South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-12
"POuOMYELITIs" AND PREPAREDNESS.

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OF the Indiana health board. DIT. Charles $
Bosenbury of the South Bend health board and DR.
H. F. Vitou. St Joseph county physician these sup.
plemented by a demand that congress make an invest
cation. you might we'll fold babys little arms and
prepare for the worst. Anyhow. If it dies you car
assured that will be "polonnyehtis"
paraysis-the latest fad dying youngsters and SCI
down for a disease for which there is no cure
why of it would be silly assume that the
doctor had the chance of keeping the little
alive The alb. is complete
And the preventatives Keep out Of the dust
'Pohomyeihs'-be sure you get that word so YOU car
rattle it off with some degree Of intelligence-s a
germ that would rather travel astrde Of dust
than in a flying machine while with German U-boat
merchantmen, IT will have absolutely nothing TO do
II snihle IN bit potato. banana,
any other vegetable fruit that felt dust
Tor in with anything felt dust
except it be automobile-then baby is in danger
and there to he no fixed maximum of &c
what constitutes baby Furthermore. YOU must be
careful of all stmuants tea coffee -cola-though
beer barleycorn for some reason escape mention
water and pasteurized milk apparently with EN-
phass the pasteurized milk possibly. being the
only safe recommendations
And this advice to the doctors and the public
paving the way:
Advise your people to special atten-
Children must he kept we'll Daily bathing.
plenty of fresh air night and day, plain food,
exercise play. attention bowels = all
these make for prevention"
Well they ought but DR. Bosenbury, city health
officer busily engaged at handing it along we
beg daily bathing. plenty
of fresh air night and day. especially. We have been
lighting that for the children South Bend-those
who need it most-and didn't have to wait for an
of housing campaign which got as far survey
ordinance and was there sdetracked by Dr. Bosenbury
and Mayor Keler-untf fall forever-in apparent
that if it Immediately pursued the find
ings followed by conditions chill
dren might have This plenty of fresh air night and
day" ETC. and plaques be less of alibi
for the medical "profesh"
DR.. Bosenbury's attitude toward hous-
ing he ought to refrain from taking part
in the distribution anti PoromyeHtis literature And
Mayor Keller whose board OF withholding city
water people. that they may have it to
battle and lay the with. TO with the
sewers incident dispensing with filthy outhouses;
Mayor Keller, We should say, ought be consistent
enough advise his health officer his
pestiferous grand-standng.
Frankly, haven't the least anticipation that infan-
tile paralysis is anything particularly It is dis
ease, doubt. that going the rounds since
of stomach-aches. cholera. commissions but it has
remained for both century physicians to the
fatalities ''Polomyelitis''- is name-and
fix up with the people through advance publicity so
that baby dies, that the You rest
assured there will be no Of baby sickness
diagnosed infande paralysis until after the doctor
las given up hope saving life
But let suppose for the sake of argument even
accept is as fact that the Polfomyets' scare has
foun datiO / has We hay
efficacy of the preventative recommendations from
the various boards health in which have
sort OF sequel to modern preparedness how
with respect TO our defense the fashion
Of European milarsm. plus bit of home antcipa-
tory fear-and patriotism for politics and profit
that given much momentum TO prepared
ness movement No one seemed to he able to see any
considerable need Of until the European broke
out-just as here though the Indiana housing law has
been on the books years. the city ordi-
nances on the subject much longer the enforcement
Of both OF which have been agitsted for three
months now comes our CITY health officer urging full
ament Of the conditions that proper housing would
lead to without the advance preparedness for it, all
because some 500 babies have died New York and
few in other parts OF the country.
Is it because there a nationwide danger OF
A 'Pollonyelitis" plague. is It that number Of
health officers national and local find it such
wonderful opportunity for another grandstand play
We do not presume know OF certainty. but there
used to be an old saying In time Of peace prepare
for war whicl many national administrations fail
cd 70 adhere &c else would be better prepared FOR
defens- han we are And the same principle applies
with respect TO prevention Of disease-even infan
tile naravsis-n which there would be less sus-
cepubilitv to such plague is now being dangled
before our suspicious death fearing eyes.
Navbe IFS wickedy mtarstic to make boys keep
stem snd stand ,lp straight harden their muscles