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4 rV'fwaiy'^ 1 'H ' X «. in g ! Co m i n g J FREE STREET FAIR AND CARNIVAL FOR ONE WEEK, BEGINNING NDAY, DECEMBER 18. ON GOD FRY LOT. IHflHliiGreater "VHBHHI ^ieh Class Carnival Consistine of Vaudeville. Old Plantation, 20th Century Merry-Go-Round. Snake Show and Numerous Concessions. Free Exhibitions and Band Concerts on Show Grounds Daily. THE ONLY BIG SHOW THAT WILL VISIT WALTERBORO THIS WINTER. MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA mSTMICTIVE ADDRESS OF PARCTICAL INTEREST TO ALL PARENTS -DY DR. L ROSA GANNT OF SPARTANBURG BEFORE S- C. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. The following address was deliver ed by Dr. L. Rosa H. Gantt, be fore the last coMrentUm* of the South Carolina Medical Association. It Is be4i« sent out by the South Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs, and was handed The Press and Standard by Mrs E T H Shaf fer, president of the Civic League. The Idea Is to have (his paper read In' order to tr>> to secure some need ed legislation on the subject. / The address followwa: Mr. President and Members of the South Carolina MedlcaJ Associa tion: Following the report of Dr. Mine of the* work at Seneca last year, the Spartcngurg County Medical Society offered the trustees of the Spartangurg City Schools to under take the experimental examination of the children for the term 1910 1911, without cost. Tpon the cc- ceptance of this offer by the trus tees the society appointed Drs. A. R Flke J H Allen and the speaker ‘ a committee to do this work. The committee limited the scope of Its work, (1) to the detection of. parasitic. Infectious and cot> taiHous diseases; (2) to the ex clusion from school of all children affected with acute contagious dis eases; <3) the Inspection of each school child for the purpose of de termining.Jhe existence of physical defects arid , non-contagious Infec tion and the Advising of presence o same (4) Inspection of the hygien «!c and sanitrry condition of school buildings and premises they can be easily remedied. The more serious econdltlons were those of cardiac trouble, pellagra, spinal disease, bone disease, de ficient mentality and amblyopia, an I am glad to report that only a small number, about oi.e per cent of those examined were found to be suffering from these troubles. The percentr.ge of defectives com pared moat favorably with the re sults obtained In other aectlons of the country. In New York City the percentage of defectives ranges from 66 per cent, to 94 per cet.<. in the regular schools, and in spec- Itl schools for backward children high as 90 to 9& per cent. To attempt to draw tecurate our work has been the failure of- parents gener&Jly to respond to the notices sent them by the Board of Examiners. A notice calling atten tion to a defect which In childhood would respond to treatment, but destined. If allowed to remain un treated, to dwarf the mentaJ and phsical development, would be re ceived as Information, or serve to make .the parent a victim -of the patei;4 medicine vendor, the quack, or the traveling optlcie-n. I have in mind the case of a child suffer ing with trachoma—the report was made to the school authorities and the danger of the dlsec-se fully ex plained to the parent and the child excluded from school. The father's energy was expended against the exclusion of his child, but be made no effort to procure medical aid for his offspring. tree^ed to that the child Is properly so that it can speedily return school. Without the co-operation of the nurse, the child excluded, say for scabies or pediculosis receives no attention and is eJlowed to run the streets—a source of infection to otherq. A tactful, experienced woman, by visits to the homes of the children, could act as adviser to the parents, lessen the friction between them and the school au thorities and r.Jd it* the good to be accomplished by this work. many inquiries which have come to I Mr. C. J. Byron, formerly of the the board and school authorities 1 Brown Furniture & Hardware Com from cities In this and adjoining peny, will open a general merchan- StaAes, show that they are seri ously considering its adoption, and we can look forward to the time dise business and also a grist mill, on or about the 10 of December at. Iron's Cross Roads. Mr. Byron has when compulsory medical icepection employed a competent young man will become a jfe-rt of the public •*tem. WKK.H YOIRMKLF BEFORE USING Weigh yourself before commencing to use Samose, thb great flesh- TheVeed" of m^licaT"inspection i forming food. The wonderful sale was fully shown by the wrok of our on this preparation since first ln»- committee, for numerous cases were noted where the defects were quite serious, but had passed un- , _ .... . __ noticed by parent or teacher, and of U8 f u ha 1 ve „ ma l e ,P r ' K,,en ® u<>h .enthusiastic believer In the great trod need in We-lterboro and regnarkajble results following which the child Rself wes Igno rant. Tu several 'of "the" children | valu « of Samose that he gives his The tecchers report that the noti- who were brought to me for treat- Personcl guarantee tq, refund the flea lien cards brought forth notes Imeit the physical condition of some if , Samose will not make like these—"Dear Miss Jones: Thedas found so bad that I deemed it thin people fat and restore strength doctors say that Mary cannot hear advisable to have the children .stop- well, please move her setU close ped from school tempore-rlly, yq| to you.” or, "Dear Miss Smith: three had not been observed by Annie's eyes are bad, please put the parents. her nearer the blackboard.” "Dear | Aside from the duty to prevent scientific couclusions from our work p Pn f Pfta/T _.. ao ‘T 01 *: , ' ,uly to * mtaht lead to error, for the exam- P 5 f . WOT >,. p,ea8 . e h av « the doctor , the spread of infectious and , — conta- exr-mlne Lily again, 1 am sure they ! gious diseases In schools—when the made A^mislook, for she haven't j State takes your child Into Its cus- got anj them little aHmals in tedy to teach it, this duty is due h? r head, the sc-id Lily being a you rnd the child—the State should black Illy. | , IHe ^e knowledge of the medical I am satisfied that 4 the school profession to aid the teacher In rse is a necessary cdjunrt to obtaining the best results from th. wparate record. ,0 m '*‘ ll " The tlrct fart to be noted I, that 1 '” 1 ? „ I*” 0 .?”? I , Spartanhurs waa one of the 12S and neglect, her duties should be cities in the United States which to 'hp parents of children ex- had the advantage during the past clude.d for minor ailments and see year of medice-1 inspection'. The might lead to error, for the exam ination covered too short a period. As this is the first city where the result of the examination of white and negro children was noted and recorded sepr-rately it might be wortji while to call attention to a nu * rBe " few salient facts brought out by physical defects are far more pre valent among the negro children, &6 per cent, as against 42 and 6-10 for the whites. Uontre-rj to the general belief that few negroes have throat troub les, 41 per cent, of them have hypertrophies! tonsils, while lhe,re were only 21 per cent, among the white children. Enlarged glands are far more common in the ue- the 1 gro children. This Inspection ex ploded the popular belief that ne- and health to those who use it This Is a strong guarantee, but Jno. M. Klien has seen so many of his customers who a few weeks ago looked like walking skeletons be come plump And well, through the use of Samose thnt he feels he cannot say too much to induce peo ple to try U. This marvelous flesh-forming foo Is E-sslmilated as soot< as it is tak en Into the stomach makes good, rich blood, tones up the weakened system helps to assimilate the food and makes the user plutnp and rosy W. \V. Smoak, went to Ehrhardt Friday on a business trip. ‘ from New Hf-npshlre to manage the business, which will be known as the Byron Mercantile Company. Lightening Kills Few. In 1906 lightening killed only 16 people In this whole country. One’s chr-nces of death by lightening are less than two in a million. The chance of death from liver, kidney or stomach trouble is vastly great er, but not If Electric Bitters be used, as Robert Madsen, of West Burlington, la., proved. Four doc tors gave him up after eight month of suffering from virulent liver trouble and yellow Jaundice. He was then completely cured bp Elec- trlc Bitters. They’re the best stomach, liver, nerve e-nd kidney remedy and blood purifier on earth. Only 60c at Jno. M. Klien’s. Miss Ethel Gruber, who has ?s Et atfei been attending Columbia College came home for Thanksgiving. She will not return to Columbl&s • • • J. G. Murdaugh or*3 of Moselle’s prosperous citlaens, was in to see us recently while in- town. This is the first monument to b# raised by a Str.4e or community o* through public subsertptiore, to ther women of the Southern Confeder acy. ~3r A complete record of the findings groes have better teeth than whitg. of the Inspectors was made In each people, for 30 per cent*of the ne- case on printed blarhs. These con- gro children showed defective teeth Misted of three blanks, (1) a history' ujid only .account for, the fallacy of card kept by the examines*. (2) fr.Ute white children hr.-d such defects, record card kept by the school au-/I can only account for the fallacy thorlties. (3) a notification naro 1 of this belief that negroes havet »»nt—to the parent/i^A ^copy of good, teeth by my observation that these blanks is shown In'a recent ‘negroes’ teeth stand out In startl- bulletln published by the State ing withenees on account of their Ror-rd of Health on the subject of black skin, for but a very small-per Medical'Inspection* In Schools. In centage cf them use a tooth brush, case contagious dlser.-.e dlncoverod ; The result of the examination sup- the matter wai* speedily reported to ported the popular belief that the school authorities, in other cas- t-.-gr&ra have fewer troubles and ea a errd was sent to the parent fewer naital defects, for the per- atatlcg the defect that, was Inter- centage In both of these was lower ..THE BIRD MRN.... firing with school work, and sug gesting that the condition be called than i.mong the whites. We were Impressed with tl»e few / to the attention of the family phy- cases of adenoids among the ehlld- slrlrr. There was cf course no iron of both rates and also with the | treatment attempted by the Inspect- limited- arcr.- of prevalence of ers or tkt-Afheol authorillwi. The parasitic diseases, for instance the only exception to this statement is : majority of cases of pediculosis was that in eases of pediculosis a- print- {confined to otv? grade in one of the ••d flip Vtytfi^ectlcns for trea / D«ent white schools and of sc: bits In one • nrr<Yf..pr.nFStt IKw. flotifIfBAfx). grsdt JQ the IH-grO SCh(>Ol. One of/lhe friact^rs appllj^K this , In the negro schools not a single treatment to *e veh^caargof ped- rase of almost total blindness in on I irulosia It* her room/after the par- eye wt-s found, while a number, six ents had persistently disregarded in one grade alone, were found the official notices. The excitement in the white schools.' created, and the communications | The great nutflfcer of c.-'-ses of received by this lady will doubtless ’ hypertrophied tonsils in the lower j mr-ke one of the most interesting grades, and the few cases among chapters Ir* her school life. In the examination of the throat. the chlldern in the higher grades makes me beltqMi that we are a , a small wooden spatula furnished little too radical It removing ton- bp the school authorities was used sils, and that if left alone, many to depress the tongue, r< separate , of them will return to norma] slxe one for each examination. The In- as the child reaches adolescence, spectora devoted two hours each without having Injured the child. school day to this work, and work ing la pairs were able to examine about fifteen chlldrer* an houf. A summary of this report .shows that there were examined 2567 children. 1191 were white and 676 were colered. y? Six hundred and thlrty-aix ‘"chil dren were found to be suffering from n single defect, 492 had two defects. 126 bad three defects. 22 children had four defects, and six children had as many ns five de fects, roaklrg a total of 1919 de fects distributed Of the man/children examined a surprisingly larger number was foutd who had never used a tooth brush; one small hoy when asked If he had a tooth brush answered that he 4M- not, but he knew his brother would lend him his, another answered that he used to have one but his mother ruined It by polishltg her shoes with |t, and atill another said, "My Ps-w says little chaps like me and Tom don’t need no tooth brushes.” The ihspectlou showed that there among 1177 chit- Is a close relation between the Bight hundred and twenty- physical condition and the" morals, two of the defective children were .character, studlousiess, and the mhite and 261 were colored. {beet attributes of .childhood. In The aggregate shows 46 per cent. {discussing with Prof. Frank Evans, of the children examined to be , Superintendent of the Spartanburg defective. The percentage among {Schools, the condition of a cer- the whiten being 42.6 per cent., juir* school, which showed the worst while amor* the colored pupils phelcal condition of Jhe pupils; he the percentage of defectives was said: ‘‘The moral condition of this id per cent. ! school is likewise the worst, it Is I would not have these statistic* the school that gives me the most creata the impression that 46 per troubled This carries out the ob- cent of the pabllc school children cf nervation of iudge Estelle, of the tf.vV Spartanburg are candidates for <he hospital, or ars lame, halt, and b«in —for th* examination showed them to ho n lot of healthy average chil dren. The larger proportion were suffering front errors of refraction, ad tonalla, and are vital to the ef th# child, they for will make three flights daily, beginning Wednesday, Dec. 13th, and continuing Thursday and Friday, Dec. 14th said 15th, in his new 60 horse-power biplane, flying from the New Charles ton Boulevard, circling over the bay and doing new death stunts in mid-air. The Retail Merchants of Charleston, whose names appear in list below, will give FREE TICKETS, in addition to paying the round-trip railroad fare of out-of-town people, who purchase goods to the amount of $25.00 or more, in ac cordance with their railroad refunding plan. REMEMBER THE DATES, DECEMBER 13th, 14th and 15th Come and brinjv your familyNani friends. A good time insured and a guarantee that you will see something novel in the way ot aeroplane dying. RSK FOR REFUND BOOKS Omahc- Juvenile Court, made at recent meeUng of The American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, who said: "In my judgment 60 per cetf. of the cas es of truancy which le*d up often to delinquencies are brought about more by physical than by mental dlf flea 1 ties.” The most distressing feature of j Art Htores, t L&nr.eau’s Art Store '. 238 King Street. Antique Furniture. Morgenstern Furniture Company.. 62 Reid Street. Baker*. Condot-’s Bakery ■ . .* .153 Rutledge avenue. Book 8ture«. Walker. Evans A Cogswell 3 Broad Street. C. L. Legerton 263 King 8t. IkufcirU, Mattings, Etc. Mutual Carpet Company.. 427 King Street. CtBiiaa. Glam arid Qwernwarr Charleston Crockery Company...*.. 299 King Street INgafew and To burro. Follin Bros., Oo 260 King St. CloltBIng and Gent*’ Furnishings # Bentschner St Visanska .• ,262 King Street. Hirsch-lgrael Company .. .. ...King and Wentworth. W. 8. Cgt>k Company . 'i 332 King Street.- 8. Brown* Sons 354-266 King Streot. Banov A Volaski.. ? .. .. 666 King Street. Department Htores. M. Furchgott St Sons . . .... . .240-242 King Street. Louis Cohen St Co 333-334 King Street, and 203 Meeting Street. J. R. Reed Co 249 King St. The Kerrison Dry Goods Co...... 80-82 Hasel Street. Druggist*. Paragon -Drug Co 286-288 King Street. Fish and Oyster*. Terry Fish Co.. .. 133 Market St. Florists. Connelly-McCarty Co 296 King Street. Fuiudtaa*. Phoenix Furniture Co . .187 King Street. Buell St Roberts., ..673 King St. A. G. Rhodee A Son 369-361 King St. FWndtur* and Dry Goods. Buell St Roberts.. ..673 King St. • ‘ Gruonikw. J. H. Hesse .. .... Montague and Coming Sts. The John Hurkamp Co King and Broad Streets Gums, Bicycles and Bpsntlug <fo*»*i*- Tbe B. H. Worthen Arina Co.. .. •» 220 King Streot. Hardware. M. H- Laxarus.. . . . . : .King and Hasel Streets. A. McL. Martin 363 King St. Strohecker St McDermtd v . . 287 King Street. Ball Supply. Co 377 King St. Jewelers. Jas Allen A Co 285 King St. Carrington, Thomas A Co 251 King St. Optician and Optical ttupplim. Parsons Optical Co 24,4 King St. PUksos, Orgnnp, Mamie ami Musical MorctuuKtiNe. Seigllng’s Music Store.. ’.. .. ..243 King Street. HUrreS, CktoUag Utesudls, Etc. Minnls Stove Co .. .4 ... .King and Burns Lane. HRaie Stupe*. 1 Robert E. Martin 266 King St. ^H. J. Williams 248 King St. Robert Martin 139 Market St. A. A. Hir#?h 281 Kitg St. D. O’Brien A^Sons 381 King St. W. F. Livingston 366 King St. Jacob's Shoe Store ..610 King St. Tnmrf ■ aad Bags. Charleston Trunk Company .270 King Street. lYpewHUrt’* Md Office BmxpUes. Edward J. Murphy.... 167 Meeting St. ooo o • V