The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-15
HEALTH TO FRONT
WITH GREAT RUSH
Field Man Of National AS
sociation Struck With
States Strides
FREE CLINICS LAUDED
Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Black
well Maintaining Health
Service Stations"

The remarkable progress Of vol
urfarv health work IN Tulsa and In
Okrhoma was the thing about the
,.ty and state that most impressed
charles NJ. DeForost, field yeprcsCn-
f,ftya OF the National Health asso-
cI1tion and the man who originated
fhp Modern Health Crusade move
mont. DeForest was in Tulsa last
week and addressed all teachers OF
Tulsa county at called meeting in
the county courthouse. He spent
some time visiting other cities In the
state as well.
After five years absence from
Oklahoma ! am struck" said De-
Forest. with the before and after
OF voluntary health work here.
There was In 1915 one man in
charge OF the'salc OF Christmas
seals The oklahoma Public Health
association was organized In 1917,
backed by public spirited people and
a trained secretary. jules Schcvt2,
who later gave his life for the work,
employed,
IL am told that five years ago
there was no bed for the consump-
tive IN any public institution and
there was >uo public tuberculosis
sanltarium In Oklahoma. The state
has now three excellent state tuber-
Culosis snnitoria, with waiting lists
OF would-be patients.
Free Clinics Important
The work IN the schools has pro-
eressed, too. Three nurses are on
the staff Of the state association,
besides n director for It's child hy-
gieno work, the Modem Health cruz
sadc. What Is better than their own
service is the employment or nurses
BY municipalities az the result Of
the demonstration made by the as
sociatlon. This IS the case In Nc
AlCster, Enid and Muskogee. Nurses
are serving the public also at Bart
lesvlle and Ardmore. supported
partly from the public treasury and
partly by the Christmas seal funds.
Provision has been made also for
the employment OF nurses in Usage,
PAYNE. Creek and Lincoln counties.
CLINICS nt which those who sus-
pcct themselves OF having tubercu-
losis or other diseases may be eX-
amlned have been established In
seven cities In .hcsc five years and
are maintained fun time at Tulsa,
oklahoma city and Blackwell. The
state association Is organizing a
travelling clinic under the direction
OF its executive seCraetry, Il. II.
Hixson, to demonstrate the value
OF a clinic In many other parts OF
the state"
DcForest, discussing the Modern
Health crusade, recalled the state
ment Of the Oklahoma state super
intendent of schools. II. II. Wilson,
that IL was the crusade that taught
his boys that they had wrists. 1t 60
happens that the first child to quail
fly as a crusader by health chores
was DeForest's own son Walter, a
pupil in school OF Nonkers, New
York. Since that beginning more
than seven million children in tho
United states have qualified as cru
Saders and the National Tuberculo-
els association has seen its crusade
transplarted TO Canada, France,
China and other countries.
The country boy obliged to curry
the old nag. bring in wood and feed
the chickens has probably always
hated chores at the time but when
he reaches the years Of comparative
discretion he recognizes the Valua-
bic part that these chores had in his
education. When a city father looks
around for modern chores he finds
turning on the gas is no substitute
Tor fetching wood and setting the
garbage pail on the dumb waiter IS
nothing for education like milking
a COW. But nowadays we are wax
ing up 10 the fact that washing
hands before meals and cleaning
teeth after them are hygenic duties
mat should be performed with as
much regularity as fetching water
from the well for mother. SO It was
that health chores were devised
as the ordeals by which children
should earn their spurs as knights
OF health - .ail naEoragt