Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-12-15

PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
Revised Circular on This Subject Issued b,
State Board OF Health.

board Of health, has completed his re-
vision of the circular Of the board on
the "Prevention of Consumption" In this
he has changed the ideas advocated in
| the former bulletin of the board and has
added many of the more modern ideas
ana discoveries. making the advice given
of the very latest school
1T may be interesting to physi ilns ana
OF benefit to others to know SOM of the
facts contained in this revised edition.
That insidious disease which We call
| consumption, phthisiS. or tuberculosls or
me lungs, Is the most terrible DESTROYER
q hve3 with which civilization has IL
contend a. says the circular.
| Al the present time the fact ~ tho IN -
/ nervousness Of consumption is iirnIy es-
tablished in scientific wav. ana rnIIIr h
\ i known Of ne natural history Of the i'll
Y fective agent the bacillus IF tlibrrr,,in-
I SIS ana q Inc ways in which il il com
4 munlcatcd to man. to enable IL IA Ill-
! down rules for the prevention u the 4 :
! formerly possible.
The source Of infection Is rwo-r,ld
| from one human being to anDthr- ANA
| from tuberculous animals to man. The
lupertuiosls u animals ana human con
| sumption are Of the same nature
PROM domestic ANIMALS t,lrr1 = ian
| ger 81 contracting IN" disease by the use
/ Of the flesh. and especially b. the use Of
| the milk from those which are rubrr,u-
| lous. Many children die in th-I- earlier
| years from various tubercuIar diseases
I tubcrculHr inflammation w the hrair
I consumption Of The bowels etc. MANY
| OF these deaths are due to 'i,Ing amid
| infectious surroundings ana breathing
infected air, but a considerable lirp1aI-
lion die from infection received lin thc
Idi'H m tuhtrcuI"iS cows "f ln tHat from
"i'til'l7 S"!l'IiiS AZ '!H tu'tItilDEiS 4E
St ..I' I~iLh,
. ~ l'l inc greatest source OF mice
! ~ YER, are o"H7ulHpti'e hI3i1n
hriHSS' ,hui fortunately ID" WAYS IN
"ll',h ,H' r'iilh4l 'H III I'M. minated Hr,
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-Atd '4 n, 7pllH.n s" !"n# f+ II remains
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'F- ltnl' .~ Fl F'-S.hIilA rL infection -n
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i-.I lH't r'H%' mug
NI,'.'' M 90 -AN"S'- iilpn mas
pfpt'l 'Itt th' .tr'l"S~ ''hSlmptiFe pa
l.tHi r locus 90 ilirrjtrN. anu dan-.-
t' aI persons Whn ,umt much in prpXim-
l\ ip nam, especially n" fnu-v HHO dwell
''i tr r. AS u w this \. iLat thr cxI,ey-
tIrdtlHH III tur Patient. -Itt upon floors.
'rr.t>. pocket hanek'r .i.fs. rr yluth-
luG. becomes dried alH p"lNrgiZ,d. and
heated in the Hlr, still contains Jhc .u-
ftctlOuS germs. and caunu1 hc inhaled
without great dagger
"ThuugA Infection mas Oh. regarded l 4
thn principal. thc essential cause WI con-
sumption. There aura nevertheless various
untu~ard Influences which NAY. much 10
do with increasing the dc4th-rl,, from
this disease. and they should never be
!. regarded Fhe most important If
these are the breathing M impure air.
tnat M uhNt nlI1ttd sleeping rooms,
living rooms schr"lr"9mS, ana Offices
me use 81 io"u moi SulIltlthtlI nutritious,
ana dwelling upon Il damp SOIL.
"lIeredity. formerly thought to be a po-
tent cau~o n pulmonary consumption
ahi other forms ri iuhercuioSis, II now
known ~ hlNc hul mite uirt H. the eau
satIon of TN disease Since Inc lntet-
li'uSness Of the disease mas been shown,
iimllY groups oi consumption, house
epl%emics are now referred TO infection
rather than 10 hereditary influence.
lhpuSH htIeditE T. possible, the pest au-
th"rities. thc world over now teach that
cases oi hereditary TRANSMISSION OF tuber- |
culnSlS are NcFE rare.
TWO f&cis should encourage the pa
tlrnt: one Is that there IS always an in |
irlhSlc tendency TO recovery IN the carrier |
stages ol thc disease. ana that under |
m"dttI treatment d large percentage 81 |
;.'rc9 II" lg,3N g ,llG olhgI II thAt tnert
Il Il" i''r,ii H, %ns 9"I' u tnil,h tLttt
T giI 4 II n u r,t ~ "'i''
M ."li1lIH H-St'i iH'S rs -
II 9.io'Iu "t li,IPl T9scu upon coiS tIilP-
tive patients ana other persons living |
with them that the sputum twhat they |
cough up Is dangerous and must be |
properly disposed 0f II must not become |
div. There ara several ways III which the |
sputum may safely tie cared for
Here he advises paper spit cups that |