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THE DAVENPORT DEMOCRAT AND LEADERHi toHlrlv and tli day large •SQVGJlL'lt;*e ofuHealth Education in Schools1 Will Cqnquer Tuberculosis,”Says Iowa State Health Worker•nLEISI—o\neckin on-ondcr.rdsen.Jung-kmaldfHealth education in the public schools or the statp will eventually conquer and stamp out tubcuu-losis.” »alt; the statenicul ol Miv .Theresa IJansdiU of Ucs Mouv-.. Iowa stale health education sccr«*-tnry under the state Tuberculosis association speaking this aStorucon before tlie Teachers' niMUuio licit* on Tuberculosis and its Ihevcn-1 tions '*Miss Dnnsdill stressed the splen-; did results which arc ahe.idy beginning to te shown thru lema'b sturdy, neisistent work 111 intro cueing health education in Us city i •nod rural school* ^She said she wanted to especial-i ly call attention to the record | Scott County's rural nmsc. Miss | Grace Van Evora. has made during i the past throe years since she uus . appointed to look after tiic health j/»•’ tmlilio robtuberculosis started with the meiKlob, and whooping rough and ri!|)th*ria.Wo are li.'ing to to.irh Hit* children health h.ibiR not only to Iron lt;onfrrlt;tuig tuhorcuJo sis. hut. t-.ery oilier diso-isc '*I-ct Easte uuul haJl : Hoy worll brand Tluo: public school children.11 Wo Jia\e begun to take notice of Scott county and your mil be in Ues Moines, and all over the state. said Miss Dansdttl. It vvat, u Scott county school that won national honors in the health educational work. and the sneaker related how Miss Van Evera found one of the schools of the county to i have a number of pupils with poor j eyesight, defective tonsils, were un-| cier weight and ia other ways below i the standard. This was in tfm fall.' When she made her April visit the 1 next spring—alter a winter of close attention to the health program— every child had come up to the standard of the perfect normal healthy condition demanded, and all this »u only one winter of careful and thoughtful training in the rules of good health.The state has decreased its death rate from tuberculosis by 30'J in the past year and this Is directly due to the educational program said Miss Daosdill. Health education not only corrects the physic' al defects but thru this correction builds up the body so there is greater resistance to all kinds,of diseases. Physical defects have been decreased SO per cent in tblt;* j state in the past three years He- . cause these defects have been do I creased tuberculosis and the death ( rat© have been lowered In every i county where health education has J been installed in the schools.“The reason ior this is that not I only does it educate the' child but 1 the parents as well. Thru good j health instructions the children be-; come Jess liable to U«e sicknesses i of childhood, measles, diphtheria and other diseases • which often weaken the body, and an authnriiy on tuberculosis stales that with a very large percentage of people
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Davenport Democrat and Leader
Davenport, Iowa, US
Fri, Nov 24, 1922
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