pat.
ent medicine men, but the above
! should be sufficient to show you what
the opposition 10 medical progress
consists of.
From what ! have said it becomes
plainly evident that we should not
send men to the Legislature or to con.
gress who will not declare themselves
in favor of = easur which con,
serves the health of their constitur
ents. We must, therefore, have free
discussions OF these phases SO as to
enable those who se>: Office to be,
come familiar with this subject and
discuss It from an intelligent stand
] point. Nobody should seek public OF,
! flee who Is opposed to common sense
health rules, and no man should carry
his personal animositias into the halls
OF legislation. All individual differ.
ence should De cast aside when the,
needs of the people are at stake. In
the majority of instances where a
LEGISLATOR votes against these meas.
ures we can safely make the state
ment that he did not know any bet
ter, and that it was ignorance and
mot personal luminosity which prompt
cd him. He will think nothing of az.
propriating 100000 to prevent hog
cholera or glanders in horses, yet
when he is asked to appropriate $40,
1000 for the preservation of human life
he will oppose the measure and call
it an unnecessary expenditure. He,
does not know that it is not an ex.
penditure but an investment-the
greatest investment that q nation
can make. The goal Of human life
is happiness, and when we have
health we are sur to get happiness,
The most valuable production of the
state is its citizens, and the state ex.
lists only to insure life, liberty, ,ant
the pursuit of happiness to them. It.
is, therefore, in duty bonnd to plan
for, and carry out measures for their
comfort, convenience, safety, pleas
ure health and happiness. In order
to accomplish this the state must pro
vide:
First: The education for parents.
in personal hygiene Of the children
and the education for the children in
the physical care of themselves.
Second: Supervision and inspec
ton of children during school life for
such defects, disabilities, and dseas
es as may develop during that period.
or which may have been present on
admission.
Third: The supervision Of infecti
GUS diseases, and of the general SAM
tary conditions of the community. I
1t has been proven thatover 80 pc,
cent of all infectious diseases origi
nate at home, and that children carry.
disease into the school room and
spread it among the pupils. Babies:
are as a rule born healthy, but q tu-
berculOus mother will soon infect her
offspring unless she knows how to
prevent it. 1t is the most natural
thing in the world for a mother to-
kiss ~her children on the mouth. Her
mouth is filled with tuberculosis
germs. A tuberCulOus father coughs
and spits on the floor or around the
yard and the little tot crawls around
in the spittal with his little hands.
and then puts them in his mouth
Darkness and foul air are the best
means for the growth and multiplied
ton of these germs, yet the parents,
will close down all the windows be-
cause they are afraid of exposure
afraid that the night air might de-
them harm. They do not know tAati
they are preparing a good breeding
place for the germs.
The common house fly, the ordinary
pet of SO many households, has free
access to the food laden table, be-
cause he is considered harmless. The.
parents do not realize that the neigh
Dor has consumption and deposits
his spittal around the yard, and the
innocent fly feeds on it and gets his
feet and legs smeared full Of the germ
Laden mucus, and when meal time
comes, flies into the house and crawls
over all the eatables which the fam.
lily are about to- enjoy. Millions OF
germs in this way get access to the
human body and cause tuberculosis
Tor typhoid fever or diphtheria or
some such disease, which could Just
the parents know how the Infection
is being carried.
1t seems to be an Unborn character.
istic of the human family that super.
stituti0n, any thing occult ana strange
and unreasonable, appeals to the
masses much sooner than any thing
common sense, and it is this tendency
that we must over come by education.
1t is only by constant teaching and
preaching on subjects pertaining to
public health that we can ever expect
to reach the people, who can do so
much toward effecting proper and
sanitary laws.
Public meetings should be held,
men and women who art, well versed
in sanitary matters should give their
aid in teaching the parents both in
pubic and at home. The common
sources of infection by germs should