New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-28

culosis in the lungs spleen and brain memotanes.
Repestsdy have experiments proved the trss
secretons. and in the German army three years
ago disinfectng spt,oon was devised for the MIL
Of this kind can be and w be taken
ssr e ri hs peoe eHa OF pro-
portion of the general population to laoel them with
to detect the disease in its inception is such
bination of absurd beginnings at the wrong END a.
unanlmty Of these boards OF health. SIcn pro:
ceedng as the one suggested by these boards woula
class which does not employ i Regular family at
tendant and which rarely consuts physician ex,
simply reach those who either from their greater
intelligence or wealth would be in position to con;
su.t physicians in those stages OF the maady Of
which the ordinary observer and ordinary sufferer
therefrom does not realize the gravity The rssnIs
terferlng supervision which failed in striking the
person and succeeded in bothering those who In the
very nature OF the case instructed by their
physicians with regard to every reasonable prccau'
DR.. sptzka then said that per cent OF the populac
ton Of New-York city either were tu5ercu.ous or
had tubercuious relatives.
Just as the most OF sa g
say. are those patients who are Frustrated with
the disease and who are, comparatively. easily us.
the advanced stages. 80 the conslrptive who fog
years presents a fair degree Of working power and
passes uncha.lenged through the community. II not
as intensely contagious 10 others as the hacking ana
coughing hospital wreck Is greater danser on ac
in cars. in our business houses Ia elevators ~
social gatherings and at home. Is this man 20 ps
reported. to have back mark against MS name IN
an accessible record running his chances or employ
perhaps. and not only his chances OF mtrrase,
but by blackenng the family record the ciancss
Of marriage of his brothers and sisters aad daush
ters and sons? 1, :, .
Not until further advances have been made IN our
knOwedgc of the vitality of the tuberc!e Ddclius
under various circumstances msy II be Ventureh 20
treat the inha btants of the metropolis OF TINS con-
tlnent AS veterinarians treat a nero or catte WIN
pleuro- neumona. hogs with hog choie'a ana
long before such measures are enforced ~ may pe
fairly asked that they be applied to those VINO sprSad
more dangerous, more revolving, ana more pre'eh''
able diseases through vicious indulgence.
'Theorists may say what they VIII ABOUT me roao
by when tuberculosis travels from ancestor 10 de-
scendant They may deny that the bacillus Is ai.
rectly transmitted from parent to chin ana ,nsy
NAV hedge on the question OF the hereditary na,us
Of consumption by calling it predspoSSon, or "a
tendency or anything else they choose me rae, re-
mains which has never been disputed, mas Deph
known for thousands of years, and, rear. VIII re-
main a fact for thousands OF years 10 come thde
In at least four out OF five, ous!t 70 say 20
cases ont Of 100 1t IL family disease II Is IN an
almost disappearing minority Of cases tnat u u ac
n,,ire1 and OF these the larger proportion IN turn
are produced by Infection from mix OF tuoercuouss
cattle have been abe to establish in two cases o.
tubercuar meningitis. in one case posuVey an. Nh \.
The other with overwhelming prohaplilty .nat ,lns
was the only ascertanab,e source OF iniec'ioh'