Milford chronicle., 1935-04-05
HEALTH THROUGH COOPERA.
TIVE EFFORT
By DR.. H. V. Holloway, State Super
intendent of Public Instruction

By DR.. H. V. Holloway, State Super
intendent of Public Instruction
The Delaware State Health COun-
Gil is made up of representatives of
these public, semi-public and pri-
vate agencies interested in the pro-
motion of individual and community
health. AS health is dependent upon
home conditions, we find represent
ed the home making division of the
Department of Public instruction; /;
as it is likewise dependent upon
proper physical exercise and train
ing, there is also represented the
division of health and physical edu-
cation OF the same department; as
it concerns not only children in the
schools but is of equal importance
to the home and community, that
phase is represented by the nutri-
tiOn specialist from the University
of Delaware and the specialist in
communicable diseases from the
State Department of Health; as it is
so definitely Influenced by the con-
ditiOn Of the mouth through which
all food must pass. there is a repre-
sentative of the State Dental SOcie-
ty; as Ii finds one of its greatest
enemies in tuberculosis, the director
of the Anti-Tuberculosis Society is
a member: and as a group interest
ed in health in the home and in the
school as well as in the community,
there is representative of the
State Parent Teacher Association.
Working together for the past three
years these various agencies have
been able to accomplish an amount
of health work that would have been
quite impossible without the coop
Grafton which has come about as
result of the Council.
What EndaGgerS Healthl
Health is a matter of such indi-
vidual importance. one might sup
pose that everybody would be so
much interested in its preservation
as to take advantage of every bit OF
knowledge and exercise every pos
sible pTecautiOn that looks toward
keeping well. Such. however. is not
the case. People do not get much
concerned about their health until
they have lost it, or seem on the
point of losing it. It takes an cpl
demic of typhoid fever to interest a
community i'm its water supply.
smallpox. diphtheria. yellow fever,
malarial fever, scarlet fever, bubOn-
ic plague, tuberculosis, leprOsy, and
a host of other diseases have deci-
mated the earth before people have
been awakened to the necessity OF
enforcing sanitary measures. Filth,
flies, feas, rats and mosquitoes for
generations wrought their havoc un-
disturbed. It is appalling to think of
the thousands of children who have
gone down to untimely graves, the
innocent victims of dirty milk and
improper food. II is more appalling
to know of the hundreds of thOus-
ands of people who have to carry
with them the serious physical han
dicaps through life because of mat
tentiOn to what were regarded as
trivial physical defects in youth,
which adult ignorance believed
would be "outgrOwp." Ignorance,
recklessness, carelessness, and sell
fshness have taken. more human
lives than War, the greatest of all
human scOurges. II is estimated that
nearly a thousand persons die each
day in the United States, from dis
eases which science has shown how
to prevent. Thirty-five thousand per-
sons lost their lives in this country
last year through automobile acci-
dents due to recklessness or care
Only the most vivid imag-
ination could picture the army of