Show PREVENTIVE MEDICINE I Domestic Hygiene I The Sickness Best Insurance Against 7 is called Preventive c Medicine is of V v modern origin In the fit fitS S and sixteenth tunes were taken notably by Venice cc to prevent the intro introduction introduction of the plague from the East Eastby by making the vessels at fort days before discharging their cargo animate and inanimate hence tile thc origin of nut But it is little more than a half haIC a cen century tury since since qua was established on thing lhing like a scientific ha basis is and and quarantine is tile the national way to pre ent the lie introduction of disease into the country The number of lives Jives saved and the amount of sickness which IS titus thus is iS incalculable Epi Epidemics of cholera ha have c been kept in in abeyance attacks of dread fevers have been stayed fatal loathsome plagues bred in in the pestilent hotbeds of disease in in the East have been heen barred To T o learn what an has done for the peoples of Europe and America it is only sary to turn back the lie pages of history and read of the lie depopulation which these epidemic occasioned lii In gone by of The measures of prevention hac also been inaugurated by States by cities towns and villages boards have been established and records records of births If d deaths h have vc been kept hi by them have hae been held in check by br the necessity of reporting all cases of a con contagiouS nature in order that measures c be taken to isolate arid circum scribe them and the carelessness neI of has ha been curbed So that thai i ii communicable sickness should not be al lowed loved to spread from one family to an another other or to of the same sanie family has been carried on amid reduced smallpox from a scourge to only a corn com few cases The air of cities and is IS prevented from becoming impure because o oi noxious fumes an and smothering smoke from factories Im proved of public buildings has been instituted the water supplies have hae been protected time disposal of sewage has been safeguarded The construction of schools and the care of children attending them has been supervised It IL is true that all these methods of sanitation and even cen the car carrying carrying them into effect leave leae much to be desired Nevertheless all these ways of preventing disease and and improving the thc health of communities have hac reduced the death rate incredibly Fifty years ago it il was as said that the deaths in Gre Great lt Britain which b by care could have hae been prevented averaged more than a third of those that occurred and the proportion tion of If those who did not die because of their but suffered more or less during their lives lies was equally great IndIvIdual Ro What has been done to preserve me life and amid health by bj Nation and State can be exceeded if each ind individual feels his Ius in br his own n health to ns as great a t state ox 01 perfection as pos possible sible and amid in surrounding those who are arc lit in the with the best conditions Th Thic health c of the thc will be greatly bettered when each one realizes the creal importance of thic J II tv onri that his neglect in carrying out that which lie he knows will conduce to his own and others health is a menace to his neighbor This ignorance which he has failed to dispel may cost him his and the lives of those whom lie he holds dear The Thc study of preventive medicine should be taken lip imp seriously by all families Homo S Sanitation The welfare elfare of the family de depends upon the home which has been selected for it The Thc house should be situated in such a position that light drainage and air should be of the vest best The Tue soil upon which the house is built its ventilation its it plumbing its cellar amId nd the lie location f its rooms all conic in iii for an consideration Then too the best ways of furnish furnishing furnishing ing the lie rooms that they shall be healthy to live in iii comes in for its share of in intelligent I decision as well as what to tot use and wh t to avoid in decoration The sleeping arrangements should be seen to with care as the thc rooms in which liichi so 50 much tulle time is spent should he be those winch which are arc best adapted to promote the comfort and health of those occupying ing them These are only a few points which need to he be determined about the tue house arid and Its surroundings Sino Diet The and homemaker is called upon to decide the diet bet of the family It happens often that the nature of time thc menu is the last thin which the lie of the family considers The tastes of the children and other members of the family are arc the principles upon which the thc marketing and the cooking are to be decided These should indeed be consulted for what appeals to the appetite is other things being equals better digested but how lio few fe housekeepers in making up tip the bills of fare stop to consider whether flu tJan ons of starches and sugars and fats and meats form the right amount for the growth health md and main maintenance of the bodies of those who sit at the table and partake of them With the growth groth of education along these hues the housekeeper who neglects these facts fact is well nigh criminal The amount of nourishment that should ie be eaten b by each to preserve health and keep die bodily at atthe atthe the best is another problem to be met The public authorities are exercising more more supervision than ever eer before and laws are enacted to ensure the of foodstuffs but on the lie housekeeper de dc depends tIme the most subtle and delicate dab clab oration of the problem lIany Mail are arc suffering from dyspepsia and chronic stomach disturbances because of the lie thoughtlessness which bich characterizes the thc family cooking and the provisioning of the die family board Personal Care Caro flow few are thc die individuals who make an attempt to live hygienically Each ones responsibilities arc twofold those which relate to himself and those which relate to the community He keep well by diet clothing exercise and the thc avoidance of exposure and excess in every direction If he is a victim of disease he should take c care re that lie he does not communicate this disease to others The consumptive who expectorates in in public places or carelessly in his own home is guil guilty of putting others in iii peril because the lie germ of the disease IS in I that saliva The man who has con cont contagious t fever in his family arid and goes forth to meet others without taking pre precautions cautions which will prevent him from carrying the germs erms with him is guilty of imperilling the life of his neighbor |