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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 131, 30 November 1922, Page 10

FLASHLIGHTS ON PUBLIC HEALTH, . Miss Katherine Felton, of the Associated Charities, San Francisco, epealts as an expert and adduces evidence. There was a notable change, she says, directly the saloons closed:— Men reached their homes with all their daily, weekly, or monthly wages untouched. The improvement in children was marked; little cheeks rounlded out; children were better dressed; luncheons more adequate to the children's necessities were available; and anxious, weakly little ones found light and happiness coming into their lives. BORN ABOVE GKOUND. Speaking before the Twentieth Century Club in Boston on the 29th October, 1921, Mr. Charles W. Eliot; Professor Emeritus Harvard University, said that there were three classes of witnesses whose evidence he particularly valued —district nurses, school nurses, and social workers of all kinds. All three, he said, couM testify to the good effects of Prohibition on family life, especially among the working classes, and he cited the following example:— A district nurse recently called on a woman who was expecting her confinement. The woman said to her'visitor: I have got four children already. This one that is coming will be the first born above ground. The nurse did not quite comprehend, but the woman went on: The only way I used to bo able to get (money was to take it out of my husband's pocket when he was helplessly drunk in my room. I took what was necessary, but I never could get enough to hire any room that was not in a cellar. All my four children were born underground. This one is going to be born above; ground. REDUCING DISEASE AND DEATH. Haven Emerson, , M.D., lecturer on preventable diseases at Columbia and Cornell University Medical Schools, formerly Commissioner of Health in New York City: I believe future study of the | Vi c jntS e °f tJle past three V6ars in the field of public health and preventive medicine will demonstrate the correctness of the prediction which I ventured .to offer m Cleveland at the time when National Prohibition became operative, to the effect that nothing since the application of modem bacteriology to the control of communicable diseases will have so powerful an effect in reducing the incidence of diseases and the general death rate as Prohibition." Alfred Scott Warthin, M.D., Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.: lam more strongly in favour of Prohibition than ever before, and believe/that its continued enforcement will result in a great diminution of poverty and of inheritable disease, and will result in a great improvement of the race.—N.Z. Alliance Publicity (89)._Advt. CARNIVAL AT NELSON. Judging by the extensive preparations now being made, the big Nelson Carnival, which runs from 29th January to 3rd February, 1923, promises to be a huge success. .Alluring programmes have been mapped out; and include: Dancing and Fancy Dress Competitions, Motor Cycling, and Athletic Sports, Boxing Tournament, Musical and Elocutionary Contests, and many other novel amusements. Already co many inquiries for accommodation have poured in from all quarters that a special accommodation bureau has been installed. Visitors should writo Carnival Secretary, P.O. Box 120, t Nelson, for: information.— Aclvt.