The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-08
HURRY TALKS ON
TYPHOID EPIDEMIC

We are engaged in one long battle
against ignorance and prejudice" said
DR.. J. \. Hurry TO a Palladium repre-
sentative yesterday. The worst en-
envy TO public health is the public it.
self. After we have toiled 10 unearth
the real causes OF some epidemic We
are usually blocked by the very peo-
pie We are trying 10 help. To illus
trate; A few days ago l made a trip
into a certain county and discovered
a number of cases OF a peculiar dis
ease which preys on school children
We examined twenty-one dinner bas-
kets and discovered nineteen of them
insufficiently supplied.
Those same nineteen children.
further examination revealed, were all
suffering from malnutrition. But after
We had made the fact known and
warned the parents against the dan
ger there children were in from ira
choma and other maladies. the Off
Gals and newspapers jumped on US
and abused us rOundly.
Publicity Needed
THE biggest factor just now in our
public health campaign is publicity.
wish every paper in the state would
undertake a we'll organized and care
fully directed campaign TO secure bet
ter public health conditions In In
diana were are paving annually mil
lions Of dollars and thousands Of lives
as penalty for our carelessness, our
prejudice and our ignorance
We are rapidly heading toward an
era of preventive medicine There is
really no. such thing as cure A treat
ment may arrest the progress OF a
disease, but can not restore the orig
inal healthy conditions. How foolish
1t is for us to pay so much money
and spend so much time trying TO
rescue people from the diseases. Why
not devote more money and more time
making 1t unnecessary for them TO
contract disease in the first place?
People as whole pay more at
tention to the health of hogs and
chickens than to human beings | find
many farmers borrowing money in or
der to secure the last thing in caring
for his cattle, while refusing to spend
cent to make his family healthier
or his home more sanitary
Speaks for Babies.
What we need most of all in In
diana is a first-class crop of babies.
That beats the corn crop or the pig
crop. When We devote as much at
tention to the ways and means of rails
ing our own human breeding level
we can begin to talk about conserva-
ton of natural resources. Uncle Sam
has more tied up in the present gen
Grafton of babies than in any other
thing the whole country over.
That's one reason | am so much in
favor OF the tuberculin test of all dairy
cattle. It's a measure to protect our
babies, our most valuable crop So
long as our children have to be raised
on tuberculOus milk we will have them
deformed with glandular and joint tu-
berculosis and will lose them by many
other forms of consumption"
DR.. Hurry fell into a reminiscent
mood and recalled having in his pos
session short time ago an account
in Richmond paper of a speech his
father made in Richmond before his
election as superintendent of schools
My father had the nerve" said the
doctor, TO advocate in 1850 free edu-
cation in public schools. You should
have seen the scoring he received in
that paper. They called him a vision
airy and quack, and poked unmerct-
full sarcasm at him because of his
'chlmerical scheme"