Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-08-13

bounds of reason into the haZy do
why we are not ready in South Caro-
lima for a law requiring the bride
and groom to present a physicians s
certificate that they are in good
health before the minister shall pro-
nounce them man and wife. Several
States have passed such law. The
last State to do so was Penn " ania
There the bride and groom 1. the
future will be required to take a SOL
emn oath that they have no trans
missible disease. Such a course in
this State would hasten this new sci
ence of being we'll born
The only other suggestion | shall
make this evening is that we should
foster the agencies already in our
hands which look toward the main
tenance Of health in the home. En-
lightened woman Is pre-eminently
the sanitarian Of the home. The
State Of South Carolina provides a
for the training Of her daughters in
home economies and sanitation. From
the front gate to the remotest re-
cesses of the backyard you will find
the rules as provided by the State
| Board Of Health rigidly enforced.
Every woman's college in the State
should own such an equipment. The
Federation OF Women's Clubs has
done much to disseminate a knowl-
edge Of hygiene and sanitation in the
home. We should frankly acknowl-
edge this and further encourage their
| work. | believe that there is to-day
no investment which pays so well as
carefully directed sanitation. The
State of South Carolina receives
more lasting benefits from her ap-
preparation to the State Board Of
Health than any other appropriation
she makes. How much is it? you
ask. About $4,000. A sum much
less than the great majority of the
States eXpend for this purpose.
Where are the dividends on this out
lay? In every community lives are
saved by free antitoxins, practically
free treatment of hookworm disease,
free vaccine virus, free anti-typhoid
vaccine, free treatment for rabies
and free information on all sanitary
subjects. 1t is clearly conceded that
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done more with less money than any
other State health board in the Uni
ted States.
In conclusion, and to summarize
so that we may grasp something tan
gible and concrete, | recommends:
First, marriage as an institution
conducive to long and healthful ex-
'etcncc.
Second, We should pass d law in
scring the union OF only the strong
and healthy man and woman
Third, We should provide FOR our
girls specific training in sanitary sci
ence.
Fourth, we should encourage all
the existing agencies engaged in pub
lie health work, and especially see to
it that the State appropriates suffi-
cient funds to adequately support it's
health department.
All mterdependcHt.
We are trying to show that to Sc
cure good health in the home we are
not dependent, nor are we independ-
ent. We are driving home the
thought expressed in Kiplings wis
dom-packed poem:
"Now this is the Law of the Jungle,
as old and as true as the sky;
And the wolf that shall keep it may
prosper, but the wolf that shall
break it must die.
AS the creeper that circles the tree
trunk, so the Law runneth for
ward and back;
For the strength of the Pack Is the
Wolf, and the strength Of the Wolf
is the Pack"
Remarkable Cure OF Dysentery.