| Show 5 t id Address at a Meeting of the Womans League i i at the Packard Library April Hi 4 for utah d of the Utah Health purposes k primarily are seeks no nor does it the duties belonging to as of the It intends to nil in harmony with the established boards and officers throughout the spreading information and the people in the improve- 18 of health history and purposes of the may be summarized as 1 League was or- at a general mass meeting 1 eMails in Salt Lake W The purpose of k organization is set forth in i following excerpt from the I U-t- object of the League shall be the promotion of the public It shall study the sanitary questions and needs of the shall assist in securing the enactment of suitable laws and measures for the prevention of and shall further the dissemination of information relative to the public It shall aid in the movement to establish a national Bureau of and shall encourage and foster local health organizations as branches of this League within the State of Among the many matters of pressing importance involving the public health and well-being are questions of domestic sanitation and municipal the safeguarding of the public water the importance of proper inspection of food products offered for public dairy and care as to the physical condign of animals furnishing milk or plumbing and other features of building measures to prevent or restrict the spread of contagious The Utah Health League is in line of affiliation with the national organization known as the American Health and seeks friendly association for mutual assistance with other State leagues having objects and purposes similar to its It desires to encourage the organization of branch associations in all sections of the State of With reference to the avowed purpose of the League in promoting the movement to establish a national Bureau of let it not bo forgotten that among the many notable achievements of our great we cannot include any adequate legislation in health The delinquencies of our nation in this respect have been forcefully set forth in an article of Tale published in From Norton's paper the following items are facts are cold and bare persons must die in- the United States within the next twelve equivalent to will be constantly over consisting of will be made more or less wretched by-mortality and look with horror on the black plague of the middle The black waste was hut a passing cloud compared with the white waste Of the people living today over eight millions will die of and the federal government not raise a hand to help Department of Agriculture spends seven million dollars on plant health and animal health every with the exception of the splendid work done by Atwater-and Congress does not directly appropriate one cent for promoting the physical well-being of Thousands have been expended in stamping out cholera among but not one dollar was ever voted for pneumonia among human Hundreds of thousands are eon- in saving the lives of elm the attacks of in warning farmers against blights affecting potato in importing Sicilian bugs to fertilize fig blossoms in in ostracizing various of weeds from the ranks of useful plants and in exterminating parasitic growths that prey on fruit In the Department of has expended during the last ten years over forty-six millions of But not a wheel of the official machinery at Wash- ington was ever in motion for the alleviation or cure of diseases of the heart or which will carry off over six millions of our entire Eight millions perish of and the event is accepted by the American people with a resignation equal to that of the who in the midst of indescribable calmly awaits the day of the the next census period more than million infants under two years of age will end their little spans of life while mothers sit by and watch in utter And yet this number could probably be decreased by as much But nothing is The Utah Health League hopes to do something toward awakening the people of this fair State from the sleeping sickness- that has brought the nation into a state pf apathy with respect to preservation of health and prolongation of It has no time to discuss fads or passing its work involves the great subjects that affect the health and happiness of the the State and the It is gratifying to note that the membership of the League is increasing and still more encouraging know that the strength of the organization is assured more by the quality of its members than by their number Public-spirited men and women prominent in their several circles of professional public club in short the leaders of thought and are enrolling themselves in good |
