Show JAMES H WALLIS DELIVER HEALTH TALK AT PROVO it if a healthy race is to be reared it can only be reared in healthy homes it infant mortality Is to be ba reduced and tuberculosis is to be stamped out the first essential Is the improving ot of home conditions so declared james H wallis executive secretary of the utah public health association in his intensely interesting lecture on the public health and the home at the mornings session of 0 leadership week at the brigham young university there are homes where every condition Is ideal and conducive to health and where sickness is hardly known said mr wallis there are other homes to which the doctor is always going where the children catch every disease that comes along and where the father seems almost discouraged with the burden ot of debt carried at the drug store and by the family physician it if the home is to be free from conditions which affect the public health let the parents spent at least p i litle ot of their time in educating themselves on the simple rules ot of sanitation and at least learn the symptoms of the common catching disease so that they will know when their children are likely to cause trouble ja in the community let them study the proper diet lor for their children and the daily health habits they should observe and then see they are followed with regularity there are sad to say too many homes where not the slightest attention is given to health education but where the young mother knows how to make the finest salads and pastry and has plenty ol of time tor for bridge parties picture shows and working out crossword cross word puzzles stressing the importance of 0 I 1 promptly notifying the health officer ot of the appearance of contagious disease in the home mr wallis said two private agencies in the community can do even more than the health department they are the tha mothers and the school teachers it if mothers could only develop the sense of responsibility to the tha community so that they would keep their children home from school and away from other children at the first sign ol of flushed lace face sore throat running nose languidness and irritability childhood diseases would eventually become as tare as leprosy the teacher can do for the larger group what the other can do for the individual no teacher can properly teach more than twenty five children and with this number it is possible tor her to know each ot of these children well enough to recognize any marked variation from normal health at the first symptoms she can send the child to the school nurse or school physician and it if evidence of infectious disease appear the child can be sent home before he has spread the disease it is the solemn duty ot of every individual to promptly report the existence of any contagious disease to hide it or conceal it is a crime not only against the community but against the inmates ot of that home health and life are not secure in a community where there Is lax lam observance ser vancle of ct law relative to contagious disease and of 0 sanitary regulations let it be ever remembered that a dirty community is inevitably tan an unhealthful tul community while a clean community is paid up insurance against sickness and untimely death the cause ot of health both public and personal are given tar far too bittle financial consideration by the authorities aties generally and to a very regret able extent do communities and individuals divi duals sumer the lack ot of health safeguards which can ordinarily be insured by a very nominal expenditure ot of time and money the people of any community can have better malth health and less deaths it if they are willing to pay lor for the service mr wallis devoted considerable time to the crime ot of secreting infectious disease in the home and urged upon all the importance of segregation and notification it if the health department does not know where cases ot of contagious disease are it cannot prevent the spread of infection he be declared provo herald |