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18 The Health Bulletin July, 1927
Communiques issued from headquarters
at Atlantic City indicate tiiat next
year's campaign against New Jersey's
old enemy will command all the engines
of modern science. Matfooter
caterpillar tractors are to pound over
the swamps, dragging mowing machines
after them. Teachers on vacation are
to be turned into minute men, hunting
the mosquito with an oil can. Cresylic
acid is to be put in the oil to make it
spread better. Gambusia are to be
brought north to prey upon the mosquito.
Some of the little fish are already
in the marshy pools, but will
they live through the winter A Canadian
entomologist says that the Dominion
has succeeded in keeping them
alive even through its rigorous winters
—but that was in pools fed by the hot
springs of Banff. He pins his faith on
the powdered root of the derris plant,
EMBATTLED MOSQUITOES
to be imported from the Malay Peninsula
and shot at the mosquitoes from
an aeroplane.
Some of the veterans scoff at these
newfangled notions ; are cool, even, to
William E. Donnelly's scheme for a
combination canal, dike, and motor
highway along the coast, which would
drown the mosquitoes, redeem the
flats, and enable New Jersey farmers
to "draw a check on the mud bank."
The old-timers prefer to rely on the
tried methods of ditching, draining and
oiling, with perhaps a little speculation
in gambusia on the side. They
have learned from hard experience that
they cannot relax their efforts. Mosquitoes
are a good deal like the spoils
system—exterminated long ago by all
accounts, but apparently still very
much alive. New York Times.
DR. GLENN FRANK ON PERIODIC EXAMINATIONS
Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the
University of Wisconsin, says
"If I were twenty-one, and knew all
that I know at thirty-seven, I should
give systematic and sustained attention
first to my health.
"I should begin at twenty-one to
forestall that physical slowing down
that comes to the careless man in his
late thirties or early forties. I should
avoid becoming self-conscious about my
health. I should rather be a dyspeptic
than a neurasthenic, but I would begin
at twenty-one, when all my bodily processes
were functioning flawlessly, paying
systematic attention to keeping myself
fit.
"I should avoid health fads. I
should take all my advice from a reputable
physician. I should have a thorough
physical examination at least
twice a year. In the line of these
semi-annual examinations, I should
really follow my physician's advice, regarding
diet, exercise, working habits,
clothing, the ventilation of my home
and office, and so on, and I should not
economize on doctor's bills. At the
first hint of illness or irregularity, I
should go to my physician on the theory
that I should rather have him
keep me well than cure me after I
fell
sick.
"Some geniuses have done magnificent
work with frail and diseased
bodies, but for most of us success and
happiness will depend in no small
measure upon the physical energy we
can put as a driving force behind our
abilities, and even the geniuses would
do better work with better bodies."
Dr. Frank has given advice here that
every person in North Carolina should
immediately proceed to take. Dr.
Frank might have added that if one
has not begun to conserve health at
twenty-one, they should begin at thirtyseven,
and if not at thirty-seven, sixtyseven.
Again, he might have added
that the physical examination of children
semi-annually is of tremendous
importance to the safety and physical
well-being of the family. This opinion
and program of Dr. Frank is most
heartily endorsed by North Carolina's
State Board of Health.
The sunrise surely makes a hit
Inspiring and immense
But what most people know of it
Is hearsay evidence.
— The Orapevine.