Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1916-08-23


and enforced; and nobody knows {
how many children will be saved
from suffering and death. Such
being the case, and there is no {
! doubt of it, | feel that it would
| be an insult to this commission
for me to set these facts up
against the expense, either to
home owners or to landlords, Of
making the cheap but necessary
improvements required by the or
dinance. 1t is your matter. not
mine. An argument by me would .
be improper
Springfield is cleaned up. Her
disease and deathrate have been
cut down exactly as those things
are cut down in any community !.
, which is cleaned up, and she is
proud of the thing she has done.
Mr.. Quick says: "The Public
Health Service does not expect
: that this work will be carried into
every county in the United States,
but if the people generally will
} carefully consider the matter they
2 will demand that it be done. The
u, reduction in deaths from typhoid
j fever alone, in the counties al
ready surveyed, averages from for
t ty to fifty persons year. l. t us
n say forty-fve. In the three thous-
II and counties in the United States,
v therefore, one hundred and thirty
$ five thousand people die annually
Y of typhoid fever, who would not
- die if the Pabic Health Service
: could extend its service effective
J. ly over the entire field.
y, The sanitary engineers of the
u L. S. government come at the re-
I'll quest of the local board of health
- and prefer to work with the State
Board of Health. They have al
!, ready dug into the affairs of such
- towns as North Yakima, Washing
IL ton; Martinsburg, West Virginia ;
y Bedford, Indiana; New AlbanT,
! Mississippi; Cambridge and Ann
w. apolis, NJ AIRY land; -Hillsboro
&c y North Carolina; Jasper, Alabama
= Fredonia, Kansas; Perry and
u Abel, Iowa; and dozens of other
III towns and villages, and in the first
II nine counties covered by these
g surveys had made careful ply.
zeal and statistical study OF
H. about forty-seven thousand rura
y, homes.
~ Through their surveys they
~. have practically eliminated ty
-, phoid fever from the town OF
~ North Yakima, Washington, al
~ though prior to the time CT their
~ survey in 1911, the death5 from
ha typhoid in that little city had av
90 eraged between twenty-five an,
To- thirty a year. They have driver
~ typhoid fever out of the rural dis
- tricts of Yakima county, which Il
~ 1910 had lost twenty-five live
M through death by typhoid |:
" 1911, the year of their survey, tn
10 death rate fell to eleven; in 1912
hn 10 three; and in 1913, deaths fror
,n+ typhoid disappeared from tn
on county. Their survey has il o.
~. ange county. North Carolina, CT
,eI the death rate from typhoid j
,ry nalf. In Berkeley county, We,
,or Virginia, their survey, made /
or- 1914, reduced the number 0
Ha cases Of typhoid in the count
~. from two hundred and fifty-nIn
No. in 1913 to twenty in 1915, with II
~, deaths at all in the latter yea,
49,, In Dorchester county, Maryland
~ these gentlemen have seen thei
wa work reduce the number of case
+ho in one year from one hundred an
ola fifteen to twenty, and the numbt
, , Of deaths from tifty-One to thre
,oT Lawrence county, Indiana, a coul
40 ty which received one of their eC
DIV. vocational surveys in 1914, rejoice
fo,, in the fact that the number
a. cases had fallen from ninet
seven in 1913 to thirty in 1911
,av and the number of deaths fro
NV fourteen to five; while in WilsC
+ha county, Kansas, their survey h;
~ cut the typhoid rate exactly
fo, two.
IN. The Government officers kno
on they can do this thing in al
county in the United States. Flu
shot thermore, they know that they c;
lion leave any such county so tho
ian Cughly awakened and enlighte
po- ed that the good results will
oar- permanent. They know, too, tn
Nh. while they are doing this they a
it,. warding off future attacks Of tn
,ys. erculosis, pneumonia, and 9th
49, diseases, that they are saving t