Show Domestic Preventive hygiene n tUo hest h. h Insurance MedicIne ff Sickness J HAT is called Preventive WHAT Mt Medicine IS g of comparatively comparatively T mo modern ern origin In th the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries cen cen- measures were taken notably b by Venice to prevent the thc introduction n 1 of or the thc from tho the East b by mole malt malting maKing ing the tho vessels wait walt 10 da days s before discharging their cargo animate and inanimate hence the origin of or tine line But It J is more than th a half a century since quarantine was established estah- estah on an any thing like a scientific basis basl and quarantine Is tho the national wa way to prevent the Introduction of or disease disease dis dis- ease case Into tho the countr country The number of ot lives I saved and tho the amount of ot sickness sickness sick sick- ness which Is thus prevented Is lit In Incalculable In- In calculable Epidemics of ot cholera have 1 been een kept ept In abeyance attacks of at dread fevers have been staved stayed stared fatal tatal loathsome plagues bred in the tho pestilent pestilent lent of ot disease In tho the East Enst have havo been barred To learn what an enlightened quarantine antine antino has dono done for tor the tho peoples p of ot Europe and America It Is only onh necessary necessary necessary sary to turn back tho the pages of history and read of ot the depopulation which these epidemics occasioned In I leg ies gone by br Measurer i of or Prevention The Thc measures of ot prevention pre have been Inaugurated b by states b by cities towns and villages Health boards havo have bc been n established and records of births and lind deaths have been kept b by I them Diseases have havo been held In Incheck incheck check by the necessity of or reporting all cases of a contagious nature In order that measures could be taken talen to lo Isolate Isolate isolate Iso Iso- late and circumscribe them and the carelessness of 01 individuals has been curbed so 0 that communicable ble sickness should not be aU allowed owed to spread from one family to another or to members of ot the same family I has been carried on systematically systematically systematically and vaccination has re reduced reduced reduced re- re smallpox from a scourge to ont only a comparatively comparative 1 few rew cases The air of cities and towns Is prevented from becoming Impure impute because of ot noxious fumes and smothering smoke mol e from factories Improved ventilation of ot public buildings has hen been instituted the theater water ater supplies havo have been protected protected pro pro- the tho disposal of Dr sewage has been safeguarded The construction of schools and the caro taro of ot children attending them has been supervised It Is true that all aJl these methods of ot sanitation and e e en e en the carrying them into effect leave much to be desired Nevertheless nil all these ways was of ot preventing disease and Improving the health of communities have reduced the death rate incredibly Fifty years cars ago aso it ft was said that the deaths In Great Britain which by care could have been prevented aera averaged averaged aver er a aged ed more than a third of or those that occurred and the tho proportion of or those who did not dlo die because of or their Ill Illness illness ill ill- ness but suffered moro more or less during their lives es was equally great reat What has been done to preserve lIf and health by nation and state can be exceeded I if each cach individual feels reels his responsibility In bringing his own health to 10 as great reat a state of perfection as aa possible and in surrounding those who are in tho family with tho the best conditions The health of the community community community com com- will bo be greatly bettered when each one realizes the tho great reat importance of or this duty and that his neglect in carrying out that which he knows will conduce to his own and others' others health is a menace to his neighbor I I This I Ignorance norance which ho he has failed to dispel el may cost him his life and I the lives Jives of those whom he holds dear medicine The rho study of ot preventive I should bo be taken up UI seriously by al aU families Homo The future welfare of ot the family depends de de- depends upon the home which has been selected for It The house should bo ho situated In such a position that light drainage o and air should bo be of the thc 1 best est The soli soil upon which the house Is built Its ventilation Its plumbing its collar cellar and the location of oC Its rooms all come comein in for tor an enlightened consideration Then too tox the best ways of or furnishIng furnishing furnishing furnish furnish- ing the tho rooms that they shall be bo healthy to live 11 In comes in for its Ils share of or in intelligent intelligent In- In ent decision as well as 08 what to toU U use e and what to avoid In decoration I The Tho sleeping arrangements should 1 be 0 seen to with care as tho the rooms In which so much time Is spent span t should hould bo ho those which are arc best adapted to promote the comfort and health of those occupying them hem These are on only I a few points which need to bo be determined about tho the house louse and Its Us surroundings Suite Sane Diet I I The housekeeper and maker home is Js caled upon to decide the tho diet of ot the tam family I It happens often orten that the healthy nature of or tho the menu Is Js the last thing thing- which the tho purveyor OT of or the tho family considers The tastes of ot the children and nd other members of the family are the he governing principles upon which the he marketing and the cooking are arc to tobe tobe toc be c decided These indeed should be consulted for tor what appeals to the appetite Is Is other r things s being equal better digested but how low few housekeepers in making up the he bills of fare tare stop to consider co whether the proportions of starches and sugars and fats and anel meats form torm tho the thoI rl right Ight ht amount for tor tho the growth health and nd maintenance of ot the bodies of those who sit at al the tho table anI and partake of 01 them With tho the growth of ot education along these lines the tho housekeeper who neglects these facts is well nigh crim crim- In inal The The ile amount of or nourishment that should bo be be eaten aten b by each to preserve health nn and l J keep tho the bodily powers at it atthe atthe the be best t I Is another problem to be bo met The Tho public authorities aro are exorcising more supervision than ever er before and and ana laws are enacted to ta ensure the purity of ot foodstuffs hu but t on tho the h housekeeper depends the tho most su subtle hUe and delicate te elaboration of the problem Many Mam individuals Individuals Individuals Indi Indi- are aro suffering from flom and chronic stomach disturbances be because because be- be cause causo of tho the thoughtlessness which characterizes the family cooking and the provisioning of at the family board Personal Care How Ilow few are the individuals who make an attempt to live hygienIcally Each ones onea responsibilities are arc two-fold two those which relate to lo himself and those hose which relate to tho the community Jc o e should keep himself well wen by bv diet t lothing exercise and tho the avoidance of ot exposure and excess In every direction If It ho he Is a a. victim of or disease he should take care caro that he does not communicate this disease to others Tho The consumptive who expectorates In public places or carelessly In his own home Is II guilty of or putting others in peril peril because the germ erm of the tho disease dlease isn Is in n that saliva Tho The man who has conla contagious contagious con con- la lous fever In his family and goes oes forth to meet others without taking precautions which will prevent him hint from carrying the germs erms with him Is guilty of ot imperiling tho life of his neighbor |