Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-06-19
Are You Interested?
In the protection Of your family

In the protection of your family?
In the preservation of your own
health?
In the health and prosperity of your
community?
Did any of your family, neighbors
or 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?
10 you think your community is
DONG what it should in the way of
preventing disease for the upbuilding
oI tne physical strength of those who
reside IN your neighborhood?
| DO you know that more than 600,
Vi all sickness is preventable and
tnat on the average, death comes Is
10 ~ year earlier than it is due?
| Dld 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 if comes
10 preserving the life or health of
nero 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
DIood IN u.s. we are inclined to do one
OF tlree things Say we doubt wheth-
er these so-called measures of pre-
Ventlon really prevent, or that we
think sickness is a result of or pun
1shment for sin, or that disease is a
matter Of happen So"
Inc answer to the doubling
Thomas was given above, and the
same Thomas who does not believe
in protecting his baby, who has no
one except its parents to look to for
protection, will certainly dip his ticky
bull yearling because it makes him
grow.
The man who thinks that sickness
comes as a result of sin is almost
correct, and it's a 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, | don't think there
would be any question about the ma
ture of the sin. It's simply a result
of the sin of living in and actually
eating filth, Venereal diseases are
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, it certainly will
not be happen So" 1t will be due
to the fact that you have actually eat
en- some filth-human filth. You have
failed to build you sanitary closet,
or you have failed to be vaccinated
against this dreadful malady or you
have failed in both.
By all means take advantage of
these various protective measures.
The Georgia State Board of Health
will 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 is
not already in, operation there.
Each individual in your county needs
to be awakened to the great import
ance of protecting their physical
strength. Every precaution should
be taken to prevent the spread of
disease. Real systematic health
work is a real asset to any commun-
ity. 1t pays handsome dividends in
dollars. 60 Every family and each
member of the family, however, must
invest if each expect to be stock
holder in this corporation. Each
must give a little time and thought
to the proposition of health preser
walton. 1t is necessary to comply
| with the advice of the directors
| Board of Health) 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 community.-Georgi
State Board of Health.