Show r J I Fundamental P i H 4 1 Fj i I P. P Principles I es 0 of j I i 4 JI I t Ar A- r A T 4 i Ilea f c T l V Vi I t t I 4 By Dy ALBERT ALDERT S. S GRAY M. M D D. 4 t. t CopyrIght 1914 by A A. S. S Gray BRIGHTS BRIGHT'S DISEASE Last year approximately Americans died from Dright's Brights and other diseases of the kidneys Had a railroad wreck or a Titanic disaster killed one hundredth this number number number num num- ber the world would gasp in horror and the newspapers of ot tho the country would be taxed to issue special editions in sufficient number to meet the public demand for information on the subject and senatorial or congressional congressional congressional con con- gressional committees would be appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed to Investigate the cause and formulate laws for the prevention of like disasters in the future But nut because we are aro used to it and because they are snuffed out only a n. afew afew few tew at a time we Ignore this appalling sacrifice of human lives and take it as a matter of ot course And the absurdity of this position is the themore themore themore more startling when we know that fully 60 per cent of these deaths or could be prevented or at least postponed for many years with greater ease and certainty than a Titanic disaster disaster disaster dis dis- dis- dis aster can be prevented Our stupidity becomes still more amazing In the face tace of the fact that deaths from these diseases are steadily steadily stead stead- ily increasing at an enormous rate In Inthe Inthe Inthe the vital ital statistics registration area now covering approximately 60 per percent percent percent cent of our population deaths from kidney diseases have increased 72 per percent percent percent cent in 20 years and 23 per cent In Jast ast ten years In the city of Chicago the Increase has been 47 per cent In Inthe Inthe inthe the last ten years Brights Bright's and the allied diseases are clearly diseases of civilization they advance together They are the diseases diseases diseases dis dis- dis- dis eases of highly seasoned food or drink of indolent habits of body and mind and of mental strain commonly called worry The 1910 census gave the United States a population increase of 21 per percent percent percent cent in the year ten-year period between 1900 and 1910 and showed the rural population to number 54 per cent and the urban population 46 per cent of the tho whole Within this year ten period the rural population increased only 11 ii per cent while the urban population increased 34 per cent and this very material change in the ratio between the producers producers producers pro pro- and the consumers of the necessities necessities necessities of life must become a powerful factor in the health of or our people for Cor two reasons first because of the change in proximity to food tood supplies Less fresh food is being consumed by bythe bythe bythe the increasing numbers flowing Into our cities and it is a self evident fact that the longer food Is h hId held ld the greater Is the danger of contamination Second Second Sec See ond the increase in the ratio of consumer consumer consumer con con- sumer sumer to producer of the necessities of life means a perfectly logical increase in the cost of the production hence an Inevitable increase In the cost of ot living living liv liv- ing lag and the worries Incident thereto thereto The subject of ot the preservation and transportation of food is of or vast importance Im Im- and Is now receiving the at at- of the federal and state authorities authorities authorities au au- but it is a subject on which the individual citizen must seek enlightenment enlightenment enlightenment en en- if It we are to make any progress towards a happier humanity We are fairly well Informed through the dally daily press as to the dangers of ot chemical preservatives in foods and because of these dangers cold Is depended de do- pendell on to keep foods In fit condl condl- de i 0 in a the y g home zae Cold old d ics doss s snot not fbi kill bacteria hut but It does Inhibit Inhibitor or check their rapid growth and in inthis this his fact tact we find the need of ot and the reason reason for public Ice fund subscriptions subscrIptions lons in the battle against disease among the poor In our cities clUes But It mus must be carefully noted however that Ie ice ce C cau be Je Je at best best but little superior in III to the w from n purity tI p which Itis it is 18 8 made and tier tOte ice ce Is itself a factor of e r s Importance In the nl had and nd spread of disease As Af tu increasing Intelligence opens our ls s to a comprehension of the cau cause underlying ill iii health particularly particularly of the gastric disturbances of childhood we learn that most of our Ills are due either cither to insufficient or or- badly prepared and unclean food rather than to any excess In food values or quantity The very prevalent summer corn corn- plaints and other digestive troubles of childhood and of ot humanity In general general general gen gen- eral are traceable directly to a common common com mon cause cause filth filth High infant mortality mortality mor more goes hand in baLd with filth Food may be easily contaminated by washing dishes and other containers with polluted water and fresh tresh vegetables vegetables vege vege- tables such as are eaten raw aw are arc open to the same danger trem ti-cm the use of ot Impure water on them Dirty hands bands and the general ignorant indifference of Dr those handling and preparing food tood materials partly decomposed fruit vegetables and meat flies Oles on the butter but but- ter on the bread and In tho the milk direct direct di di- from the stable or gutter dust from the street composed of finely round manure manure all all contribute quota of ot filth and It Is this ele- ele Don't Dont Imagine the world is i. all wrong Just because your our liver is You cant can't add to your hel height bt by treading reading on other peoples people's toes I Alter After all It Is better to take a chance hance than lose Iose on a sure thing Some people are arc so fond rond of borrowing borrow ing ng ng trouble that they never get out of ot J ment of things too small LO 10 IJ be seen that Is allowed to accumulate on the I surface of foods rather than the foods food themselves that Is the cause of many of our troubles immediate and remote Undoubtedly in the near future It will be conclusively demonstrated that Brights Bright's disease and the degenerative diseases of ot the kidneys heart arteries and brain In general Including apoplexy ape apo now now- assumed to be caused b by deranged metabolism the tile diseases disease now responsible for tor our heaviest and anda a steadily increasing economic loss by reason of the drain on the matured lives of ot the nation originate In the mild mUd Infections those insignificant arising from carelessness in the matter of personal hygiene and the saturating of ot the system with toxins from long continued ingestion of toxic elements in dilute polluted water and food matter in general |