Show K Y X f KEEPING WELL J y t A t 1 X t i EIGHT HUNDRED J X X X t DOLLARS PROFIT A t S DR DIL FREDERICK R GREEN X editor of f HEALTH SK M if c 1924 western newspaper Newt evl adlon zyoud HATS a pretty good profit it be glad to get that on all your investments you the profit you get when you buy prevention of disease A county health officer in one ot of our states tells this story A farmer who was a resident of his county came to see him one day lie he said he had been asked by his neighbors to find out what the county appropriation for health was doing for them they were practical men it was all right he supposed for people who had plenty ot of money to spend it for fads but they any money to throw away and they were opposed to the county spending any money for nonsense ile he owned a farm worth he had bad a wife and aad three dill lill dren the county health officer figured tor for a few moments and then told him that the county health department was costing him eighty cents a year he then told him that the henith health department would furnish him with detailed plans for building a sanitary privy on his farm protecting his well against pollution and draining his land so as to prevent mosquitoes this service it gotten from a private expert would cost him about the health officer also showed him how the prevention of contagious diseases protected his family how the examination of the school children in the county prevented disease among his children and would protect them from serious trouble in after life ile he showed him how the health department could correct any detects defects la in his childrens eyes teeth and nutrition at less than one tenth what it would cost him in any other way ho how the county nurse could help him in caso case of 0 f serious illness in his family especially how she would assist his wife when the baby came and advise her how to take care of the baby when he bo got through the farmer said As nearly as I 1 can figure it out the county health department Is worth at least to me in real money every year it costs me eighty cents a good enough profit for me fighting disease la Is no longer an in ID responsibility its a corn com duty suppose each farmer had bad to build the road along his own farm as they used to do common sense in good build ing Is common sense in disease prevention ven tion 1 |