The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-10-02
HEALTH NURSE
NEEDED IN COUNTY


Miss Rines. a state Red Gross Nurse
promoter. is here this week promoting
the employment of a Public Health
nurse for Hand County. Miss Rines
was in Miller last year during the
influenza epidemic ana did some not
able work with the people OF Miller.
She is placing the Red Cross Seal
Nurses over this state and has on
hand at the present time six nurses
and eleven places to be filled. 1t Is
hoped that Hand County will grab
one of these nurses. All these nurses
are graduate nurses. have seen ser.
vice. have had special training in pub
lie health nursing. and are capable
Of doing a good job.
Health work today is more essen
tial than eve before. The war show
cd this country as nothing else has
done the necessity of better health
work. AS a result of it the Bureau of
Education Is at the present time pro.
noting health work in schools as
never before. The N. f. A. has as
one of its five main points today the
better health work.
Lets look at a few figures on this
subject. Out of 5000. 900 people sick
every day In the United States with
~preventable diseases $500 die. Think
of II every day in the country when
every case can be cured and is pre-
ventable If people only knew how to
properly take care of themselves.
DR.. Brown of Oregon Agricultural
College states that where there are
forty-flve men unfit FOR service today
out OF every 100 thirty can be made
fit by proper physical and medical
attention.
At least one out of every four men
who ought to be in the prime of their
youth were physically unfit to bear
rms
Twenty-Five per cent of boys who
sought admission to the S. A. r. C.
were rejected. OF the LOO, 900 who
each reach military age l6 per cont
are totally unfit for any service and
II per cent only for limited service.
These people are in the prime of their
youth.
T%hirtyfour per cent of draftees were
rejected. One third Of the prime of
our men. DR.. Beard states that if
army regulations were left unchang-
cd fifty to sixty per cen OF men from
thirty to forty would be rejected.
All OF these troubles can be traced
back to youth. The youth are in the
schools. II is here that we need to
begin and to continue until We get
rid of these defects. DR.. Small of the
U. S. Department of Education states
that out of our 25. 200, 900 in schools
today so per cent have defects and
ailments that impede normal develop,
mcnt
Is per cent OF our school children
are suffering from Maf-Nutrition.
60 per cent OF our school children
are suffering from some form of
diseased throat Or nose.
A large per cent are suffering from
defective vision.
The health of our Country is a Ma
tional Necessity and not an Individual
Privilege
Look what the draft showed us.
Look at the condition of our youth
today, gradually deterioriating. Take
the condition of the country as &
whole. II was found that the rural
districts were just as bad or worse
than the urban districts. II applies
to every locality in the state and ma
ton. The problem of taking care of
the health of the nations Is about the
biggest problem we have today. 1t
is not an individual privilege any
more. It has been showed that people
will not do it alone. 1t has been
showed where they have not done it
and mostly through carelessness. 1t
is so serious that something definite
must be done. 1t has come to the
place where the privilege part must
be taken away from the individuaI
and put into the hands of intelligent
people who will see to it that it is
taken care Of. It is shown by the
draft and other Investigations that
It is absolutely a national necessity
that tho people Of this country be TAX
en- are Of
Hand County ought TO be n Of
the first to employ a Red Cross Seal
Nurse today. The cost amounts to
nothing compared it'll the good we
would get from one. Lets think Of
the coming generation and the place
and responsibility they are to take
in this world. Then let's do our best