The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-08
HOME HEALTH CLUB
(Edited by Dr. David H. Reeder,
 Chicago.)


 Chicago.)
 CAUSES OF COST. The demand for health is one of the great factors in the increased cost of living and the demand for equal rights in practice as well as in the eloquent language of political orators is another. Through out the length of the land, agitation of the purity and cleanliness of food products, as advocated by me for the past quarter of century is quite gen. eral. So great is the demand for clean or sterile food that the slow moving machinery of the government is beginning to get action on the source of our food supply and is solv- ing the problem for the farmers.
 This mornings mail brought me Farmers Bulletin No. 74S, which gives to the farmer detailed instructions in making and operating "A simple steam sterilizer for farm dairy utensils" It shows how the farmer if he is handy with tools and most all of them are, can make a thoroughly efficient appa- ratus with which he can sterilize his milk cans and all other utensils used about the dairy and the total cost of the outfit will run from $5 to s10 ac- cording to where it is made and the skill of the maker.
 In the same mail I also received from the office of Markets and Rural Organizations of the same department at Washington, Report of cold storage holdings of butter and eggs" This report shows over S7,000, 900 pounds of butter on hand which is per cent. more than was held at the came time last year and it also shows over 4,5O0, 900 cases of eggs, each con- taining 30 dozen which is more than 24 per cent. less than were held at this time last year.
 The time was and within the per- sonal recollection of many of us when such a thing as dictating to the pro ducers in regard to cleanliness was unheard of and the only eggs and but ter kept over was what the farmers wife carefully put away as best she could.
 The production of sanitary food stuff, it's care and storage are prob lens that require time and expense. The farmer as well as all other labor ing men worked from 10 to 14 hours per day and made a bare living. On account of unsanitary conditions the death rate was much larger. By de- manding less hours of labor, better
 
 better food we have created two fac tors that increase the cost of living. First, we have decreased the death rate which increases the number, of people to be fed and by increasing the labor of handling food stuff we have increased its cost. We want the pure food. we want the people to be healthy. So long as we demand and receive these two essentials to life and happiness we must be prepared to pay the price and it is not at all like ly to be less.
 CLUB NOTES.
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 Dear Doctor: I have often thought I would write and tell you how we got along with the measles last spring, I wrote you then concerning my daughter when she had them. I fol- lowed your advice in Vol. and she got along very nicely and seemed to be quite well afterwards and my other little daughter and I did not take them at all. We bathed the little girl with acetic acid in the water. She slept with her sister when she came down with them and I took care of her all the time she was sick, but we both escaped the measles 4 entirely. Thanks to Dr. Reeder for his lectures. They have helped us very much.
 Now, must trouble you again. My oldest daughter complains of a pain in the small of her back and between the shoulders, sometimes so much so that she can hardly sit up. Then she has distressing feeling in the chest just below the breast bone. Since her back has troubled her she says her eyes feel so bad she can hardly study. although she has glasses. She cannot get along without them. She has com plained of her back for several years, but few months ago she was swing ing and the swing broke and she fell tol the ground quite hard. Since then her back seems to be worse and the trouble came. on. Do you think the fall is the cause of the trouble and if so. what would you advise her to do. It is hard for her to go to school when feeling so bad. Of course, she is not troubled with all these aches all the time. She also has the hiccoughs a great deaEsometimes lasting for sev- eral hours. H. H.
 (Answer) Your experience with the Home Health Club treatment of measles corresponds with thousands of others and I am glad to learn that it turned out very successfully, the same as it always does when properly given.
 Hot lamentations along the whole length of the spine will greatly help your daughter to overcome the back. ache. Such a treatment should not be given often. I believe that once or twice would be enough and would ac- complish the purpose Her kidneys may be a little weakened and this may also influence her eyes. It would be a good plan to have her eyes tested again by competent occulist. Possibly she needs anothC pair of glasses:
 Now, the injury she suffered a few months ago may be responsible for the acute pains she has in the back and osteopathic and chiropractic treatments I would then consider best for her. Still, I believe that the hot lamentations will benefit her greatly. She should not be sent to school or do any. kind of work if shesis not dispos- a6 fr I