The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-17
Government Striving to Bar and
Control Disease.
KEEP TABS ON IMMIGRATION
Women Graduates Of Schools OF
Household Economies Whc Have
Had Hospital Experience Are In De-
mand 40 Dietitians In Hospitals Of
the Public Health service-Meti ton
Picture Film Used In Educational
Campaign.

Opportunities are now open in tie
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
pital experience in. civilian or army
hospitals. The work, which has to do
with the victualing of the hospitals,
was transferred 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
yet 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
the life history of the mosquito, es-
pecially Of the kind that transmits ma
laria 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
life; all of it is life-like.
Most realistic are the views showing
how the female mosquito absorbs the
malaria germs with the blood of ma
laria 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 Ill 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 ]. 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 inyestiga-
tion 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 Oh pros
pective emigrants.
Income and PeIIagra.
That pellagra varies inversely with
the family income in the cotton-miil |,
villages of South Carolina Is the con-
clusion drawn after three-year study !
by the United States public health
service. This is the first reported !
study in which the long-suspected re-
latiOn of poverty and pellagra are |
definitely measured.
As the income fell, the disease was
found to increase and to affect more |
and more other members Of the same |
family. AS the income rose, the dis /
ease decreased and was rarely found I
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
'eport to differences in the expendi-
lures for food. intelligence of the
and ownership of cows,
gardens. etc. Differences among vii
ages which were economically similar
ire attributed to differences in the
and condition of food in
Ocal markets.
A recent statement by one Of the
argest life insurance companies in
he United States indicates that the
'ood standards Of southern wage
,arners must have improved remark
IDLY Of late, for the death rate from
,ellagra has fallen from 81 per 10O,-
700 in 1915 to 2.3 in 1919.