Page 2 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Thursday, March 31st, 1910. HEALTH FORCES DEFEAT DEATH Thirteen Thousand Five Hundred Lives Saved in Two Years, SHOWS ~~ ENORMOUS GAIN) | health is Yhree Milllon Dollars Spent In Con- servation of Public Health Shows a | Saving of Twenty-Three Million Dol. | lars to the Commonwealth — Diph. theria, Typhoid and Tuberculosis Way Before the Steady Ad vance of State's Health Officers. a 3 The precious lives of thou sands of little children have been spared because the state in its wise beneficence has furnish. ed diphtheria antitoxin to the poor Typhoid fever is killing 2500 less people per year in Pennsyl- vania than it did four years ago. Tuberculosis now claims 1000 lives less a year in this state. Education and co-operation of the people health matters, backed by vigorous support of the public press, is helping Com Dixon to win out in disease. Give in missioner war against states where Industries seek health records low death SsNow rate. the 8 aime mnt apn. te yniznt avivania a Penn be no young gulshing away was the 0 five years of the Penn nt of Health in which there shall men and women lan with tuberculosis n Por neyivania in which no children | shall die of diphtheria; a Pennsylva mia In which there shall be no ty phold, no scarlet fever, no smallpox no meningitis, no dysentery. no ma laria—this is the kind of Pennsylvania which the State Department of Health hopes ultimately to create. It does not expect to reach this goal In a Yoar, or ten years, perhaps not In a single generation, but this Is the {deal that It has constantly fn mind. It re cognizes the fact that so long as any these diseases exist, thelr preva once Is a distinct reproach to the state. It Is a reproach simply be eau the method eliminating them Is known. The old theory of government A8 & power which protects Its ofti sens only from foreign foes and native oders In giving way to new stan 8 of civilisation. The greatest enemies to the state are those which lewd m Departing | saving | monwealth | elting reading | Aan emphatic | In | Pennusyly | tion | $7 aplece? | tive | that Are unseen, and the nrst duty of an enlightened commonwealth is to pro | tect its people against Other states conception clearly other corimon large no ment treme but an example the world them but heads Pennsylvania them all, for in is the battle against the enemy being waged on sa cale as here The experi therefore, I8 not only of ex to to state importance ns the nation Does It Pay. Naturally to learn the state the precisely is inves people are Intereated how sums in good the large ting annually spent; what are its measured in the actual lives? Is Pennsyl more healthy now than It was four years agn Is the average citizen leas like ly to acquire a mortal disease likely to die if he does acquire one? In exchange for Its generous appro priations Pennsylvania hag recelved first of all, a considerable reduction in its death rate Not so many /people die here now as died in 1908, the year when the new department began its organized work The citizens of Pennsylvania, especially its little chil dren, stand a better chance than they formerly did of reaching mature life and a gr old age. Mortality tistics commonly furnish but, when considered point of view, they personal appeal 1907, the thon being dividends, as of human richer, a vanin a com less een sia do not ox from this ake Thus death rate and of m 18068 and ania per was 18 in 190 it had to 1} gla able I and in all ths gation policy toget he 4 good save the | Is It paternal clalistie to protect to ves of « them againnt gerous Infections at the of $2 head? That Is sylvania Is dol old rte what the state ) ng This conserva Comm reached stage of paternalism where the government will not sit qnietly by and watch a Httle ¢ hild choke with diphtheria when the expenditure of a few dollars from the public treas now mwealth has ury will relieve its sufferings and save | | Here her administrations amount to a | Hberal education in the treatment of its life Saving the Little Ones For the last ten years the practical | remedy for able for t households, lHiphtheria has been aval) children of pro but It has not been avall able for the poor. Since Von Rehring's | immortal discovery that the blood serum of & horse which has recovered from diphtheria possessed wonderful curative properties, and when Intro duced Into the human organism. would usually destroy the disease. this for mer scourge of childhood has lost pearly all its terrors. In the old days diphtheria destroyed nearly one half of all the children it assailed. It would are gradually rising to this now | now | no | | refiection, | happen Pennsylvanians and | | the | nun be | 49.442 packns treated { who | sible death | | the | She follows do the same today among the poor in Pennsylvania were it not for the anti toxin which the state provides free, That large numbers of unprotected children have died shocking deaths In the past for the that thelr parents afford them anti-toxin, Is but these in the future sylvania most sole reason were too poor to a melanchol things will not In every usually at there cornet ff Penn rug well know sthtions f anti-toxi any po diphtheri: glores Are now Histribution if Whenever in froe ving 650 mang child falls his physician, by application Aanti-toxin Since part: with r out a pri ure free he ne ie tn off 19056, the this wa) of 19.929 sick Oct Health {istribute It ha mostly c} Ie ent h anti-toxin people for the who but would have lay iren vention the old dren fact inter been neglected of these chi state's about 10.000 would have died: as 1725 died. Nearly childron until The only died receive the stages of all th did not the late detailed were who anti-toxin the disease statistics of the department show that | the disease the earlier the sick child receives the anti-toxin, the greater his chances recovery. These facts should glze the pressing neod, In all cass not only of anti-toxin treatment of this treatment at the earliest time. The department has thoroughly tested the powers of toxin as an immunizing theria the YY ¥ emp ant Dip? isn one agent AS «very one knows most virnlently onsen avels like the =i homes contagion Heghtning culture a profes na nurse complete first-hand Investizsation the cane By questioning the patie she learns all the detalls of his family history pation. his resources, his surroundings or al work-—the Iatter the purpose of who ms his oOc¢ financia at particularly protecting his Intimates and associates from Infection This In formation she records for the use of physician. and the department up this preliminary tall by an Inspection at the patient's home hon for tuberculosis. Bhe Instructs the patient as to the proper handling of himself | how he must dross, how he must eat erous | and sleep, and tells him of the well known ways of bullding up the nat ural resistance of his body. She also advises all the other members of the hourehold how to escape Infection frequently discovers some members | the early stages of the disease and I» thus able tr ward it off. The nurse de votes part! ular attention to diet-—nn tritlon being generally recognized wa one of the predominating factors (a strengthening the body's defenses She tells the housewife what to cook | ment ! whe | Here | mountain | the are of | brave y see) in 1 atory | proves a matter of | {up like a | lum, Is giv | uated In the mids f a of | reservation | cool, | spring | MANY | be | work In a proper | has Inspect and how ticularly supply haps to cook it. Bhe Inquires par whether there Is a sufficient of fresh eggs and milk Per the family is poor to supply the sick man with nacessitie In that event the {tgelf ! The dls nurses 144 the above LOO these state provi hem pensary hav 33 visits of nade | scribed kind Life at Mont Alto. This of thi inhe fa however, {g only one worl depart Any idea of ti} should vi Mont Alto 1600 feat lifesaving on graphic inatorium work renlosis lony at at an lev the ROE stale the tube ation of l amid the ADOVe hreeze “ find nearly hildren, unde physicians and nurses the di Lid sunshine went ines, he will 500 men, women ing to combat the fresh alr and Lab Investigations that the exposed to t} thing this uni ing its nbercule great cl This and perishes and the BANALOY WE DOOY thelr one ance of Mont Alte overcoming state fore is higl of fre of with water of the raised 5500 acres It abundance soll dry an tillable hous and all upon whire shold supplies can ( the attractions of nature to mak« the vill pleasan lives of of patients Age | tages in wl and a large Army tat re the Re OTH ting pre nuisances nvest fMewWerage Ry clean-up has smsued individuals and mur realized the measures and toms In most canes fpalitien aff ed necy have dial nity of ren have epirit Accepte gf +) Up to date It 628 premises In rura districts and caused the abatement of 18.945 pollutions. It has issued 204 Ae crees requiring changes In public wa ter works, Under its advice and sug gestion, all over the state, cities and municipal bodies have awakened and voluntarily begun to improve thel* water supplies. Under the supervis fon of the department sixty seven sow age disposal plants and thirty five wa ter filter plants have been bullt or are now under construction 4 258 Typhoid Cut Down, The purification of the state's drink ing water Is a large task and will take many years, but already the improve ments have cut the typhold death rate in half. In 1906, 66.85 out of every 100 000 people died from this disease: In 1907, 60.8; In 1908, 34.4, and In 1909, 239. Tha Is therc are now living | convinee vou that | happiness | for res | poses | the { and | thankfulnes v an re | for her | the #163 people who, had the death rate or 1906 prevalled In 1809, would ha | died I believe enid tr Pennsylvania's citi een made richer in healt? and inl vigor state rend enough has been 3 zens have Industs and the red more attractive dential and and fo application of manufacturing r ti f life, 1} mere joy o of laws You 1905 cannot cap mental You Angu cannot est communit delinquenci| from phy al suffering alone But » onan beyond rejoice when we know loubt that in every untimely death has been shut more thar 00 « ur at least nually CARCR And w homes peopl ’ spared the ravages of a ith blended with Jolce in the spirit of ! vania's f ostering care pe made these re | sults mail LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS, | A DMINISTS En all parties paointment 1910. at High sire, all parties rosted w and prove their claims or from coming in on sald fu J JOHNSTON Auditor He ne xi Al DITOR S NOTICH The adersigned, an sadilor app Orphans’ Court of Centre County 10 make distribution of the funds in the hands of the Administrator of the estate of Johan H late of Patton township deceased. as shown by the first and final account of sald administration will meet the parties in interest or those who soe Bt ww stiend, for the purposes of his ap olhtinent on Wednesday. the th day of Apri 910 0 o'clock A. M_, st his offoes In | | A graduate ple Court, Bellefonte, Pa. when and where all | parties interested are required 0 make and | prove their claims or be fore vor debarred from | coming in upon sald fund J FHOMASIMITY HELL x12 f Auditor AVP RS NOTICE In the Orphan's Oourt of Contre "County In the estate of Jacob M. Neldigh, iste of Haines township, Oentre county. dooeased Notioe is hereby given to all parties interest suditor ahpuiowd by said the pahesptans { filed to the socount of the ad ministrators and to make distribution of the balance in thle hands 18 sail aang Shade ib ally entitied 10 recsive the | meet Ents Dottaing ia the. Dido 3 n lafonte, Centre county, Pa. the April, A.D, 190, when where " WAY Appear. N : Dr. Sol M. Nisley, Veterinary Surgeon, vn ty of Pe enna. . Belle. x42 of the UU Office at the fonte, Palace stable Centre County Banking Co., Corner High and Bpring Streets, Receive Deposits; Discount Notes John M. Shugert, Cashier. W. H. 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