University of Southern Mississippi - Southerner Yearbook (Hattiesburg, MS)

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' i Uhr Srhnnl Lharlmgr Glam GARBAGE CAN is to receive and collect all such waste as the remains of lunches, waste Z3 paper, and dirt swept from the floor. Any loose papers on the floor or yard are collected with a sharp stick, not with the hands. The can should be emptied regularly into a hole in the ground, where the trash is burned. The contents should not be burned in the stove or on the open yard. A fly trap attached to the can is the most effective means of catching flies. W, W, GOLDEN A garbage can should be made of zinc or Smith County some metal that may be cleaned or sterilized occasion- ally. A close cover should be kept over the can as it cannot well be screened, and the danger of spreading disease is very great because of its use as a common depository. The can should be put into the most convenient place for the children. Just outside of the door is a good place if it is dry there. The children can then reach it from indoors and out. This convenient position removes all temptation to throw refuse on the floor and yard, and makes its usefulness more effective than if it were placed in some obscure place. Children will soon learn to look for a can. After this arrangement has been provided, it is not difficult to create among the children a desire for a clean house and yard, and a pride in keeping it clean. When this spirit is aroused among the children, the teacher's work is practically over. They will soon resent any attempt to spoil the appearance of the room or yard by throwing fruit, parings and paper on them. Paper will be more easily kept off the iioor if the waste basket is kept near the teacher's desk to collect waste for the garbage can. The school garbage can wields a still greater influence than this. The greatest influence it has is on the homes of the school children. When a little Qirl learns to ap- preciate the use of a garbage can at school, in a very short time she will look with hor- ror upon the old custom of throwing dish-water from the kitchen window, and will pro- vide a bucket into which she puts the refuse and sees that it is properly disposed of. The house is no longer allowed to go for days with paper or other useless things on the floorg a trash basket receives it as it accumulates. The yard is kept clean from paper and debris of any sort. The use of a barbage can leads to a habit of cleanliness, and a pride in things beautiful, which will create sanitary and beautiful homes, and consequently a happy, healthy, and proseerous people. W. W. GOLDEN. 16

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flhr Cbrrat mhiiv lglagur UBERCULOSIS or consumption, as it is often called, has come to be known as the great white plague, from the fact that it is so wide spread, and that 50,000,000 die annually, in the world. People do not either realize the danger or refuse to think about it. If yellow fever, or smallpox, or scarlet fever breaks out in town then newspapers publish an Extra with glaring headlines, and the greatest alarm is felt. Yet little attention is given to tuberculosis, a disease much more deadly. It is now known that tuberculosis is not ordinarily an inherited but an acquired contagious disease. It is preventable, can be checked, and is Forrest County curable if treated in the incipient stage, but is fatal when too long neglected. It is during the period when tuberculosis exists Without making itself felt that the infected person has best chance of recovery, but the period in which he least suspects that he needs medical help. That is why it is called the dangerous perion. It is not as dangerous as the latter stage, but it deludes the victimg he believes himself well when he is really tubercular. Dr. Tredeau, who was the founder of the fresh air Sanitariam in the Adirondack Mountains for the treatment of incipient tuber- culosis, has proven conclusively that the disease can be cured. How are you to know that you have it? First, by the loss of weight, a cough, and fever. The best thing is to consult a physician, demandinga thorough examination. If, the physician finds that you have tuberculosis, refuse to be frightened. Be hopeful, Cheefful, wld Patient. Your state of mind will have much to do with your physical condition. Do not listen to talks, or suggestions of others. Avoid all patent medicine cures , and artificial stimulants, Only these are necessary: Fresh air, day and night. Plenty of sun shine. Wholesome food with an abundance of fresh milk and eggs. Rest for body and mind. Personal and household hygene. If you have not tuberculosis you might express your gratitude for ycur con- tinued health by lending a hand to those civic health movements, which are trying to bring the blessing to your less fortunate fellow men, and to protect you from exposure to it. VERA GALBREATH In every city the Women's clubs, civic organizations and schools are trying to educate the public to the golden rule of the antituberculosis league: Don't give tuberculosis to others. Don't let others give tuberculosis to you. They are also asking, Will You Help Build the Fence to Protect the Citizens Against Tuberculosis? VERA GALBREATH. 15

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Glnuntg Mnapitala fur Fluhrrrular lgativnta H E prevalence of tuberculosis in Mississippi is alarming. Statistics show that in the year 1913 there were twelve thousand cases in Mis- sissippi, three thousand of which resulted in death. The financial loss from tuberculosis is prob- ably greater than that from any other disease. Un- happily, the greater part of this expenditure is wast- ed. The practice of traveling or changing locality for climatic advantages results, in the majority of cases, in little or no really permanent improvement of the patient. From a social standpoint tuberculosis is a great menace. Disease of any kind is detrimental to the social state. Especially is this true of tubercu- losis, because it is a lingering and wasting disease, which, aside from its fatal nature, is always accompanied by much distress, unhappiness, and suffering. Therefore, if by any means this disease could be eradicated or held in check, nothing should be spared to at- tain this result. The first thing that concerns us as Mississippians is the possibility of permanent cure under climatic and other prevailing conditions in our state. That patients can be cured without leaving the state has been fully demonstrated. As an instance, the work of Dr. Boswell, of the Department of Public Health of Prentiss County, might be men- tioned. He successfully treated a number of cases and is deeply interested in the exten- sion of the work. In fact, very few patients are advised to travel in search of a more advantageous climate, because but few are financially able to remain long enough for permanent benefit. LULA GRICE Lincoln County As it has been shovfn that the disease can be successfully treated at home, it now remains for some plan to be devised by which home treatment can be carried on in organized and systematic way. By this means the patient would be given the advantage of the best treatment, and while removed from his immediate home, would not be re- moved from friends and acquaintances. There the patient could remain long enough for a permanent cure without being taxed by enormous expenses. The hospital would also prevent the spread of the disease through contagion. The greatest benefit that is derived from hospital treatment is the education that the patient receives by hygenic living. The county hospital would further serve to educate the people in hygenic prudence and would be a factor in the intelligent and co- operative effort by which tuberculosis may be eradicated. We are to be congratulated that the legislature has passed a bill for Mississippi to have a state hospital for tubercular patients. This is a small beginning, the appropri- ation being only 95251000, but we hope it will lead to the establishment of county hospitals. LULA GRICE. 17