Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1910 — BOARD OF HEALTH EXHIBIT HERE ALL NEXT WEEK. [ARTICLE]

BOARD OF HEALTH EXHIBIT HERE ALL NEXT WEEK.

In Charge of Dr. W. F. King, Exhibit Comes Here Under Auspices of Local Medical Authority. Editor Republican: The -estate Board of Health baiT a traveling exhibit which is under the charge of Dr. W. F. King, assistant state health commissioner. This exhibit will be in Rensselaer the week commencing Dec. sth. It comes under the auspices of the local medical fraternity. This exhibit consists of graphic charts, photographs, pictures, diagrams, mottoes, pathological specimens, etc., all illustrating the cause, the prevention and the cure of tuberculosis. The object of sending this around over the state is to teach the people that it is unnecessary to suffer from tuberculosis. This disease is suffered to exist at a cost to the people of Indiana annually, of ten million dollars. This is a useless expenditure of money and the State Board of Health suggests that it be saved. That it can be saved, there is no doubt, because it has been demonstrated positively, that it is unnecessary to have consumption, because it is the product of wrong living. By wrong living is meant the fact that we do not ventilate our bedrooms or houses as they should be ventilated. The penalty is desease and death.

We also do not feed ourselves properly. We should live upon the simple foods and masticate them thoroughly. By the simple foods is meant the plain foods, such as our fathers had, namely, hominy, rice, bread and butter, all vegetables, all fruits and a very small amount of meats. It is certainly true that we eat too much meat. It is also true that a large majority of the hogs and cattle we slay for food are diseased, and the wonder is when we consider the amount of meat eaten, thete is not more disease follows In its track. We must learn to live properly or we must suffer from sickness and die. We have with the tuberculosis exhibit what is called the pure food exhibit. This is intended to illustrate the pure food and adulterated food situation. People everywhere are deeply interested in the pure food question, and it is a mere bagatelle in importance as compared to the importance of the prevention of disease. Foods are adulterated to a considerable degree, but never adulterated with articles injurious to health. Cornmeal is used for adulterating sausage, water for adulterating milk, oleomargarine for adulterating butter, etc., etc. It will be observed that none of these adulterants are injurious to health. They are sold for a high price, under false names.

Dr. King will deliver lectures every day during the week. His assitant, Mr. Frank W. Tucker,-one of the state food inspectors, is also prepared to talk upon the pure food question. Dr. King expects to have an opportunity to address the high school students, the teachers, the trustees, the women’s associations, and the business men. The business men will soon realize that the biggest business they can attend to is the business of preventing disease. There is. more profit, more trade, more advancement to business than anything else that can be done. Every business man under-' stands how an epidemic interferes with his business, but all do not understand how a low grade of health in the community interferes with business.

We bespeak your approval of this exhibition and your support. Very truly yours, J. N. HURTY, Sec’y.