Medical Missionary Department

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 3, 1909

Medical Missionary Department

Eleventh Meeting, May 26, 8 A. M.

Dr. G. H. Heald read a paper on “General Hygiene,” emphasizing the thought that while we should not do less on the subject of diet, etc., we should do much more than we have been doing on other lines. For instance, we should give more attention to the prevention of communicable diseases, including tropical diseases; we should make more of a study of school hygiene, sanitation, ventilation, the remedying of defects in the eye, nose, throat, teeth, etc., which greatly diminish efficiency of students; and we should have a more complete course of hygienic instruction introduced into the schools.

Miss Bilz, who is a national W. C. T. U. lecturer, related personal experiences in the temperance work. Some of these emphasized a deplorable lack of co-operation on the part of our people in some localities in the matter of actively supporting the cause of temperance reform, while others gave abundant evidence of the benefits a proper co-operation with this work can bring in the way of promoting interest in proper diet, healthful dress, and other lines of reform. In one society, as a result of the example of the Seventh-day Adventist woman who was its leader, every woman in the organization was wearing a health waist. The two ways of promoting the cause of temperance were mentioned, that of active prohibition and that of education in temperance principles.

There was a general expression of interest in this paper, and other examples were related showing the excellent results of a judicious co-operation with the W. C. T. U. and other temperance organizations.