The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-09-25

Of the worlds present infant mortal
Phelps ssna she elvilised eauntriss sa,a Mz;
fact" AA - '"a'
The story Of the redemption Of the
people of Porto Rico from the hook
worm disease after its centuries Of
ravages was told by DR.. Bailey K.
Ashford Of the medical corps Of the
United States army in Porto Rico. He
related how scientific treatment had
made a whole people fifty per cent
better physically and has caused a
four hundred per cent increase in
Porto Rico's commerce.
DR.. Ashford estimated that ninety
per cent Of the rural population were
infected with the disease, and that
seventy per cent Of those We're more
or less sick. Physicians had to deal
with from 100000 to 100000 infected
at the beginning of the campaign,
when the population was $4,000.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
were treated in the seven years. Some
100000 to 100000 more have recetv-
ed treatment to date, and 100000 still
require it.
But Of this 100000. 200. 900 are re-
ally light cases or simply worm-car-
riers, leaving only about 10000 pal
pably sick. The majority Of the sick
are in the hitherto inaccessible noun
tain barriers. The present sanitary
service is beginning to reach them.
DR.. Helen MacMurchy Of Toronto.
Canada. contributed paper on what
medical inspection Of schools can do
for the teacher.
There are a few cases which have
not the stupid, the dull. the back
ward and the SICK" she said. "They
may have adenoids. the dull may be
only dull Of hearing. the backward
may be really feeble minded, and the
sick may be sources of infection to
the pupils as we'll as the teacher. We
know what to do with these pupils
as all of them are heavy burdens to
the teacher-send them to the medi-
cal inspector. We do not claim that
the call to the doctor to stand beside
the teacher can accomplish everything
but it can help. Medical inspection
of the schools is one Of the signs OF
the times. The twentieth century
more than any foregoing century. Ii
the century of the children"
Children Of the stockyards.
DR.. Caroline g. Hedger Of Chicago
spoke on "The School Children OF
the Stockyards District"
ut is a gray neighborhood-the
Chicago stockyards," said DR. Hedg.
er. She presented the substance Of
an investigation carried on under thu
direction Of the board of the Uniyer
sity Of Chicago, ana showing that al
most fifty per oeHtsef the children %
the stockyards~ district showed mate
to- 81. A..
the district from which the 200 pupil.
were studied.
I'm the region in which we live.
she said, '"the smoke come down II
clouds and with 1t comes the smell
of the fertilizer plants. This is no
conducive to deep breathing or sount
sleep. and the children impress ont
las lacking oxygen, ound-shouldered
thin and rather pale. But the physi
cal findings. while alarming while
viewing the group as whole. are
distributed in such way as to make
one to suspect that all other causes
have more connection with the schoo
retardation."
DR.. Hedger presented statistics Il
show that children were bad physi
cally in almost the direct proportion
as they received insufficient food. hat
little room to live: were forced t.
sleep in crowded beds. and had the
reflected worry from taxes and mort
cages.
"They have not the spirit and the
nervous balance to make theil
grades" she said. "If the chile
grows inactive. discontented, becomes
idle and criminal, is the child tt
blame?" the speaker asked. cor is the
SNUG citizen who lives on the fat re.
turns Of stocks. whose money is made
by the sweat and blood and deprava