Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1921-09-14
HEALTH NUGGETS

Summer for health and som'r not
says the United States Public Health
Service. Look out for typhoid fevor
on your vacation.
Buy your health in advance, save
the Health Service, and YOU wont
ever know you are paying for 1t. Good
solid dependable health was neve"
cheaper than it is today.
"Sure cures" for tuberculosis are
probably as old as the disease itself
Hypophosphites, acreosote lymph.
inhalants, serum, and the FREEDMAN
cure have all come-and gone. JUST
now some old devices in new forms
are being acclaimed in the southwest
But: 81 can't say yet what medicine
cured me-" said the testimonial writer
a amt heard from but three sure
cure companies yet an I'm waltin"
for bids from the advertising agents
of two more"
More and more. disease IS beinp
cured before it begins. say the United
States Public Health Service. Typhus
which drove Napoleon from Moscow
and destroyed his army, is now beinF
wiped out by soap and hot water
SMALLPOX. once classed with measles
ne deadly but inevitable chlld's
disease. is being ended with tiny tubes
vaccine. Lead poisoning in potteries
j.; being remarkably checked by the
workmen eating outside their work
rooms mad washing the lead glaze
off their hands before eating at all
Children by thousands are being say
ed from slow starvation by attention
to their teeth, which enables them t.,
eat and to digest their food. Where
ever modern public health work IS !"
progress, lives are longer and safer
than they were.
Infancy and childhood are the
danger periods for tuberculosis says
the United States Public Health Ser-
vice. To protect your child. pasteur-
ize milk or use certified milk; protec'
infants and young children from con-
tact with the sick and seep the grow
ing child strong and we'll by selnp
that it drinks milk, eats vegetables
avoids excessive fatigue and gets
enough sleep.
The return to the War Risk Bureau
of the responsibility for so MANY
former soldier patients whose care
the exigencies of war compelled the
Ii. S. Public Health Service TO as
sumo some two years ago is alreau'
enabling the latter to give more OF It's
energy to it's traditional work OF at
tending to quarantine; conductln"
scientific research into important
problems of the prevention and cure
of disease, particularly those to winch
industrial workers are subject; CO.
operating with the State health Of
ficers to control epidemics, and de
veloping effective methods to meet the
problems of rural sanitation. veneer
cal disease, child hygiene and SO on
The opening of wards in general
hospitals to tuberculous patients will
says the United States Public Health /
Service, be of enormous benefit, not
only TO the two million declared vic
tins of the disease in the United
States, but also to thousands of others
in whom the disease is still easil"
suppressible. Many of these fear
the stigma of an avowed tuberculosis
hospital, and put off going to it until
recovery has become long and diff
cult. In a general hospital tner
could be easily placed in separate
wards so as to protect other patients
and the diagnosis of their diseasa
kept private.
A concerted effort is being made hH
the United States Public Health
Service and the National Park Service
to make the National Parks of the
United States safe and sanitary for
the vast numbers of Americans VII"
have recently taken to touring them
Before the war, when tourists were
were fewer and most OF them travelled
or stage lines and stayed at park
hotels, the sanitary problem was
simple. Since the war. however, 80
great majority travel in automobiles
and camp out enormously complicat-
ing all health matters.