The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

28 The Health Bulletin May, 1927
lw)y who. at the age of six months, had
infantile paralysis. His parents, thinking
that they were doing the right
thing, called in a chiropractor. The boy
was "treated" for some time by the
chiropractor. His condition did not improve.
He was allowed to creep without
braces that might have helped to
prevent his present deformity. He has
used crutches for eighteen years.
Marked Flat Feet
Any number of boys show marked
flat feet.
Ill-fitting shoes in early child-
A GREENSBORO FUTURE JOHN
KNOX BUSY WITH HIS BIBLE
STORY BOOK
hood, rickets, etc., can be blamed for
a large majority of the foot conditions
found among college students today.
Spinal curvatures are discovered when
a student enters the university. The
student is usually unaware of his deformity.
Our present knowledge of the
causes of spinal curvatures offers conclusive
evidence that many of the
spinal curvatures found in college students
are due to faulty iwstures and
abnormal bone tissue growth of early
youth.
Our organic heart cases frequently
give a history of a number of so-called
childhood diseases. There may be some
connection between the after effects of
scarlet fever, diphtheria, tonsilitis, etc.,
and heart disturbances. The same may
be said for various other organic conditions
found in the college student of
today.
Tlie present trend in physical education
is not entirely on athletics. We
have our noted athletes but we are
constantly giving more attention to the
physically subnormal individuals.
Many schools have a number of coaches
to train a relatively small number of
athletes, while the majority of individuals
secure their exercise by cBeering
for the team. Owing to the demands
of the fickle public, who are not
satisfied with an even break in contests
won and contests lost, this condition
will naturally persist for some time.
The satisfactory sign of improvement
is the attention that is slowly but surely
being given to those who most need
physical exercise and health training.
I am one of the old fashioned type
of individual who feels that it is better
to teach ten students how to stand and
walk correctly than it is to teach one
man how to run a quarter of a mile in
forty-eight seconds. I am old fashioned
enough to believe that it is important
to teach college students how to take
care of their bodies so that when they
become parents they will know how to
teach their children proper health
habits. I am also one who believes that
communicable diseases such as typhoid,
smallpox, and diphtheria can and
should be avoided by proper immunization.
We ought to make a more earnest
effort to know more about health. We
know how to take care of our automobiles.
We believe that stream pollution
is unfair to the fishes. We learn
that hogs should be immunized against
cholera, that cattle should b« tuberculin
tested, that oats should be sprayed
against smut, that pedigreed stock produces
the best offspring, that certain
specific soil treatments are necessary if
we are to make seventy bushels of