The record., 1914-08-13

IN his many miracles OF making the
blind to see, the deaf to hear, the
lame to walk, the palsled hand to
be steady, the leprous body to be
clean, before the spirit of Light
could have 4 proper dwelling place.
The Greeks had it that ucleanli-
ness is next to Goodness" and we
know that cleanliness is essential to
good health. Disease breeds and
thrives in filth so one of the first
things to be done IN the campaign
for good health is 20 make a strong
hard fight on the dirt and filth with
which so many homes are reeking.
The people of Muhlenberg county
have these long years sat in indiffer-
ence and ignorance of the condi-
tions around them, unmindful OF
the fair young lives that grim mon
ster tuberculosis PREVENT
ABLE DISEASE-has snatched
away, careless that typhoid fever
has laid its ravaglng hands upon
many of the best and fairest of ours,
ignorant that hookworm has stunt
ed and blighted young lives that
would otherwise have been full of
promise.
Realizing that the old state is not
producing BEST CITIZENS on ac-
count of these diseases that are sap
ping her very life there has been or
gained a health campaign whose
business it is to enlighten the peo-
pie concerning the menace of dis
ease lying at their doors, and to
help them into a cleaner, purer,
healthier physical life. Into the
various counties are sent a doctor,
visiting nurse and their helpers.
For the past few weeks here in
Muhlenberg County DIR. Steele,
man consecrated to the betterment
of mankind, his two helpers, and
Miss Williamson, a nurse of train
ing, ability and love for humanity
that is rare, have been laboring day
and night for the health and uplIft
of the county.
The county has been covered
twice by these missionaries and a
third canvas is being made. Sur.
prising and alarming discoveries
have been made, tuberculosis hav-
ing been found prevalent over the
county, hookworm, typhoid and
other preventable diseases also ex-
isting.
At first the people were skeptical
and Indifferent but the interest has
increased during the second canvas
and the people are beginning p
realize thatnealth is the first great
essential.
So thoroughly have DR.. Steele and
Miss Williamson with their patient
careful helpers done their work that
the fiscal court. recognizing the in
estimable worth of the Health Cam
paign, has appropriated SIX hund.
red dollars to further the work that
has been so nobly begun. While
this sum is inadequate for the work
in hand it is long step in the right
direction.
II would seem sometimes that the
common school teachers are already
overburdened and that more is ex.
pected of them than they ever do
yet 1t is to their shame that they who
have the greatest opportunity for
helping to carry on this fight against
dirt and disease, seem the most in
different about it-that is the mass
of teachers, there are always a few
who are ready for any labor, any
sacrifice, if it means uphft. The
work is to be extended in the fall
and the visiting nurse is to visit the
schools and try to enlist the teach
ers.
1t has been proven that typhoid,
tuberculosis, hookworm, pneumonia
and Others are preventable diseases
and when We become educated to
the thought That leaving them run
riot Is criminal then they will be
stamped out of our county aud out
of our state.
Let US bid uGod speed" to these
who are giving their lives to save
ours. We feel that when they leave
Muhlenberg they will leave her with
higher conceptions of physical life
and the determination to be purer,
healthier, cleaner county.
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