Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-07-02
IRE EYES
MOST SICKNESS,
|SAYS DR.. HURTY
|ealth Board in Campaign
to Save Children's
Lives.
IGNORANCE

Eighty per cent of the diseases In
United States result from sore eyes,
ID Dr.. ]. \. Hurry. secretary OF the
1te board Of health, in discussing the
mpaign which is being waged by the
ard to counteract the spread Of IN
. stinal diseases among the small chill
Zen OF the state
- About 1000 children under 2 years
age die annually of cholera infantum,
sentery and like disorders" be said
L + Hurry said that the state board Of
health hopes to be able TO save 1000 of
these II the cooperation Of the medical
fraternities and the parents can be Sc
cured
The experience of the board leads TO
the conclusion that it Will be q difficult
matter in the work of saving infant lives
to make the physicians and the parents
heed
NINETY-FOUR TRACHoMA
CASES IN ONE COUNTY.
DR.. Hurry said that in one county IN
Indiana he found ninety-f cases of
: trschoma (sore eyes, among the cshool
children.
Letters were written to the parents,
telling them that their children would
go blind or at least have their sight
permanently impaired If medical atten-
ton were not given the child
We stated In the letter that the state
would treat the child free of cost, If the
parents did not feel that they could af-
ford the expense" said DR.. Hurry, but
not a single answer was received.
a farmer at one home visited told US
that he had sore eyes and It hadn't
'skeered' him any.
MUST IMPRESS PEOPLE
BY FORCIBLE METHODS
-Such diseouraging examples of the at
ttude of the people make it necessary
for as TO force them TO do as they
should.
1T VIII be as necessary for Us to
compel them TO give their children med
zeal attention as it is for the school board
TO make them send the little ones to
school"
DR.. Hurry declared that the purpose OF
the campaign is to arouse the interest
Of the class Of people who do not COM
e=ehGnd the danger.
If we can awaken them we shall be
able 70 save hundreds Of children from
the graTe every year." he asserted.
PEOPLR INTERESTED
IN SENSATIONAL ONLY.
I'VE can always interest people in the
sensational. and If We were to say that
a father killed his baby the whole state
would be stirred up
but when We tell one that he Is kill
> ing his children by neglect he laughs
as u.s."
DR.. Hurty said that II the babies who
de through the ignorance Of their par
ents were corded up, the bodies would
make row two squares long, three
deep.
s"There are only two times when we
can awaken the people" said he" One
Is when they have been hit vitality them
selves, and the other is when the move
nlent IS a fad.
l.Tbe 1irst appeal will be made to doc
tors to teach parents the importance
OF pure milk and the way TO obtain 1t.
POLLUTED MILK Is
CAUSE OF TROUBLES.
I've can trace many Of the children's
troubles back to polluted milk he said.
sAIeerings viii be held in different parts
of the state to interest the people as part
Of the campaign.
Seven hundred persons go blind every
year. statfd DR.. Hurry, through pre-
ventive dJeases.
-IndiHda IS a delinquent state for per
mittina such conditions to exist.
"A short time ago visited Taylors-
vile, e suburb Of Terre Haute. where