The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-16

The public health Of North Dakota
was the. prevailing topic at the
second days meeting of the North
Dakota State Federation Of :Women's
clubs today. 4 ...-% g.
Mrs. r. A. Sprague of Grand Forks,
food Inspector of that city, acted as
chairman of the health department
and gave the first address this after
noon, choosing for her topic, The
Work Along Health Lines In North
Dakota. -. =. &c.. d.. ~. = =. !.
Prof. E. F. Ladd, also member of
the department, gave an interesting
twenty-five minutes talk on Patent
Medicines and the Authorizations of
Foods, followed by a fifteen minutes
talk "a the Health Department in
Dunn Quain Of Bismarck sfas%4S,t al,
Mrs. Ernest Wright opened the af-
ternoon's session with a vocal solo FOL-
lowed by the address of Mrs. Sprague.
- Mrs. Sprasue's Report. -. ~,
The report of Mrs r. A. Sprague,
chairman Of the health committee,
: was well received In part Mrs.
Sprague said: a.,. =. -
During the past year encouraging
reports have come from all parts Of
the state Of the work done along
womep's clubs. = The work of the
health committee has been of neces-
sity almost entirely correspondence.
One hundred twenty communications
el%eave been sent QUITO clubs over the
state and forty replies have been re-
ceived, twenty three being reports of
work accomplished during the year.
The: reports from clubs show the work
to be along the. same general line:
Cleaning streets and alleys; car
ing for garbage and barn manure;
the fly campaign; protection of food.
These places will have special mem
tfon by the district presidents.
"Of these Lisbon has carried on a
very successful fly campaign, secured
medical examination in schools and
accomplished a great deal. in the
cleaning up of alleys and vacant lots.
s In Pembina, garbage cans were
placed about town and individual
drinking cups were placed in two
schools. ... s. ...,..
"At Hope plot of ground, former
ly a. dump ground, was turned into a
beautiful little park. All buildings On
the Great Northern right t-of-way
were cleaned and painted inside and
out.
"a report from Darlington tells of
fly traps being set at short intervals
all over the city; foodstuffs screened
and protected form flies. dust. mice
etc. s.. .@- ..a,tr -
"At Larimore public rest room
has been maintained and care given
to streets and alleys.
"Lakota has had butcher shops and
food stores inspected, resulting in
greatly improved conditions
"That our health work has attract
ed the attention Of those outside the
borders of our state is shown from
r&e fact that during the year just
passed I have received letters Of in
quiry about what could be accom-
plished by food inspection how to do
he work and the attitude Of the food
merchants toward the inspector.
These letters came from Clinton. Ia;
Los Angeles, Cal; New York city;
Philadelphia Waterloo. Ia; Fergus
Falls, Mimi: Moorhead. Mimi; HON.
err, ILL.,; Burlington, VT; DeKalb, ILL.,;
and Washington, D. c.. and all were
answered with the hope that the work
would be carried on
A circular letter from this commit
tee was sent to the extension depart
ment to be distributed to the different
clubs which contained a programme
of health subjects and asked that
each woman's club in preparing their
programme for the year, take for con-
sideration as many of the subjects as
possible.
Sound Mind and Body.
"A right heart and u sane, sound
& mind call for healthy brain in
healthy well nourished body. This
statement no longer needs a cham
p1on.
"The social worker and the pure
food inspector go forth no longer as
faddists but with all the thinking
powers that be back of her. Food
inspection and the fly campaign have
become the natural follower of the
public school the wide awake church
and the up-to-date newspaper. Every
village has recognized the fact that
In, land where all men are created
legally, at least, equal all have a
right to flife, liberty and the pursuit
Of happiness and clean wholesome
food, also Of the, grade they can buy
with what they have to pay for it.
Whatever light future research
and revelation may throw upon the
matter the present day idea OF the
seat Of moral and mental disturbance
es that find their climax in insanity,
crime and death, has located much of
5thestrouble not in an elusive and des-s
perately wicked heart but in per-
fectly locatable stomach which re-
ceiyes the material of which the
human machine Is made and gathers
fian 1t those agents that in brain,
nerve, bone and muscle the aforesaid