Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-09-16

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tell whax ~ virginians - doing -
that dtrection. N
It - we'll known that haalth eon-
ditions II the rural districts aTs batter
than those In the cities. - u reflect6d
by the death rate. A Canadian au-
thority Will bring q paper showing the
relation OF rural ana urban populations
to the public health, while France will
bring Z Inessage concerning the linz
provements, IN the classification Of the
causes OF death. and - to what further
changes may be made with advantage.
Everybody knows that doctors some
times make wrong diagnoses, and one
Of them proposes to bring : paper tell
ing the congress Just how much Of Z
margin ef error there 10 In this cons
nection. showing that It diners In diff
ferent diseases and In different local
tiles.
The training Of health and death
statisticians-technically known q
demographers-will receive it, share Of
attention Germany has . system Of
training men to ba statisticians just %
we train men to BE- doctors and law
yers, and one Of IT. leading officials
will tell the congress how Germany
makes demographers. France also will
b heard from in this connection. and
. Cornell professor will tell how the
supply Of and demand for statisticians
may be increased. The use Of machin-
cry in the tabulation Of statistics, its
advantages and disadvantages. also
will be discussed.
Infant Mortality.
Infant mortality will receive large
share Of attention. It will be shown
that cutting down the death rate among
children allows those who survive to
grow up to a healthier manhood and
womanhood, and that the movement to
save the babies has become world
wide, with the result that several mil
lion now survive the perils Of infancy
who otherwise would fill untimely
graves. A movement 10 on foot to In
duce mothers to nourish their babies in
natures way instead Of resorting to
the bottle and cows milk. Carefully
kept and analysed stRtiJtics show that
a baby naturally nourished has many
more chances Of arriving at manhood
or womanhood than the ones which
have to feed from bottle. This move
ment will be heard from at the meet
ing Of the congress.
There is a hope in the hearts Of
many friends Of the race that the day
vet Hx,t11 Nu.I1a tto OF q
much attention to the development OF
excellent family strains as 1t now does
to the development Of good breeds OF
cattle and horses and pigs It is
realized that this will have to come
about through a long process OF edu-
eating public sentiment against the
marrige Of the criminaily inclined. the
weak minded. and the diseased. Sta
tistics OF racial qualities will have
a great deal Of influence upon the Sub
jects. and the measure Of that inf1u-
ence will get Its share OF attention.
Everybody who carries a life insur-
ance policy IL interested in the life
tables upon which our life insurance
is based. 1t Is never certain when one
person or another IL going to die, but
1t IL always certain that in list of
10000 people in widely separted COM
munities q fixed number OF given ages
will die in year. The life Of the in
dividual is an uncertain quantity while
the life Of a mass OF them Is deter
minable. AS the years 60 by the death
rate is cut down and the insurance risk
is proportionately reduced The ex-
perience tables always are based on
O.
higher death rate than now exists.
Just now new set OF experience tables
for the population of the United States
is being made. and the congress will
hear of the progress Of that work
through Miles NJ. Dawson. an actuary
who is engaged in the construction of
the tables.
Many other subjects Of equal interest
will be discussed in carefully prepared
papers, and every contribution that has
been made in every part Of the world to
the science of public health statistics
will be brought to Washington and laid
before the congress. The vast array of
other public health information which
will be brought before the congress.
will be reprinted in a series of volumes
and then will be disseminated through
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out the civilized world. Perhaps the
one great misfortune will be that the
congress will not have funds enough to
publish all the transactions in each of
the three great world tongues-Eng-
lish, French and German. but each
paper will be printed only in the tongue
In which 1t was delivered.
Tomorrow-Hygiene and Sanitation.
IV-Mastering the Microbe.
" your watch does NOT run right,
lot us repair Il. You will be satisfisd.
CON w. HE9eE. Jewsisr.
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