The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28
Protection VS.. Consumption Dis
cussed Scientifically
RELATION OF VENTILATION
The Art Of Breathing Interestingly
Handled
Natural Santa lon Treated at Length In All
Of Its Bearings 1edical Notes
From Hany Fields
(cond ucted by DR.. Helen Densmore,

(Conduct by DR.. Helen Densmorel
There Is no subject presented year after
year before our state board OF health and
, sanitary convention thar receives such a
large measure Of consideration and earn
est discussion rs tuberculosis.
| Efforts have been made again and aga in
TO bring to pass some effective sanitary
measures that shall seem worthy con-
scientious, intelligent, thinking people.
| The function of the state board of health
is simply advisory. 1t has no power to
execute or enfo' ce except by sight Of. l,
is probably waiting for the public to be-
| come educated up to the point of de-
! inanding protection.
The speodiest way Of educating the
masses of people on these matters is by
| the passage and execution of right sani-
tury laws. A legislative enactment, con-
| scisntiously executed, is wonderful
| educator.
| Our loca; boards OF health hold a simi.
| lar relation to our city council, having.
however, the additional power of enforo
ing, after the city council has enacted an
| ordinance.
The causes of consum ption are predis-
posing and exciting.
First-The prsdIsposing causes are
| The marriage IF consumptives; an In
herited tendency or susceptibility to the
disease; the commingling in houses OF
the diseased and the unaffected; living
in sunless, crowded. damp, i'll. ventilated
rooms unhygienlc habits ia exercise, diet,
ETC., that result in deteriufated general
health, or deteriorated health from any
| cause.
Second-The exciting causes are: The
inhalation Jf dried and pulverized tuber-
| cuiUus sputa; incubation by tuberculous
pus: the consumption of tuberculous
meat, chiefly beef. veal, pork and poultry
| the consumption of tuberculous mills,
butter and cheese. and the burial of tub
| erculous dead, both human and animal.
Hence, whatever will strike a deadly
| blow at any OF these causes will rapidly
lessen the most fatal and common Of all
dreaded diseases, and every measure tina
| can be proven operatives il is our mpera-
| tive duty 10 employ.
And it is our duty to make our public
and private environments such that we
are impregnable to the disease, and to
make it possible for imported cases to
stand fair chance OF recovery, instead
OF receiving, after they como to Us, an
increased impetus deathward, because OF
our sanitary conditions.
The spread of tuberculosis in the
| United States 10 believed to be more
largely through tubercuious cattle than
| by any other means Except the dried
and pulverIzed sputa OF the tuberculotio).
through tuberculous meat, milk. butter
and cheese.
Too much civilization (?), too much
| pampering, housing and inactivity pre-
| pare the system for an easy conquering
| by the enemy. An active, roughing, OUT
| door life. living out of doors as IN UGH as
possible in the daytime, and sleeping in
tents or outdoor screen-roons at night,
| ut..,,, las. III
| disease.
4 Long skirts that wipe mp the dust and
expectorations on the street and in pub
lie places. paper and mating covered
walls, carpets tnat are fastened to the
| floors. heavy and unwashaple draperies
are all means of fostering and spreading
tie disease.
There is no question but under our
! PRESENT condition OF deficient sanitary
! regulations, the strictly vegetarian stands
, a better chance In this fight with death
from tuberculosis. than doos the consum-
time when the human family shall ex-
clude from its diet list all meat food and
animal products does not promise to be
near at hand, and some more effective
means must be taken to lessen the grow
ing mortality from these causes.
| Probably less danger arises from meats
| than from milk, because the process of
cooking would in Large measure de-
stroy the tuberculous germs. For this
reason, If for no other. all meats should
be thoroughly cooked and never served
| rare, and Clipped beef and other raw
meats should be banished from our
| tables.
Now what couli be done here, without
waiting TO. legislative sanction, to lessen
the dangers to which we are subjected.
| First-There should be skilled veteYin.
| airy inspection at frequent intervals of
\ ad mt ho ~tt itu
or whose milk is dispense within the
city limits. and every cow proven by pro-
| per tests to have tuberculosis or any
| other infectious disease, should be con-
signed to the 1ertillzing works or Gre
| mated.
! Second-With every dairy COW that is
| solu there should go certificate OF i'm
munity from infectious diseases. 1t is as
essential AS a certificate of title with real
| estate.
Third-All beef cattle and other ami
mails to be s !aughtersd and sold within
| our city limits, either BY private persons
Or those in the business, should be in.
spected before Strengthening, that no
| tuberoulous or other diseased meat may
find its way into our markets; and there
should be heavy penalty attaching
any violation of suLh INSPECTION throug h
carslessness. evasion or favor.
| Fourth-Every human subject dying
| of tuberculosis or other infectious dissas
| should be cremated.
| Fifth-All cases of consumption should
be reported to the health officer. and sup
| piled as by the Michigan board OF health,
with Literature giving in detail all nee.
essary instruction concerning the dan
| gers, the sanitary measures required for
its suppression and the penalties for vio-
| lations.
Sixth-There should be compulsory use
| Of sanitary Cuspidors.
| Seventh-There should be compulsory
| disinfection of all houses, rooms and
their contents that nave been occupied by
consnmptives.
| Eigth-Penplties sufficient to epm hasize
the necessity of regarding such regula-
tions SHOULD attach to all violations.
| Whether or not future light may prove
| the whole germ theory Of disease to have
been medical fad. has no bearing on
present duty. We should act according
to present light, and If the Dried sputa
floating in the atmosphere as dust FOR ou-
inhalation, ana the meat and animal
products which we eat are the chief
causes, as is now generally believed in
| producing this disease, to be careless and
indifferent in enacting and enforcing
| stringent m easurps to check these wide
! spread causes. Is an objectionable CRIME.
| KATE SHEPARDSON BLACK, Nj. d.
HOW NATURE CURES.
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