Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-10-12
COUNTRY AT
LARGE WILL
BE IMPROVED
Camp Sanitary Regulations
Will Benefit Folks
at Home.

Louisville KY, Oct. 1.-THE clear
eyed, keenly alert, recruits that come
to Camp Zachary Taylor, drawn in
the main from rural districts Of Ken
lucky, Indiana and southern Illinois
are receiving an object lesson in per-
sonal sanitation and disease preven-
ton that promises much for the future
health of their respective commune
ties.
The regimen under which they
come is something totally strange to
them. the extreme care in correcting
smalllfaults Of the human mechanism
scrupulousness with which health Of
men is guarded appears a bit foolish.
This is the first impression.
Then m the time when. Jim,
after being at the camp for a few
weeks, visits town and becomes cur
ious as how much weight he has lost
by hard drill.
To his amazement he finds that
though girth may have decreased,
weight has increased, and hat this
condition is general at his barracks.
Then he learns that a companion, who
came into camp with the tired move
ment Of the hook-worm victim, vas
hospital for a couple of weeks, that
he had been cured of the hook-worm
and his infected tonsils removed.
Furthermore that he had gained 80
pounds in the two months following
the physical overhauling.
Twice daily the men are lined up
and questioned regarding their state
Of health. Those with flushed cheeks,
slightly sore Threats or other symp-
toms Of illness are hurried to the regf-
mental infirmary for rigid examina-
ton and isolation in event of measles
or other contagious diseases.
This shows something of the prac-
tice of the medical department of the
United States army which, under its
present day code, as voiced by the
army doctor prefers to see nine NAL
ingerers slide by rather than leave
n man al drill Or other duty to
spread disease who ought to be in bed.
placed upon the question of disease
prevention Inc health maintainence
by military authorities that is making
over the ideas of personal sanitation
Of many Of the men coming to Camp
Zachary Taylor. The practice here is
identically as that pursued wherever
n Of the army doctors Is responsible
for the health of fighting men.
Many Of the men coming here from
the mountains of Kentucky and from
the rural sections of the other states,
have been accustomed to sleeping
rooms Theoretically sealed. Here they
sleep with all windows open even
when a bowling gale drives across the
room. Windows. are never closed at
night except to exclude rain.
This doesn't meet with the approval
OF many of the new arrivals, but later
they notice hat colds come less fire.
quently, that they wake up in the
morning with heads clearer, bodies
better rested. and not one of them
will ever be content to go back to the
old stuffy bed room with which the
folks back home content themselves.
Recently the wisdom Of letting in
plenty Of fresh air brought forcibly
home to the men here by the manner
in which the epidemic Of Spanish in
fuenza spread. It first appeared
among men housed in barracks. 1t
spread more rapidly among them than
any other portion of the camp popu-
latton. and men living in tents because
Of lack Of room to house them in bar
racks were least affected. Complaints
by the tent jewellers because they
could not live inithe more comfortable
barracks nave ceased.