The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1893-12-14
THEORY OF ISOLATION.
TO SHUT UP CONSERVATIVES.
Widespread CONSERVATION Among Con-
sumptives Caused by the Suggestion
to Place Them in Special Hos
pitfalls as a Means OF Pro-
venting the Spread OF
the Disease.

safeguards 10 prevent us spread 10 CAUSING
widespread newspaper discussion as to the
proprlety 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 petitloned
the Board of Health there to isolate con.
sumptives. The Pan-Amcr,can Congress also
passed resolution at the recent Washington
convention calling on the national govern
mcnt 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
by causing CONSERVATION to thousands of con-
sumptives in every state in the Union, who
are In terror lest they should be torn from
their homes and friends, and turned over to
Especial hospitals" which, IN reality, will be
pcsthouses.
The turmoil which the proposition has Gre
ated is steadily increasing, and great wave
OF opposition is appearing.
Friends of consumptives declare that II iso-
lation OF the patients is attempted In special
hospitals, numerous outrages will result and
That not only will unfeeling persons who want
to get rid OF sick relatives, dump them upon
the hospitals, but Vaccinations Will arise OF
most evil character. Small tradesmen, for
instance, afflicted by a cough, may suddenly
find themselves moved out of their competi-
tors way, by judicial process which will
send them to the special consumptive hospital
to 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
auguration of severe repressive measures,
consumption which is always presen. and is
chroncally epidemic, Is allowed to take an
unchecked lt1ip
that it Is far more deadly than any other dis
ease and is slowly but surely increasing its
silent ravages. 1t Is claimed that as half of
the people who have consumption do not re- |
allie the fact, they spread false confidence
among their friends, who carelessly allow |
themselves to come in contact with the VIC
Tins, and are, in turn, fatally infected
The New York Herald commenting on the
subject quotes the action of the Congress de la
tuberculosis, recently held in Paris, In which
the following resolution was adopted:
In view OF the fact that life In common of
consumptives with the other patients In the
hospitals is disadvantageous both to them
serves and others, and that the risks that they
'un and TO which they expose others are not
compensated by any serious profit, the men,
oers Oh the Congress are of the opinion that
MI consumptive patients should be gathered
ogether In special hospitals In groups, ac-
ording to the period of their disease, and
nat THESE groups should be as small as posi-
lie at the earliest stage of the complaint.
I'm consideration of the fact that in the
resent condition of the science q continuous
nd sufficient supply of pure air is one of the
lOst powerful elements In the treatment of :
lDerculosis, 1t is also advisable that these
ospitals should be built In the country, or at
le seashore. '
"Ffnally, as transitory measure, to last as Q
tort time as possible, consumptives should, :
n m hnJn hs. Il l.. |
| tne hospitals, apart from those of the other .
atients, and the walls and furniture of these i
ards should be disinfected at stated inter-
u.s." p
Another scheme for the isolation of con-
mptives which has just been announced bv 8,
g Denver (Colo,) NeacS, Is TO the effect that a
F. N. Byers, representing asyndicate of Bos-
n capitalists, has applied at the office of the
dorado Land Commissioner for sections of
nd on which to colonize consumptiyes from
ew England. The idea Is to erect suitable II
lildings and put the patients at gentle work
tending to fruit aud poultry, bee culture
ID gardening, insisting all Of the time, upon n
liable physical exercise. The idea Is that +,
tients in the first stages OF consumption n,
lght be benefited in the mild, dry air of Il
dorado and that their light labors can be II
rned to the pecuniary advantage of the 3,
Indicate. d
The Cincinnati Post over year ago inter o.
ted itself In the question of the cause of N
assumption and the possibility of its cure. q
nee mat time many newspapers have de- ri
ted attention to the subject n
Recent statistics, carefully gathered, have q
own that one-seyenth OF all the deaths In h
g United States from disease are caused by n
and this startling fact, promi- h
'ntly presented, has served to increase the -
citation which has been aroused. - -
In order to get at the opinions of the lead ~
g physicians OF Cincinnati on the latest /,
pect OF the case, !. G. that relating to the :
opposed isolation of consumptlves, inter- =
ews were secured with Drs, Whitaker. Jud- -
ms, Amick, Drumming and Others a.
DR.. William Judkins said: ''I thoroughly =
'lieye in the scheme for the isolation of con- !,
mptive patients. The best plan is to take -
o patient out Of his home and put him in a a
'use specially built for consumptives The "
ca may seem harsh one, but 1t is certainly "
the interest OF friends of the sufferer. The !,
eat trouble with the project would be to ~
1t patients In the first stages of the disease -
60 to such retreat Most of them don't "
'lieve that they have consumption, and YOU =,
nnot convince them TO the contrary.n :,
Ut. whitaker said; II do not approve of h
Q Isolation project simply because | do not =,
INK It would do any practical good Isola- n
On, the taking away of consumptive from ~
man. u
us every case Of consumption the result Of >,
intact with some other case, or is the disease =,
metimes sporadic, like choieragn " y,
mo. There is no such thing as sporadic IN
nsumption- IL Is not even an Inherited a,
sease. Every case owes It's origin to COM N
'catlon. Many cases Of consumption are al
ntracted at bedsdes. One patient can give ~ -,
to twenty well persons. Strong men, With a.
predisposition that way, get It, Why, one .,
the worst places to contract consumntio "
In postotllce corridor A consumptiye s ~
ming In splits on the floor. He spreads the %
rms OF his disease to DO inhaled by others n
10 enter. There should be cuspidors in .,
stoffices, In market houses and in all other -
bile places. Splitting by consumptiyes upon :.
ewalks Is not SO dangerous, as the open air 80,
seminates the germs more widely than in a ia
ilding.n 10
DO you think that consumption is increas- u, IN
: or decreasingi' Va
Probably decreasing, on account of better n .,n
thods used In treating It. The newspapers ="
40 great good by calling attention to tho nj
'at dangers OF consumption and noting the q,
cesslty Tor greater care In guarding against No
disease. People are too careless. No III
no. isolation would be Of benefit to patients an
. DO good, but it could not be enforced, w, W.,
". W X: Amlck, who resigned his profess NJ,
snip In the Cincinnati College OF Medicine fa 20,
surgery heid Tor seventeen years, TO de-
e himself to curing consumption, said. 40
Il am, OF course. opposed to Isolation. he oio
use my theory Is that consumption is not H.
ectiy produced by any outside cause. ~,
"a mat the bacillus mcrobe is the effect or - -
,uuct, and not the cause OF the disease, so -,
: very evident, In my opinion, that isola- c w.,
q, would accomplish no good,' o oo
gu mean to say, then, thatsthe inhalInp ~ ~
,ha. urieu,ap sputa, containing these mi "
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