Show Daily Health Servi Service ce ceBy By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN One of the greatest bene benefactions actions you ou can make is a contribution to the national endeavor toward reclamation reclamation tion of th the physically handicapped In a few ew weeks the nation will again join on the birthday of President dent in a great effort to raise funds for rehabilitation of at the crippled Social service is finding that it is more valuable to help a disabled person secure work suitable to his disability than to carry him along on charity The fact that a p person Is physically deformed should not depreciate depre his opportunities in life Ure Robert Louis Stevenson had a fragile fragile frag frag- ile body afflicted with tuberculosis yet he contributed marvelously to letters Sir Walter Scott was crippled d from youth by infantile paralysis yet his name is one of the greatest in English literature o John Milton was blind and Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth B Barrett Browning the girl wh whose se selICe life lICe was as dramatized in The Ba Barretts r o of Street suffered from a n aspinal aspinal spinal affliction which kept her almost al ale most permanently in bed bcd The secretary of oC the Council on Pharmacy and Chem Chemistry stry of ot the American Medical Association Prof W. W A. A carried on his work though blind from the time when he was elected to this position e a Steinmetz a poor grossly deformed boy became a great scientific genius enius One of ot the most noted authorities on cancer in inthe the United States suffered with an unsightly deformity deform delorm- ity on the skin America suffers America suffers today with a great burden of handicapped whom nevertheless nevertheless never never- it endeavors constantly to re re- re re- re claim There are arc blind deaf and dumb minded feeble-minded epileptic mentally deficient de de- de- de paupers and dependent aged and cripples Throughout the world word today famous fa famous fa- fa incus institutions ar being developed in n which these deformed or handicapped handi handicapped capped have opportunity to take up studies studies- lead leading ne toward a successful career The great Smouse Opportunity School in Des Moines left as a memorial memorial memorial memo memo- rial to that city by a ph physician gives vocational education under beautiful surroundings to the deafened the crippled and those handicapped In other ways In Chicago the Spalding and Christopher Christopher Christopher Chris Chris- schools take care each day of ot thousands of ot crippled children who are being rehabilitated both physically cally and mentally iii a a At the head of or all the causes of crippling crip- crip aling pling children is infantile p paralysis Thereafter come two diseases es which are perhaps much more frequent frequent- tuberculosis and rickets For these conditions however the extent and severity of the crippling is much less Following In order come accidents of various types particularly such as occur in the home with special emphasis emphasis em em- mp m- m p asis on accidental burps burns that are mutilating and that result in ties ies and serious scars Toda Today most of ot the bone and joint tuberculosis that used t to develop in inthe inthe he the the past is prevented by br proper tuberculin tu tu- tests of cattle and pasteurization tion ion of milk since it vas from tubercle bacilli milk or Infected cattle that most children were infected However there still are portions of this largely inhabited by people who have not learned the importance im im- of oC milk control contro that have a augh high ugh rate of bone arid and joint ios losis Rickets can be a andis d is being pro pre pre prevented vented largely larely by use at df vitamin D in inlo lo foods ds and diets containing large laree amounts mounts of calcium an and l phosphorus |