The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-07-10
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

Infantile parGlySlS IS one OI the diseases of poverty. It arises ac- cording to investigators from the lack of sanitation that surrounds the lives of the very poor. The commonest means of conveying this disease from enc afflicted being to another is the horse fly which takes it from filth and other unsanitary sources and transfers the germs to human beings.
 But like many other of the ills that the poverty stricken are richly heir to, the diSeage leaves it's humb- le surroundings and strikes as well the palace as the hovel, tho man. sion as the tenement warren.
 When we read of the epidemic spreading through the greater city of Now York, we must clearly ul' derstand that nothing could more emphatically explain the poverty ana filth of the tenement district than the fact of this epidemic.
 The very day that it is announced that New York is the greatest city as to population in the world, comes also the intelligence that Now York is a pattern of filth1ncss and breeds such a dise@sc of filth as infantile paralysis to such en extent as to defy the offices of physicians and expert medcal men in its cure.
 It is spreads out from it's teno- ments and it's filthy origin to af- fiict the children of the rich.
 Another disease of poverty is tuberculosis. But it does not re- main such. If it did mighty little would be said or done against the great white plague. But tubercu- losi3 and infantile paralysis leave the places where they ere constant ly originating and strike alike rich and poor with their evil grip. Now it is emphatically right that this should be so. Were it not that these diseases spread beyond the poor who are tho first stricken and whose evil condition of living ori- ginates the plague, little or no at tention would be paid to it,
 There are terrible diseases that afflict the poor which arc occupa- tional diseases strictly, and which cause much suffering pGin and hor- rible death but they do not leave the poverty stricken environment wherein they were born and in con- sequence medical science has sadly neglected them.
 Really it is only when disease af- fleets the well to do that tn gre is manifested serious interest in its extirpation or in its cure.
 Because sleeping sickness affected the workers and made them inefti- cient, scientific men, paid by rich mems foundations, devoted their career to the cure of this disease.
 Infantile paralysis is ono of the worst of the plaques of poverty. It is tie cruelest fall. It strikes the very helpless without ruth or pity. It attacks without warning and never departs without leaving some sickly imprint of it's former presence behind. It was common enough for years. But it was con- fined like typhus or Jail fevcr only to the very poor or the very ill., or the most unsanitary. But within a memory it has begun stretching out. It is now affecting rich and poor; just as typhus leaves it's plebian quarters and strikes at the patrician mansion.
 ] So society is beginning to make some to.do about 1t. It is all very well to destroy the children Of the extremely poor, but it will never do to kill of the children of the ex- tremely rich. Science must aid ana science will aid by discovering some means of confining it within It's ori- ginaI bound or curing it when it shows it's presence any where.
 Four fifths of the diseases to which flesh is heir could be eliminated were mankind afforded a compe- tency as to food. fresh air and wholesome surroundings. Clear and clean water. to drink; fresh and wholesome air; sufficient and nour- ishing food-granted these things