The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-11-10
A WAR FOOTING
AGAINST DISEASE
Is What Sanitary Preparedness is, Ac-
cording to DR.. Rupert Blue, Sur
geon General of Public
Health Service in Ad-
dress in Dallas.
dress in Dalla

Dallas, Tex, Nov. TO-" Sanitary Pre-.
paredness,p the subject of an address
last night by DR.. Rupert Blue, surgeon
general of the public health service, be-
| fore the Southern Medical association
was defined as .the maintenance of the
body of man on war footing against
disease" Ii was further described as a
condition in which IAN able bodied, Wig
orous society, clothed in the armor of
hygienic knowledge and fortified by adj
equate sanitary defenses, is equally able
to withstand the shock of arms and the
continued strains of the occupation of
tranquility"
'"rhe sanitary preparedness of ma
ton" said DIR. Blue, "menas not only the
health OF the fighting units, but of the
members who are to bear them, aud Of
the civilians upon whom both in time
Of peace and of war the military forces
must depend for food and clothing and
the weapons with which to fight Com
munity health is, therefore, the all inn
portant prerequisite, and in order that
we may have military preparedness we
must first of all have sanitary prepared
ness.
The first step in the creation of san
itary preparedness is TO teach the citi
zen the value OF a sound body. II, upon
the plastic mind of the school child the
simple truths of sanitation are i'm
pressed, we win gradually create PEG.
pie in which sanitary living is habit. II
by child hygiene we produce better and
stronger men and women, these in turn
will have learned that mating with
the weak and defective produces weak
and defective children Thus we will
have a practical eugenic betterment
1T may truly be said that the fate Of
kings and nations has frequently de.
pended upon so minute a thing as the
typhoid bacillus, or the plasmodium OF
malaria. We are able by the use OF ty-
phoid vaccination TO control the one,
anti-mosquito measures TO prevent the
other, but until the people OF our ooun-
try have learned the lessons of santa
ton il will not be possible TO eliminate
either disease, or TO maintain a citi- |
,enship the great bulk OF which is phys |
cally lit.
Unfortunately il seems as though the /
human race can make sanitary advance |
,nly through the bitterness Of previous /
experience, and il is very difficult In the 4
absence Of the threat Of epidemic 10 |
lrouse much interest in sanitary better.
nent.
"Unconsciously We have been striv.
ng toward that end. The decade in
which we live has witnessed the growth
md expansion OF all 81 he health forces
4 our country. The body Of the sani-
airy laws has been revised. amended and
attended. Appropriations for the pros
cution Of sanitary measures have been
increased. The sanitary propaganda has
'een carried 20 every portion of the
nited States. and we see men Of high
ttainment adopting the profession q
anitation as a life work. The collection
{ mortality and mortality statistics has
,ut impressed upon Us necessity for
Increased work along these lines. The
INVESTIGATIONS into the causes Of com.
disease and the evolution -
he means Of their control have been
ueh that many Of the ma jor pestilenccs
ave almost been felegated 10 obliv-
yn"
mr. Blue added. however, that deaths
nd disabilities from the commoner dis
ase continue AZ a high rate With heart
iseases heading the list on recruits
ramincd for the army and navy IN the
zeal vear ended June 80. 1914. ~ said
yer "a per cent we're rejected. More
ran twelve ard one half per cent were
b account of heart disease and AZ least
per cent we're frem Wholly prevent
Be causes.
a larger proportion 81 The causes ~
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the so-called inexitsfle diseases.
hen Ws resiiSs that practically an ~
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