New-York tribune., 1901-04-04
NO MORE CONSUMPTION.
DIR. MEYER GIVES MANY FACTS on
TUBERCULOSIS AT A MEETING OF
THE STONY WoLDE sANATORIUM

Auxiliary No. s OF the Stony wolde sanatorium
was formed at meeting OF the general society az
the home OF Mrs. William A Caldwell No. Is West
F3fty-tourth-st-. yesterday, and It was announced
that Eve other similar branches would soon be or
ganized.
Dr. Alfred Meyer. attending physician OF Mount
snai Hospital and consulting physician OF the
Montefore Country Sanatorium, was one Of the
speakers. Il is the prOmiscuous expectoration OF
sputun, he said that produces the great spread Of
consumption. When moist this spUtum is not dan
gerous Dry powdered. and waited through the
air Il is z menace 10 human safety. One-seventh
TO one-eighth Of ell the deaths in the world are
probably due 10 this disease. The deaths from It
are twice as numerous as from measles, scarlet
fever smallpox and diphtheria combined. The tn
crease in hope Of recovery from consumption In
modern times should be an announcement in IN
cressing possibilities OF care for the sick poor.
Twenty-Five years ago consumption meant death
Now twenty-five or thirty out OF every hundred
incipiept cases which have hospital care are cured
and forty-fve or fifty more are able 10 return TO
wage earning. Many discoveries OF cures from the
mslady have been made from autopsies performed
upon those who have died from other diseases.
Mortality from consumption In England Germany
and Denmark has greatly decreased in late years
high English medical authority is responsible for
the statement that II Il continues IN the same
ratio the disease will ultimately be stamped out.
There has also been falling off in the number OF
cases Of consumption reported In this ana some
other States OF this country
DR.. Meyer stated that popular bell Il that Gil
mate alone would cure consumption, and that no
medical caro- in slnatoriums Is needed Is q mis-
taken notion People SO afflicted need daily care
food. exercise and baths which are under medical
supervision. -
To the argument that consumptive sanatoriums
endaIger the neighborhood In wIAch tney ar, are
placed Dr. Meyer declared that the contrary has
been shown fewer deaths from that cause occur
ing in The vicinity OF such institutions. Education
N sanitary measures derived from CONTACT WIN
them, he thought, might explain thls 49,.
The first organized effort to help cons9mpuve
patients. Dr. Meyer said was mage 1Tqer o nde
Ing this fact. with the pTeseht resources 80
purpose, a Of which win not be put IN eitect tpI
several months the Empire state VIII have in the
near future not over four huilcIeo De1s
ouch use on the other hand, Germany mas Sky ~
i've sanatorinns for consum ptives with 5ll beds,
and for more tt-an I"eHty tIL SIouSItr
patients for four months Of each year. Inc con-
Sequence bas been a decrease of over one thousand
deaths Tor every million patients during the last
Dr. Never made frequent reference 10 charts
giving Statistics bearing on the subject "hicn
from January 10 October J. 1890, lsSS persons sur
fering from tuberculosis came under the DepaI u
There are al nreset from 5000 TO 30 90 such cases
in this city and an the hospitals together provide
for one thousand OF these the CITY llsli'a T
oeaths yearly in New-York from consumption Is
TIE Rev a. Dr, Edward Judson. pastor OF the
Memorial Baptist Church: MISS lTHh, ol tnq oHs So
pei Settlement and Mrs. James l." l>e"coiho a'SO
Among those present were Mrs; Ansen on r
Mre Rbram HYATT Mrs. Theo. c Dunn Mrs
Thomas Harris Mrs. r. s. lAacArlhlr. lLIs @ Ieaj d
Nrs Alfred Never Mrs James 4. Newcomb.
founder Of the movement Is chtlr al ra. % Ms
no. s: Mrs William A Caldwell treasurer MI -
Rodman Winslow. secretary - .. the born. n,
Auxiliary No. organized az me .h to,to 80
on = TiesdaS' n 81 with Mrs Seymour as chairman.
Speakers on this occasion were SSabh and DE-
Charles Dowd