The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1919-05-23
Are You Interested?


In the protection of your family?
In the preservation of your own
health7
In the health and prosperity of your
community?
Did any Of your family, neighbors
Of friends have typhoid fever or dys-
EMERY during the year 1918? Did any
one in whom you were especially in
terested lose their life on account
OF some preventable condition?
Do you think your community is
doing what 1t should in the way of
preventing disease for the upbuilding
OF the physical strength of those who
reside in your neighborhood?
Do you know that more than 500
OF all sickness IS preventable ana
that on the average, death comes Ii
to 20 year earlier than Il Is due?
Did you ever stop to think and
pray over this most serious affair?
An individual who happens TO be a.
business man, will adopt all kinds Of
preventive measures when IL comes
TO preserving the life or health Of
herd Of hogs or cattle. Does anti
cholera serum really prevent hog chol|
era? Does dipping" really and truly
prevent tick fever? These questions
are scarcely being asked by even
those who are most ignorant upon the
subject, and yet when It comes to a.
proposition Of investing few pennies
in the protection of the health and
lives of those whom we should pro-
tect with every drop of red American
blood in us, we are inclined to do one
OF three things: Say we doubt whethS
er these so-called measures Of pre-
vention really prevent, or that we
think sickness IS result Of or pup
ishment for sin, or that disease Is, &
matter Of happen So" =
The answer to the doubling
Thomas was given above, and the
same Thomas who does not bs4Eewe
in protecting his baby, who has mo-
one except it's parents to look to for
protection, will certainly dip his tfcky
bull yearling because it makes him
grow.
The man who thinks that sickness
comes as result Of sin is almost
correct, and It's great pity he does
not go step further and learn what
this sin is. IF we should go into, his
kitchen, his back yard or TO his old
surface closet, I don't Think tlrsrE
would be any question about C0iB nB+
ture of the sin. IT'S simply q result
OF the sin of living in and actually
eating filth. Venereal diseases arg
the result of filth and social sins
Happen So" Nothing ever does
this. There is always a CAUSE for
every effect. If you have typhoid
fever this summer, 1t certainly will
not be happen So" 1t will be dua
to the fact that you have actually eat
en- some flth-human filth. You hav8
failed to build you a sanitary closet,
or you have failed to be VacGinataB
against this dreadful malady or You
have failed IN both.
BY all means take advantage Ge
these various protective measures
The Georgia State Board Of HeAlth
VIII furnish you the vaccine and the
plan for your closet free of charge,
and it also stands ready to help You
put into operation Of the ELLIS
Health Law" in your county if it iB
not already in operation there.
Each individual in your county nHfHfs
to be awakened to the great imports
ance of protecting their physical
strength. Every precautinn shnnld
be taken to prevent the spread of
disease. Real systematic health
work is a real asset to any commune
ity. It pays handsome dividends in
dollars. 81 Every family and each
member of the family, however, must
invest if each expect to be stock
holder in this corporation. Each
must give little time and thought
to the proposition of health preseT4
walton. 1t is necessary to comply
with the advice of the directors
(Board of HEALTHY and support the
president of this corporation (the
Health Officer).
Think it over carefully and pray.
erfully and let the State Board of
Health know what You expect to do
in and for your cO1nmunity.-Georgia
State Board of Health.