The chronicle=news., 1914-06-11
Of
DISEASE NATION
WIDE MOVE


aspasi that iiia~~s in this eoaAsst
as sausias huge sensoatr ioAsss.
ssanassiax sssss s~ss isso haads~sas a.
miilioss Of asitsss. ,h. Ass1r iasios os
Amsstssa Life Insurance ts-siasslA
is sssisx N . noss0~sl sos . eoas.
tsrhsasts- sysssm VI svpossins essrs
oI sisks~ss shsuus shout ihs diff~Svst
states. slahs tk1 iisss that dsAihs are
sos reported u NAs declared thar
mach of the iiias-s ot TO-DAY il aesA-
i~>s and ihss the first step in PR
ssasioa mwss i.r accurate kaoulsdge
- to sh. ursussrhe- al siskss~s. The
s~~emaeaaAisoa wss made BY IN.
Louis I. ns.lin. life Insurance STALE
s,essa Of this city. A MODEL 1sw Ia
provide for sush set.oets has heea rep.
ssssrd by the soaf-sesee of STATE Asa
territorial health authorities IN coo.
juasSios With the tsised assses pub.
ltr health service. A. effort y heias
made 10 issss~st large buAlnsss ssd
.asaussstal eoas~sss is the Wossaeas.
rsiseipsiiy on the svoasd OF sesuls.
lag esoso@se bsa-fis 10 then. Ne
std-s. IL u poisiea Out that asy ~.
auetsoa In eeosomie loss viii. with.
GU, sddisIoasl effort or rxp~as~.
tsins eoaeuss-aiiy . vas, v~duesSoa
in social los. ineiuaias physical sui.
f~sins. d~p~sdraey. lack at cssuesitoa
sna ssaiaaas aad other rcsulis ot III.
us~s that lower the standard ot fam.
iiy aud communiiy life.
The life sasiss csmpaisas Of the
last few decades have bora- fruit. e
said Dr. bubiis In hts rscommcsda.
slon. "1h- death rate hss bcvn low
cred snd the average span Of life
torscsposdiasiy ieasthened. Deaths
from certain causes. especially from
typhoid fever. smallpox. the infcc.
sious diseases Of childhood and u.
Lcrculosis have bcca reduced. The
amount Of asckacss. or the other
haad. has NO, bccn controlled 10 any
appreciabie degree. There Il ssiii too
much sickness amonx ua. Indeed.
there ar. those who with some
authority. maintain that illness has
actually increased in spite Of all the
saving In mortality. The next
twenty years. therefore. must scr
our activities in health work directed
especially to the control Of diseose.
II wc avail ourselves o: our prescn,
knowledge Of sanitary science. We
can reduce the Incidence Of illness
fully ~ much ~ We have already cut
down our death rates.
''Thc basis for any campaign
seainst sickness must he an accurate
knowledge Of It's prevalence. Just u
the reduction Of mortality Is further.
cd by complete registration oi
deaths and their causes 10 our ef.
forts to reduce the frequency Of dis.
ease DEPEND upon machinery for re.
/ porting the cases 6f sickness theil
causea. and their duration, for each
group inl the community. For thi,
III purpose, u - nUt 3ullhCteut " AuuW
only. as we do now. the number who
have died from any particular cause
We must hence forth place our EN-.
l.hasis upon the cases Of sicknes,
themselves. They are socially more
important than deaths and our pro
gram must more and more prevent
their occurrence and effect their con
troll. The state must, therefore, In
the first instance, sec that all pre-
ventable, diseases are recorded tha'
we may lay our foundation for eff
cient sanitary administration.
Health departments have Ions
realized the great Importance Of reg
isterinR disease. At first they re-
qu1red the reporting of the plaques
such as smallpox, yellow fever. chol
era. etc. Later, the list was extend
ed to include the acute infections, ca
pecially those Of childhood. like dip
liberia, scarlet fever and measles