The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1913-05-02
SOCIAL ECONOMY TO
Be A FEATURE OF
PANAMA EXPOSITION
METHODS OF HYGIENE THAT
MADE PANAMA CANAL POS
sIBLE, DEMONSTRATED.
EXHIBIT DEVOTED TO SUBJECT


The Hygiene Group viii Be sthe
Largest at the Sig Show. Will
Deal With All Manner of Diseases
and Treatment.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April %.
The practical application Of the
| principles of social economy which
have been put to such significant
usage in the building of the Panama
! Canal, will be made special exhibit
of the Panama-Pacific International
exposition which is to be held at San
Francisco in 1915.
| When the United States under
took to build the canal it was re-
cognized that the Canal one must be
made habitable before the real work
of construction could be begun. The
/: first step was to rid the two terminal.
cities, Colon and Panama, of the yell
/ ~" IOFCI NniCu udu meant uOdlH W
so per cent OF those attacked by the
iscourge. The work that has been
done in the Canal Zone exempiifies
the principles of hygiene, the branch
of Social economy which has now
become such an important part in
the curriculum of all schools and COL
lleges throughout the country
The campaign against malaria was
conducted on equally successful
lines. The work resulted in reduc-
ing the number of malaria cases
treated in hospitals from $50 per
cent of the working force in per
month in 1866 to 1.53 per cent. The
lsthmus now is practically free from
the disease. The maintenance of
Health among the employees at work
on the Canal has been secured
through the measures taken to pro-
wide the employees with comfortable
Quarters and wholesome food and
recreation.
+ 1t is the application of these
practically recently formulated prin-
lciples that has enabled the work to
proceed at such a rapid pace and
with such remarkable success.
4 Consequently, the So,lal Economy
department at the Paname-Pacific
, Exposition, will be one VI the most
Interesting of afll, for will it not dis
Iplay to the world, among other
things, the means by which the
canal has been constructed? With.
out health and proper social equip.
ment the great work could never
have been completed Special efforts
. are being made by the Exposition
authorities to give to the world the
most comprehensive exhibit of mat
: tiers pertaining to the new study
that has been presented
II AS matter of fact, no exposition
! has had such an opportunity for so
, comprehensive display as has the
Panama-Pacific International exposi-
ton, Of which the object is the cele.
bration Of the completion of the
canal-a work which could have
been effected only under the condi.
tons which the Department of SAM
tation created, and Enforcement of
Legislation, Nomination and Elec-
|. ton Systems. Rablic Utilities and
their Regulation, Municipal Ad.
yancement, Recreation and Town
land City Planning.
j The Hygiene GROUP will be given
the greatest amount. of space in the
i exhibit 1t will deal with vital stat
| istics; growth and nutrition; food;
hygiene of infancy and childhood;
communicable diseases; state and
municipal hygiene, public health
work and Health laboratories care
|of the sick, nursing, care of defec-
tives; life saving: industrial n.y.
lgiene; occupational = diseases;
special hygiene. traffic and transpor-
tation, military, naval, tropic, ment-
al. sex and dental hygiene, educa-
tional publicity.
From that one group alone, may
be gathered the extent of the CLASH
fication, which is as complete as the
study will permit
NECpnEC IN A