The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-19

was tue tncIue Vi ulSCuSSlOu at ldSt
nights session of the advisory council
of the National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis. One of the papers submitted was
by DR.. George NJ. Kober, the president
of the association, who said:
when we remember hat about
one-third of the population consists of
children up to the age of Is years.,
and that the physical and mental Wig
or of a nation depends on the environ
ment of childhood and youth, when
the whole organism is in a state of
Elasticity and susceptibility, we can
not fail to appreciate the importance
of laying the foundtion for a strong
and vigorous race at the earlies per-
iod possible.
''Since an inherited predisposition
plays an important role in the
spread of tuberculosis, a rational
prophylaxis suggested that parents
must be healthy, and that marriage
with tu~berculous persons should be
prohibited.
Prenatal care should include
proper instruction of the mother in
personal hygiene, rational food, i'm
proved housing and factory cOndi-
tons. Excessive work and insuffi-
cient or improper food are most i'm
portant causes of premature and
delicate babies.
"A healthful home is essential.
Preference should be given to indi-
vidual homes or apartments in ten
ements not exceeding two stories.
Dark, gloomy and damp houses
should be avoided where the death
rate is often double or treble that of
healthful homes. Damp houses ia
vor the development of catarrhal
conditions which render the system
more vulnerable and allow bacteria
to retain their vitality indefinitely.
"Overcrowding favors contact in
fections and should be avoioed by
affording at least 500 cubic feet of
air space for each person. Night air
is not unwholesome and sleeping
porches properly screened will do
much to develop delicate infants
into healthy children, provided
proper clothing is furnished.
Household dust should not &C
emulate, as it may contain micro
organisms of disease brought into
the house on clothing. All unneces-
sary concentrations and furniture
serving as dust traps should be dis
carded in favor of simplicity OF
furniture and nOn-absOrbent walls.
CDR. Schenker has urged the es-
Enlistment of compulsory continu-
alton schools for girls between the
ages of 10 and 20 years, where in
struction relative to the duties and
right of a wife and mother should
be given. The suggestion is a time
ly one, provided thorough training
in domestic science is given in the
public schools, since well selected,
properly cooked food 'and house,
keeping is of the utmost Importance.
The continuation schools should not
only impart instruction in prenatal
and infant welfare work, but also ia
house sanitation, the food, clothing
exercise and general hygiene of the
child"
Twenty million school children
in the United States spend 100000
900 hours, or 11,415 years. each
school day in school houses in the
United States said Sherman c..
Kingsley of Chicago in a paper read
by him to emphasize the need of
proper ventilation of schools.
Medical inspection in public
schools" he said, "has disclosed the
fact that more than 60 per cent of
the school children have physical de-
fects of one kind or another, serious
enough to interfere with school
work. 1t Is our theory in America
that every child should have at least
that modicum of education compre-
hended in the grammar school. We
know now that less hat half the
children ever attain this standard
We also know that much of the fail
ure is due to physical conditions
Children are in our school seats who
cannot see the blackboard or hear
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nose and throat difficulties cannot
breathe properly even such air as
is usual in school rooms. Such
children are constantly dropping out
of school because Of Encouragement
and lack of interest, often taking
with them the handicap that spoiled
their school experience, to become
in turn the cause of failure in after
life.
Managers of factories hold men
and women operatives, and even
children, responsible for keeping
machines working at full capacity.
1t is not quite as important 20 see
that boys aid girls do not sit list.
less, stupid, half asphyxiated, OF
with sense inoptrative, because OF