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The Relation of County Tuberculosis Hospitals io 

 Conservation of Public Health 



James Y. Welborn, M. D. 



The broad subject of consei-vation, although in its infancy, is far 

 reaching in its achievements. Like all innovations, appearing at first as 

 current e^'ents, gradually enveloping established customs, making history 

 for an epoch, tliis idea has grown. 



Tlie i)reponderance of forces necessary for any custom, event, puliticil 

 or social decree, upon which a nation reaches a destiny, has, as an essential 

 for success, to be presented at such an opportune time as to arouse this 

 nation's people to a keen interest. The time, the place, the demand and 

 the recognition are all essential forces for any substantial movement. 



Tlie phase of our subject I proclaim to be of the greatest importance, 

 bec.Muse in conserving the health of the people, we therelty promote condi- 

 tions for a more perfect physical being necessary to reach a goal fif ideal 

 perfection. This is true because upon the pul)lic health depends the degree 

 of success in arts and sciences and the good spirit of the human race. li; 

 may also be added, in the language of Ex-Governor Marshall, "That upon 

 the public health rests the state of the morals of the people." 



Now, how do the County Antituberculosis Society movements conserve 

 public health? 



First, by an education; teaching sanitary science and prts^entiiig 

 loathsome disease. An example of this is demonstrated by the following: 

 A patient of an ordinary family is treated in the hospital. While there, 

 receiving visits from other members, they learn that to eradicate flies and 

 mosquitoes is a means of saving doctors' and druggists" bills, by pi-event- 

 ing malaria and other diseases. They are cited to the necessity of de- 

 stroying all sputa and dejecta from the body as a means of self-protection. 

 They are shown, to some extent, at least, how to select foods, as to variety 

 and purity, and there are innumerable items to be learned relative to 

 sanitary conditions. 



Second, presenting to the people a plea that vice, excesses, loathsome 



