Show the dread of disease dr goldwater the now york commissioner of health has recently published an article advocating the inauguration of 0 universal periodic medical examinations as an indispensable means tor for the control of all al diseases As an illustration of tle need and importance of 0 such a rae rue asure he cites the recent examination of the employees of a new york bank every one of them was found abnormal and on the sure road to diseases of heart lungs kidneys or blood ves selb self possibly that discovery may have been useful and beneficial to a few of the wen iren that it was so to all may reasonably be doubted it may have enabled some of them to ward oft off tile the diseases that threatened in the cases of others however impaired health must have been owing to the conditions of life and work conditions beyond the individuals control or power to remedy to tell such a person about the damaging tut but unsuspected processes going on within him is to do him no kind kand rass nc ss his latent malady is tar far less likely to be progressive while lie he is unaware ol of it ignorance acts as a stay ot of execution tho the danger of 0 such universal medical examination as the health commissioner vl pleads d for is that it would transform innumerable happy and to all intents and purposes healthy persons into melancholy watchers of 0 their own symptoms who would never again daro tire to exert themselves hopefully rud end eagerly in the business of life so far from prolonging life imparting such dire knowledge of 0 themselves sc alvea to people would be tile the means ol of shortening their term and of limiting their happiness and their usefulness ful ness A healthy mental attitude is the greatest of all helps in preserving physical sanity break down a healthy mental attitude and the baleful germs that are in all ol of us nill riot uncontrolled ed it all the employees ot of a bank are according to the medical examiner pathological cases what number of the employees of a factory or a department store would be pronounced entirely sound bound virtually all of us go 90 through brough life with engines that are more n ore or less imperfect but that do their work satisfactorily enough as ling as we do not watch them tink ci over them and fuss with them A compulsory universal medical examination would probably result in widespread depression and despair youths companion |