Arizona republican., 1916-09-26
Scientific Sanitation

Scientific Sanitation
 The peculiarty about our modern conception of Health" states Edward Carpenter, England's fore most writer social science, lis that it be a. purely negative one" "So impressed by the myriad presence of Disease" he says 50 numerous ts dangers. sudden and unforeellable it's attacks that We have come to look upon health the absence of the same As a solitary spy picks his way through a hostile camp at night, the enemy sit round his fires, and trembes the cracking of a tWie beneath his feet-so the traveller thro' this world comforter in hand and physic cbotte in the other must pick his way. fearful lest at any time he disturb the sleeping legions of death-thrice blessed ii hy any means. steering to the right and now to left and thinking only of his personal safety. he pass by without discovery the side" Right here think many students the subject is indicated the very reason that many of the plans and schemes of so-caled health officers in city and nation fail the intelligent interest and hearty support of the of the people without which no such work can succeed. People cannot be driven into scientific sanitation" scared into the observance of health laws" by series of "Donts" or balefu predictions from the medical With a majority of health" officers it would appear that as Carpenter says health has become d negative thiug" and should doubt that they are honest iu their endeavors to educate the subject of disease and that therefore their slides their motion pictures and their health bulletins deal al most entirely with disease We would not minimize the value of of their work neither are we un- apprecative of the untirng efforts generous self-sacrfce. even unto death. of many a pioneer research work. That the general public has failed respond to their endeavors promote health by ndirection. and that large a proportion of leg islators has reject their plans in nation. for giving medical controlled health de- nd is for wonder There are more than few members of the medical fraternity who have sympathy with these plans. and in their views the attempted leg islatou agree substantially with what William Nor ris said of the labor riots London, If they had been more successful they would have been disas- trous"
 Writing The Broadening Science of Sanita- uou" in the Atlantic Monthly, Professor George C. Whpple of Harvard, says after a reference the methods of sanitation, The world has so long entrusted the of it's health doctors of medi- cine skilled in the of healing, that call these various protective agencies against disease by the general term preventive medicine forgetting that large part of this work is not medical all Much of it. in fact, is something quite differ ent and described by the term sanitary en- giueerng by the broader sanitation Pro- lessor Whipple was one of the promoters of the School of Sanitation. established a few years ago under the joint auspices of Harvard university and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As Whipple defines it. sanitation includes the many activities required to provide communities with pure water. fresh air. clean food and in general clean surroundings. The sanitary engineer needs be student of sociology well s engineering and but slight Knowledge of medicine is required of him. Health" department work, is carried on in majority of cities is particularly successful md tba lad the Harvard school-the absence of men of broad training and the fact that the activity of those de- parjments is controlled and organized by medical men. capable doubt in their profession but usually out of place in the public service Success in sanitation work may be only by securing the CO., operation of the public and the sanitary engineer will win this through intelligent constructive, sympathetic work with the people, through a war of rigid quarantnes enforced medical examination often ac- companied by enforced medication or operation and disease" rather than health" education.
 This country has never had a better opportunity 10 note the need for genuinely scientific sanitation and the undesirabity of medical control of public health department than in the infantile paralysis epidemic in New York city this summer Listen to the New York Sun "To the health authorities of New York themselves those refexes of their own blunder- ing conduct directly attributable They started the panic; they filled the minds first of the dweers within the city and then of the population outside with fear they are responsible for the exaggerated idea of danger from nfantile paralysis that obtains today wide territory" In commenting upon this criticism, another of Amercas greatest news papers, the Philadelphia Inquirer says, We do not doubt it. The New York authorities have but fol- lowed the modern method of trying build up health by soaring everybody death. It is happy indi- vidual indeed who escape from the clutches of this scheme of preaching disease from the cradle, through the schools and into manhood It is to be hoped that of this cowardly foolishness will find it's into Philadelphia. Sanity has prevailed so far Indeed the best comment on the situation that VIC have yet from medical source was that of