The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-04-28
COST OF ILLNESS
TOPEOPLE OF The
STATE IS IMMENSE

Miss Blanche Lee, State Home
Demonstration Leader and a member
of the State May Day Committee,
points out the immense cost of i'll
ness to the people of Montana. Miss
Lee says
"Have you ever stopped to figure
what it costs to be i'll? Counting the
loss of time and therefore wages or
salary as we'll as doctor bills and hos
pital fees, the amount Of money spent
by many families to regain health
amounts to many hundreds of dollars
each year. The money we believe
could better be spent for prevention
of i'll health and the consequent loss of
efficiency.
"Records of the Montana State
Board of Health indicate that in 1925
there were 376 deaths from tubercu-
losis. Such diseases as tuberculosis,
septic sore throat, frequent Gods,
typhoid fever, appendicitis, goitre and
many so-called children's diseases in
Guiding ricketts, are, very largely pre-
ventable if the correct food and health
habits and the principles of sanitation
are observed. Doctors tell us if we
keep physically fit we can protect
ourselves from many common all
ments.
"Have you ever stopped to realize
what an important part food of the
proper kind and amount can play in
helping to maintain a good state of
nutrition, health, -well-being and hap
piness? Farmers who are breeders of
purebred livestock know that the con-
dition and productiveness of their ami
mails is very largely dependent upon
the food and care given them. Recent
surveys made in connection with
foods and nutrition project work done
in Montana by the Montana extension
service of the Montana state college,
still indicate a general tendency to-
ward inadequate consumption of milk,
vegetables, fruits and whole cereals
in the average family diet, apparent
~ due to one or more of the follow
ing causes:
Lack of appreciation on the part of
parents and others of the value of
these in the diet.
Inadequate production and home
preservation of foods particularly
vegetables, fruits, eggs, and in many
cases, milk to provide an adequate
annual food supply.
Lack of knowledge of proper food
preparation.
Faulty food habits due in most cases
to lack of knowledge of the right prin-
ciples of child training.
In some cases garden failures re-
sulting from drought, hail or pests,
have resulted in very little being pro-
duced In those cases money is
scarce for buying even the essential
foods.
"The recommendation is made,
however, that in so far as possible
the food needed, particularly for the
farm family, be produced on the farm
and preserved by storing, drying, or
canning for winter use. Records taken
by the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies, Washington, D. c., in 1886
farm families indicate that an av-
erage value of food products used by
the farm family and produced on the
farm is $440.70, which represents the
largest single item of economic con-
tribution of the farm to family living.
'It is believed that greater use
could be made of the information
available as a result of scientific in
vestigation and actual experience with
animal and suman nutrition. We be-
lieve it pays to be and to keep physi-
cally fit and the food we select and
consume should be an important con-
sideration. Why not include a consi-
deration Of food and it's relation to
health in your May Day Child
Health nroUranoe %