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   HEALTH BOARD NOTES
   PUTNAM COUNTY OHIO

Public Health is Purchasable.
  Within Natural Limitations,
   A Community Can Determine
       its Own Death rate
     The Matter Boileddown

   We often hear the common ex-
pression.  "People were not so
particular in former times in re-
gard to matters relating to Public
Health."  This is undoubtedly
true, but the people were not 
taught methods of disease pre-
vention in former times as they
are at present.  In former times
curative measures were emplyed
alone, and all the world was edu-
cated to employ measures to cor-
rect results, when the proper and
most economical plan would have
been to prevent the results.  Di-
sease, sickness, death are results
of cause, and the purposes of 
health measures are to prevent
rather than cure.
  Two poems significant of con-
ditions in the past and in the pres-
sent, have come into our posses-
sion, and we are please to print
them tht they may be read and
studied because they contain so
much truth that is appilcable at
this time.

       "Rural Sanitation."

   By W. C. Rucker, M. S. M. D.
Assistant Surgeon General V. S.
Public Health and Marine Hos-
pital service.

The happy days of childhood I
    often call to mind,
I love to live them o'er again by
    memories ligh refined-
The orchard and the meadow and
    the loft of fragrant hay,
The garden, and the privy, and
    the well not far away.

The farm yard with it litter of
   manure round about,
The milking shed where flies ga- 
   lore flew buzzing in and out,
The pig sty and the chicken house
   the hens that scratched all day
In the ground beneath the privy,
   with the well not far away.

We took our joys and sorrows as
   they chanced to come along,
My brother had the ground-itch
   and he didn't grow as strong,
And Mary died of fever it was
mighty sad that day-
But we didn't blame the privy nor
   the well not far away.

In the summer time mosquitoes
   used to sing the whole night,
But we would keep the windows
   closed and thus avoid the bite,
But Billy got the ague- and Lizzie
   pined away-
Mosquitoes - Foul air - privy,
And the well not far away.

We used to think that death was
   just a punishment for sin-
The sin of ignorance I say - so
   let us now begin,
To try and get the windows
   screened but open night and
   day,
And a sanitary privy with the
well quite far away.

Let's clean the cows at milking
   time, let's clean the barnyard
   too,
Let's rid ourselves of fevers, and
   the chills and ague crew,
Let in the air and sunshine, but
   drive the flies away,
With the ancient typhoid privy,
   with the well quite far away.


           Tonsil Talk
Mary had a little cough, it's bark
   was loud and sneezy;
And everywhere the Mary went,
   the cough was always wheezy.
It went with her to school of
   course, and met the school
   physician,
Who found her adenoids were
   large, according to his mission.
But now those horrid adenoids;
   her cough and tonsils vicios,
Repose upon a doctor's shelf,
   and Mary feels delicious.

          ______________

   The Striped Cucumber Beetle
can be controlled by a dust made
of lime arsenate and land plaster,
recent experiments show.  

              ----W. V. Balduf.