Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
Community Hygiene and Personal
Hygiene Are Dependent on
Each Other Says Dr.. Storey.
THE LAW DISEASES ENEMY
Regulations as to Habits, Foods,
and Recreation of People Alone
Protect Body Polite.
BY DR.. THOMAS A. STOREY,
Professor of Hygiene College of the
CitV of New York,

CITY of New York.
Community hygiene and personal
hygiene are so dependent upon each
other that a successful standard in
one is not possible without a sue
cessful standard in the other. Man
and communities of men build their
hygiene out of the same habits All
hygiene, personal or community, is
the product of wise habits Of nourish-
ment; wise habits Of excretion; wise
habits of exercise, recreation and
rest and wise plans for the avoid
ance of and defenses against the
causes and carriers of disease.
The health of the human body de-
ponds upon the health of every one
of the multitude of tissue cells out OF
which the human body is made. Mil
lions of these cells are specialized
into the muscle masses. Other cells
in like number are specialized in the
nervous tissue Still other cells are
specialized in the bony tissue. Still
other of these cells are specialized
for other purposes.
Cells Total Millions.
In total, these various tissue cells
number a great many millions. The
health of these cells is the basis of
the health Of the body. If any of
these cells are nto in a healthy con-
dition the body cannot be in a healthy
condition.
The health of all these tissue cells
depend upon their nourishment; upon
their being freed from the injurious
influences Of their excretions; upon
their receiving adequate rest; upon
their being properly exercised, and
upon their being protected from the
influences of the living things that
cause disease in mankind,
On the other hand, the tissue cells
themselves depend upon the habits of
the individual of which they are a
part for their nouTishment, their re-
lief from the injurious effects of their
eXcretions, their exercise, their rest,
and their protection against the liv-
ing things that cause disease This
means that the man that does not
take care of his nourishment. in
Guiding the foods he eats, the oxygen
he breathes and the water he drinks,
will not have well-nourished tissue
cells
Individual and Community.
The same relationship that exists
between the human body and the
millions # cells Of which il is made
is found In the relationship between
the community and the hundreds of
thousc DIS or millions Of Individual
human beings which taken together
form the community. The community
cannot be a healthy, virile or efficient
community unless the individuals who
together form that community are
healthy, virile individuals, and the
individual depends for his health upon
the habits of the community of which
he is a part just as the tissue cell
depend for its health upon the health
habits of the body Of which it is a
part.
In the first place, the individual
human being depends upon the world
Of human beings for his very knOwl-
edge of accurate facts bearing upon
the nature of disease, its causes. its
carriers and his defenses against
those causes and carriers
And so in our great communities
we recognize this fact and make pro-
vision in various ways for the health
education of the individual and the
community We establish public
schools We build colleges. We Gre
ate universities We form clinics,
laboratories and hospitals Through
all these various sources we secure
knowledge Of all mankind.
Schools Aid in Work
Here in New York City our public
schools give certain amount Of in
struction concerning health TO some
thing like seven hundred thousand
school children In this same great
community various important Citi-
zens' organizations are busy dis
tributing information concerning
many Of the special phases Of by
giene
The Board of Health is sending
nurses to instruct poor mothers con-
corning the care and feeling Of chill
dren. The Merchants Association is
educating the public concerning the
dangers from the house fly as a car
rier of disease.
The playground associations are
teaching the influence of sunshine.
fresh air and recreation upon human
health The Society for the study
and Prevention Of tuberculosis is
aiming to make common a knowledge