. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . oma survey. They have examined about4,000 people in Knott, Perry, Leslie, Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, and Clark coun-ties and have found that about one out of every eight has trachoma. Six ofthese countries are in the mountains and one is in the blue grass country. The physicians at the Hebrew Dispensary, Chicago, have no trouble infinding cases by the hundred among the people who come to them. Theprobability is that a nationwide survey would show trachoma in all parts ofthe United States and among all classes of people. We of the city are wont to think there is no
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . oma survey. They have examined about4,000 people in Knott, Perry, Leslie, Breathitt, Lee, Owsley, and Clark coun-ties and have found that about one out of every eight has trachoma. Six ofthese countries are in the mountains and one is in the blue grass country. The physicians at the Hebrew Dispensary, Chicago, have no trouble infinding cases by the hundred among the people who come to them. Theprobability is that a nationwide survey would show trachoma in all parts ofthe United States and among all classes of people. We of the city are wont to think there is no sickness and disabilityamong the people who live in the pure air and sunlight of the people of the neglected mountain country see the great machinery forhuman care in the cities and conclude there can be no eyes developing tra-choma from neglect in such surroundings. There is an Arkansas story of a log camp lad who marveled at the clothesbrushes, shoe brushes, hair brushes, tooth brushes, towels and soap of a city. TRACHOMA 119 visitor and exclaimed: Is yo? always that much trouble to yosef? Theheart of the trachoma situation is in being trouble to yosef—care of theeyes by oneself, by the parent, by physicians, by the school authorities, byboards of health. Trachoma is a chrome inflammation similar to, and may be just what weformerly called granular eyelids. In time the scar tissue contracts and pullsthe lids away so that the eyeball is not properly protected and is harmed. Itis contagious. It kills nobody, but reduces the efficiency of many people,especially in the crowded districts in the city. It puts many otherwise able-bodied people on charity or in county institutions. It burdens families andis a heavy drag on taxpayers and philanthropists supporting homes and hos-pitals. A while ago somebody became suspicious that there was trachoma amongthe school children of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The attention of the publichealth service was called to the situation and
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