White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1923-10-12
Better Health Service
PUBLIC HEALTH is PUBLIC WEALTH
These Articles Compiled by the Public Health League
of Washington

practiced in such cases and in certain
cases results in such improvement
that the more serious operation on
the goitre can be avoided or if still
necessary can be done with much
less hazard
flinders Breathing
Now, consider the mechanical or
pressure symptoms of enlarged tom
sils and adenoids. Those resulting
from massive adenoid growth have
become quite we'll recognized When
the adenoids enlarge they tend to
close off the nose from the throat
This leads to mouth breathing, with
its associated stupid expression.
Further enlargement leads to pres
sure upon the eustachian tube, with
more or less difficulty in hearing,
hence the inattention Of these chill
dren-a further mark Of their stu
pidity Small wonder they are con-
sidered backward in mental develop
ment and fail to keep up with their
classmates. There is great pleasure
for parent, doctor and teacher in
noting the rapid mental and physical
development in such a child follow
ing the removal Of the adenoids. The
mouth no longer hangs stupidity
open. With the improvement in
hearing the former dullness changes
to interest and as result progress
in school and in social activities
rapidly returns to normal.
Forest Fires Are
Costly to Nation
EVERYBODY is loser when the forests
burn, and from five thousand to six
thousand fires occur each year in the
national forests alone
Lightning causes from 25 to 80
per cent of the fires. The remaining
70 or rs per cent are classed as
"man-caused" fires, which are set
by campers, smokers, railroads, brush
burners, sawmills, and incendiaries,
according to Charles Lathrop Pack
In his "School Book OF Forestry"
The annual loss from forest fires in
the Federal forests varies from a
few hundred thousands of dollars in
favorable years to several million in
particularly bad fire seasons. During
the last few years, due to effective
fire fighting methods, the annual
The best way of fighting forest
fires Is to prevent them. The forest
officers do their best to reduce the
chances for fire outbreak in the
Government woodlands. They give
away much dead timber that either
has fallen or still Is standing. Lum-
bermen who hold contracts to cut
timber in the national forests are
required to pile and burn all the
slashings.
Dry grass is serious fire menace.
That is why grazing is encouraged
in the forests. Rangers patrol the
principal AUTOMOBILE faedc te ise
that careless campers and tourists
have not left burning campfires.
Railroads are required to equip
LuclI lOCOIbOLlfCD Will uliOoL-
ers. They also are obliged to keep
their rights-of-way free Of material
which burns rapidly. Spark arrest
ers are required also on logging en-
gines.
But the individual has the great
responsibility, as the figures in Mr..
Packs book easily show. Every man
and woman who loves the out of
doors should make it their personal
business to use the greatest care
when in that out of doors they love.
A special landing stage, built with
a drop Of one foot in five, has been
erected at the Cunard pier in New
York to disembark Papyrus, cham
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