Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-07-31
Observation-Disclosures.
HEALTH GRAMS
Observation-Disclosures.


tons was forced TO ration the civil
population, the uutrtional laboratory
at Copenhagen put The 100000 pee
pie OF tina, country on a diet the bulk
Of which vas milk, whole grain rye
bread with wheat bran addict. barley
pofrdge, greens, potatoes and some
butter. The Danes, "a VIGOROUSLY
healthy people before the war, grew
even more healthy on this diet The
general death rate which hal never
been les than l2.5 per 1000 per year
dropped to l04 after the introduction
Of this diet. Mortality from prac,i-
cally all diseases declined.
Illinois was distinguished at both
ends Of the infant mortality list for
1924. Oak Park reported the lowest
number of baby deaths per 1000
births Of any city in the United States
with a population between $4,000 ami
10000. Cairo stood at the other end,
ranking third from the top amC.g
cities with from 10000 to $4,000
people that had the highest infant
mortality rates in the country. W.
like to shout from the housetops the
news of the Oak Park record.
Most people care SO little about
! living longer than the average that
! they will not readiust their habits 20
that end, even when the probability Of
/ life extension is most promising, ac-
cording to George Bernard Shan. II
! they care nothing for long life,
| people can make short one much
more pleasant to themselves and
safer for others by adhering to well
| known hygienic and sanitary rules,
says DR.. Isaac d. Rawlings, state
| health director. Ii is queer individ-
ual indeed who can enjoy life
punctuated at frequent intervals with
preventable contagious due largely to
| his own caIelessness, misconduct or
! stupidity.
What to do with a crop of old PEG
! pie who are threatened to be thrust
upon US as a result of public health
service is a problem that seems to
worry some recent writers who have
heard that the average length of life
has increased by 20 years in the last
century and that an average life Of
| 100 years or even 100 is far from
impossible in the relatively neal
| future. The panic stricken NAV take
comfort in knowing that most of the
gains in adding years to the average
| life thus far have resulted from saving
babies and children rather than in
lengthening life for those who would
ordinarily live 80 on 60 years. 1t Is
further pointed out that only the
strong can successfully run the gauntlet
of heart disease, cancer, chronic
nephritiS and cerebral hemorrhage
that guard the years on the proXimal
side of three score and ten. 1t Is even
suggested that the man who is des-
tined TO round out 100 or $50 years
will enjoy relative increase in the
productive period of life, compensat-
ing with more years of profit for the
logger, leaner years nearer the end.
Anyway there are a number of octo-
genarians in the country now who ere
earning a great deal more than a lot
of young fellows of half that age.
A community nurse reports that the
corner grocer sold a carload of cab
bage within d week after her heart to
heart talk with the mothers In the
community about the wonderful fool
vlue, especially as a source OF vita
Minis, of this lowly vegetable, whereas
formerly he was lucky to dispose Of
carload within a month. Cabbage u
one of the most abundant sources Of
the life giving vitamins as we'll as of
many oher food values hard to secure
otherwise.
The average fellow doesn't know
how to properly adjust a self-sharpen-
ing lawn mower. If his water gets
out of order he Is helpless. A 10. OF
people have learned to tinker with ga
engines but any serious automobile
trouble nearly always requires the al
teption of a skillful mechanic. These
machines are simple devices compared
with the mechanism of the human
body and yet everyone not only al
tempts at one time or another 10
diagnose and treat ones own dlsof-
ders but Is exceptionally generous m
prescribing for the ills Of others. II
ANYBODY doubts this let him announce
to his neighbors and friends that he
is ailing anu then check up on the
advice ana prescriptions offered.
If an automobile engine fauS to
perform correctly the trouble may b.
in the oiling system, the ignition sys-
TEN. the fuel system or the meehanl-
cal system. Similarly any symptom
of disorder in the human body may
result from any Of a wide variety OF
causes relating to the nervous system /
the blood. the muscles. the bones. the
elimirative system or from a 0combina-
tian of some Of these. This explains
WHY il is important to consult com
ne-ert physician about physical all
meHts.
When man becomes so shiftles=