The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-09-16
ECONOMIC HEALTH
PHASES ANALYZED
At LIONS LUNCHEON
Dr.. J.. D. Juagtnan Shows Dol.
sars-and-Cents Return From
State Disease Control

How state health departments ben
Gift a community wa explained to the
Lions club. today. by Dr.. j. q. jung
man, OF the bureau of ~preventablc
diseases Of the North Dakota depart
ment. at the o on luncheon.
The remainder of the program was
filled in by MacIntyre dancers and by
Mrs. Clara Morris. Of Mandan. in a
song. dance and piano program.
State health departments are not
only an asset III the way Of MAIN
tanning tic health Of a community.
said Dr.. Jungman. but they arc an
economic asset. They keep down dis
case and thus give industry and bust
ness a chance to operate steadily and
profitably when freed from tho hind
RANGES OF disease.
An illustration in point was taken
from The history Of Philippine occu-
patton by the doctor. who served in
| the islands when the big fight was on
to free them from typoid. smallpox.
ieprosy. malaria >and cholera. Work
| ers then earned SO cents q month in
Spanish pesos. Now they have climbed
the wage scale to as high as SIS gold
bGsis q month. This has been due,
said the doctor. to banishing the cpl
denies Of certain diseases.
u. S. and Rockefeller Aid Given
The first step by the army medical
officers upon occupation of the
islands was TO clean up the water sup
plies. Sewerage water was being
drunk under the old regime, and 1t
was from this that the Filipinos con
tracted most of their diseases.
The doctor stressed the fact not
known to everybody here. that the
state IS not paying for all the work
in behalf of public health that Is be-
ing dcnc in North Dakota. The u. s..
Public Health service and the Rookie.
teller foundation join hands with the
state government in maintaining the
department under DR.. "A. A. Whitte4
more. The foundation bears the cost
OF the state sanitary engineering de-
partinent and part Of the bureau Of
0~reventable diseases. Until the last
legislative session. the foundation and
the federal government sustained the
child hygiene bureau. The latter was
taken owe by the state at the ses-
sion last winter.
How Life Is Heightened
/. The prevcntablc disease bureau is
working to lcngtnen life. Diseases
such as It deals with are particularly
hard on the heart and kidneys In aft
cr effects, and the rate Of deaths from
these two sources Of ailments is larg-
cr than in other diccascs. Wherever
q state health department begins to
function. said Dr.. Jungman, the span
Of life always responds with an in
crease Of years. Usually five to %
years ore added to the average.
What a system Of health and dis
ea.l regulation means also was Illus
tra:.d by the Panama canal, said the
doctor. Two governments failed -
build the big ditch. then the United
States under DR.. William oorgas took
up the task. BY sanitary administers
ton the work was completed ana the
canal dug. The subjugation Of cpl
demic diseases then begun has been
kept up ever since. he said. and yell
low fever has virtually bcen wiped out.
Some years ago. DR.. Jungman said.
he made a health survey In the Ha.
waiian islands for Q big sugar corpor-
alton. with the result that sources Of
diseases were wiped out and the oper-
atoms Of the company put on . prof.
table basis. It's losses have ceased
since then and It's profits have sent
its stock up and given II 4 highly de-
Ctrablc character Is m investment.
\ Robert Melville and 4. q. Isamins.