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INSTRUCTIONAL CENTER
FOR HEALTH OFFICIALS
BEING HELD AT MT. ALTO
Doctors and Nurses Live in Tents and the Routine of the
Day Has a Military Tinge to It
in an interesting article on the
fixed health policy of Pennsylvania,
printed in the Philadelphia Press,
George F. Kearney, writing from
Mont Alto says:—
"We either earn our right to see
life in a more glorious way or the
world rolls on, carrying us along with
it. To-day there may be many an
idealist who despairs of the future
of his dtearns because he has never
cared to earn the stuff that his
dreams are made of. That can never
be said of the medical profession, for
If ever there was a man vitt justi
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TUESDAY EVENING* HAJRJUSBCTR.Q tgiffgg TELEGRAPH JULY 8, 1919.
fied himself during the war and has
truly earned that right to a most
enlightened viewpoint with whicn to
face the future it is the medical
man.
This Is a profession that threw
everything into our late struggle for
the triumph of democracy, anl out
of the great heated crucible of war
has come an entirely different sort of
a physician eager to meet the prob
lems of the future in an intensely
more consecrated way. Tills fact is
being brought very near home to us,
for it is generally conceded that
Pennsylvania In Its newly-organised
Department of Health Is to lead the
nation In a great movement to make
the health of the nation safe for the
future by a most far-vision.vl system
of health control.
Pioneers In Profession
"It Is surprising the number of
physicians who are not returning to
their private practices but are enter
ing public health services in obedi
ence to the new vision gained whue
in the Army. This certainly is strik
ingly true of Pennsylvania whose
State Board of Health is now drawing
in the many enlightened doctors who
have caught a vision of the S 1 "® 1 "
possibilities of preventive medicine
jas a satisfactory solution to our
I health problem fro mtheir Army ex
periences. _
I "The new head of the State I
ment of Health is Colonel Edward
Martin, of Philadelphia, and his as
sistant is Colonel John D. McLean,
also of Philadelphia. Both these men
represent the very highest type o
physician. . . .
"It was inevitable that neither
Colonel Martin nor Colonel McLean
should return to private practice.
These men have always been pioneers
in their profession and the accept
ance of these new posts, at certainly
great financial sacrifices, was the re
sult of the experience gained in the
Army dealing as they did with thou
sands of members of their profession
and literally millions of recruits.
"They saw these thousands of
young men being rejected for service
in the Army because of physica' de
fects and they saw that a great deal
of this waste of man power could
be eliminated by a more extensive
public health program. It will be
remembered that over 33 per cent,
of the men examined for the draft
were rejected for physical defects—
a most alarming testimony of the un
healthiness of the nation.
"And so we gradually see shaping
up in our Commonwealth a new pro
gram of health which has been fa
millarly called the "Martin plan." The
new Department of Health, now In
vested with the most extraordinary
powers by a new act of Legislature,
Is fortunate in having as its head so
interesting a personality as Colonel
Edward Martin, and it Is that very
breath of his genial personality and
that glowing enthusiasm which he
radiates that makes his most as
toundingly revolutionary ideas so de
lightfully possible.
"Dr. Edward Martin Is a happy mix
ture of elf and man. His wit Is as
refreshing as it Is stinging. He is a
man with an Immense love of people
and with an immense capacity of
making friends and keeping them.
He has always swept on through life
with the high spirits of a man of
genius and he Invariably Inspires an
immense amount of confidence.
"The first great step that the De
partment of Health Pas taken, at the
suggestion of Dr Martin, has been
the establishment of an instructional
tenter for public health offlc'als at
a famous sanatorium for the treat
ment of tuberculosis at Mount A'lo.
The first camp was held from June
25 to July 2. The second camp will
continue until July 19.
Schedule ot Day
"The camp is run on military .'ines.
The doctors and nurses live in tents
arranged in regular company streets.
A reveille is sounded every morning
at 6.30 and all the students are re
quired to attend the general assembly
and rollcall at 6.45. For fifteen
minutes setting up exercises are held
under the direction of Dr. WUllam C.
Miller, the genial host of all who
come to Mount Alto. Taps blow at
10.30 in the evening and between
reveille and taps there are many calls
to lectures, meals and recreation. A
large lecture tent has been set up
and those attending are put through
a strenuous course of lectures to
brush up thier knowledge on various
medical problems and also to present
the new methods being rapidly In
troduced Into the department. In I
order that the various members of the
health service of the State may get to
thoroughly understand the "Martin
Idea" the delightful colonel himself
spends most of his time at Mount
Alto and Colonel McLean is constantly
in attendance.
"It is the first time that It has ever
been thought possible to bring to
gether all the health workers of the
State in order to give them an or
ganized vision of the task that is be
fore them. There is at the present
time about 6000 workers in the
State Health Department. It is part
of the Martin plan to require these
6000 workers to enlist ten volunteers
in the new State health program
which will untlmately mean a work
ing corps of 60,000 workers to push
forward the propaganda.
"And you must meet "Danny"
Coogan. for if you stay only an hour
with the kidland of Mount Alto you
will find him the hero of these child
ren. "Danny" Coogan was for fourteen
years with the Phillies and was one
of the most brilliant of all ball
players in the major leagues. He
was for seven years the physical
director and baseball coach at Cor
nell and he was most recently the
man who put Governor Sproul Into
fit trim for his executive duties.
Hero of the Kids
Danny loves children and the child
ren love him. The sunshine and the
wonderful air of Mount Alto do their
part, to be sure, but the love of this
veteran of many a closely-played
baseball game puts the last and final
touch on the treatment. He puts
them through a series of setting up
exercises every day and he directs
their play program so that they will
get the maximum amount of joy and
yet he guides the routine of the day
so that they do not over-exert them
selves. It has been found out that
the best cure for tuberculosis is ac
tion with plenty of opportunity for
recreative relaxation. Everybody is
given something to do at Mount Alto,
for tuberculosis, like the devil, finds
mischief for the Idle hand. Bo even
If it Is sweeping the floor of the dor
mitory or sawing or carrying wood
everybody at Mount Alto has some
set task to perform.
The Pennsylvania Legislature this
year has been exceedingly generous
in its appropriation, for we are told
at Harrisburg that they have an Im
mense confidence in the new State
Health Commissioner, and they are
willing to back him to the limit.
This accounts for the fact that Penn
sylvania is being looked upon as the
pioneer State in this new nation-wide
movement.
"With this resource at Its com
mand the Health Department stands
ready to launch an Immense cam
paign for the awakening of the con
sciousness of the people of Pennsyl
vania that health is a commodity
that their State government is anx
ious to buy for them, and that the
only thing needed is co-operation.
The Department of Health has been
granted almost arbitrary powers In
the exercising of Its functions, and
the people must be prepared to ex
pect certain rulings that will very
seriously interfere with the apparent
rights of the individual. A farmer
will learn, for instance, that he has
not the right to keep a cow in his
dairy that plainly is a victim of
tuberculosis, for the milk which is
sent forth into the community is
going to seriously menace the health
of the consumer.
"Take such a difficult problem as
the little country school. It is the
belief of Colonel Martin that a great
many of these instituions are a seri
ous menace to the health of the
children. He Is eager to get rid of
the little wooden school house, heated
by a big stove in the winter and
miserably ventilated at all times.
With no plumbing, these schools aften
are the trading place for disease,
and it Is not long before all the child
ren have come in contact with its
infection simply because of the lack
of sanitary conditions and also the
lack of enlightened guidance on the
part of the lone teacher who does
not have an organization behind her.
This new health department is going
to discourage the county school
boards from maintaining the little
Isolated school houses, and instead
they are going to encourage the
larger Institutions to which the chil
dren of outlying districts can be
brought by means of auto-bus trans
portation. It can be seen that this
will Involve all sorts of political and
social difficulties that will require
an immense amount of patience and
firmness upon the part of the health
authorities.
"No more Important part of the
work will be the serious education of
the public on all matters of health.
When a family Is stricken individu
ally that family shows signs of con
cern and immediately the doctor is
called to treat the stricken one. In
rare cases the doctor is able to recom
mend certain changes in the routine
of the household and certain read
justments to the sanitary conditions
of the home to prevent the spread of
that disease.
The new Department of Health is
going to have the privilege of deal
ing with a community in the same
way that the enlightened doctor deals
with a household. If a certain farmrr
insists on keeping an extensive pig
farm in the center of a city or town
the health Inspector of the future
has been empowered t>oth by law and
by public opinion to oust that pig i
farm if It can be shown that it is a
menace to health. And if a certain
town dumps Its waste into a stream I
which another town further down
COLD STORAGE
ACT APPROVED
Supersedes the Law of 1913
and Makes a Straight Twelve
Months' Storage Period
Announcement was made at the
Governor's office late yesterday of
the approval of the bill establishing
a new code of regulation for cold
storage warehouses, effective at once.
The new act supersedes the law of
of 1913, which it was also sdught to
change in 1915, when the bill was
vetoed.
The cold storage bill, which was
presented on March 31 and was the
cause of much debate in the House,
establishes a twelve months limit for
food of all kinds. The old law had
various periods for meats, eggs, but
ter and other foods. Various defini
tions are made, quarterly reports re
quired, a SSO license fee required and
a prohibition of storage or sale of
unwholesome food are contained in
the act as well as a requirement that
every open container or wrapper of
foods in cold storage must be marked
"cold storage goods." The penalties
are changed, the new limits being
S2OO and S3OO according to offense
with provision for jail sentence.
The Governor also approved the bill
providing that second class cities
shall have five assessors and an ad
ditional one for each seventy-five
thousand Inhabitants over 200,000 as
shown by the preceding census. The
salaries are fixed at SISOO for the first
200,000 inhabitants with an additional
SSOO for each additional 75,000.
Another bill signed amends the
school code so that all fourth class
districts shall have medical inspection
and also that medical inspection In
all schools shall Include the teeth of
pupils as well as sight, hearing and
other possible disabilities.
uses for Its drinking water, all this
must be readjusted. And if an epi
demic sweeps the State or any part
of the State this Department of
Health is going to be placed arbi
trarily in control of the situation
to do whatever it cares to as far as
the closing of churches, schools and
even stores goes. Conditions that
are a menace to the health are
to be met in the future in much
the same way that they were met
in military life by concerted action.
The man in service was not allowed
to remain ill in his barracks to infect
his comrades, nor will the sick civil
ian of the future be allowed to re
main in society to infect his com
munity.
It seems like a simple problem as
we briefly sketch it with the inspira
tion gained from the work of the
conference at Mount Alto and with
the background set by the delibera
tion of the nation-wide conferences
that were held at Atlantic City but it
actually is a complex, up-hill job
wih a strong battle against the ignor
ance and the downright selfishness
of a few who are not aroused to
their full responsibility to society.
We have the confidence, however, in
entering this new era of health that
Pennsylvania leads the nation under
the guidance of a most enlightened
and energetic leader.
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"What's that you say?"
"There's too much futile investi
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"That's right. Eat your hash.
Never mind what's in it."—Kansas
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