Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-12-31

compulsory. According to a bulletin
recently issued by the state health de-
nartment of Virginia an investigation
including all the pupils of forty-nine
schools in typical Virginia county
showed the following results:
'The eyes of 21.5 per cent of the
children were defective and of 81
per cent seriously defective
'fThe hearing of rs per cent of the
children was faulty.
''The tonsils of one-third of the
children and the adenoids of 247 PEI
cent were enlarged.
Thirty-one percentage of the chill
Gren had nose trouble.
''The permanent teeth of SO per
cent and the first teeth of AZ per cent
Of the children were defective.
Eighteen and q half per cent of the
children had enlarged glands.
almost one-third of the pupils
(31 2 per cent? were poorly nourished
zone child in every six Q7.5 per
cent? was abnormally pale.
THE lungs of 81 per cent of the
children we're involved.
about 20 per cent Q9.65) of the
children had hookworm disease"
Twenty Persons Killed i'm Small City.
(By State Board of Healthy
In a town in this state that numbers
about five thousand inhabitants there
have been twenty persons killed with
tuberculosis in the last twelve months.
There are approximately hundred
other persons in this town who have
been MANNED on account of the same
| L.
within the course of few months OR
a few years. In all probability this
procedure has been going on for
number of years and unless some
changes are made it will continue, with
| strong probability of a larger mum
! Ler of fatalities as the days go by.
A very conservative estimate would
place the value of these lives with the
cost of the funerals, the cost of the
| sickness of those that are MANNED and
with the loss of time, etc., incident to
said sickness, at $160,000.00. If this
disease we're to destroy $3.50, 100000
worth of cattle in that town, something
would be done about it and that quick.
A veterinary surgeon would be sent
| there to examine all of the cattle, to
tnd all that were infected with tuber-
culasis and to either kill them or pTao
| them in an open-air sanator1um where
they could get we'll At any rate, he
would segregate them from the wel
cattle and stamp the disease out Of
the town and that in short order.
The Southern railroad runs through
| this town. If it we're to kill twenty
Eeople in a year and MAIN a hundred
others, it would cost the Southern
railroad a half million dollars in dam
ages assessed by a court and jury, and
| the strong probabilities are tina tth :
law-which- means the will of the peo-
pie-would require them to take up
| the tracks and run around town.
Unfortunately, what is true of this
town is to a greater or less extent
true of every other town and commun-
ity in our state. Such a condition de-
mands the imperative attention of leg
islators, mayors and all serious mind
ed citizens The rate at which this
death-dealing disease is consuming
our inhabitants is alarming and calls
for the cooperation of all to stamp 1t
and calls fo rthe cooperation of all
TO stamp it out.
Tiural Sanitation and Improved Health.
In 1909 the Commission on Country
Life reported that Fthe farm should be
the most healthful place in which to
| live, and there are numberless farm
houses, especially of the farm-owner
class, that possess most excellent mod
crn sanitary conVeniences. Still 1t is
fact that there are also numberlesS
| other farmhouses, especially OF the
| tenant class, and even numerous rural
schoolhouses, that do not have the ru-
diments of sanitary arrangement.
Health conditions in many parts OF the
open country, therefore, are in urgent
need of betterment."
The problem of rural sanitation
calls for consideration from two points
of view: that of the possible danger Of
Objectionable surroundings and unhy-
gienic practices to the individual on
the farm and his immediate ne1ghbors;
and that of the menace which lnsanl-
tary farm conditions may present 1ndf-
rectIy to urban communities. Ihe
sanitary relation of the farm to the
civ involves almost entirely the pos
sibility of the spread, of actual 1nfec-
tion from country to city through
milk, meat, vegetables and other farm
products. A few years ago it was not
uncommon for farmers to meet with
spirit of resistance any suggestion OF
| hygienic improvements which were
MANNED to diminish the danger of tha
farm as a starting point for the
snread of disease. At times there has
actually been aggressive opposition TO
proposed regulations the object of