The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
State Board of Health Issues
"HeaIth Almanac"
Tells People When Contagious
Diseases Are Prevalent.
JANUARY SMALLPOX MONTH
This Is Time to Look Out for
Pneumonia.
Trite Sayings Brought Up to
Date and Made Interesting.

The Kansas state board of health
has issued the Kansas Health Almanac
in place of the usual copy of the Bull
letin for this month. 1t is a unique
and clever and helpful publication. n
is patterned after the old patent med
icine almanac. 1t contains the risings
and settings Of the sun and the phases
of the moon. Also the especial preva-
lence of disease for each month and
the preventives and remedies and
a thousand helpful hints in the form
of epigrams.
DR.. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the
board. is the editor. with the aid OF
Secretary Martin of the historical So
ciety he has Incorporated ia his mod
ern almanac all the important events
of Kansas history by days OF the
months.
Two pages are devoted to each
month. one page to the disease most
prevalent that month and the preven-
tives and warnings. The other page
to the usual almanac table with Kan
sas history dates supplemented for
worlds dates. There are a half dozen
health epigrams under each table.
January Smallpox Month.
For instance. January is called the
smallpox month. Vaccination is urg-
ed to check the spread OF the disease.
The epigrams for January are:
pox,' hang out the yellow flag and get
vaccinated
THE man who says he had rather
have smallpox than be vaccinatcd new
er had the smallpox.
zone large pock on the arm is bet
ter than many small pocks on the
face
1.-The man who fears the III effects
of vaccination will be the first man
to run when smallpox appears.
ASK the man who has pock marks
if he was vaccinated before he had
the disease"
This Is the Pneumonia Month.
February is the pneumonia month.
The February proverbs are.
An open window is better than an
open grave.
''N-.l4rl roa1is have killed more peo-
pie than ever froze to death.
"A stir drink makes the stomach
warm but the skin cold
"A stitch in the underwear may save
a stitch in the side.
"A mustard bath for the feet will do
far more 70 ward off pneumonia than
a gallon jug.
IF you have a pain in the side. a
fever and a cough. you had better see
the doctor than any friend ia the
world.
Avoid patent medicines as you would
q pestilence."
March for Measles.
March is for measles. Dr. Crum-
bine is inclined to take the measles
seriously. He declares 81 causes three
times as many deaths as smallpox and
warns parents to keep their children
away from it. His measles epigrams
are as follows:
Measles in a school is like fire in
the tall grass.
IF you let the child have measles
when he is young, you may save a
doctors bill later on, but you may
have to pay the undertaken now.
saIa1r.a
never miss 1t.
pneumonia is the Jekyn to the
measles Hyde.
Yes. the child may get well or
measles without a doctor-but he may
not.
THE child who catches every
thing generally carries the burden
in after years"
April for whooping cough. ''Whooping
cough is highly contagious. Whooping
cough in children under years OF age s.
a grave disease"
May for good wells and good water
IF your roof and your well both leak.
fix the we'll first"
June for Infants complaints Two dol
lars for a doctor s. cheaper than one
hundred dollars for "A funeral"
July for flies and mosquitoes. Wire
screens in the windows may keep crepe
from the door,
Typhoid in August
--ugust for typhoid fever. II some
people were as much afraid OF flies
they are of bad water. there would be
less typhoid.
September for dIphtheria. "A syringe
of antitoxin is more efficacious in case
OF diphtheria than a month Of nursing
October for scarlet fever ''Scarlatfna
may not sound as dangerous as scarlet
fever: but ask the undertaken"
November for colds and Influenza "A
little ventilation is more effective than
much quinine."
December for consumption. 1T is bet
ter to sleep in the fresh air than tho
fresh grave"
A subtitle for the almanac s. Good
health for every day in the year" Dr.
Crumbine hopes that every citizen viii
send for the almanac IL will be sent
promptly upon request and there IS a
cord attached by which II may be hung
on the corner Of the mantle for reference,
health and happiness.