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Show YOUR HEALTH ; OV OH P H 615 HOP 1 1 1. SI 1TISTH S Vital statlatici are well named. They ,,r. vital t" tlie life ind health of arvsjrj community. Were It not for vital statistics, public health officials would not know whether they werei gaining or l"lng the struggle against .Lath, (llns.- and ignorance. Ni. bqehlMS man Calls to keep accurate ac-curate record of accounts, ao that he an determine at any tunc whether he Is gaining or losing. It is the same in the great bualneea of life. , livery birth must be recorded; every I marriage, every death. So too. must certain contagious diseases. Recordn of births. marriages, deaths and infectious diseases are of ' great value to health officers, to "i hers doing social work, and to doe-:..r.- arid BCientlata in studying and preventing unne c essary sickness and death. When physicians' report show a disease line typhoid Increasing steps ran be la.'-in Immediately to find the 1 source of Infection. Everj .birth should ie recorded, 'not only because It Is the child's light, but aUo to enable accurate account to Je kept of the causes of I infant deaths. tJr;it progress has boon made lii reccnl yeaxis in saving sav-ing tbr lives of new-born children. This was made possible In part because be-cause statistics showed the causes of illness and the extent to which 11 1 w us occuring. |