The morning call., 1890-12-24
/" KOCHINE."
It Will Be Tested at the City
and County Hospital.
DR.. Keeney Favols I:olation of Consumrti
fa ients-ThsoEy CT Coutagion-Largs
Number Of Chi ess Cases.

AT the request of the Board of Health,
Mayor Pond has cabled the American Lega-
ton at Berlin to obtain some OF Professor
Koch's lymph for the cure Of tuberculosis,
and turn it over to DR.. Charles II. Rosen-
thai of 1142 McAlister street, now in Btr-
lin, who has engaged to carry the valued
liquid to this city.
If the request of the legation is granted,
DR.. Rosenthal will Immediately set sail for
the United States, and upon his arrival the
lymph entrusted to him will be given to
Mayor Pond, who will turn it over TO the
Board of Health.
The lymph, if obtained at ALL will be OBJ
tanned on the condition that it will be used
in hospital, where its operation can be
observed at any time by physicians an !
scientists.
THE BOARD HAS Disclosed IT.
Health Officer Keeney stated yesterday
that the Board Of Health has discussed the
manner and the place in which the lymph,
if obtained, shall be used, and it has been
decided TO give it to the physicians at the
City and County Hospital for use upon the
consumptive patients, of whom there are
at present about forty in the institution.
It's operation could there be witnessed by
all who are interested in the Berlin physi-
clans remedy. DR.. Keeney is also anxious
TO try the effect of tie lymph on the eight
leperS ut the Pesthouse, SIX OF whom are
whites and two MongOllans. He has great
faith in Koch's cure, and is confident that
the city will pay the price charged for the
lymph given TO Dr. Rosenthal without de-
nurring.
Dr. Keeney has also become convert to
the theory that tuberculosis Is contagious.
He believes that If person who has no
symptoms of disease is placed in an apart
ment where he will be Obliged to inhale the
dried sputa of a consumptiye he VIII con-
tract the disorder. lie. is in favor OF
placing the consumptiyeS in the City and
County Hospital in one ward, where they
may be isolated from all others.
so DONE IN EUROPE.
This is done in all the large cities of Eu-
rope; and in Mexico so general is the belief
that tuberculosis is contagious that the
dwellings in which cOnsumptiveS have died
and the clothes which they have worn are
destroyed. A similar practice prevails In
some arts OF Europe, and Dr.. keeney IS OF
the opinion that such practice should be
established in this city.
DR.. keeney does not believe that consump-
ton is an hereditary disease. 1t comes from
contact with infected persons and from the
use of meat and milk containing tubercles.
Consumptiye Hebrews are rare, while the
number OF Chinese who are afflicted with the
disease is proportiOnately much larger, in
this city at least, than the number Of eau
caslanS.
The reason for this seems to be that the
Hebrews use the greatest caution in select
ing the meat which they use, while the Mon
goians are proyerbially careless.
ORIGIN OF CONSUMPTION.
Assistant Secretary LAWYER of the Board
of Health has views Oh the origin and cure
of consumption that coincide with those OF
DR.. Keeney. From statistics obtained from
all over the country he estimates that this
city has proportionately as many cases of
consumption as any other, but this is prob
ably due 10 the fact that many Eastern con-
sumptives come here to improve their health.
He has never heard of a death from con-
sumption among the vegetarian Hindoos.
AS evidence that the number Of Chinese
who contract consumption is proportonate-
~ much larger than the number of Caucas-
ians, he states that in this city during the
twelve months ending June so, 1880, $50
Caucasians and Africans and 203 Chinese
had died of the disease. The total number
of deaths from this disease was 1912, or
about one-sixth of the total number of
deaths from all causes.