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89 THE HEALTH BULLETIN TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW BEST TO LIVE At college I saw fortunes spent every autumn to teach football candidates how to elude opposing tackles, but not a cent to teach them how to elude tuberculosis, typhoid, pneumonia, or cancer. We were required to dig out Latin roots and to unkink logarithmic VERY MEttBER OF THE L, FAMILY SHOULD H^VE /{ TOOTHBRUSH AND USE IT "rE>»CH YOUR CHILDREN THE TOOTHBRUSH DRILL. gnarls, but there was not required a course in intelligent living. There was a perennial, concerted, rock-ribbed, steel-girt conspiracy of silence against the human body. The educational system frowned upon bad taste in deportment, manners, language, and literature, but bad taste in life itself was quite the proper thing. It was deemed more important to know quadratic equations than the simple fact that to sleep healthily in a room where the sunbeams never enter is as suicidal as a nibble of cyanide, albeit somewhat slower. Long before New York's public school children of today learn how to decline *'amo" they are taught to decline indiscriminate kisses. Long before they learn how Gettysburg was fought, they learn how fire is fought. The toothbrush drill precedes the first spelling drill. They learn the intelligent way to sneeze or cough. Long before they take up the avenues of Caesar's entrance into Gaul, they are instructed in the avenue of entrance of regiments of bacilli into the human body. Gotham's tots learn the necessity of frequent airing of bedding, the proper cleaning of ice boxes, the curability of phthisis. No longer the pathetic spectacle of Alice in Blunder-land. When Alice reaches the age of six and matriculates in New York's public schools she is now ushered at once into the wonderland of genuinely useful knowledge of her wisp of a body. And it begins to look as if the public schools of the future were to be a vast system of service stations on the highway of human life.—Newton A. Fuessle, in the Craftsman. BETTER BABIES—BETTER TOAVNS The country-wide campaign for ''better babies" has taken a new twist. Cities engaged in the work of lowering the infant mortality rate are using the results obtained to advertise the desirability of the home town. It is being pointed out that a city where the infant mortality rate is low is a good city to live in. Local boards of trade and similar organizations, in conducting a campaign to boost the home town, have hitherto enlarged upon its broad avenues, its schools, its churches, its hospitals, its parks, but not a word has been said as to its infant mortality rate. This is a mistake. The best "talking-point" for any community is now believed to be its infant mortality rate. If the rate is low, the community must be regarded as a healthful one. If it is high, the community is a dangerous one. While all the inhabitants of a city, old as well as young, are aiTected adversely by insanitary conditions, they react most severely and most noticeably among infants under one year of age. That is why the infant mortality rate of a city may be regarded as an index to the community's sanitary status.—Wisconsin Health Bulletin.
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-04: The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-032 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 32 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
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Document Title | The Health Bulletin [1914-1973] |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina -- Periodicals. |
Contributor | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh, North Carolina State Board of Health. |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1917 |
Identifier | NCHH-04-032-0023 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; all images; illustration; report/review |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 32 |
Issue Number | 3 |
Page Number | 89 |
Health Discipline | Medicine |
Full Text | 89 THE HEALTH BULLETIN TEACH OUR CHILDREN HOW BEST TO LIVE At college I saw fortunes spent every autumn to teach football candidates how to elude opposing tackles, but not a cent to teach them how to elude tuberculosis, typhoid, pneumonia, or cancer. We were required to dig out Latin roots and to unkink logarithmic VERY MEttBER OF THE L, FAMILY SHOULD H^VE /{ TOOTHBRUSH AND USE IT "rE>»CH YOUR CHILDREN THE TOOTHBRUSH DRILL. gnarls, but there was not required a course in intelligent living. There was a perennial, concerted, rock-ribbed, steel-girt conspiracy of silence against the human body. The educational system frowned upon bad taste in deportment, manners, language, and literature, but bad taste in life itself was quite the proper thing. It was deemed more important to know quadratic equations than the simple fact that to sleep healthily in a room where the sunbeams never enter is as suicidal as a nibble of cyanide, albeit somewhat slower. Long before New York's public school children of today learn how to decline *'amo" they are taught to decline indiscriminate kisses. Long before they learn how Gettysburg was fought, they learn how fire is fought. The toothbrush drill precedes the first spelling drill. They learn the intelligent way to sneeze or cough. Long before they take up the avenues of Caesar's entrance into Gaul, they are instructed in the avenue of entrance of regiments of bacilli into the human body. Gotham's tots learn the necessity of frequent airing of bedding, the proper cleaning of ice boxes, the curability of phthisis. No longer the pathetic spectacle of Alice in Blunder-land. When Alice reaches the age of six and matriculates in New York's public schools she is now ushered at once into the wonderland of genuinely useful knowledge of her wisp of a body. And it begins to look as if the public schools of the future were to be a vast system of service stations on the highway of human life.—Newton A. Fuessle, in the Craftsman. BETTER BABIES—BETTER TOAVNS The country-wide campaign for ''better babies" has taken a new twist. Cities engaged in the work of lowering the infant mortality rate are using the results obtained to advertise the desirability of the home town. It is being pointed out that a city where the infant mortality rate is low is a good city to live in. Local boards of trade and similar organizations, in conducting a campaign to boost the home town, have hitherto enlarged upon its broad avenues, its schools, its churches, its hospitals, its parks, but not a word has been said as to its infant mortality rate. This is a mistake. The best "talking-point" for any community is now believed to be its infant mortality rate. If the rate is low, the community must be regarded as a healthful one. If it is high, the community is a dangerous one. While all the inhabitants of a city, old as well as young, are aiTected adversely by insanitary conditions, they react most severely and most noticeably among infants under one year of age. That is why the infant mortality rate of a city may be regarded as an index to the community's sanitary status.—Wisconsin Health Bulletin. |
Digital Format | JPEG 2000 |
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