The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-23
going to give them for health pro-
lection; for lfssnfihg the health and

going to give them for health pro-
lection; for ifssufihg the health and
life of ourselves and our children.
Money For Health Protection. n
Last year Mankato paid for health
City health department. ). $2,o6S SO
city police department =. 6,210. 90
City FIRE. department. &c.. 1855 so
Would we really expect to get
protection for that sum? If we did
we have much Ito learn. If we did
not, we have been playing the fool
with ourselves. In either case we
have much to regret
,"The impessibility of buying
health protection for a community at
so much per head for a year issprov-
ed by several unnecessary deaths
! during the year. A dollar head is
not too much to pay for health. We
spend much more privately and colr
| lectiyely for things that are OF far
less Importance. Mankato cannot
afford to have its people die and us
most useful men and women carried
off in. the prime of life. Z; &, -..i..a. !,
Municipal. thrift at the expense
of the lives of its citizens is a Grim
inal blunder. Buy health when. 1t is
still possible to, buy it, before the
hand of. disease is laid on it. Buy it
and pay for it and insist on getting
your moneys worth.
Public health of the old type was
to prevent epidemics;, !, of the new
type to, prevent disease The an
nual. economic loss from fire is two
hundred and fifty million dollars. To
prevent this loss, cities spend $1.65
per capita.
The annual loss from preventable
diseases is one billion five hundred
million. To prevent this, the city OF
Minneapolis spends IA cents pei
capita; st. Paul. IA cents, Mime
sofa, as IA. stated cents and Fargo
North Dakota 6211s cents. so..,a-
= ITO prevent this, economic loss by
disease we need. physicians. who arc
trained sanitarians. This would .solYe
a big share of the problem OF public
health. In dealing with preventable
disease. it is important to get the
first, case; as infection is direct, thai
is ,by contact, and not air borne
Quarantine is no, good u for j
reaches only the, sick, and, does mo-
effect the. carriers. the, mild, unrecQg
nized cases, nor the mild concealed
); cases %. r..,.stn; ss..n ~. u,
, Death in Minnesota from the, diff
: ferent preventahle diseases, SO called
{ is, tuberculosis, .2,258 deaths in 1911
and 2,456 deaths, in 1911s; The, rea
son for the, Advance Of the sdiseas'
shows the magnitude Of the problem
5 combined with, the indifference, am
, ignorance of the public. so ~
, Typhoid caused 6SS.s deaths, III
> 1910, and only 294 the followin;
, twelve, months, i 49,. -.
"Diphtheria cost, 26S. lives in 1911
and III in 1911. While smallpo
: claimed but seven each year,
: What Mankato Should Do. 80,
/ What Mankato should do ip,- 19f:
!. for the protection of her people is
e First. laboratory to contro
9 the purity. of the water which it sell
e and the purity of the milk whic'
others sell to IFS people, :. .......
t Second. Registration of death
e and certain of the. more importan
+ diseases and notification, by placar(
e ing, of tuberculosis. 49,,
e Third. Better appropriations TO
t its health department. =
s Fourth. Detention hospital. for tin
/. care of the so-ealled preventable di:
1 eases, ~, II:
e "The city of Chicago maintains, a
. public or private expense. over tweI
Y ty different places, for the diagnose
4 and treatment of pulmonary tubercl
losis. This, is outside of the Coo
I county and general hospitals of til
n city. of Chicago. a<,
e 'Now,, how is ,consumptivet t
S sumption, but then no good ca
S come to the sick person from know
e ing what his disease is. because cur
l. is. beyond his, reach. Even the fe'
who are cured have lungs so badl
y crippled that they have no endu
d ance.
i ut is difficult to discover earl
consumption, but SO much is game
d by early diagnosis that it is of in
g portance. Very early consumptio
e will get well after two or thre
s months of rest, air and feeding
C EARLY consumption will get well i
j. six months.
IS $50, for this reason, the anti-tl
/. berculosis workers of Ramsey an
o Hennepin counties have placed pl
= cards, as an ad, in street cars, wit
the words, Consumption is cured
l. in large letters. q
K This is. true. but, there. is, no pa
n ent medicine, or any other ,medicir
u or agent known to- the medical pr
fession that will cure, consumption
IS It. is. cured by. proper treatment
IS rest, and. good food - ~.
/. ga diagnosis that lis not made
o one of these two stages, is not wort
l. much to the patient of ayerat
e means. The average man can fin
!. a way to rest, for. six months, bl
1t anything L in excess of that is b
lie yond him.
d Should Suspect, Himself.
s. Now, who should expect. that tbs
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