White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1930-07-04
CAUTIONS FOR CAMPERS,


Executive Committee, Public Health
League of Washington.
Probably nowhere is surpassed tht
beauties that we of the State of Wash
ington, enjoy, and now that summer
is upon us, urging us to seek out the
montai11s, streams and woods, a wore
regarding one of the serious con-
sequences possible from camp life is
released by the Public Health League
that pleasure may not be turned into
needless pain.
Where sanitation is carefully con-
troled, typhoid fever is almost a
thing of the past, but in our automo-
bile camps it still turks. 1t is the car
riers-those who, after recovery from
the disease, continue to- discharge its
germs for sometimes months or even
yearsv-that prevent complete elimina-
ton Of typhoid. Such a carrier may
contaminate the springs in the various
camps they occupy and then transmit
the disease to others. Or flies, con-
veyors of filth, may carry the disease
and thus contaminate exposed foods,
as has been proven many times.
Life in the open, which should be
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because of the possibility of contract
ing typhoid; for prevention is easy
and positive. Two safe ways are
open:-
FIRST: Boil all water that is to be
drunk OF used in cooking. If you go
out for but a day, how easy it is to
carry jug of pure water with you.
SECOND: The injection of typhoid
serum a short time before starting
your camp trip; harmless and GER
tain preventive. Over five million
service men received this treatment
during the war, and none who took
it contracted typhoid and this is also
the experience of Great Britain,
France and other countries who pro-
fitted by this scientific measure.
Typhoid germs may live in soil or
water for long time; and the person
who takes chances of contracting it
is flirting with death, so why have it.
1t is unnecessary as it is dangerous.
Upon what is the future of America
most dependent-and, of course, the
answer is-upon the American child of
today. So in setting aside May as
Child Health Month, we are celebrat-
ing our future instead of commemorat-
ing our past, says the Public Health
League; for truly it is said, YOUTH
IS THE STRENGTH OF AMER
ICA; MAKE AMERICAN YOUTH
STRONG" So, Child Health Month
brings into focus the children of our
nation.-their. problems, their health
needs and their rights.
To insure child-health obviously is
an around-the-calendar task, for the
health of the individual child must be-
gin with the health of its parents and
the prenatal care of the mother. The
skill of the attending physician at the
mystic hour of birth, the intelligence
with which the parents direct the in
fant's routine; the child's diet, its
habits, its hours of rest and of play.
its protection from disease, the cor
rection of it's defects, the care of its
teeth, it's mental CONDITIONAL these
are important factors In its develop
nent.
But the cardinal points of child well
fare were embodied in that now-famous
statement of President Hoover, when
he said:
"The ideal to which we should strive
is that there shall be no child in Amer
lea that has not been born under pro-
per conditions, that does not live in
hygienic surroundings, that ever suf-
fers from under-nourishment, that
does not have prompt, efficient medi-
cal attention and inspection, that does
not receive primary instruction in the
elements of hygiene and good health !;
that there shall be no child that has
not the complete birthright of sound
mind in a sound body, and the en-
couragement to express in the fullest
measure the spirit within, which is the
final endowment of every human
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