Show declares that infant mortality rate Is shame of the united states by PROF THEODORE B SHANK educator minor ills of children may lead to physical breakdown or death and minor insults offered aud and unwittingly oft repeated by parents or teachers may lead later laier to mental breakdown do you y on recall medicine as it was thirty years ago in the heyday hey day of saddlebags saddle bags calomel and quinine then we counted it a summer lost if there were no epidemic of typhoid it was the day when every parent expected every child to have measles mumps whooping cough and diphtheria just in the natural order of things and generally they were not a bit selfish a bout about it if one child had a contagious disease as a rule the whole community enjoyed it together now we we know that it is not necessary to have simpler eases even if a child contracts one the chances are great that he will recover but they still play a grisly part in the health of those children in later life the first of the three great causes of death is heart disease with deaths annually in those sections of the country where th there ere is ia registration nearly all of those between the ages of forty five and afif fifty ty not caused by excesses are the results of a heritage from youthful days diphtheria pneumonia and aad flu there is the danger of acute attacks of cold in the child second is pneumonia with annual deaths registered and the third is tuberculosis this is ia gradually on the decrease and like the other two can best be cut down by scrupulous protection of children it is ia a young peoples disease with the dangerous age from fourteen to twenty one A viennese physician examined children of fourteen and found traces of it in the only hope is to begin with the diet and health habits of the child |