The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1921-09-15

VIC tune is surrey ripe TO expose such
fallacies % the very individual ana
- get his cooperation as one of the
mass, to assist in the removal of the
real conditions which do cause "fev-
ers. AS u matter of fact the time is
rapidly coming whe the individual
cannot pass judgment on these mat.
ters. The freedom of the the land
of the free does not allow one TO
maintain anything which ay be or
Is menace to MS neighbours health
or happiness. Increasing density of
population and the swift readiust-
ments of civilization to changing con-
ditlons and modes of living has caus-
cd the older individualism of Anne
rican life to surrender to collective
or social modes of control and action
This transition is not affected without
struggle. No one gives up a privi-
iege, even though it be odious, with
out protest. Yet we have seen such
vast and er bracing movements sweep
across all opposition such as national
prohibition, woman suffrage, COM
oulsory education and many other
things as important and affecting the
daily life of the individual.
Malaria, hookworm, typhoid few
er, tuberculosis and infant diarrhocl
diseases are the big headliners that
are ravshing the life blood of our
great country. All these are absolute
ly preventable. Then is it not a most
terrible crime to allow them to per
elst? Too long have we tolerated
these dreadful conditions. Our su-
plneness constitutes an offense
against public welfare that is meas
urod by human lives. Since we know
that each of these. conditions persist
and increase because our individual
homes do not have the proper santa
ton and cleanliness, the crime comes
to each home. We may find homes
that are surrounded with all that our
great civilization has developed for
the comfort of man and one that is
an embodiment of culture and lux
ury. In the back yard of that home,
we too often find conditions that do
not come up to common decency
Perhaps the one great force that on
crates against the correction of such
"a condition is the intense conserva-
tlsm that rervades that home. Famil.
'.rlty breeds contempt and that family
mas been accustomed to live under
these conditions and their fathers and
their fathers father did so and since
comfort is not materially increased IN
proportion to the labor expended, we
would find that, in many cases. the
tamlly would not only not cooperate
IN removing the condition but would
resent the inference that their fathers
had not been decent and that thew
in turn had not exercised intelligent
in the maintenance of
their establishment. The point at is
sue is that one need not point at the
poor and so-called ignorant as the
harborers of diseases and bad condi-
tons, they can be found on Mr..
RoEerfelds place as well as on poor
Johns place.
Statistics concerning the incidence
OF the various diseases and the toll
of human lives each year, | regard
IS out Of place here. Yet to the stu
dent, he knows already; to the IN
te!Igont thinker | would invite lin,
to investigate; to every one / will de-
clare that the Panntlet is thrown
down for you TO lake W The solu-
ton is obvious. 1t is found in the es-
tablshment aud maintenance of
competent public health organization.
The work of this orga nization to be
somewhat as f'.lIows: The d;sSen,ina-
icn o. knowl"dm. of public health
to hold clinics and demonstrations
for public good and enlightcnment;
to visit the individual homes and to
prevent the occurrence and spread of
contagious diseases; to maintain a
continuous child welfare work: to
deal with iht appropriate health is
sues peculiar to the community: to
do all that medical science has learn
ed can be done to make the life of
The individual healthier and happier.
May | repeat my opening sentence
and may IL inspire the reader t.
q more acute cons!deration of the
problems which have been gone over,
The greatest ideal that can inspire
and direct any body of people is that
one that leads to the betterment of