The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1921-07-12

entable diseases. Such record is
disgrace to an enlightened" city. l
offer no apology for the schools. They
have done their best. But there has
not been the intelligent cooperation
that the conditions called for. This
city must, through some channel, the
schools or other, take better care OF
the health OF its people. II each OF
these $50 homes that were quRran-
tined, had an average Of three cases
Of sickness, which is conservative
estimate, then ?940 people suffered
needlessly in this town. All the dis
eases mentioned are preventable.
In Utah SO babies died lsst year
Of measles and 100 OF wboopii.
cough. Eighteen hundred and forty
died under five last year in this state
from preventable disease. II that
many hogs had died Of cholera the
whole state would have ben aroused
and federal help would have been
allied to suppress it. Utah needs to
do more for health and Logan should
lead, being an educational center,
What the city needs is a full Tine
public health doctor Of superior abb
ity who can function diploma tically
and unite all forces working for
health. Such a doctor is the greatest
need of this community.
Health teaching and training in
iealth habits in the schools has pecr
good. And the correcting Of oh!Gi-
ay defects in children has beoBi
greatly accelerated through this
teaching. We had 1908 children at
the opening OF school with defective
eeth. or these ga had their teeth
corrected during the school year. In
everal rooms of the elementary
schools, all the children had o. X.
teeth at tn close.
Most parents and the doctors and
dentists cooperated splendidly in the
correcting OF defects. The dentists
liked the teeth in some thirty-five TO
orty children gratis whose parents
we're unable to pay. They also made
a slight charge for an additional rs
children who could not afford TO pay
he regular charge.
The doctors to help us, prevented
q worse epidemic of smallpox, vac
mated children free of charge. The
nurses contributed their help free OF
'haige. In some rooms all our chill
iren were immune after vaccination
lay. The one big lesson i'm relation
o physical defcts and epidemics that
his and other communities should
earn and practice is that prevention
) great deal more economical and
Elective than cure.
The monthly measuring of height
and weighing of school children re-
yealed from differnt angle the
heed for better physical care. There
we're 1899 elementary school chill
dren weighed. or these 724 were un,
der weight 35l were per cent OF
more undcrweight-a condition con,
idered dangerous by the best auth
critics. 1t is well known that wher
child is mal-nourished he has no.
I he high resistance to disease that il
necessary to ward off contagion anC
b falls an easier victim.
< or the problems now confronting
: the schools and the community tn,
greatest is the better care of hcaltl
n of both children and adults. In thu
- twentieth century epidemics that W.
v know can be controlled are dis
g grace. The money spent in nufsin'
o the sick, in loss Of wages through
r Guaratlnr, in the retardation of tn,
i children in school, etc, would pa,
II the salary OF good public healtI
doctor whose sole function il woul,
be TO so organize the health agcn
g cies Of the city that II might b
Il free from COuiHgIOn. The school