South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18
POOR HEALTH IS
GREAT HANDICAP
Better Instructions in Schools
Urged by Fort Wayne
Physician.

county was nelQ AT the OilFeI hOleA
Wednesday afternoon and evening
when 125 physicians Of st. Joseph
county and adjoining counties met to
hear papers and reports from special
lists on various current topics or the
medical world.
DIT l. Park Dreyer OF Fort Wayne
delivered an interesting address on
the subject, Mental Defective.iess Of
Children" at the afternoon session. A
great number OF the school children
or today are weak mentally and are
not normal according TO DR.. Drayer.
This, he said. is probably duo TO the
fact that the children are not given
the proper training because the
teachers do not possess the special
knowledge that is required 10 teach
the children personalities against
diseases OF various kinds.
Not Teachers Fault.
The fact that the teacher does not
teach the pupil these representatives. Is
MT her fault but is due TO the failure
Of officials 10 investigate the cases,
said DR.. Drayer. "A large per cent
OF The children in the schools are too
weak mentally to be in the classes
that they are in as they must neces-
sarily hold the more intelligent ones
back and provision should be made
for the weaker ones, for their better
ment as well as for the others.
From three 10 ten per cent OF the
children that appear 10 be perfectly
normal are abnormal and nearly all
of these can be made normal If they
are cared for properly from the be-
ginning More than One-half Of these
are in need OF dental care while large
numbers OF them are in need OF only
a little special attention apart from
the others that they be made normal.
"a
abnormal and beyond hope have been
taken from institutions and have
been taught 10 read and write as in
diligently as any child. Many chill
dren who are retarded but little are
sent TO the feeble-minded home for
children and there associate with
those who are probably beyond a j
chance for becoming normal mentally
and in this way they themselves be-
come as their associates.
Cause for Evils.
Statistics show that with few eX-
ceptions all prostitutes and wayward !
girls and boys are Of abnormal mind. !
OF 141 cases in one instance but three |
we're able TO earn wages while the /
rest were helpless and unable to earn
their living in any respectable man /
ner. We find large numbers of way /
ward people who have been in feeble |
minded schools and have been tempo |
rarilv cured and after a few months |
they find that they are but burdens to |
the public and in this way are forced |
20 earn their living in some dis
respectable manner"
Or. Il. c. Bowel OF LapOrte, DR.. r. |
n Snowden. Galien. Mich. and Or. s.
J. Young OF Valparaiso opened dis
cussion on the subject. DR.. Bowel
stated that paupers Of the county
homes are found TO he almost always
weak montally as well as physically.
the latter being formed through the
mental weakness of the individual to
care for his physiC.
DR.. Snowden declared that il is not
the children that the subject should !
be taken up with but the parents and
adults lie asserted all children
should be examined and provision
made for their ailments but the work
that is 10 show in the generation 10 /
come should come about through the
parents.
Many Detectives.
Or. Young. who is health officer of
Porter county, told Of an inspection
that was made on $500 rural students
Of that county in which $50 of them I
were declared defective in some way. |
More than % per cent OF them were
termed nervous while five per cent
were declared feebIe-minded and still /
were in school holding the intelligent
ones back.
Dr. c. G.. Jennings or Detroit, Mich, |
who Is well acquainted with the
N-ray, gave an interesting lecture on
Pulmonary Abscess" which he illus /
trated with stereOpticon views OF pic
lures OF the human body taken
through an N-ray. He showed the
way in which an abscess is formed
and told of representatives. and rem
edies necessary TO cure them.
Il
subject discussed by DIT. James b. |
Cooker OF this city. The address was
followed ny a discussion Of the topic /
by Or. Floyd Freeman OF Goshen. DR.. |
J. 2. Rogers OF Michigan City and Or. !
II. =. Preston OF Plymouth.
Or. :. c. Kimberlin OF Indianapolis I
spoke on The Differential Diagnosis /
OF HvperthyrOidism" Others who !
discussed the subject We're: Dr. !
Julius r. Jacobson Of Toledo. o.. Or. !
c. r. Reed OF Culver. Ind; DR.. J. a. I
Work. jr.. OF Elkhart and Or. H. NJ /
Miller OF South Bend.
Banquet is Served.
At 6 o'clock in the evening a ban |
Quet was served in the red room. 125 !
members and guests Of the society
being present.
DIR. George w. Grille OF Cleveland. |
conceded TO be on the top rung of the /
medical profession. held a diagnOstc /
clinic and delivered an instructive ad- /
dress in the evening. Or. Crile's re- /
marks were mainly confined 20 the !
causes and best methods OF treatment
for gOitre.
A number OF persons having goitres J
OF more o. less a serious nature were /
used TO eNli"in the different means /
OF treatment u. Grille pointed out /
the fact that Peep e living near a sea- /
shore are rarely troubled with gOitres. /
because OF the fact that the sea water /
contains larger quantities OF iodine /
than are found in land in the interior /
He prophesied a time when iodine.