The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-17
CASTORIA
For Infarts and Children
In Use For Over 20 Years
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HEALTH TALKS.
BY the County Health Officer,


protest against a great wrong. lie
these crosses keep all thoughtful
men on their guard. They forbit
easy forgetting. They look forward
to new life for the world, bu
backward also on an evil cours.
which the world must always hats
and shun.
On every hillside in Monroe
County one may see the little white
tombstones which protest against q
great wrong. The wrong is the aw-
full and unnecessary death rate
from colitis, typhoid fever, dyson
tary, tuberculosis, malaria, and
many other diseases that it is not al
all necessary for our happiness and
well-being that we have.
/ have had eight deaths reported
to me from typhoid fever this year,
and every one of them was absolute
ly unnecessary, because they could
have been prevented by vaccine and
sanitary measures about the home
One child seven years old died this
morning in Aberdeen, and when
go back Saturday to this l. c. fore
man and the remaining members of
his family to inoculate them the sec
ond time, I will feel almost as sad as
the bereaved parents, for l know
that if that child had been inocu-
lated only a short time ago, the lit
tie fellow today would be in school
and the parents happy. These are
the lessons that the people are SO
slow to learn that it discourages
our hearts. People, let's not wait
for one of the family to die before
we act; let's not wait until we have
sickness that could have been pre-
vented; but now is the time to act.
Clean up the premises and keep
clean. Be sure you have pure drink
ing water. Have a, ,fy-proof, pig
proof and chicken proof privy; get
your meat from the cleanest market
in town; get your groceries from the
store that has the fewest flies, or,
better, that is free from flies. Lady
l would not trade with my own hus-
band, if he did not keep a clean, san
itary place. Demand these things
and you will get them as surely as
you are to have the ballot If you
had depended altogether on some
oil hol
earth do you think you would have
voted?
We expect more of our public ser
vice people, that is, our hotel, res
market men, and grocery
men, BARRIERS, ETC. The average
barber shop is unsanitary and skin
diseases, syphilis, tuberculosis, fur
uncles, and many diseases of the
face and scalp are transferred I
know travelling men who would not
think of using public hair brush
at a hotel, yet thinks nothing of us
ing one in barber shop that has
never been sterilized, and is reeking
with the germs of badness. l be-
ieve a public tooth brush would be
about as safe.
Today, the patient is demanding a
more thorough examination by his
physician than formerly. He is no
onger satisfied with having his
ongue inspected, and being given a
prescription for a box of pills. He
demands an examination of his
lr;ne, blood, blood pressure, diet,
tic. When he feels sick, and comes
o us for help, he expects us to ex-
mime his complaint, and take an in
'entory OF his general condition A |
ecord of the findings must be kept |
The business man keeps his; we
hould keep ours. We are expected |
lever to get SO busy that we neglect |
0 do our business, especially since |
is business so important that it |
means life or death to those friends |
THO put their lives and future hap
iness in our keeping. We must
eep the record straight
/ am glad that the time has about |
ONE when our doctors use up to
ate methods. The time was when
re had doctors who called every
hing stomach trouble" or 1.-THE liv-
-; every case of tuberculosis
slight touch of bronchitis" appen-
icitis "bowel trouble or ''intes-
nal Indigestion, to be lulled into Sc
urity with opium; doctors who
'ould say that pigeon-breasted,
pathetic looking and deaf, mouth
reathing child must "outgrow"
uge tonsils and a big bunch Of
denoid tissue in the nasopharynx,
( be treated ad nausem In the vain
tempt to get the child strong and
ell before it can be operated; and
no tell the parents that the cross
yed youngster needing pair Of
|aRaQe hadlv In roxpoct an aunYynf1Oa II