DEER SITUATION IS CLEARLY
SET FORTH BY INVESTIGATOR.
Bellefonte, Pa., June 15, 1928.
Your Health,
The First Concern.
A warning was issued by Dr. J.
Moore Campbell, chief of the bureau
of communicable diseases, State de-
partment of health, regarding the in-
difference that many parents exhibit
towards the so-called minor children’s
diseases, which include whooping
cough, mumps, chickenpox and mea-
sles.
“This statement was fortified by the
assertion that 16 children died from
chickenpox during the past year and
that within the same period, 4 deaths
occurred from mumps, while 437 oc-
curred from whooping cough. Dr.
Campbell believes that the annual
measles death rate will closely ap-
proximate 1,000.
Parents who are of the opinion that
their children must get these child-
hood maladies and consequently do
nothing in the way of prevention
against them are exercising a most
hazardous type of logic, Dr. Camp-
bell said. There have actually come
to the department's notice a number
of instances where children who were
entirely well were placed in bed with
others of the same family who were
suffering from these diseases with the
hope that the contact would develop
an infection. This sort of thing is
nothing short of criminal, and while
it is most exceptional at this late day,
nevertheless indicates a general atti-
tude of indifference regarding these
so-styled less important diseases,
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‘Passing the buck’ was a familiar
term in the army. Sometimes it was
successful but more often it failed.
Soldiers discovered that a job which
was meant for them could not easily
be diverted to someone else, said Dr.
Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of the
Department of Health, recently.
The principle of ‘letting George do
it’ works even less efficiently with the
question of health. Unfortunately,
the conscience of the public has not
been sufficiently aroused on this point.
And perhaps it is not altogether the
people’s fault.
In former times there was so much
to be done on a community scale by
health officials as to make the aver-
age citizen conclude that health and
disease prevention were affairs to be
handled exclusively by experts. Wat-
er supplies, sewage systems, disposal
plants, communicable disease control,
all lent themselves spectacularly to
that idea. But when the major sani-
tary questions have thus been solved
a large problem yet remains. Its so<
lution depends upon the sense of ob-
ligation which can be developed in the
individual.
If group sanitation were the whole
answer to the situation, the death and
sick rates would now be near the van-
ishing point. But such is not the
case. In fact, until each household
becomes positively interested in health
the present rates in mortality and
illness are bound to remain more or
less stationary. A close partnership
between official medicine, the family
doctor and individual health interest
is therefore the next step in preven-
tion.
One does not need to become ob-
sessed with the health idea to devel-
op a happy arrangement. Indeed, a
little health interest on the part of
parents for themselves and their chil-
dren would develop a surprising ag-
gregate result. The trouble is that
health is taken too much for granted.
Interest is consequently lacking. And
disease goes merrily on.
If personal prevention demanded a
large expenditure of money and time
or scientific training there might be
excuse for a disregard of this very
important subject. But when it is real-
ized that the application of a few
common sense rules and reasonable
care are the only requirements, the
carelessness which is so generally dis-
played has no alibi whatsoever.
Here are some of the things that
will materially help to reduce your
sick and death hazards.
1. Realize that you have a bod¥
that functions properly only when
properly treated. This means plenty
of fresh air, sufficient exercise and
sleep and the avoidance of excesses
of all kinds.
2. The employment of scientific
personal preventives. These include
toxin-antitoxin, scarlet fever immuni-
zation and vaccination for the chil-
»dren, and anti-typhoid fever serum
for adults.
3. Respect the quarantine sign and
educate your children to do likewise:
4, Avoid accidents by being careful,
let the younger ones profit by your
example.
5. Do not permit nuisances to exist
on your property.
6. If living in a rural section keep
cess pools sanitary and check up an-
nually on Your water supply.
7. Make a friend and confidant of
your physician in health as well as in
He can help you well but
you must give him the chance to do
sickness.
it.
8. Realize that your are a part of
the community; that all its health
that
your duty means not only taking care
of yourself, but also interesting your-
self in the solving of broader com-
In the end you will
problems are your problems;
munity problems.
reap the greater benefits.
These are some of the things that
a health department, no matter how
You
‘Passing the
buck’ and ‘letting George do it’ in
this connection is a most unsafe and
efficient, can not do for you.
must do them yourself.
unhealthy game to play.
the majority of big game hunters in
central and western Pennsylvania are
becoming convinced that the game
commission made a wise move when
they closed the coming season on
buck deer and threw the season open
for the killing of does only, said Wil-
lis N. Zeitler, chairman of the game
committee of the State-Centre Game,
Fish and Forestry Association. There
are a few dyed-in-the-wool sports-
men, however, that are “from Mis-
souri,” they just can’t be convinced.
Here is the situation. Since does
have been protected they have -in-
creased at a tremendous rate and
there has been nothing to shorten
their span of life or curtail the in-
crease of the herd except natural
death, the few that were killed ille-
gally, those that were killed by wild-
What is the result? There are thou-
sands and thousands of barren old
does roaming the mountains, eating
up the feed that should go to the
young vigorous stock.
It is natural for deer to breed in
the fall and it is a common occurrence
for fawns to be born as early as the
last week in March, when they breed
under normal conditions. But with
the abnormal number of does and the
heavy kill of bucks each year there
are a great many does that breed so
late in the fall that the fawns are not
dropped until sometimes as late as
August with the result that the fawns
go into the winter undeveloped fully,
or even enough to successfully with-
stand the cold weather and success-
fully forage for their share of an ev-
er diminishing supply of feed. This
condition must be quickly corrected
or we are going to see the deer fam-
ily develop into a bunch of scrubs.
There are a few hunters that are
aware just how acute the shortage of
feed was last winter. Game Protector
Davis, of Clearfield county, reported
that one tender for the DuBois water
shed buried 79 deer from late Feb-
ruary to May 12th. These deer were
found along Anderson, Stony, Little
Montgomery and Cuppler creeks, the
streams feeding the DuBois water
supply. Many of these deer were
badly decomposed and in several in-
stances carcases were found partly
submerged in water. Mr. Davis, in
traveling over the mountains in the
same vicinity found six carcases in
half a mile. Another farmer in Clear-
field county buried 23 deer found on
his farm.
There is little doubt that there is
a appalling number of dead deer in
the woods. It has been observed in
many places that the deer are very
poor, some of them being a stack »f
bones. How can a half starved doe
successfully mother one or more
young ?
A few days ago John M. Philips,
former president of the game board;
Ross Leffler, president; Jard Rise,
vice president, and G. M. Sutton, chief
of the bureau of research and infor-
mation, and several game protectors
made a careful inspection of certain
sections of Clearfield county. ie
They found in many places where
the deer stripped laurel bushes, pine
and spruce trees and had devoured
every blackberry, raspberry and huck-
leberry bush on the mountins. Soil
was torn up most everywhere in the
mad search for feed.
Post mortem examination of deer
carcasses in almost every instance
showed that the stomach was filled
with wood pulp which was indigesti-
ble. It plainly showed that the deer
in their last desperate effort to find
feed had devoured foliage that was
indigestible or so rank that it caused
stomach and intestinal trouble and
poisoning.
The stripping of the mountains of
tive grouse are going to be badly
handicapped for feed until a new
growth comes along.
The forestry department has been
diligently planting trees for a num-
ber of years and had a wonderful lot
of trees coming along. In many
places every tree has been destroyed
during the winter by deer.
It is the duty of every sportsman
to get out next fall and help thin out
the herd. It must be done if the deer
are to be kept from degenerating in-
to a bunch of scrubs. There are prob-
ably over 150,000 too many does in
the deer sections of Pennsylvania. If
we save 10,000 bucks this winter and
get rid of 50,000 surplus does, it will
be a big step forward in the right
dierction. But even then it will re-
quire a great deal more thinning out
of does to properly balance the herd.
We will see more vigorous stock, and
does will have a better chance to
breed at the proper time and of course
bring forth their young in early
spring.
Mr. Zeitler’s conclusions embodied
in the above story of the deer situ-
ation, are based on personal observa-
tion and rezearch. He made a special
effort to ascertain the facts, visiting
numerous places where conditions
were bad.
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