The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1893-11-18
| ISOLATION OF ALL CONSERVATIVES.
RADICAL MEASURE PROPOSED.
Widespread Conformation Among Con-
sumptives Caused by the Suggestion
to Place Them In Special Hos
pltsls as "A Means of Pre-
venting the Spread OF
the Disease.

The recent action of the Michigan State
Board of Health in placing consumption on
the list Of contagious diseases and requiring
safeguards to prevent its spread, Is causing
widespread newspaper discussion as to the
proprIety Of similar action in other states.
Not only has the Michigan Board OF Health
taken this radical step, but the County Med
zeal Society, of Philadelphia, has petitioned
the Board of Health there to isolate con
sumptiyes The Pan-Amcr.can Congress also
passed resolution at the recent Washington
convention calling on the national govern
nent TO take steps in the same direction even
going so far as to ask President Cleveland TO
give his personal attention to the matter.
The result has been that national, state and
civic authorities have been appealed to, there
bv causing CONSERVATION TO thousands of con
sumptiycs In every state In the Union, who
are In terror lest they should be torn from
their homes and friends, and turned oycr 10
special hospitals which, in reality, viii De
pesthouses
The turmoil which the proposition has ere
ated is steadily increasing. and great TaEe
OF opposition Is appearing.
Friends Of consumptives declare thai II $50
latiOn of the patients Is attempted Ia special
hospitals numerous outragcs will result and
that not only will unfeeling persons who want
10 get rid Of sick relatives, dump them upon
the hospitals, but Vaccinations VIII arise OF 4
most evil character. Small traiesmen, for
instance, afflicted by cough, MAJ suddenly
find themsclye. moved out of Their competl'
tors way, by Il judicial process which Will
send them TO the special consumptye hospital
70 end their days.
Some declare that while the appearance OF
smallpox or cholera in the land is The signal
Tor immediate, widespread alarm, and the In
auguraiion of severe repressive measure
consumption which is always presen: and is
chrOnicully epidemic, Is allowed to take an
unchecked course. the people no. realizing
that It is far more deadly than any other dis-
case, and Is slowly but surely increasing It's
silent ravagcs. II Is claimed that as half OF
the people who have consumption do not re
alize the fact, they spread false confidence
among their friends, who careiessly allow
themselves to come IN contact with the vic
thus, and are, In turn, fatally Infected.
The New York Herald commenting on Tho
subject quotes the action Of the Congress de Ia
TuberculOse, recently held In Paris, In which
the following resolution was adopted;
"Iu view of the fact that life ~ common OF
consumptlyes with the other patient, ia the
hospitals is disadvantageous both to them.
selves aud others. and that the risks that they
run and to which they expose others are moi
compensated by any scriou. profit, the mem
bgrs OF the Congress are OF the opinion that
all cousumptiyc patients should be gathered
together ga special hospitals In groups, nc
coTding 10 the period Of their disease. and
that these groups should be As email as posi-
bic at the earliest stage of the complaint.
'lu consideration Of the fact that IN The
present condition Of the science a continuous
and sufficient supply OF pure air is one OF the
most powerful elements In the treatment ol
tuberculosis It Is also advisable that these
hospitals should be built IN the country. or Al
the scashOrc.
FINALLY, as 4 iransltory measure, to last rs
short time as possible, consumptiyes should
for the time being be united In special ward
In the hospitals, apart from those Of the othri
patients. and the walls and furniture OF thes,
wards should be disinfectcd at stated inter
Anothcr scheme FOR the ISOLATION OF con
sumpt!ycs, which has just been announced by
the Denver tColol Noes is TO the effect that
W y. Byers, representing asyndicate OF H1s-
ton capitalists. has applied at the office OF The
Colorado Land Commissioner for sections o.
land on which to colopizc consumptives from
New England. The idea i to erect suitable
buildings and put the patients at gentle work
attending TO fruit and poultry, bee culture
and gardening Insisting all of the time, upon
suitable physical exercise. The Idea Is that
patients in the first stages Of consumption
might be benefited in the mild, dry air OF
Colorado and that their light lnbors can be
turned 10 the pccunlary advantage of the
syndicate.
The Cincinnati Post over year ago inter
csted itself IN Tic oiicsflon- Of the cause OF