Cavalier County farmers press. (Langdon, N.D.) 1920-1921, 1921-02-03

Opportunities are now open in the
hospitals Of the United States public
health service for the employment as
dietitianS of many women graduates
of schools of household economics
who have had student training Or hos
Dital experience in civilian or army
hospitals. The work, which has to do
with the victualing of the hospitals,
was transferred a year ago from the
pharmacists to a newly established
dietitian service. The section has
steadily expanded, but owing to the
opening Of many new hospitals and
the enlargement of those already on
operation the dietetic personnel is as
vet not nearly up TO the requirements.
Applications for appointment should
be made to the surgeon general,
United States public health service,
Washington, D. G.
Health Film.
A new motion picture film prepared
at the instance of the United States
public health service wildly presents
he life history Of the mosquito, es-
pecially of the kind that transmits ma
iarfa germs and costs the United
States people about 100000 a year
by so doing. Part of the film is "ani-
mated" and part taken from actual
Nfe; all of it is life-like.
Most realistic are the views showing
how the female mosquito absorbs the
malaria germs with the blood of a ma
aaria patient; how the germs increase
and multiply and pervade the ~salivary
glands of the mosquito; and how the
mosquito passes them on to the near.
est innocent bystander, who promptly
falls i'll with the disease.
The film was exhibited for the first
time at the meeting of the Southern
Medical association at Louisville, KY,
November Is to IS.
Surgeon J. w. Kerr of the United
States public health service sailed for
Europe on November 20 with Com
missioner General of immigration
Caminetti to assist in the investiga-
ton of emigrant conditions in Europe.
The hope is to devise additional
measures whereby the immigration
laws may be given greater force and
may yet work less hardships on pros
pective enigrants.
income and PelIagra.
That pellagra varies inversely with
the family income in the cotton-mill
Villages of South Carolina is the con-
clusion drawn after a three-year study
by the United States public health
service. This is the first reported
study in which the lo~ng-suspected re-
lation of poverty and pellagra are
definitely measured.
AS the income fell. the disease was
found to increase and to affect more
n more other members of the same
family. AS the income rose. the dis
ease decreased and was rarely found
in families that enjoyed the highest
incomes, even though this highest was
still quite low.
Differences among families with The
same incomes are attributed by the
report to differences in the eyDendi-
lures for food, intelligence of the
iiouo1''ILt dllu pNheiSl!lD ol COWS,
gardens. etc. Differences among vii
lagos which were economically similar
are attributed to differences in the
availability and condition Of food in
local markets.
A recent statement by one of the
largest life insurance companies in
the United States indicates that the
food standards Of southern wage
n must have improved remark
ably of late, for the death rate from
pellagra has fallen from CT per 1OO,-
900 in 1918 to % in 1919.