New-York tribune., 1901-08-03

intercourse with consumptives had increased more
and more in consequence.
SANATORIA
Another measure which had come into the fore
ground of late, and which at that moment PLAYED
TO a certain extent paramount part IN an enoits !t
another direction. He meant the founding OF sana-
toria for consumptives mhat m r6ed as an
undsputed The idea of curing as many tu-
the number of those that reached the infectious
stage of consumption. and thus to reduce the num-
ber of fresh cases therefore very natural
one. The only question was whether the NUMBER
enosh To exercise an apprecable influence the
retrogression of tuberculosis. He would Try 10
his disposal. According to the business report OF
the German Central Commlttee Tee IOt Ste T,nnfives
ment of Sanatora for the cure OF ~ up 6is
about ffty-hve hundred beds would be AT the uls
then if we assumed that the average stay of each
patient would be three months it YOU'D oe PosS,ItS %
year. From the reports hitherto issued as 10 te
ments we learned further that about 20 per cent
of the patients that had tubercle bach IN tmem ti
sputum lost them by the treatment , tnert me ns
the only sure test Of success; esPect@any ANY Of Of
regards prophylaHs If we mage e ms tbosaDd n con-
sumptives would leave these estabilshIne!Ls , diIu
certained by the German Imperial Office of Health
there 22600o persons in Germany over ptfe
Years Of age who were so far gone In consumption
that hospital treatment was necessary Ior ,nea I'
Compared with this great 3t in question
seemed so small that material influence on t TN
te he aSnected Of them But they must not imagine
he wis that calculation OF ms " OPPoSS
the movement for the establishment or sucn i, ssa
toria in any wav He only wished 10 warn agdliI.
the overestimating of their lmpoEF talOo ouartnrs
had recently been observable in various qudl teiS 80
bared apparentlv on the opinion tndl INT va
AGAINST tuberculosis could be Waged by Hledu9 ~
sanatoria alone and that other measures We're 90. Oa
e,,bordnate value In reality the contrary was Ins
caee What was to be achieved by the general
prophvlaxs resulting from recognition OF the Gan @
qgar ~ infection and the consequent greater eau
TO-, IN intercourse with consumptiNes was SHOWN
hv a calculation of Cornet regarding the ueGIeaSe
~ mortality from tuberculosis In PRUSSIA IN
Tho wears 1889 TO 1897. Before 1889 the average
US a { per 10000 whereas in the period named
n sank TO q s. which meant that in that snort
space of time the number of deaths from tuperI
GHOSTS was lS4 less thar was TO ne eXpecIeu
from the average of the preceding years. me me
sanatoria would never render the other measures
ne mad mentioned superfuous. II their NUMBER De
came great however. and II they periorHleu IaSll
functions properly they might materially ana tne
strictly sanitary measures in the confhct wlt1
tuberculosis. If now. in conclusion tney, glahCeo
bac. once more to what had been done hitherto Tor
the combating of tuberculosis, and forward 10 wrat
had still to be done, they were AT hberty 10 Ge-
clare with a certain satisfaction that very pronis-
ing beginnings had already been mace. among
6 thosa " Sn reckoned the consumption hospitals of
ENGLAND the legal regulations regarding notlIca-
tion in Norway and SaXony. the organizauon
created by Riggs in New-York. the Sanatorla ana
the instruction OF the people. All that was heCeS-
sarv was to go on developing those beginnings, TO
test and il possible, to increase their lhHuehce on
tbe 5iuinution OF tuberculosis, and Wherever noth-
inc had vet been done to 90 likewise II JneS were
no1innaIIv guided in this enterprise by the spirit
ted the experience gained in conflict with other
residences and aimed, with clear recognition OF the
I,r-nose and resolute avoidance OF wrong roads at
Striking the evil its root, then the battle against
gun. could not fail to have victorious issue
youd ChpcrS.D