Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1915-10-15
Health News.
ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES PUBLIC
HEALTH SERVICE.
OPPORTUNITY For Young MEDICAL men


Young medical men between the ages
of 23 and 80 will be given an opportunity
on November LIST, 1915. according to a cir
cular just issued by Surgeon General Rupert
Blue, to demonstrate their fitness for ad-
mission to the grade of Assistant SURGEON
in the u, S. Public Health Service. There
are several vacancies in the governments
mobile sanitary corps which is now in the
llSth year of its existence. but in order to
be recommended to the President for
commission, physical and professional
examination must first be passed
As the tenure of Office is permanent and
the Public Health officers are liable to
duty in all parts of the world, they are
required to certify that they believe them
selves free from any alment which would
disqualify them for service in any climate.
Boards will be convened at Washington.
Boston, New York, Chicago. st. Louis, Louis
vile, New Orleans and San Francisco, but
permission to take the examination must
first be obtained from the Surgeon General.
The examination is searching and includes.
in addition to the various branches of medi-
cine, surgery and hygiene, the subjects of
the preliminary education. history. litera-
ture and the natural sciences.
Commissions will be issued as Assistant
Surgeon and, after four years of service, the
young officers are entitled to examination
for promotion to the grade of Passed As.
sistant SURGEON, and after twelve years of
service to another examination for pro-
motion to the grade of Surgeon. The
annual salaries are Assistant Surgeon,
$4,000; Passed Assistant Surgeon. ST.
400; Surgeon, $4,000; Senior Surgeon.
$500; Assistant Surgeon General, $4,-
900. When the Government does not
provide quarters, communication at the rate
of $50, $40 and $50 a month according
to grade is allowed. All grades receive
longevity pay, that is, 10 per cent in adj
dition to the regular salary for every five
years until the maximum of 40 per cent.
is reached. When officers travel on Off
cial duties they are reimbursed their actual
travelling expenses.
MODERATION.
The United States Public Health Service
and the various health agencies of this
country are working to prolong the average
duration of life. In this they are obeying
the desire for existence which is the
strongest instinct of mankind, Only
small proportion of the human race rounds
out its tour of duty on this earth
Some people are born with good bodies
which they treat well. Barring accidents
they live a long time. Some people are
born with poor bodies which they treat
well. Barring accidents. they can live to
a ripe old age, Some people are born with
good bodies which they treat badly and
some people are born with poor bodies
which they treat badly. They don't last
long.
II is recorded that in Yorkshire in 1901,
Henry Jenkins was born. He died in 1870,
cut off at the age of 1859. He remembered
well the battle of Flodden Field This
occurred in 1913, when he was IL years of
age. The Register of Chancery and other
courts show the administration Of oaths TO
him l40 years prior to his death. He
gave deposition as witness when he was
1877. In his young manhood, when he was
a little over 100. he was remarkable
swimmer.
The term "old age" too frequently is
another name for the falling due OF the
debts of youth Overeating, overdrnking,
overplayine, overworking these are drafts
on the bank of Nature which sooner or
later must be met. Sometimes the day
of reckoning can be put off little bit, but
Dame Nature will not be wheeded out of
her claim.
The remarkable thing about Henry Jen-
kins is the fact that he has left behind him
no rules of living which would enable one
to duplicate his feat. In this he showed
great self-repression. AS matter of fact
there is no royal road to old age and il is
not to be attained by a particular dietary
or regimen Of life. Perhaps the best rule
may be expressed in one word, "Modera
ton" Moderation in food. moderation in
drink. moderation in the joys and worries
Of life. moderation in work. moderation In
recreation, equanimity of the mind. the
soul and the body These make for long
tenure of life.