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

24 The Health Bulletin July, 1927
IMPROVE QUALITY AND INCREASE QUANTITY
OF MILK
By C.
O'H. LAUGHINGHOUSE, M.D.
The question of Nutrition in Nortli
Cai-olina is among the most important
of all questions when it comes to the
prevention of disease.
Children and grown people who are
well-nourished are above all others most
likely to resist the implantation of disease.
Whether people young or old suffer
infections and contagions depends upon
their individual ability to resist them.
Resistance is largely a matter of
digesting the proper quality and
quantity of food.
Food of the finest quality is being
raised in North Carolina but not in
sufficient amount. The State needs to
give more immediate and emphatic attention
to informing its citizenship regarding
the necessity of replacing scrub
cattle by stock of a better kind si>
that the quantity and quality of milk
will continue to improve. Why feed
cows of a lean and scrawny type when
better breeds of milk and beef cattle
can be raised at no extra expense Why
raise Bill Arp razor back hogs when
Poland China, Tamworth, Essex, Berkshires,
and other breeds of hogs yield
a finer quality and quantity of meat
Why suffer from under-nourishment
when milk, meat, chickens, vegetables
and fruits can be had in profusion with
just a little forethought and a little
care
What a joy would come to us if they
would put their non-descript trees into
fire wood and replace them with fruit
trees caring for them, fertilizing them
and cultivating them until they come
to be things of beauty and interest and
revenue.
The raising of stock, poultry, truck
and fruit needs to be brought about as
a common practice in North Carolina
in order to correct under-nourishment
which correction will go far toward the
prevention of disease.
Fruit growing and gardening is a
most attractive way to get the good
from God's out-of-doors. It is not only
profitable but health-giving. It brings
pleasure and conduces to morality.
The State would be much better off
it could get the habit of raising fruits,
vegetables, cattle, hogs, chickens, ducks,
and everything.
if
CLEANLINESS
Several years ago a friend of ours,
who is a business man in a small North
Carolina town, visited the exposition
in San Francisco. On his return home
he stopped over in Raleigh and we
asked him what was the most impressive
thing that he saw while away. He
unhesitatingly replied, "The spotless
cleanliness of California from one end
to the other." That answer made quite
an impression on us. Here was a small
town business man who was accustomed
to having his customers come
into his place of business chewing and
spitting where they pleased, and although
he was a prosperous business
man it was natural to think that such
habits made no esi^ecial impression on
him or he would have been making an
effort to enforce better habits among
his associates. This man went back
home and we have heard that he made
valient efforts in his town to get the
people to clean up and keep clean, and
especially to put a stop to promiscuous
spitting on the sidewalks, in the stores,
the railroad station, the post office, and
other public places. Just how successful
he has been we do not know. Promiscuous
spitting evidently spreads disease.
It is not improbable that a great
deal of the tuberculosis contracted by
children and later developed during
adolescence is caused from this filthy,
unnecessary habit.
We were reminded of the foregoing
the other day when an occasion required
a visit to a big Raleigh corpora-