Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-11-26

DR.. II. w. Hill,
Executive Secretary Minnesota Public.
5ss Health Association, st. Paul, Nj inn
Stockraising the human IS the big
business of modern public health.
Think Of public health as you will from
any angle you choose you will find inc
that no item Of it lies outside (e that ll; &
phrase, which completely covers all
real public health endeavor, effort OF
aspiration ideals and practice.
The matter with public health is
that we all are try ing to stoclSr a Sc the
s human without realizing that that is
what we are attempting vii hont ser.
3iously figuring the size of the job; With
l out agreeing who is to do Wilhelm
how. We are agreed on the why 81.
\ the desperate need of it; we are agreed
on the when right now: but the
D what q the. who and the "how' re-
main unsettled. . .#
Stockraising cattle means beginning
with whatever cattle are to be had;
eliminating the unfit; providing the
best of physiological care of the fit:
and protecting the fit from Invaders
from designing invaders such as seattle
rustlers and wolves; from undesigning
invaders, such as accidents and infec-
tons. OF course, when invaders, de-.
spite all our precautions, succeed III do
i ing damage, repair of that damage is
Il necessary: if the damage is physical.
repairing it involves medicine and sur
gerry, j. e., therapeutics.
s. These procedures, applied to cattle.
are as ancient as mankind, and are not
today Immensely difficult, except re-
4 garding those invaders causing the in
fictitious diseases, which it is now re-
cogniZed, constitute the great modern
problem of all kinds Of stockraising,
not only of that which deals with cat
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Stockraising vegetables, flowers, fowl
or wheat, involve just the same factors
eliminating the unfit, cultivating the
fit; protecting the fit from invaders
from thieves, from accidents, from in
lection; and the most difficult Of these
is protecting the fit from infection, from
rusts, SHUTS, rots, scales, bugs, beetles,
ad infnitum.
We have to deal with exactly the
same items in stockrasing the human,
for we must Cd eliminate the unfit
Of which by far the most imminently
important are the hereditary feeble
minded; we must ~ provide for the
fit physiolegically proper conditions, .es-
pecially at birth, during infancy, in
school, viz, proper food, drink, housing,
sleep, work, play !; we must 90 protect
these fit from invaders designed
attacks from accidents, from Infection;
and the greatest of these is Infection
The patching up of those humans
who, despite all precautions, suffer from
assault, accident, or disease, is the bus
mess of medicine, surgery, nursing
j. e., of therapeutics and so far thera-
peutics is not usually included in public
health, although perhaps it will be later
on
Truly, up-to-date public health is a
huge Jul :. #S1Hc1c IS III SAiSSeItlCiOll
whatever in saying, that as the business
of the Spanish-American war was to the
business of the Great War, so is the bus
mess of the Great War to the business
of real public health-to stockraising
the human for the human race is nll-
merically the largest and sociologically
the most difficult species which ever has
presented itself for stockraising opera
tiOns, and it is the most difficult. partly
on account of its size. partly on account
B of its traditions, but chiefly because it's
only controlling authority is itself. be-
cause its own consent must be had be-
fore it can be stOckraised at all.
The general proposition that public.
health is a good thing has. it is true.
been accepted by the mass of the civil
lied world and there are now in opera
ton thousand most strenuous under:
takings carried on in it's name, But
there still is no general agreement as to
just what, are real essentials; as to
who shall do this, who that, as to how
all shall be done nor as to. this most.
crucial detail what, Of that which is
essential, must be done by compulsion,
what may be done voluntarily
The answer to this last question will
90 far towards answering the others.
Humanity has long since settled on
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