Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-11
TO SELL HEALTH
TO PUBLIC BIG
PROBLEM, SAYS
DR.. Beatty Addresses Montana
Public Health Association
Monday Evening.

WOuudy LNcIilAlS.
Old age was advanced as the only
respectable cause Of death. by DIR. I.
Il. Beatty, state health commissioner
of Utah. who was the principal speaker
at the meeting of the Montana Public
Health association at the Junior high
school Monday night.
1T is a scientific fact that death
from disease is preventable." he de-
clared. and added that when the public
was awakened to the fact, things would
be done. Education he cited as the
great factor that will make for the
prevention of unnecessary deaths and
for the preservation of health.
"The big difficulty he said, SIS
reaching the point and applying the
remedy of education"
Those who are spreading the doc
trine of health, DIR. Beatty said, should
make a careful study of psychology.
Until there is an understanding of this,
it will be impossible to sell public
health. There has been no discovery
SO wonderful as the secret for pre-
venting death from disease, he gave as
his opinion, and remarked that it was
a marvellous fact that it was possible
for a number of deaths that would
occur IN q year to be known IN ADVANCE.
Must Educate Public
IF the public knew this and could
tell whose deaths there would be. there
would be little trouble in getting an
efficient health program across" he
said. Because of the fact that the
individual is a gambler. he said, it is
necessary to convince him that it is
possible he might die as well as his
neighbor.
In conclusion DIR. Beatty urged the
necessity of educating the layman that
human life is the nations best asset
and that a nation of people in poor
health and dying in exaggerated num-
bers cannot prosper. 1t costs the
state more every time a person dies
than if he were to live to mature age.
he declared. and suggested an attempt
to prove to the public the economic
waste entailed by a high death rate.
He named the Panama canal zone
as a district where an appreciation of
the economic waste of death from
malaria had resulted in the complete
eradication of mosquitoes, which he
said could be destroyed many times
over by the energy that is devoted to
shaping at them, if this same energy
were devoted to an earnest desire for
their destruction.
Girls Vocational School Described
Miss edith kasSing, superintendent
of the Montana Vocational School for
Girls at Helena, described this institu-
ton. proving its efficiency by citing in
stances of the work that is done by the
girls who live there. They have as
sisted in building barns. houses and
other structures and are skilled and
proficient in many lines of work, she
said.
The education given the girls is of
the best, and their health is adequately
cared for. they having the constant
care of a physician and Il dentist. The
finest cooperation in the work of the
school is given by all state depart
ments. she said. Twa of the pupils
from the school gave an effective little
dance in illustration of Miss Hastings
contention that they were given amuse-
ments of other than a practical nature.
The vocational school has jurisdic-
ton over its charges until they are II
years old. and was declared by DIR.
W.. +. Cogswell and other state health
officials to be a perfect institution of
it's kind.
Or. Andrus Endorses School
Miss Hastings remarks were supple
mented by DIR. W. w. Andrus. presi-
dent of the Montana Medical society,
who, on behalf of the physicians who
will convene here Wednesday. assured
the Public Health association that the
doctors were with it in its work of
prevention. He outlined briefly the
work that is done by the boys at the
state industrial school at Miles City
and said that everyone in the state
should make an effort to become thor
oughly cognizant of all the departments
and phases of work that are support
ed and carried on by the state.
In the absence of J. G. Brown of
Helena. DR.. g. A. Fuson of Great Falls
presided at the meeting. Surgeon
General Hugh Cumming Of the United
States public health service, who was
to have been present at the meeting,
wired the association that it would be
impossible for him to be present.
Today's Program
Meetings of all sections will be held
this morning at the Junior high school,
where papers and talks on public
work will be given by DR.. T.. d.
state epidemiologist and di-
rector of the state board of health hy-
genie laboratory, Helena; DR.. r. X.
1 aTkeT, united states puDlc health
service. Hamilton, who will discuss the
of investigation OF Rocky !
Mountain spotted fever; DR.. r. r.
Spencer, United States public health
service, Hamilton, who will discuss an
other phase of the same subject: ID.
{. Il. Pigot, Roundup: DR.. Otto Heff-
ter, Great Falls. who will talk on
Some Phases of Obstetrical Care;
NJ. Biggs. Helena: DR.. A. Dolan,
assistant medical director of the Unit
ed States Veterans bureau, Helena;
Il. Foote, Bozeman. and DR.. Arthur
Jordan, Helena.
All meetings are open to the public.
In the afternoon a special program.
touching problems Of importance in the
public health field. will be given at the
Junior high auditorium. DIR. f. NJ.
st. Paul, a noted expert in
'hildren's diseases. will talk on THE
are of the Adolescent Child: DR.. !
j.. Waring, Denver. will discuss
'Malnutrition in Relation to Tubercu-
osis.' and DR.. F. c. Rodda. also a