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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-16
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remarks upon eugenics:
Man has provided the best
medical care that disease shall
not lessen the span of life. He
has given unstinted charity that
the weakling be cared for even TO
old age. lie has shortened the
hours OF labor, improved hygieuic
conditions of home and workshop.
supplied Fairgrounds and other
sources OF amusement that the
Handicapped be placed upon al
most an equal footing with the
rest.
But while he has by such
means prevented tile elimination
of the veakling he has. ~ the
same time arranged that the
veakliug should multiply at the
expense Of the strong. Ruskin
said that The improyident, neon
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-16

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Hospital Investigating Committee Suggests Estabishin,
Health Centres, With Salared Doctors and Nurses in
Attendance, Throughout City to Combat Disease

middle East Side. in a district which
would include part Of the territory now
covered" by the Bellevue Hospital am
balances. Here within a year or two
the whole new health centre idea could
be tried out on limited scale: mistakes
could be discovered and righted, Meth
DDS improved and the power Of the
health centre as disease fighter ac-
curately estimated. Then II the health
centre proves itself the whole city Is
to be districted of with health centre
in each district. These will be under a
common manageme ut. and II Ia almost
certain that their work will grow. leav-
ing to the hospitals the part that the
hospitals can do better and taking on
the part which properly belongs to the
health centre-the functions Of the
trained. modern. knowing neighbor. Ulti-
mately the health centres II they make
good will he cooperating not only with
the city's own hospitals but with all
the public and semi public health activi-
ties Of the city.
In the health centres building, then.
will be placed a group Of from ten to
twenty men and women. all with their
own work to do and all trained, eff
cient agents for their own part Of the
disease fight. The Health Department
will plant here one OF it's remarkable
tuberculosis clinics, which have cut the
city's death rate from that disease al
most in half. There will be a child
hygiene clinic to look out for babies and
instruct mothers in their care and with
it a milk station like those the Health
Department now maintains to furnish
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borly health centre. In a long chain
there are apt to be weak links, and the
sequence Of reporting and turning over
Of second hand information from the
dispensary or physician who discovers
the diphtheria patient to the notebook
of the inspector who guarantees him
is a very long chain. Case after case
the committees investigators found on
the East and West sides where per-
sons down with scarlet fever or diph-
iberia had never been reached by the
department inspectors. And in more
than one case. because there had been
no inspection and no quarantine. the
disease had spread to other members
of the family or to other families in
the building. The reason why the
Health Department failed to connect"
was usually n mistaken address, though
there were cases in which the dis
pensary to which the patient applied
had made a wrong diagnosis Of his
disease.
~ these are things which the Health
Department Is now doing In the city at
large. and most Of them will probably
he done better by being centralized at
the health centre. Another service, n
service which the city has hardly at
tempted at all and never In any thor
oughgoing way. Is that which will he
In the hands Of the workers from Belle
vue and Allied Hospitals. This is the
actual meeting OF disease. whether con-
tagious OF not. by the city's physicians
and the City's nurses in the homes
where disease arises and where most OF
1t must run its course
There will be a resident physician In
charge Of the work. He will he a grad
uate inferno Of Bellevue Hospital he
will be paid a salary and his services
will be free To the patients. As sal
aired and responsible city official he
will be very different sort Of person
from the district physician" Of the
Outdoor poor" system which has been
tried and proved inadequate in most
American cities.
He will visit the homes where the
sick are. diagnose their troubles and de-
eide, with the counsel Of the social SER
vice nurse" which patients should go
to clinics. which to hospital and which
should be treated at home. When il Is
necessary too he will actually take
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NEW YORK'S NEW IDEA IN FIGHTIN

About one tenth OF the sick in the
tenements go to hospitals and get good
care. More than one-sixth OF all the
people in the tenements are sick every
year outside the hospitals. What be-
comes Of them? Probably most OF them
get more or less care. such as the lack
of funds and lack Of knowledge OF their
homes is likely to provide. The COM
mittee found that in the East Side
district many cases whose external
characteristics plainly. indicated tuber-
culosis had never had the attention OF
any medical person and were being
treated with home remedies or neglected
entirely" There had been 800 sick in
this district within the year, and there
were nifty who had fevers or infections
requiring medical care who were getting
no medical attention whatever.
Now. in all this New York is no
worse on than the other great cities of
the world. In fact ii is among the
leaders, for the Health Department has
undertaken a good deal Of preventive
work" Of one kind - another, especially
with regard to tuberculosis. and the city
already supplies a certain amount OF
nursing In the homes. But the in
vestigating committee recommends that
New York do what no other city has
yet done-fght disease the way firemen
fight a fire, and get II at the start.
Sickness, like charity. begins at home.
and the new plan Is to centre the disease
struggle there among the homes and not
out among the hospitals on the water
front.
To do this the committee has Matched
a new idea, a plan for what 1t calls
a "health centre" II takes knowledge,
sympathy and good. practical work to
combat disease, and the idea behind
the health centre is to concentrate these
three elements on the ground. among
the tenements.
II the health centre does what Its
authors hope 1t will be at heat some
thing like the nursing mother of the
countryside. 1t will be n sort Of public
neighbor, friendly and knowing, t.
which the whole swarming neighbor-
hood will turn for help in sickness.
In bodily presence the health centre
| will be a building. probably a house re-
modelled for its new uses. 1t will stand
near the centre OF limited and clearly
| outlined district, which 1t is to know and
| serve. One Of the prime features of the
| plan is that the district shall not he toe
large. not large enough to lose the
touch OF neighborliness.
| The first health centre the committee
would have placed somewhere in the
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house" The settlements are neighbor.y.
certainly. but except for the Remarks.
able Nurses Settlement, which is a leader
in district nursing, they are not prin.
cipally scientific nor specialists in
health problems. Still more important
they have never lived down a certain
flavor Of charity" and noby mean,
nonsense which long ago attached It.
self to their reputation. The health
centre will be a public institution per-
forming a public service. Like the
schools, it will be there for the average
citizen who happens to be poor to c,me
to without shame for service TO
which he is entitled
1T should he borne in mind" says ,h.
report Of the hospital investigating COM
mittee. that nearly 30 per cent. Of SICK.
ness takes place in the homes rather
than in hospitals. But two classes are
well cared for when sick; the well to do
who can afford TIE best Of nursing at
home and such Of the poor as - to
hospitals. However, the amount Of sick.
ness cared for by these two methods is
a small proportion Of the sickensS In the
community.
III a municipality assumes the oblga.
to prevent it when possible meas Ire,
must be taken to render service in the
home. II is Idle to argue that Il A
city provides hospitals the people when
sick should go to those hospitals \
widow with several children cannot
leave her children uncarcd for VIII. she
is sent to a hospital. Her ANXIOUS are
for their welfare would initiate dglns'
her recovery. while on the other hand
should she be nurscd in her home with
her children about her and Wei Jared
for, the relief from anxiety would essen
the strain of sickness and hasten her
recovery.
If the city Is to care for plt.aH's at
great cost it should have some means
Of knowing whether or not 1t j. rIrnc
for the cases that are most in need II
its help At the present time 3D.. city
has no such knowledge and has NO. The
means Of obtaining IL.
The city is proposing To- sp"ui fully
10000 900 on a new Bcllcvu" Hospital
J This will he one of the best equipped
/ hospitals in the world. How are Is
facilities To he used To- aCComp. -N th"
best results? Who are to occupy n,
beds? Will the aggregate amount oi
| sickness be diminished beCause l;..', '.r
| exists? II would seem To NJ the part
of wisdom for the city t. inquire
| whether or not il could care tur NOR"
sickness for less money by Car.n- for Il
| in the homes"
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partment they are little used. Naturally
the duplication Of effort that results Is
something bewildering. There are six
different sources. for example. from
which a nurse might be sent out to a
siven poor patient on the East Side.
Few enough poor patients get nursed
at best, and not a little time and energy
is wasted because these six agencies
have no common clearing house for in
formation.
This particular problem would prob
ably be solved by adding to the records
an assigning nurse" who would study
the district and assign to each nurse
working in cooperation with the centre
the particular patients for whom she
should care.
Just what will the health centre do,
in the large. IL IL lives up to all its
promises? First Of all. II will catch
disease IT its source. 1t will keep out
OF the hospitals great many sick
people who do not need to go there. and
II will send to the hospitals instead
those who really need the city's efficient
$3.50 a day care to save their lives and
rebuild their health.
Also it will help the hospitals by in
vestigating the homes to which the hos
pitals' patients are to return. make sure
that proper care will be taken there
and II necessary supply such care by
its own workers So the hospitals. able
to discharge their patients earlier,
will be able to handle larger
number OF cases with their limited
equipment.
And just as the health centre will
render the hospital more efficient, SO
1t will the dispensary. 1t will send
people to the dispensaries who ought
To go there, and it will follow them up
and see tina, they go again II they need
the treatment
1t will furnish the new element In
the public handling of disease: home
care at public cost for those who can
no, afford proper home care AT their
own. The social service nurse will add
to her other tasks that of judging
whether a particular family can afford
Ia pay for a doctor or a private nurse
and adjust the question with tact and
finality.
Working all together in distric,
with which they will soon become IA
miliar. the members of the health centre
colony will gain knowledge Of the
health and disease conditions Of their
district such as no one possesses to-day
regarding any part Of the city.
The health centre will not he by any
means new kind of "settlemen,
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charge OF the patients at home during
their illness.
The social service nurse. by the way,
is one of the most interesting members
Of the proposed health colony. She Is
OF a type which has only recently come
into existence. 1t is her business to be
an all around trained nurse and an all
around trained neighbor In the modern
scientific way. Like the doctor she will
do first hand professional duty when It
comes In her way, but her main service
will be to know and Judge the different
human elements in each case
For the city is gradually waking up
tn the fact that there Is a good deal
more to a case OF sickness than sick
man who can be carried around in an
ambulance. Suppose, as has actually
happened. a man who lives up five flights
OF stairs in tenement house comes
down with heart failure three times
within two years. one woman with
sense enough to move him to the ground
floor is more likely to save his life than
all the doctors and all the arsenic in
Bellevue Hospital
or take the baby who was kept in
Bellevue for two weeks after il was well
on the way to recovery, merely because
the doctor would not trust Its mother to
prepare its food properly. Each Belle
vuc patient costs the city 81 so day.
and the baby's bill at that rate was $35
for the two weeks. Half an hour n day
out OF the time OF a s25 a week nurse
would have saved that expense and the
baby would have been with its mother,
where II belonged.
There would be two social service
nurses at the health centre and two
nurse attendants to do most Of the
actual nursing service in the homes.
All would be under the physician and
official members Of the Bellevue Hos
pital staff There would also be a copy
list and stenographer to handle the
records Of the health centre.
To keep records OF contagious
diseases, dispensary cases and sickness
at large. all filed conveniently at some
central point. seems a natural thing
enough to do, yet II Is something the
city is not now doing. There are records
Of some OF these things. more or less
complete, but outside the Health De-
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rEw YORK has heard hard words

FEW YORK has heard hard words
nj OF its hospitals lately. How
i missing persons admitted under
their own NAMES are lost" In
them for weeks. how dispensary pa
tents are crowded. snubbed. hoaxed.
treated at the rate Of nearly one a
minute. and then often with a wrong
diagnosis; how children catch disease
and watch the death throes Of their
comrades in the wards and how made
quate equipment and insufficient space.
undermining, overwork, carelessness
and inefiiciency crop up here and there
throughout the system has all been
plentifully told in the papers. The city's
own hospital investigating committee,
which Is now reporting to the Board Of
Estimate the results Of its two years
labor. has driven home most OF these
points with striking detail.
Still New York has seen itself investi-
gated before and detailed and shocking
revelations are not altogether strangers
not yet walked up to is the fact that
among all these accusations there is one
less shocking than the others at first
glance. but so sweeping, SO much a
capital charge, that 1t must have more
than casual attention. 1t Is so grave a
matter that the committee calls for the
establishing Of q new institution and
the trial Of new. far reaching policy
In the city's fight against disease.
New York has definitely undertaken
to fight disease within its boundaries.
To do II the city spends round $lS,-
900. 900 a year. Careful accounts are
kept OF the money; New York knows
where every dollar of 1t goes, and most
OF IL goes into the hospitals. But OF
disease, the other factor in the problem,
New York keeps only the most frag-
mentary accounts. Nobody knows just
how much disease there is in the city
nor just how 1t Is distributed. one
thing is certain, though, and that Is
that most Of 1t never reaches the hos
pitfalls.
The hospital committee has made at
least a large dent in this general igno-
rance. 1t went down on the East Side
and the West Side and put its investi-
gators to work making a house to house
canvass OF selected districts typical OF
the two regions. II took several months
to do it, but at the end Of that time the
committee knew-and II was the frst
time that any such knowledge had ever
been gathered in an American city
that one person out Of every five in the
districts had been seriously sick during
the last year and that hardly One-tentf
Of these had been cared for in a hos
pital.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08
ExILED FARMERS

Northward the course of farming takes its The American consul at Winnipeg reports that of lSOoO Immigrants who arrived Canada year. 116OoO farmers from the United States The emigration still continues Nearly 5000 experienced American farmers crossed tho boundary last March to make their hcme in Canada.
 These emigrans it should be recognized are for the mot part capable agricu,mriss and admirable citizens. They laeviug the and northwest where they are needed for the reason that always agrcu tural migraton-the prospect of cheaper land.
 Our own land values have advanced tremendously in recent years Fertile beyond the reach of the ordinary farmer who to buy The left in our public domain is mostly arrcn arid without trans portator facilities.
 We cannot offer famous fertile lands any more as Canada can But if we want to keep them might enable them to buy good farms by adopting rational farm credit system
 Farming is a business that requires capital The more scientifically is conducted the capital is needed Farm land too is the safest collateral there is. I should be as easy to finance farm any other bus mess
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08
MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS

Sing Sing the most famous prison in America, is the place where the state of New York puts its law breaers presumably for punishment and possible reformation.
 The retiring warden of Sing Sing has just been un- burdenng himself of facts about this prison and about the state that is responsible for t
 As tor just punishment he declares that he could pick at random twenty frsttme oonvicts and twenty hrdume men and the total sentences of the latter hardened crminals-woud be less than that Of the former.
 As for the reform possibilities he explains that the prison is SO hopelessly overcrowded and badly in need of extensions and repairs that living and sanitary conditions are reyoltng The place is breeding place for disease immortality and crime The cause, he says complete disregard and neglect by the egslature Time after time he has called the attention Of the law makers to the situation but they have beeP in terestod
 The lesson of Hugos Jean Valiean, it seems, has not yet been learned by enlightened communities Onenders are stil driven to worse onense by punish ments that do not fit their crimes ana by environment absolutely unsuited reformatve effect Without be ing sentimental over criminals may say that h such case as his the itself is just crmina as meuy of the men oooped ap in the psnitentary.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08
AN OLD STORY

Testimony obtained at Baltimore in the governments suit dissolve the American Company affords illum- mating commentary on the living. One witness told how he had been manufacturing certain kind of which sold for SIG SIS per 1000, in small plant which could have been reproduced for S2eOOO The new corporation paid him e1OOOOO for his plant and after buying up the competing plants the state and closing most of them raised the price of those cans to $50 per 1000
 Another witness explained that he had received s25OOOO plant though s5OOOO would have been high price. "I have better plant now and would sell it S5OOOO" he said Another manufacturer got s25O- 900 for plant of which the machinery worth at the outset. s75OOO and the lease about sS5,OOO.
 It's the same old story. Most of the trusts" have been created in the way Independent manufactur CTS bought up any price required to get them in Good will is capitalized at high figure justify the price and a basis future profits When compe dton has been essened sufficiently to enable the cor poraucn to fix prices through power or example the public has provide the money pay dividends tn, whole business That means the maintenance of prices unnatural level a permanent the consumer
 It is the history of most of the articles of common consumption today If prices are lowered at al owing t natural cheapened production, they still ep higher than they would be if the business capitalized The new federal train commission, however will probably stop that sort of thing.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08

carved New Albania out of the territory taken from Turkey in the Balkan war; and stuck Prince William on mprovised throne. The Hon. George Fred looked the situation and returned Athens brstling with indignation According to newspaper interviews, he re- ported that he "had found prince calling himself king with power territory and subjects except his wife and children" The Albanian government mon existent" There were five ostensble governments in sight of them doing any noticeable governing The foremost of hem consisting of the six great Powers that had the prince his tnse throne stood pat in It's six baeships anchored off Durazze while rebels shot out tho palace window panes This sxpower government "so dscordant with itself that had abandoned nl the rest to their fate"
 It's wonder that the feeling of the Powers were ruffed sufficiently to talk of the minister's res ignation Of 1t all true But therein con sisted the offence What has truth do with diplomacy
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08

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TRurH CLASHES WITH DIPLOMACY

If the stories about George Fred Williams are true he has done we'll to resign minister to Greece. To such an irrepressibe citizen a diplomatic job is a straiphtjacke Both he and the world fin general will he more content when he the bosom of Bos. tops uuterraed democracy There may speak freely once more Boston may be the modern Athens. but modern Athens is not Boston,
 Rr williams zeaous for larger service than he could find within Che confines of Hellas, recently made Vo untary excursion into Albania which was being eNten siyey shot mp by of mild protest against the Prince of wied The European Powers 1t will be remembered
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08
GllR BtEhFF 4atly NFutFau

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 State Consolidated Publishing Company.
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mately S35OO will be expended This amount is entirely inadequate con sidering Che needs for this class of im- proyemonts together with the costs of the construction of drift fences tanks. etc. Through the cooperation Of sibckmen however Che amount of money expended for such improve menus win actually be considerably over S8.E000
 Administrative improvement pro- iects and overhead changes will take mp tho balance Of the S45OO0. allot- ment An experienced man in tele- phone construction Is employed who not only superyises the construction of lines but gives instructions to dang CTS in telephone installation, connec. tlons etc.
 To any one who has tray lad oyer National Forest in the early days and makes another trip now, the work done in permanent improvements is suikngly noticeable Yet much stil remains to bs done.
Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-08
ILLlNoIs PRoHIRlrIoNIsrs
IN CONVENTION

 SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 7-Ar- rangemerts have been completed for the State convention of the Prohibit tion party of Illinois, which will meet here tomorrow for two-day session. The convention will nominate ful state. congressional senatorial and count" tickets, and make arrange ments to have the tickets placed on the November ballots by petition. The fact that at the last election the Pro- hibiuonists did not poll a sufficient number of votes to entitle it to oper, ate under the primary election law makes it necessary for the party can didates to get on the ballot by peu tion