St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1913-03-15
OPELoUsAs, La. SATURDAY. MARCH IS 1913
The La. HEALTH CAR
WAS HERE SATURDAY

WAS HERE SATURDAY
Mas Agnes Norris Calls At The Clarion An,
! Talks On Health Gar. Meeting Al The
Courthouse Shiny Attended.
Miss Agnes Morris, the talent.
Led educator, now connected with
the State Board of Health, paid
the Clarion Office an appreciated
call and requested that the sub
ject of vital statistics be taken
up with the Parish solons and
| the public. We take pleasure in
doing so, as we have endorsed
the activities of the State Board
of Health in this direction for
the past seven years. We can
never expect to draw the best
class of farming immigrants and
capital to our waste and idle
lands until we can show by the
vital and mortuary Statistics that
all the stories of the Attakapas
c oun try, designed e d | y
c r c u ! a t e d i n the North
andin Europe, to defect the tide
of travel to the West and to
Canada, are lies cut out Of the
whole cloth.
We who are here know that
Louisiana is the garden spot of
the United States; and the
Attakapas, the Eden of
Louisiana" as beautifully des-
cribed by Longfellow, but how
in the world is the outlander to
know these things unless our
vital statistical record is there to-
prove it. We have shown in the
past that Insurance Companies
have Disseminated against us
until they found out better.
Now if we mean business, if we
desire an influx Of capital and
high class agricultural labor, let
US publish the facts officially.
The State Board has hit upon
a Scheme to secureethis through
the Postmasters. DR.. Porter in
his address at the Court House
said that the Doctors have been
tried but were Woefully found
wanting. The Irion Board sent
out 80 600 pieces of 2 cent post
age literature and got only 80
responses from the doctors, SO
DR.. DoWling does well to try
some other agency to collect this
data.
The new Parish Of Allen, al
though in debt, appropriated
$3.50. 90 for the purpose Of paying
the small fee, whish goes to the
Postmaster for the collecting Of
this data. Let us hope that old
St. La dry will go them $4,000 /
better. Let as make a united
effort, throughout the State, to
get Louisiana in the Registra-
ton area" and no longer keep
our light under a bushel.
The Health Car Of the Board
Health was stationed near the
Freight Depot Of the Frisco Co.
It remained there from Friday
afternoon until to 2::30 Saturday
evening and was visited by hum
dreds Of school children, and
men and women. Friday night
. meeting was held at the Court
house aud, we regret to say, It'll
was very slimly attended. This |
S inexcusable; night, after night, |
for over a week, a patent med
cine concern held open air-per-
formances on the Courthouse
square, when standing room was
1t a premium and yet the incle-
nency of the weather. did not
prevent the people from turning
out Z en- masse;;" yet to free
moving picture performance
lnder the auspices of the State
Board Of Health, scarcely a cor
ooral guard turned out.
The meeting was not only in
,tructive, but delightfully."- enter
aiming; there being mental food
or reflection for all, old and
7oung alike. The fly film is the
inest ever, bringing the danger
# a fly to a mental focus. The
1oiled water film is the same,
which attracted hundreds of
thousands in Washington D. c.,
Turing the session of the Hygieue
Congress last year. It brings
,ut the danger of polluted drink
ng water and the benefit of boil
ng it; showing the chemist in
lis labratory drinking the boiled
md filtered water, which a few
minutes before was reeking with I
Uphold germs. The tooth brush |
lrill in the public schools was
1ery interesting. the points in
he pictures being brought out
oy DR.. Porter in a rnnning COM
nentary.
The meeting was called to
order by DR.. b. A. Littell, City
Health officer, who introduced
DR.. +. J. Mayer as Chairman,
the latter made no address,