The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-01-10
FIGHT CONSUMPTION.
CITY MAKES CONSERVATIVES,
COUNTRY CURES THEM.
The Disease Is Being Arrested or Cured
at the sanitariums-Outdoor Life and
Work q Cure-Reports from State In
situations.

Not a little that is interesting about
consumption has appeared in the
newspapers of late. the discussion Of
the subject having been actuated by
the activity of health authorities sin
different parts of the country: Both
Boston, Mass, Int Trenton, N. j..
have tried to isolate consumptives un-'
der certain quarantine regulations,
the idea being~whenever a case OF con-
sumption is reported to the board,
to examine the patient and his sur;
roundings, and, If circumstances war
rant it, to remove the, patient to a
public institution. The Buffalo Times
says of this:
'"rhe Importance of forcing scientif-'
ic treatment of consumptives when
left in their homes, which is probably
the real meaning of the new orders
issued in Boston, is evident form the
reports from various institutions
where such treatment is applied. In
the first annual report of the Massa-
chusetts State Hospital for Consump-
tives, which was opened in October,
1898, it Is shown that of 212 cases of
all degrees that were treated, 30.97 per
sent were discharged after an average,
stay of four months, with the disease
arrested, which some authorities take
to mean cured; 46.10 per cent were
discharged as improved, and 21.23 per
OF those who were discharged as ar
rested, a very large percentage went
to he institution when in the early
stages of the disease. The records Of
another sanitarium show that of 1900
patients treated during the last if
teen years, % per cent were discharg-
ed as cured, sc per cent were discharg-
ed with the disease arrested, and 10
per cent were discharged with the
disease stationary. Only a few days
ago a similar glowing report came
from DR.. Appel, the physician in
charge of the government sanitarium
at Fort Bayard, N. NJ, for the benefit
Of soldiers suffering from consump-
ton, DR.. Appel a y that twelve cases
OF incipient consumption nave been
completely cured in the last year and
ihdL q " OnCOIliuS I0pOIL Wu1Ca lit
will make to the government will con-
tain statistics which will startle the
medical world. The treatment at this
institution consists simply of outdoor
life and work. Such a showing prom
Uses much for the success Of the sani
tarium which Is to be erected in TIN
Adirondack"
PnUnrfin0 tn thu Gonna tonic fh,
Brooklyn Eagle also calls attention tt
the great benefit to ~consumptives o
the clear dry air of Arizona, which
DIT believes, will become a vast santa
rum for this disease:
ut has certain advantages owe
California, in that It is less pOpulout
and the disease is therefore less likel
to be carried to others who are now i
health; it is warmer and there is les
possibility of chill from dew and rain
the average altitude is high. an
though we are apt to think of it as
desert region, it contains large tract
OF evergreen forest, the balsamy odol
of which are especially grateful to 81.
ferers with lung troubles and doub
less nave a healing influence as wei
The city makes the consumptives, an
the country heals them. The countI
also makes them when there is. lac
Of intelligence, as there is in all thof
homes in which the windows are clio
ed that the sun and air may not Ell
ter and in those places where wei
are so dug as to receive the drainal
of closets Int b%arnyards. At the 81
level the air is heavy, and the luni
are not filed, but in a high plateau
mountain country the air, being thi
ner, calls for a greater pulmonary a
tivity on the part of those WI
breathe it. In order to secure t
same amount OF oxygen as at ocei
} level, twice the seeming quantity
abr has to be inhaled"