Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1915-07-19
RURAL SANITATION
TOLDBY DIR. LUMSDEN
Enthusiastic Meeting at Civic
League Pavilion Arundel-0n-
the-Bay.
PICTURES ILLUSTRATE TALK.
DR.. Deriyaux Tells Of Malaria Trans
mitted by the Mosquito Board Of
Health Survey Work.

Rural Sanitation was the subject
discussed Saturday evening before a
we'll attended meeting of summer colo
nists at Arundel-on-the-Bay held in
the Civic League pavilion.
Five doctors of the Board of Health
Survey now working in Anne Arun-
del county, participated in the meet
ing. and came down from Annapolis to
conduct the meeting under the auspi-
ces of the Civic League of the summer
colony The doctors representing the
Federal Health Survey were Dr.Lums-
den, DR.. DerivauX, Dr. Ayers. DR..
Iaughlin and DR. Slaughaer.
DR.. Lumsden, the principal speaker
Of the evening, was introduced by Mrs
Arthur Lee Bosley, president of the
Woman's Civic League in few re
marks explanatory of the object of the
meeting. and the benefit to be derivec
therefrom.
| DR.. Lumsden spoke of the misno-
mer of the usual Health Resort"
which is usually not health-siving. but
a place where people go i'm summer
and come home sick Or. Lumsden
| spoke on the conservation of human
health as a protection against disease.
People today, he said, want TO live as
long as they can. and be as well as
they can in mind and body. Disease.
he said. is an unpleasant subject, but
to talk about health. we must talk
about disease, which is the antithesis
of health.
Disease. DR.. Lumsden said is abso-
lutely needless. and absolutely pre-
ventable While some diseases are
still shrouded i'm mystery, the causa-
tion and methods of many dis
eases are known facts and disease is
readily preventable DR.. Lums1eI
spoke especially of typhoid that kills
| $4,000 of our citizens each year, old
people as well as young children
Forty or fifty years ago typhoid killed
many more people than it does now.
because conditions have been better
ed. BY way of illustration, Dr.Lums-
den referred TO insanitary conditions
in Havana and in Panama IL we
could better conditions in foreign
parts, why not nearer home?
why do we permit twenty babies
L T.
Lumsden because we do not think
about 1t the people do not reason
about it. Ii is necessary to get the
peoples interest and attention and to
| give the matter publicity. 1t seems to
be no ones particular business TO make
typhoid preventable, but ii should be
| everybody's business IL is not a case
of What's everybody's business is no
body's business.
DR.. Lumsden said he does not quite
believe the old adape What we don't
know, doesn't hurt us He said il
does hurt us, and illustrated about the
impure milk and bad water supply. es-
pecially in rural districts Referring
to typhoid he said there are three inn
portant things TO remember. First
that typhoid comes from people: sec
ond, that it IS Catching or communi-
cable. and third that it is preventable
While cities and towns have made
progress in wiping out typhoid. the ru-
raj districts had been practically at a
standstill DR.. Lumsden said it seems
a crime that one man of every ave.
who contracts the disease is laid low
with creeping crawling cringing
thing so small as a typhoid germ.
| Organization is necessary TO pre-
vent this disease and its inroads on
the human race. and how to prevent
il is a study which the Board ofiIealth
Survey has been taking up and pre-
senting at the very doors " homes
i'm house to house crusade and have
formed an army, not for destruction,
but to prevent destruction.
The Public Health Service, Of which
the FIVE doctors at the Arundel meet
ing form an important part. had its
inception two years ago. and in that
short time has done splen ed work III
result of which will tell for itself in
some few years to come, when the
benefits accrue The doctors are Wis
iting $500 homes in Anne Arundel
county, and it is big proposition.
DR.. Lumsden congratulated the res
idents of Arundel-on-the-Bay upon the
sanitary improvements. conditions OF
which are more nearly perfect al
Arundel than in most health re-
sorts or rural districts. He said the
people had the right idea and with a
few additional improvements. Arundel
would be given a perfect mark on
sanitary conditions. An analysis OF
the water there is about TO be made
1t is known to-contain a large pro.
portion of iron and some sulphur Al
the close of his address. Which was
full of interest and very profitable
Dr. Lumsden received prolonged ap
plause and hearty congratulations.
The doctors had provided themselves
with a screen and lantern slides for
pictures illustrating the talks on va.
rious subjects. DR.. Deriyaux follow.
ed DR.. Lumsden, with a splendid tail
on Malaria" which, he said, is easily
preventable. DR.. Derivaux present
ed tho subject in an easy conversation.
! al style that made it all the more in.
teresting and entertaining. Malaria
he said, was one of the Oldest diseases