Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-09-02

tensely practical work OF teaching
health habits to the coming genera
ton in Maine.
In the national Tournament in
Health Knighthood-one of the inter-
estlng sub divisions of the Crusade
III which approximately 100000
American boys and girls took part
last fall The Longfellow school at
Fort Fairfield won signal honors.
The only tournament pennant to be
won in New England came to this
Maine school.
All told approximately $4,000 Maine
boys and girls are enrolled in the
Crusade and the number is being ex-
tended. For the coming school year
marked change in the Crusade sys-
tenn which will tend to permanize it.
will go into effect. The Crusade has
become four year course in health
education and is applied particularly
to the third, fourth, fifth and sixth
grades.
For the school year just closed GER
tificates of special merit have been
awarded schools by the Maine Public
Health Association.
Beginning Sept. 1 Miss Winifred
| Taylor of Bangor, the Crusade direc-
] tor for several years, resumes that
position which was vacated last
spring by Miss Jordan who resigned
to become Dean of the Gorham Nor
NAL School.
The report states:
although our tentative understand
ing with the State Department o.
health contemplated the Withdrawal
or July / last year of our financia
support to the Departments Division
of Public Health Nursing we Learned
that the State has failed to make thu
necessary appropriation for that Di
vision beginning with their fisca
year on that date. In order to asss
the Department in continuing it:
nursing division the NJ. p. III. A. con
.inued to appropriate 500 Il month
toward Miss Soule's salary until Jan
uary /, 1922 when the Governor ant
Council made special appropriation
to cover the expenses of this Divis
ion"
Maine Campaign Against Cancer
The Cancer division of the Maine
Public Health Assn. headed by DR.
| Risley. is conducting cOntlnuou!
Statewide campaign for the contro
of this disease Within the past veal
upwards Of 1000 lectures empha siz
/ ing the importance of the early dis
covery Of cancer have been given be
fore Maine audiences totalling more
| than $4,000 persons. Approximately
! 90. 900 pieces of cancer literature have
| been distributed. Local cancer com
mittees have been formed in nearly
every county. A State wide Cancer
| Week" for the purpose of intensity
| ing public interest in this phase OF
our work was held in the fall of 1921
| and q similar special effort is planned
for this coming fall.
The Eye division, headed by DR.
Beach is taking up three distinct
| phases of ye conservation. one
| phase has to do with the protection
| Of the eye-sight of the new born
Another is a campaign Of education
| on the vital Importance of correction
! for defective vision, especially III
children of early school age. The
other is the promotion of a campaign
| for the prevention of eye accidents
particularly in the industries. All OF
these phases of the work have dis
tinct financial as we'll as a distinct
humanitarian aspect. In the one in
stance alone, that Of preventable eye
accidents in industry, the division has
cononiled figures showing that in an
average year more than s32 900 is lost
to Maine through the failure of work
ingmen to wear properly fitted Cog
giles.
The tuberculosis division. headed
| ty DR.. Welch, is continuing the edu-
cational campaign against tubercu-
| losis in Maine which has been in
such a helpful degree reasonable for
| the reduction of Names tuberculosis