Wednesday, September 29, 1971
University Daily Kansan
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Accidents Main Student Killer
By ANN CONNER
Knappan Staff Writer
The number one killer of college age people in the United States is not venereal disease, hematophagy or cancer. It is incidents.
The latest annual summary of national statistics which rank causes of death in the United States by age indicated that accidents cause more deaths than accidents categories combined. Further-more, most of the accidents involve transportation.
Although the latest available figures by age for the above information were a summary of national statistics for 1908, Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler, director of the National Center for recent interview that accidents are currently the main cause of death among KU students.
"There very rarely are different kinds of death (than accidents) on campus, he said. "They're pneumonia, for example, would be incredible because treatment is prompt and efficient. I can't remember any death from an accident in the campus for at least 10 years."
Schweger thought that the reason for accidents being the primary mortality factor at KU was an economic one. In the ghetto, where there will be less access to medical care and infectious diseases, we probably more lives will claim more lives, he said.
"In this social bracket, students have access to lots of materials that are not said." Accidents are largely a factor of movement in space and distance.
Schweger estimated that during every major holiday when traffic was heavy, one or two cars were involved in highways. However, he pointed out that many of the accidents at motorcycles in local traffic.
To prevent such a high accident rate, Schweger suggested special care should be taken by both automobile and cycle engineers.
Schwegler mentioned alcohol as the cause of many accidents in this age group at KU.
There is a great likelihood of killing someone on a bicycle, he commented. "Bicyclers have no protection but the fresh air."
"I would guess that alcohol about 60 per cent of accidents nationwide," he said. "Cases involving alcohol are one of the biggest forgers about this drug, but it is the cause of many accidents."
Nationwide the 1968 data showed the following four most frequent age groups to 24 age range given in deaths per 100,000 population: accidents, 69,5 homicide, 10.1; malignant cancer (cancer), 8.2; and suicide, 7.1.
With regard to frequency, a different health pattern has been discovered. Schweiger reported that 60% of students had the cause of most student visits to Watkins. Flu, colds, sinusitis and bronchitis were included in this category. Accidents ranked as the number of cases seen at KU.
The Watkins staff sees more respiratory disease than venereal disease or hepatitis because, Schwegler said, most of the students live in hygienically acceptable situations and most of their contacts are with other living in similar situations.
However, he pointed out that the change of life style and the rise of the commune could the spread of infectious diseases.
"With the coming of the commune," he said, "we're facing something else. It depends on how the commune is run. It's a moral matter at all, but rather a matter of living in groups."
Classified as either serum or infectious, the hepatitis is an infection that is spread through the blood stream. Schweigel explained, and is often associated with the drug prazosin in some drugs. The infectious type the most common, he said, and is involved in content and spread by dirty hands.
Schweiger described the symptoms of hepatitis as general pain in the left side, dark urine and a jaundiced, yellowish tint in the whites of the liver.
Besides "feeling rotten" there may be no definite signs of the disease. Schlegler said.
"There's no question that quite a number of people go about in the population and don't know about this," he said. "Hepatitis can be spread by the hands of people who touches the food you eat."
Prevention of most communicable diseases is a matter of simple hygiene. Schwegler said.
"Many of these diseases could be prevented if people would do two things," he suggested. "If they would wash their hands before they eat it could cut down a lot because vast numbers of them could get on the ends of one's fingers and put into the mouth."
He said simple hygiene was particularly important in food preparation.
His second recommendation, for preventing the spread of disease was not to cough openly into the environment.
"Food should be cooked properly, and cooks should wear hair nets and watch the handling of food," he insisted.
The important thing is to be prepared, as the remarks are remarked, we might start with the basement of Strong Hall. American society a drive for people. People eat everything. Rats have been seen in the basement early in the morning.
"it's too bad," he commented, "because it' s ranking now and it could be a pleasant place. There no great effort required, private care and concern on the part of everyone who have been advancing employment."
Veneral disease, another major age group, the 15 to 30 age group, causes reaching epidemic proportions nationally as shown in national statistics.
However, Schweigel thought that venereal disease was not the main cause of the economic background and social contacts of most college students. Since it is hard to estimate who were never reported and many persons did not know they were venereal, it was difficult to estimate the frequency.
which were reported, gonorrhea
infection and no infection, once every 12
seconds. Syphilis ranked third behind scarlet fever and throat
infections.
However, national public health data showed last year that of all communicable diseases
National public health officials reported that one half of the new venereal infections contracted by persons under 25 were infected.
"It's alleged that 10 per cent of females in this age group have gonorrhea," Schwegler said.
Veneral disease, spread only through direct sexual contact with a vaginal fluid or may not know he is infected, has symptoms similar to several non-venereal diseases and may be best identified by a laboratory test.
The Westport Free Health Clinic in Kansas City, Mo., which deals primarily with people in the city with severe illnesses or more of their cases involved venereal disease than any other health problem. The clinic handles over 100 patients per day and some referral to local hospitals.
"We see a lot of people with venereal disease. That's the truth of our case," Vegt, co-administrator of the clinic, said. "We have an awful lot of people who come in and are worried that we have venereal bumps."
"I think hospitals don't see you because young people don't feel good about going to a hospital or to 'family' doctor," he remarked.
"We get a few bad trips among students, about one to two a month, but they are growing more often were first used," he said.
Schweiger reported that drug
competence was the main con-
cercer, did not seem to be as
much of a health problem at KU
as did accidents and respiratory
"The answer is not that people have quit using drugs but they can treat their own bad trips; they treat each other when they get into trouble," he explained. "You must be very careful with very few heroin addicts, and only one which was a student Schwegler reported."
He thought that mononucleosis was not highly contagious in the body, but it did affect students already had immunity to the disease from a childhood sickness which might have caused the illness. Schweigler described typical mononucleosis symptoms as enlarged glands in the neck, night sweats and fever.
Influenza and mononucleosis, also thought to be a viral infection, were the causes of a number of student visits卫生站
Congrecing suicide attempts. Schwegler said that the hospital handled about 30 cases each year, most of which were minor.
"We have had some that were very close calls," he remarked, "but most of them are rather mild affairs.
As a trend in student health problems, Schwegler noted the growing number of drug abuse
cases in recent years and the increasing tendency of society in general to rely on drugs of all kinds as a cure-all.
"We not only have ingenious drug manufacturers who are constantly making more and more complex problems to a population at large is more and more drug oriented as a means to solve problems, both physical and emotional. If something is too complicated we can go take something for it." he said.
Schweiger predicted that a nervous stress would probably lead to an increase of hypersensitive and psychiatric symptoms.
"We have to admit that we're working under a head of steam that was unimaginable a few years ago," he said. "Who would think that with technology we could go on supporting that almost everyone is in need of some sort of tranquilization at some time."
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Miller explained that the responsibility of a student senator is to take his con- pliance with the Student Senate and the University Senate.
The offices of representatives to the Student Senate from the Cincinnati College (CWC), the freeman president of presidents of office, vice-president, secretary and treasurer, and representatives for the Unorganized Housing Association elections to be held Oct. 20, and 21.
Mert Buckley, Wichita sophomore and chairman of the State Committee, said that he would meet to avoid having candidates running for offices in those districts of those offices. He also wanted candidates to know what the election procedures were.
Approximately 50 people attended an information meeting held Tuesday night for those attending in training for these student offices.
Buckley, who served as freshman class president last year, said that the freshman class
Davier Miller, president of the student body, said that each of the CWC's would elect one of the college presidents, which would elect two. The fall CWc elections were created last year by each of the colleges in the Student Senate in the Student Senate. Anyone from one of the colleges may run for the position in his college. An office will be held until next fall.
Representatives of the Unorganized Housing Association will be elected from various districts where they have not yet been determined.
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