The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1913-11-01
HEALTH NoEEs

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All humanity needs Is Q fighting
chance. lake as good care OF your
ehIdren as you do OF your live stock
and they viii, no doubt, come out all
right.
Crowds are always dangerous. It il
q good plan when you lind yourself
wsdged in with 8 mass Of humanity to
back out, if possible. OF course, from
the health standpoint, indoor crowds
are more dangerous than are street.
crowds. Especially is this true Of all
places where the ventilation il bad, a.
for example, in moving picture the
aires that are not equipped with proper
and adequate ventilating devices.
It is said that New York leads all
American cities in the number and
character of its public comfort stations.
London has spent 100000 in building
these greatly needed eonvenienees and
spends 100000 annually in their main
tenanee. Chicago, the second city in
the Union, has but two public comfort
stations in the entire loop district, and
these are located in the basement of the
Washington street side of the City Hall.
The Chicago WOman's Aid has started
q movement to secure more of these
public accommodations for the down
town section and is asking the people
to aid in securing an appropriation
from the city council for this purpose.
The women who are behind this move
ment are endeayoring to get the city
to install a public comfort station in
the basement at the Randolph Street
end of the Pubic Library where space
for that purpose has been offered by
the Library Board.
Discussing in the September number
OF the journal of the American Public
Health Association the fight now being
waged against tuberculosis, Dr.. L w.
Brewer thinks that so long as We have
large centers of eongested population,
this dread disease cannot be wholly
stamped out. To quote his own words,
he says: 1.-THE only way we can make
any permanent Roadway against tuber-
eulosis is to scatter the population that
is now eongested in the larger eitibs.
This can only be done by removing the
establishments in which they work to
the rural districts" The doctor points
out that low rentals and taxes, cheap
land, and, best of all, the saving of hui
man lives, should be sufficient induce
ments to bring about the changes he
advocates. In support of the practica-
bility of his plan, the doctor calls at
tention to the fact that already many
important industries have moved to the
smaller towns and are operating with
even better success than when located
in the big city.
Not content with urging the removal
of the factory from the big city as a
means of conserving the public health;
Doctor Brewer proceeds to give in a
few words his conception Of the ideal
factory. In his opinion it should be
located in park surrounded by trees,
through which should run broad streets
lined with the workmen's cottages.
Such work places it may be rightfully |
urged, are a blessing in every way to
the community in which they are To-
Gated. And it is true beyond question |
that the most successful industrial
establishments are those that are doing |
the largest amount Of welfare work for
their employees in making their working |
surroundings clean, healthful and at
traetive, and in other ways doing the
things that contribute to their comfort
and safety.