The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-04-10
|UBLIC HEALH
is TOPIC AT
CONVENTION
Robinson of u. S. Health
.cpartmcnt Talks on Con-
diti0rs in This State


Mo.nas, la, April lo.-"Thc .
.tr in bublic health work is CO. I
alton" stated DR.. Daisy NJ. o.
nson, regional consultant to !
United States Health Depart
+ before the League of Women
kcrs at Des Moines, la. today,
Robinson who has just complct- |
a survey Of the state was APP Z,
ted by the North Dakota League
Women voters AS a delegate to I,
convention.
is important that the citizens |
community cooperate with It's
tn department as the health Of
absolutely needs the assistance
he people at least to the extent
complying with the health laws,
the sneaker in introducing her
ect.
)ne of the public problems which
aid be of paramount interest IT,
lcn is that Of the control Of So
diseases in its relation TO the
le and those of the future gem
tons. 1t has been said, thai
ais cannot be legislatcd into the
plc.' Those who are engaged IN
campaign against this plague
eve that so far as morals con-
their problem, the exact re
Sc is actually the fact.
hat moral conduct in sex matters
It originate in strong and
,lesome public opinion against
miscuous sexual intercourse and
ltever laws are practically en-
ED on the subject will be re-
ton, rather than molding OF
opinion. Some excerpts from
address follow:
That nobody familiar with the
ereal disease situation denies
tremendous influence Of prosti-
ion on the spreading of social
eases. Everyone engaged in the
ial hygiene campaign agrees that
complete stoppage of these i'm
raj practices would constitute the
attest single measure in the COM
te eradication of the two most
lent types of the disease. Second
this in relation to the ultimate
cess of the social hygiene cam
gn is the rendering non.infec-
us persons who are afflicted in
way or another with diseases.
The habit of JOY riding with
angers and acquaintances, is n
Sc of increased delinquency
ong young girls who are high
DOL and grade school pupils tnd
few teachers, and it is also
to the attendance at unregulatet
olic dances"
The American Red Cross Execu
q secretary of one city in Nortl
kota states that she finds thu
attest problem there to be will
feeble minded, as she estimate!
per cent of the dependent art
bleminded; that rs families in ;
tr show low mentality and tina
ong this number a large percent
+, are infected. She states tina
attitude of the public in tn
Y towards social diseases is on
absolute indifference and DISCUS
: that there is decided need 70
i've work to suppress such dis
es.
The commissioner Of boy scout
one city states that he finds Their
great need of educational train
: IN morals as lust and sex delin
ency is getting hold of the yout
today: that in one small town h
countered "a boys under trea,
mt for social diseases under TWEEN
years Of age and four under fou,
an years, who wanted to becom
Y scouts but could not be accep,
because Of being thus disease
fifty boys in another TOWNSHIP
lere he could accept but 20; tina
4elt it his duty 60 reveal some &
csc facts to the public as eve
US in the seventh and eigf
AIDES were frequently involved, bu
at at meeting of the commi.
oners of the city, he WITS not pei
tied to state actual facts, that q
ng as such truths are conceale,
x delinquency and social disease
IL increase. That with his vast e,
rience of years in dealing wit
gh school girls and boys, he woul
y, conservatively speaking, thel
from 35 to 40 per cent of such d,
lquency- among them, and :. tn:
ey know more about prophylact
easures than one would ordinaril
ppose; that the parents must a
me more responsibility in the.
alters, and that officials should C.
crate more earnestly than they {
matters pertaining to social di
SEES; that in one county he visi
he was informed from a reliab