The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-11-22

Health Day Program at the Temple
Theater
Saturday was health day in the
Woman's Club year book and the OBJ
servance of it by the chairman of that
department, Mrs. E. G. Peek and her
committee members, not only reflect
ed credit on themselves but the or
ganization in which they form great
and important factor.
Had the general public realized the
beneficial significance Of the meeting
the attendance would have been larg-
er but the nearly two hundred ladies
and the few men present made up in
quality what the audience lacked in
quantity. The speakers of the aft
ernoon were given the closest atten-
ton Of their hearers and the valuable
information, statistics, cautions and
rules, the observance of which are
necessary to Withstand or ocercome
hookworm and tuberculosis, the two
diseases discussed, will bear desired
fruit. In the audience were number
of mothers whose babies were enter
ed in the better babies contest con-
Guided that morning and possibly the
benefits to them will be greater but
no one left the Temple but who felt
that the hour and half, the duration
of the program, viii be of everlasting
and ever increasing benefit to them.
On entering and leaving the Tenn
pie fruit punch was served from two
bowls presided over by Mrs. ". D.
earn, Mrs. w. E. Smith, Mrs. R. B.
Bullock and Mrs. Walter Hood.
Mrs. r. l.. Anderson, second vice
president, opened the meeting. She
gave the report of the better babies
contest, announced that the names Of
the prize winners would be given
from the judges stand at the fair
grounds Friday, that seats in the
grand stand would be reserved for the
mothers Of the contesting babies at
that time, and then she graciously in
troduced Dr.. j. L. Young of Plant
City, a state health officer who came
especially to take part on the pro-
gram. DR.. Young talked on hook
work, disease he has indefatigably
fought Hookworm is prevalent in
the district between the thirty-sixth
parallel north and the thirtieth par
allel south, and in some nations
between those parallels it goes as
high as 20 per cent. Tt is IN every. conn
ty in Florida, varying from II to 95
per cent and is enc of the most com
mon diseases in this country. 1t in
habits the upper part of the small in
testines. Each worm takes one drop
of blood and one adult lays in the
neighborhood of 1000 eggs. Dr.. Young
cited FIVE ways in which the disease
effects a human body, told several of
the manifold symptoms, among which
is capricious appetite, continuous
headaches, bloodless lips.
There are six laboratories in the
state treating hookworm; the treat
|ment is free at each, and any Ocala
physician, the speaker said, would
furnish necessary information for the
examination. A perfect sewerage
system will do more for eradicating
the disease than anything else.
Mrs. Peek announced the other
numbers on the program, calling first
on Miss Sidney Harold, who gave in
her charming style, Chopin's Etude. A
humorous reading was given by Miss
Mamie Gross, a reader of ability, who
depicted a girl washing dishes. She
was followed by Mrs. III. M. Hampton
who sweetly sang "At Dawn" Miss
Gertie Peyser playing her accom-.
paniment.
In presenting Mrs. Mary Spencer
Mrs. Peek said she needed no intro.
duction-that her work had made hel
known to all. Mrs. Spencer is district
tuberculosis nurse, under the STATE
board of health. She possesses {
strong personality. and in relating
her experiences while travelling ant
working in her district comprising /
population of LOT 900 people, she wa
closely listened to. tuberculosis takei
from the country's inhabitants on
person every three minutes and on,
gut CT every four people are victim
of it. Ocala is the only town in Mrs
Spencer's district that has medica
examinations in the public school
paid for by the city.
Gainesville is headquarters and an,
one writing Mrs. Spencer there, cal
get her services. She visits al
homes with victims without charge
She emphasized the necessity o
sleeping out of doors, the benefit
from careful sanitation, the inpor
lance of better baby contests. In pre-
senting her message to the audience
Mrs. Spencer gave knowledge that o
account of its forcefulness will b
spread by those hearing her, henc
the work of exterminating tubercu
losis was advanced Saturday by tn
health committee of the Woman
! Club.
Mrs. J. C. Garrett and son Donal,
who spent last winter in Ocala, wi