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Show WALLIS GIVES HEALTH TALK TO LEADERS Secretary of Utah Public Health Association Delivers Interesting Lecture. "If a healty race is to be roared, it" can only be rented in healthy homes. If infant mortality is to be reduced and tuberculosis is to be stamped out, the first essential is the the improving of home conditions.' condi-tions.' So declared James II. Wallis, executive secretary of the I'tah Public Health association in his intensely in-tensely interesting lecture on "The Public Health and tho Home,' at this morning's session of Leadership Leader-ship week at the Brigham Young university. "There are homes where every condition is ideal and conducive to health and where sickness is hardly known," said Mr. Wallis. "There are other Homes to which the. doctor is always going, where the. children catch every disease that comes along and where the father seems almost discouraged with (he burden of debt carried at the drug store and by the family physician. "If the home is to be free from conditions which affect the public health, let the pareivrs spend at least . a little of their time in educating themselves on the simple rules of sanitation, and at least learn the symptoms of the common 'catching' disease, so that they will know when their children are !lkely to cause trouble in the community. "Let them study the proper diet for 'their children and the daily health habits they should observe and then see they are followed with regularity. There re, sad to say, too many homes where not the slightest attention 1 given to health education, but where the young mother knows how to make the j finest salads and pastry and has plenty of time for bridge parties, picture shows and working out cross-word .puzzles." Stressing the importance of promptly notifying the health officer of the appearance of contagions disease dis-ease in the home, Mr. Wallis said, "Two private agencies in the community com-munity can do even more than the health department. They ore the mothers and the school teachers. "If mothers' could only develop the sense of responsibility to the community, com-munity, so that they would keep their children home from .school and away from other children at the first sign of flushed face, sore throat, running nose, .langnidness and irritablility, childhood diseases dis-eases would eventually become as rare as leprosy. "The eacher can do for the larger group what the mother can do for the individual. No teacher can properly teach more than twenty five children and with this number num-ber it is possible Kir her to know each of these children well enough to recognize any marked variation from normal health; at the first symptoms she can send the child to the school nurse or school physician, and if evidence of infectious disease dis-ease appear, the child can be sent home before he has spread the disease. dis-ease. "It is the solemn duty of every individual to , promptly report the existence of any contagious disease. To hide it or to conceal it is a crime, not only against the community, commun-ity, but against the inmates of that home. "Health and life are not secure in a community where there is lax observance of law relative to contagious con-tagious disease and of sanilary regulations. reg-ulations. Let is be ever remembered remem-bered that a dirty community is inevitably in-evitably an unhealthful community, while a clean community is paid-up paid-up insurance against sickness and untimely death." "The cause of health, both public pub-lic and personal, are given far too little financial consideration by the authorities generally and to a very regrettable extent do communities and individuals suffer the lack of : health safeguards, which can ordinarily ordin-arily be insured by a very nominal expenditure of time and money. Mr. Wallis devored considerable time to the crime of secreting infectious infec-tious disease in the home, and urged upon all the importance of segregation segrega-tion and notification. "If the health department does not know where cases of contagious disease are, it cannot prevent the spread of infection," infec-tion," he declared. |