Show I DR DL T 1 B BEATTY TAlKS ON HEALTH Advocates Laws for Prevention of Infectious Diseases Among Children Dr Di T 1 B Beatty secretary of the state board of oC health addressed the prin ot of the Salt Lake pUblic schools at the Fremont school yesterday esterday afternoon on the effects of eye ee ear and throat af on the mental development of the student The talk of Dr Beatty was not In the nature or of n a me medical 1 cal lecture but dealt with the tho need ot of legislative meas urea ures to o aId in the of disease In th schools He saId that at the present session of the legislature three bills will be Intro which if made laws will In his opinion bE effective to a considerable tie de gree ree In reducIng the illness among chil dren and advancing the Intellectual standard of pupils One of these thes measurEs is a bill to In an c examination by ot of all pupils attending public schools to as certain whether or not they are afflicted with an any eye ear or throat trouble and to provide for tor the treatment or of all those found to have defective eyesight dirt culty In hearing or bronchial trouble Another measure has for its object the tho introduction ot of a now new course ot of stud study in all eighth grades high schools and nor mal ma schools of the state dealIng with the cause and prevention ot or disease The pur pose is to make the new course supplant the somewhat unsatisfactory study of physiology The third bill bUl was one that was killed in the committee of the legislature a year yeal ago It provides for the establishment ot of a school for tor the feeble minded Dr Beatty caned called attention to the tact fact that a great man many pupils are apparently dull and listless in school when In reality they are bright children He said the ap parent mental deficIency was probablY due to the Inability or of the scholar to see an and hear correctly In a great many cases he said this condition was produced by an which affected both the eye and the ear lIan Many children said Dr Beatt Beatty are c condemned nde ned as dependent member nf un clety no fault taUlt of theIrs when discovered In children are easily r re moved moed but It if neglected lead to defective vIsion de deafness and lack mcle of mental de Dr Beatty showed the princIpals ll a chart which hp he proPosed to introduce into i the schoolrooms or of the state to aiti the teachers in examining the eyesight of the pupils He said these tests have been adopted In the schools of all the prIncipal cities ot of the country and show the star result that nearly cent of the school children have defective per Prevention of Disease Should Be Taught In speaking of the bill to establish the new line Une of stud study In the higher grades of the pUblic schools Dr Beatty said that of th the deaths could be pro pre vented it people only know knew how He Be said It is a duty the present generation socIety to so Inculcate Into th the minds owes of I the children of tOday the fundamental S facts regarding the cause and prevention or of disease that they will be able to sue suc cope with the unsanitary condi that breed dIsease To 10 illustrate the need ot of such tion ho he called ailed attention to the location of a radiator In the room in which the meet lug Ing was being held which was withIn a few feet reet of the seats scats ot of several pupils That radiator he saId will boll fry or anyone within several feet teet of it yet et I presume pupils sit beside It day and roast and then go out Into I 11 T C I u t things In connection with the schools No education at aU all is better than that sort ot of education The discovery that the source ot of tu was In a specific disease germ soon Boon led to its prevention and nd J i predict that within years the terrors of consumption will be a thing ot of the past What Is i true of consumption Is true of almost all other Infectious diseases They aU all originate with some disease ase germ and conditions favorable to the of oC these bacilli should ho be done away School for fOI FeebleMinded Needed Dr BeaU Beatty then caned called attention to the need or of a school for forthe Ithe feeble minded In Utah Ho said that the teachers In the schools should take a census of the num nuin bor of feeble minded pupils school These children hildren are absolutely incura ble bo be continued and It Is clearly the dut duty ot of the state to care for them There Is no place for them either in the reform school Qt or the insane asylum and the only It of the Is 15 to establish a 8 schOOl that will train them to work wit th t bandtl and m nake ke In l the talk jy by the tIte doctor the r di c s c Ul the by Dr Btty t 1 I r |