Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-06-02
TRUE PHILANTHROPY.
Some Appalling Figures That Call for
a Leader in a Good CauSe-COn-
sumption and the Gil
matte Cure.

is unquestionably the greatest scourge of
the human race in the northern and mid
die latitudes. Some idea of the preva-
lence of this subtle and merciless malady
may be formed when we consider that
four-sevenths of the human family are
suffering from diseases of the respiratory
deaths north of the tropics, and that it an
nually carries off one in every 373 per-
sons of the entire population of the globe.
This includes countries where the disease
is not prevalent. So it follows of neces-
sity that the death rate is very much
larger in those locations where it is com
mon.
Consumption prevails to an alarming
OK tent in the United States and seems to
be rapidly increasing. According to the
census report for 1880 the total number Of
deaths in this country that year from pull
monary troubles was S4,2I7, while the
same report shows
TOTAL OF 1O2,199 DEATHS
from the same cause during the year 1890,
or an increase of nearly $4,000. The
death rate from consumption in New
York doubled during the ten years fol-
lowing 1880, reaching the startling figure
of 1851 in the year 1890. During the
same year over 10000 persons fell victims
of this pitiless destroyer in New England,
while Pennsylvania follows with 1853
Il 1anth hf. wif
G,393, Illinois with 5,699, Indiana with
1904, Tennessee with 3,G37, Kentucky
with 3,53S, New Jersey with 1888, Vir-
ginia with 3,O50, and 30 on down the sad
list to New Mexico, which
SHOWS THE LOWEST PERCENTAGE
of deaths from consumption of any state
or territory in the Union.
These figures are certainly appalling.
Yet comparatively little attention is paid
to them. Ten deaths from cholera in
New York would create genuIre sensa-
tion and national as we'll as state and
municipal health boards would fly to the
rescue of the epidemic threatened city
with multiplicity of quarantine regula-
tlons and disinfectants. But $4,000 an
nual deaths from consumptionilAthe En-
pire State are calmly accepted as mat
ter of course and congress continues to
laugh over the cod liver oil schedule while
the unfortunates who create market for
that article are dying like sheep. The
yellow fever epidemic of 1873, which re-
suited in 4,O56 deaths from New Orleans
to st. Louis, created an immense sensa-
tion throughout the country. Yet during
1890 consumption caused the death of 10,-
145 persons in Missouri, Tennessee, Mis-
sissippi and Louisiana and the mortality
Is hardly mentioned in the daily papers.
Clearly the subject of consumption
merits more attention than it is receiving.
1t affords such
AN INVITING FIELD
70 the physicians and the philanthropist
that it is difficult to understand why it has
been SO long neglected. Can the annual
ravages of consumption be reduced. Is
there remedy? These are questions that
instantly suggest themselves. They can
be answered in the affirmative. DR.. j.
Soles- Cohen, one of the finest of living
authorities on pulmonary complaints, de-
cares that Consumption is curable
disease, but not by the agency of drugs.
The many permanent cures that have been
effected have invariably been brought
about by favorable climatic Influences"
This is the testimony of all honest physi-
clans who have deeply studied the sub
ject. Where can the climatic cure
cons OWN REMEDY
be taken with the best results? In gen.
eral terms the entire Rocky mountain re-
gion, with its pure dry, rarified air and
almost perpetual sunshine, may be truth
fully named in answer.
DR.. j. F. Danter, of Toronto, Ontario,
who has made profound study of con-
sumption and has travelled extensively In
search of the climate best suited to its
cure, pronounces unequivocally in favor
OF the climate of New Mexico, which, he
adds: ~ fully believe is the best section
on the American continent for consump-
tives." After pointing out the
MANY ADVANTAGES OF NEW MEXICO
as compared with Florida and California,
DR.. Danter concludes by recommending
physicians to send their patients to this
territory, "where they can live in the
open air almost constantlv-where the
atmosphere is pure and asceptic, the sun
shine genial, the days warm and the
nights COOL"
All the authorities agree that Santa Fe,
with its dry and equable climate, pure