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CAUSE RICKETS
NEW YORK, Feb. IS.—Three out
of four infants in a New York tene
ment district develop rickets before
they are a year old. according to a
report made public today by the New
York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor, giving the re
sults of a campaign to combat this
. disease which the A. I. C. P. has been
carrying on for the last five years.
The report indicates that rickets, a
winter disease, the most marked effect
of which is to retard the development
of the bony tissues of the very young
child, particularly the long bones ot
arms and legs, is at present a seri
-ous obstacle to child health. It is
responsible, the A. I. C. P. finds, for
the fact that fully 25 per cent of the
children in one New York tenement
district have serious orthopedic de
fects, such as bow-legs, knock-knees,
“funnel chest” and spinal curvatures
and this malady is also held to be
largely responsible for the appalling
death rate of young children in this
i district from pneumonia and other re
spiratory diseases. The report, in
part, follows:
“The Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor is carrying on
its annual campaign against rickets
,in the Mulberry district in New York
City. Five years of intensive work
has shown that rickets in early in
fancy presents a real obstacle to child
health. It is no exaggeration to say
that 75 percent of the babies in this
district develop rickets before they
are a year old. The after effects of
this condition are seen in the large
number of children from two to six
years old (25 per cent) who have se
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'nous orthopedic defects and in the
| appalling death-rate of young children
front pneumonia and respiratory dis
eases largely due to the narrow chest
and confined breathing space so char
acteristic of the rachitic child.
“ ‘That child has how legs because
his mother lets him walk too soon,’ is
the popular explanation of the two or
threevear-old youngster with badly
bowed legs, This thoroughly unsci
| entific theory is, after all, not so far
front the truth, but the fact is that
| such children usually have suffered
| from rickets. The most marked ef
fect of this disease is to retard the
development of the bony tissues of
the body, particulaarly the long bones
of the arms and legs. Their legs,
| therefore may be said to be too young
| to support the weight of their bodies.
| When they attempt to stand on their
feet, the bones of the legs bend under
their weight like a tender green twig.
“Rickets may be occasioned by one
jof two things, or by both together:
1(1) inadequate exposure to sunlight;
(2) a diet deficient in a food acces
sory vitamin, whose nature is as yet
unknown, but which enables the body
to store calcium and phosphorus in
the bones from the food taken into the
body. The disease is most prevalent
during the winter months in north
temperatute climates, particularly
among races with dark skins in which
the pigment still further retards the
effects of the sun's rays. On the oth
j er hand, the disease is practically un
j known among negroes in the West
Indies who are receiving an abundance
| or among Eskimos who are used to
I little sunlight but whose diet con
I sists largely of fats, oil and blubber.
! Babies between three months and one
jyear of age are most most suscepti
jble to the disease, particularly if they
jare within this age period during the j
: late winter months when the seasonal i
incidence is at its peak.
“Physiologists are at a loss to ex
plain how the sun’s rays or the oil
of fish livers can desposit calcium in
the bones, but the fact that they do
has been amply demonstrated clini
cally and in experiments with ani
mals. There are, therefore, two meth
ods of attacking rickets: (1) Expos
ing the babies directly to the rays of
the sun or to the ultra-violet rays
of a quartz lamp; or (2) giving doses
of fish liver oil three times a day dur
ing the period of life when rickets is
most likely to occur. Sunlight in con
gested cities is a rare commodity. For
this reason, moderate doses of fish oil
is a safe, prophylactic measure.”
(Several mothers of Seward have
requested the publication of this arti
cle on rickets the second time, in or
der that they may save it. Therefore
we are running it again.)
A FEW GLEANINGS
FROM WAINWRIGHT
(From Nome Nugget)
WAINWRIGHT, Alaska, Nov. 3 —
When the Baichimo came in Barrow
to salvage the Lady Kindersley, she
had a case of smallpox on board. The
children of Roy Ahmaogak, the na
tive teacher at Barrow were taken
with the disease and passed through it
to recovery. Strict quarantine saved
any other cases of the disease.
Peter Vander Sterre, the teacher
in charge at Barrow is the proud pos
sessor of two monkeys, purchased from
the Biachimo. They are said to dif
fer in taste from Peter in regard to
the pictures he hangs on his wall and
unhung them violently the first day.
The monkeys are the joy of the juve
nile population of the camp.
Whaling was fairly successful at
Point Barrow the past season, six
whales being taken. Several polar
bears were killed on the ice and two
cubs were captured.
The Wainwright natives were un
successful in whaling but six big po
lar bears were killed on the ice. This
was a good season for walrus and the
village is well supplied with meat.
A fairly successful season was expe
rienced in the reindeer business and
a company is being formed which will
handle 6,000 deer. The catch of fur
was the best at this village of any
place along the coast.
The weather varied from 10 degrees
above zero to 10 below during Octo
ber, but on November 1 the wind turn
ed southwest and thaws and rains set
in.
The school here started on Septem
ber 22. and to date there have been
enrolled 50 pupils.
The annual roundup of reindeer has
been held during the past two weeks
and the deer in the four herds have
been counted. The counting was done
in a corral made of ice blocks about
six feet long, stood on end, making a
substantial corral but lacking the ne
cessary gates which were made of
hide strips.
The health of the village of Wain
wright has been good to the present
time. Barrow has also experienced
no ill health beyond the smallpox
caught from the Baichimo and one
case of diphtheria.
Mrs. Ella Fisher of San Angelo.
Tex., who began making fans from
turkey feathers during the Civil
War, is still following that occupa
tion at the age of 78 and has cus
tomers in many states, as well as in
Canada and England.
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Schools and Religion Fail
to Keep Men Ou tof Jail
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 18—Surveys
among prisonets in the Los Angeles
I jail indicate that there is something
j wrong with present educational and
I religious methods, in the opinion of
Raymond I. Turney, director of the
jLos Angeles Crime Commission. He
j expressed this view at a recent meet
ing of the Southern California Acad
emy of Criminology.
Seven per cent of the inmates of
the county jail, Mr. Turney said, were
| college graduates, as against 6 1-2 per
[cent in ordinary civil life; 12 1-2 per
‘cent of the prisoners had college
j training; 45 per cent were high school
j graduates, compared with 25 per cent
outside the walls.
All the prisoners agreed, added Mr.
Turney, that there had been a lack of
moral training and a defect of charac
ter-building training in the schools,
and that the same thing was true of
'the religions, a majority of which
were represented.
Mr. Turney declared that most of
|the prisoners concurred in the belief
j that habitual criminals should not be
jalowed to bring children into the
‘world.. All believed in punishment,
[he continued, but favored institutions
I where prisoners could be employed in
[producing some commodity.
Former Grand Duke Dimitri of
, Russia is now employed as a wine j
j salesman in France.
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LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 18.—The
original antenna for radio, .according
to Jack Allman, Los Angeles curator
of reptiles, was the rattlesnake’s ton
gue.
“When a rattlesnake is dormant or
sleeping,” Mr. Allman said recently,
“its tongue is idle. But when aroused
it starts shooting that forked tongue
from its mouth and seems to both feel
and hear through it. I have seen rat
tlesnakes appear as though unin
formed of my approach when their
tongues were not moving back and
forth from their mouths, but the
moment they became conscious of it
the tongues started. Rattlesnakes
have no ears, but those little tentacles
on the end of the tongue serve the
purpose.”
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Lascelles, may visit Canada this
year.
Only 138 passengers were killed
in railroad accidents last year, bu?
nearly 2,000 were killed while walk
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