Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1913-04-22
Sanitary and Health Condition

Enemies of the A. and NJ. College
have made the charge that the big
farmers college is insanitary. AS a
matter Of fact, 1t would be hard to
find a more sanitary institution than
the A. and M. College and the records
show that the student body of that
institution is, as physician said the
other day, dangerously healthy.
Nothing has been left undone to
insure the good health Of the student
body. A competent surgeon and two
nurses keep careful guard over the
cadets from the time they first land
at the school in September until the
final dress parade at commencement.
A hospital that is we'll equipped is
maintained and IL boy grunts in he
goes and there he stays until the sur
geon satisfies himself that the boy is
fully recovered.
Rigid inspection of the food which
is given the boys is exercised and
plenty of wholesome food, well
cooked" is the motto of B. Sbisa, in
charge of the subsistence department
And just how well the authorities
succeed in keeping down disease is
shown by the records. In the United
States Army an average of 4.3 per
cent of the soldiers are off duty dur.
ing the year because of illness. The
A. and NJ. College records show an
average Of only 2 per cent missing
classwork because of illness.
During the past three years five
A. and NJ. cadets have died. OF that
number one was drowned, another was
an accident victim, one died Of appen
dicitis, and this year two died of men
nights. The two boys who died Of
meningitis contracted the disease
while at home Christmas and were
stricken Immediately after their re
turn here. The disease was stamped
out, however, before it could gain any
Roadway no other students being
stricken.
Such a thing as typhoid fever is un-
heard of at the college and there are
remarkably few cases of mumps,
measles and other lighter diseases
which generally are epidemics at all
schools and in all cities.
DR.. Otto Ehlinger, the college sur
geon, visits the barracks every day
and makes an inspection of the prem
ises. He knows more students than
any two men at the college and he
keeps a keen eye on every fellow.
There are fellows who may be sick
but they won't admit it" says DR..
Ehlinger. "The only way for me to
find those fellows out is to know them
so we'll that l can tell by their ac'
tons when they are not prime. Then
there is the boy who wants to pos
sum" to get out of class. give him
some harmless medicine that will
cause him some temporary inconven'
fence and | am never troubled with
him any more.
Adequate sewerage system with
sanitary and well ventilated dormi
ties keeps the sickness down to the
minimum. l couldn't desire condi
lions to be better. We have no mos
quities due to a warfare that is con
Quoted every spring and summer and
fact, everything that tends to make
for the good health and comfort o.
the boys is done"
Drs. Sims and Hunnicutt Of Bryan
recently made an inspection OF the
buildings and grounds at the college
Both Of those physicians, who are
health officers, pronounced conditions
as being ideal.
DR.. Stiles, the hookworm expert
pronounced the A. and d. cadets thu
healthiest and best developed buncl
Of fellows he had ever seen. Whei
a company was marshalled before hin
he protested to President Miner. say
ing that those boys constituted tn
football squad. When Informed tina
they were boys picked indiscriminate
ly from the corps and that many o
them did not go in for athletics saw
for the calisthenics which are re
uulred, he expressed great astonish
ment. 1--WE never seen such husky
bunch of boys in all my life. They
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