The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-08-05
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS--OTHER HAPPENINGS
special Columbus Correspondent.

year 10 preVeQIaOle diseases De-
cause of inadequate knowledge
Of the perils constantly facing
them. Wherefore it is up to the state
TO do some rigorous propaganda work,
and in order to make such work effect
i've the very latest methods must be
used. These are the premises set
forth by the new state department Of
public health education, which is
headed by DR.. r. G. Paterson. They
are sort Of apology for the announce,
ment of the department that it is
about to embark on red circus stunts
in desperate effort to teach the peo.
pie Of the state the evils of tubercu.
losis and other diseases that can be
warded off with proper precautions
The fact is that the division of health
education is going to follow the coun,
ty fairs and to put its tent in the most
spectacular part of the exhibits at
tending these fairs. Yes, right on the
midway, If you please, the county fair
visitors are likely hereafter to see the
rather pretentious exhibit of the
health department depicting in all
their gruesomeness the ravages of
tuberculosis, typhoid fever and other
ailments of which the people Of Ohio
and other states in the Union are heir
to. In the tent on the midway with
the exhibit will be trained nurse to
explain the fine points of disease pre-.
vention and to teach the latest ways
to ward off disease attacks. There will
be spectacular models emphasizing in
all their horror the ravages of prevent.
able ailments. Meantime pamphlets
giving still further information will be
distributed among the fair visitors.
The circuit will start at the Musking,
ton county fair on Aug. 10 and will be
shown a week at county fairs in the
following cities and towns: Woods
field, Aug. II; Athens, Aug. "a; Cuya-
hoga Falls, Sept. 7; Lisbon, Sept IA;
Canton, Sept. 81; Minerva STARK
county,, Sept. %; Carollton, Oct. 5.
During the state fair the exhibit will
be brought to Columbus for that oc-
casion.
To Aid Crippled Children.
How many crippled children are
there in Ohio? The question has
been asked repeatedly among state
officials incident to the renewal
of the movement for a state home
for crippled boys and girls, but
nobody knows. No census ever has
been taken. Eight years ago a move
toward this end was begun and a
state commission was named to buy a
pied victims, but strange to say the
commissioners got deadlocked over
the choosing of site for the pro-
posed home and the appropriation
lapsed before it could be adjusted.
Now, the late legislature revived the
project by appropriating the sum of
$1,000 for the expenses of a commits
sion to investigate again the question
of constructing a crippled childrens
home. Gov. Willis recently named
Harry H. Timpkin of Canton to be a
member of the commission and to
serve with two other members, DR.. ",
D. Haines of Cincinnati and John A.
Mcdowell of Ashland, who were ap-
pointed eight years ago. Thus has
arisen the question regarding how
many wards such an institution would
have when erected, and thus is it
shown how little knowledge exists on
the question. Nobody now has the
slightest idea how big the institution
would have to be, for example, and a
census Of the crippled childrens pop
ulation would have to be taken before
home for them could be begun.
The state administration board ad-
ready has taken steps, however, to
meet the situation by setting about to
cooperate with the board of state
charities in getting at least an approx
innate list of the crippled. Charity in
stitutions in all of the counties will be
asked to lend their help. But 1t is con-
be far from complete. Meantime there
is an intense agitation here for hurry
on the project of making ready some
sort Of hospital for the treatment of
victims.
Medical experts unite in saying that
hundreds of children could be saved
each year from the fate of being Grip
pies all their lives if only the proper
measures were taken early in their be-
half. All Of the large cities have char
table or semi-charitable institutions
for the care of crippled children, but
the number of such institutions is too
meager to begin to care for the sur
plus of victims. 1t has been found,
too, that many parents are wholly in
capable of realizing that there is
hope for the cure of their children who
may be crippled, and that it will take
years to educate such parents up to
the point where they will cooperate
with the state toward a cure.
Urges People to Buy Ohio Coal.
Gov. Willis, addressing a Chautau-
qua meeting at Coshocton, urged the
people of Ohio to use Ohio coal, there
by furnishing employment for miners
and making a market for the product
of their labor" "The miners and their
families are starving" the governor
said, land hunger, like a CHASTITY
specter, stalks through valleys once
busy with the hum of industry. In the
palmiest days of Ohio prosperity the
mines of Ohio were able to furnish
-
necessary for Ohio consumption"
Appoints Portsmouth Man.
George A. Ditty of Portsmouth,
prominent in the affairs of the state
organization of the National Associa-
ton of Stationary Engineers, on Aug
/ will succeed Joseph M. Wirmel of
Cincinnati as chief assistant examiner
of the division Of steam engineers of
the state industrial commission, Mr.