Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-04-15
HEALTH & MORAL
Welfare COMMIT
TEES REPORT
Read and Delivered at the Annual
Meeting Held Recent.y.

The Health and Moral Welfare. Com.
mittee has been active this year
and though we have. .not. seen. as. much
active result as we would like. we
| feeq that We have agitated some
T subjects which will eventually be
directive. ArousiDg sentiment along
certain lines is sometimes equivalent
| to accomplishing.
I Our committee has had six meet
ngs at which various plans fer
heal h and morals have beeen defined
The matter of the care Of the
health was brought to our attention
as d necessary sanitary precaution.
We have urged. the. necessity. OF. mouth
cleanliness wherever we lave had
the opportunity to talk to parents.
BESIDES this We took it up with
the druggists in town, and found that
as an advertisement and to start
the good work, they would furnish
US tooth brushes of good quality at
the very unusual price of z cents,
which we may distribute among the
! schooIs, that children who were
without tooth brushes. might buy. them
at This price together with a sam
pie tube of paste. Such children as
could not afford to buy them to be
gwen one. Then the teachers will
follow up the suggestion and inquire
Of the children every morning if
their brushes have been properly
made use of. This we feel wi1 be a
great step in advance in the way Of
cleanliness and prevention Of decay,
but further than this, where the
teeth are already in a state of de
cay the dentists have kindly con-
senred to give Of their time to a free
dental chair to be ogen certain. days
of the month for the filling of de
cayed teeth to children whom our
City Health Officer finds need at
ter;icn and who cannot afford to
have it done We feel that his is
a great accOmp pIisbnent and We hopo
we Rave instituted a practice that
viii be effective for good, not only
rcw but more certainly n the fu-
ruIe. # the new generation car be
taught lie value of pre~Gratton of
tner own natural teeth up to old
age and tIar idea cf ~ &I s
an aversion to young and sd, il
viii be a blessing.
We still have the $1,000 raised
last year from the selling Of red
! cross stamps. We VII need about
half cf the amount tc pay fer the
| brushes, but as many Of the child
Ten win pay for their brushes, We
| hope still 10 have a good sum TO
turn Cvor to the new committee,
AT the mc5tfrg of the Fedora sio-
held at my home in Decembar we
| brorgbt 10 the attention Ct the la
! dies matters which We 6eIt they
Icugbs to Er1w and which We consid-
cred Of VITAL impor ance to Grand
| Rartds. Fro. Clark Of the agrEcultu-
rad school brought tc yorr notice tn
necessity Of having clean milk. Clear
milk mears clea- dafries. Unc-aan
n X IS bojh revolt ng md danger
Gus. Milk is the greatest absorbent
of germs of any food we have.
1t not only preserves but pro-o-
Isates germs. 1t is extremely neces-
IsaEy IS a health preCaJttCn tsat
Io1- milk be inspected. We have 10
such inspection.
DR.. KicBbush followed tn a talk
on meat inspection. He told us
bow at present We are not projected
from diseased meats. Animals which
| are condenne- at TIE packing plart
Ibv the mspect CT nay be tazen. back
by The farmer and sold to the meat
shops. Iris discuss on provoked SO
much feeling by the members thai
q resolution was drawn. .up and sgn-
ed by he ladies asking the city
council to appoint an inspector. Our
president and cen mittee talked with
the mayor. DT. Kickbush appeared al
the council meeting and explatned
! the necessity to them, and the cOun
Gil voted to employ an inspector foI
meat and milk. After this was voted
however, adverse discussion wa.
aroused by one of the newspapers
and the council has reconsidered the
: matter and it is now laid on the
s table.
e Much might be said as to the mo
: raj condition of the city but thert
: seems to be little effective work. don.
q by us. We have received many com
p rlafnts Of certain conditions ans
many cases Of immortality have beer
) brought to US. In these cases how
o ever. direct evidence has not beel
3 given and as we have neither III,
d means nor the power to employ de
tecuve, We have been unable t
o deal with these matters.
5 It bebooves every Christian orga
l.izatiou howeeyre, to lend their grea
e est effort and instill with rigor th
principles Of modesty and virtue il
:. to Their yourg people. It should b
cha5r supreme effort to build char
y acters which can resist temptation
II It behooves every parent to waite
his child and guard him agains
It wrong. Parents who have been slave
n to their children when they weT
IS babies, seem to lose all thought {