The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-19

for the weakened CONSTITUTIONS OF men.
Avoidance of close relation with a con-
sumptive. pure air. .steriliZed milk and
pure foods are considerations.
Above all. the great masses OF the
people have to learn sanitation and TO
put themselves in line Tor the thinEs
which the medical world is preparing
for the worlds good
Today, with a case of scarlet fever,
diphtheria or smallpox in a city house
hold, the heads of that household are
not only willing, but anxious that the
stricken one shall be isolated from the
rest of the family. For the protection
of his neighbor, the health department.
may step in, placard the door, or even
remove the sick one. With tuberculosis,
however. there is no such thought or
stir; there may be no care taken as to
the exDectorations Of the patient, and
even he may share the same bedroom
with a well member of the household.
This must be changed. AT the Inter
national Congress Of Hygiene in Brus-
sells in 1897, a resolution was adopted
holding that "The disqualification OF
tuberculosis is urgent, and will not long
be Withheld"
HOSPITAL FOR CONSERVATIVES.
Only recently Chicago has made two
distinct moves in recognition of this
truth Chief of these has resulted in the
building of the Cook county hospital
for consumptiyes. the first public and
charitable institution of the kind in the
United States. 1t was built and
equipped at a cost of $4,000, and has
accommodations for $50 patients. II
admits only such persons as are depen-
dent upon the county The structure
was designed especially for the pur-
pose. with every ward arranged TO ad-
init light and air in greatest quantity.
Sanitation is enforced in strictest de-
gree Each patient has two granite
ware cups for Sputum, one used at
night, and one through the day. Night
and morning these cups are put into q
steel drum suDerheated by steam, in
which they are thoroughly disinfected-
Freedom of the wide central corridors
is allowed to patients but no one may
eX9ectorate save into the one vessel
allotted 10 him.
Naturally the inmates of this hos
pital are not subjects TO inspire great
enthusiasm in its medical staff. Many
Of the inmates are alone in the world
They are LIES failures and are dis
Outraged and hopeless. But the stan
Of physicians is there. alert and Crap
ping earnestly with this greatest prob
lem of the nineteenth century.
SOCIETIES FOR PREVENTION.
Not only this, but society for the
prevention of tuberculosis is forming IN
chica go. Some of the most prominent
physicians in the city are behind the
movement. Its chief mission in the be-
ginning. will be educational. II Will
endeavOr to awake public sentiment 10
the vital Importance Of hospitals and
homes for those suffering from tuber-
culosis and to impress upon the patient
his personal obligations TO society in
minimizing the danger Of injecting his
fellow man. In the end il proposes to
have developed broadened and pro-
crossed until tuberculosis no longer
menaces as the greatest and deadhesf
i'll known to mankind.
NEW YORK TO HAVE A HOSPITAL
New York state is preparing to emu
late the Chicago experiment in a hos
pital for cOnsumDtives. \ bill now is
under consideration at Albany DrOFid-
ing for a hospital building in the Aol-
rondack forest preserve which shall
cost S150,000, and accommodate 200
patients. 1t is pointed out that $4,000
persons die of tuberculosis every year
in that state, and that If only nalf of
these may be saved. the economic say
ing To the state viii exceed $1,000 600
annually. The senate committee report
ing on the new measure regrets the
lack of special hospital facilities in tie
large cities and towns. 1t says that
the recognized righteousness Of tuber-
culosis shuts these patients from the
regular hospitals wherever it is possible
TO refuse them admittance. and it rec
Ommends that suburban hospitals Tor
conservatives be established wherever
they may be found necessary.
AS leading up to the necessities Of
these institutions, the state board of
health Will be asked to issue circulars
educating the people upon the subject
of tuberculosis.
RESORTS FREE OF CONSUMPTION.
Slowly but surely the knowledge OF
this disease is spreading. Only recently
the proprietor of a great hotel in a
Canadian resort was requested by his
well guests to choose between them
and the cOnsumptivss; that the two
classes of guests could not occupy the
same hotel.
DIR. p. Fl. Bryce. secretary Of the pro-
vincial board of health at Ottawa,
points out that the Canadian public is
awake 10 the dangers of tuberculosis.
He said. in a recent speech before the
Association of Executive Health Off
GERS Of Ontario:
while at the MuskOka resorts I have
learned that last summer keepers OF
summer hotels and boarding houses
have had TO decide whether they pre-
feTred 70 board we'll persons or con-
sumptives. as they have frequently
been informed by the ordinary summer
visitor that he has come to MuSi0oza
for health and pleasure and not to be
exposed TO a contagious disease. IN
deed, nothing more sad than 10 learn
that the tuberculized, almost in hun
dreds, had been sent to MusHolSa on the
advice of their physicians in all stages
of the disease, with no place fitted for
their reception and entertainment. and
none for their comfort. medical guild
ance or treatment, and that in the
minds Of many they We're looked upon
almost as lepe-s. And. gentlemen. I
am ready to confess that the members
of this association are in some degree
responsible for this. We have, with all
the energy we have possessed, been for
years educating the public in the facts
regarding the conditions of infectious
nees of consumption. and. supplemented
by their own observations in many in
stances, they have taken us at our
word. We have preached the dangers
from infected meat and milk and to-
day we are believed. 1t is needless 20
say that at this critical point we can
not desert the public. They are need
ing-nay, praying for our help. Shall
we fail in the task we have under
taken?"
In many cities there are movements
to prevent persons from eXpectOrating
on the floors of public couveyances and
public buildings. One day the world
will awake 10 its condition, and when
it shall do so. science viii have been
met half way in its interchangeable ef-
forts to Danish the one disease that
lays low one-seventh of all the world 3
dead. HOLLIS w. FIELD.