Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-01-27
ROTARY LAUNCHES
PUBLIC CAMP A|CN.
FOR BETTER HEALTH.
SPEAKERS URGE MORE CARE IN
GUARDING AGAINST DISEASE
HOLD MEETING IN AUDITORS.
UNI OF HIGH SCHOOL.

TO guard the health of a communi-
" by looking after the health of the
children, was the substance of some
very Gue talks given last night by
medical men before an open meeting
of the Rotary club. A crowd of rep.
resentatiye public spirited citizens,
business and professional men,
teachers and parents assembled to
hear the program
The meeting followed a dinner Of
the club which was served in the
high school cafeteria About forty
men attended this dinner The open
session was held upstairs in the
school auditorium.
Dr. Stordock On Teeth.
DR. Perry G Stordock read the
first paper Of the evening, which was
on mental hygiene He declared that
eighty per cent or iour-ffth5 of the
population Of the country were in
fectng the health of others because
they would not exercise the proper
care in looking after their teeth. He
explained that in the mouths of most
people were conditions sufficient to
contaminate every mouthful of food
taken into the body.
He gave statistics to SHOW that an
examination of school children re-
yealed that OF 500 kiddies examined
only one had perfect teeth DR.. Stor-
dock spoke at length on the various
banteIia that were infCstng the
mouths Of people suffering of poor
teeth, and urged the necessity of hav-
ing dental examinations in the public
schools He outlined plan of these
examinations, which he declared
would function eXcellently.
Dr.. Petit On tuberculosis.
DR.. Roswell T. Petit followed DR.
Stordock, giving a very excellent talk
on tuberculosis, and explaining the
decreased mortality of the disease.
He explained that while the disease
was by no means an unknown dis
ease, practically all that the people
today knew Of it they had learned in
the last thirty or forty years
He stated that while twenty years
ago one person in every eight who
contracted tuberculosis died, the
physicians today had so mastered tho
disease, that today only one in every
ner in which the disease was carried,
by germs, sputum, etc, and told OF
the manner in which it could be pre-.
vented by the proper care. The care
he stated had 50 decreased the death
rate until while in 1900, 1878 out of
10000 individuals died of tuberculo-
sis, today only 111.3 ont of each TO-
600 persons died,
He explained how the town of
Framingham, Mass, had been select.
ed as an experimental community to
work for the decrease of the total
death rate in In this town, lie stat
ed the death rate had been cut from
1876 to 60 in the past five years.
ANY community can have Just as
good health as they are willing to
pay for
He urged a greater care of the
health of the community.
Or. WeiS.
DR.. E. W. Weis, director of the
hygienic institute in La Sale, a for
mer ottawa citizen, was the next
speaker of the evening. DR.. Weis
delivered very fine address on the
workings of the hygienic institute,
telling Of its foundation, its objects
of organization, its government and
He explained in detail the work
ings Of the organization Of the school
nurses and inspections, the quaran
tine regulations, their efforts toward
sanitation in the dairies, grocery
stores and other food stores. the in
fant welfare work conducted by the
organization, the work they were do
ing to decrease the mortality rate.
to stamp out venereal diseases and
in an educational nature.
DR. Weis made one of the most
concise and enlightening general pub
lie health talks ever heard in Otta-
wa. He said in part:
Having passed the world war in
which 100000 men were sacrificed
at an economic loss of $15S,000, ,000 900
and an equal amount in wounded and
other physical destruction, it showed
us another lesson in this country,
and that was that twenty-five per cent
Of the flower of our young men were
physically deficient. There is no use
in asking people with fixed habits to
change the same, therefore our en-
deavorS must be to the younger gen
GRAFTON that they may be developed
on a basis that will stand as near
100 per cent perfect as it is possible
60 get barring accidents Every
child possesses aninalienable right to
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