Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-10-09

Plans to Follow TubercuIosis Con-
gress' Advice-HIs Idea Is That Pa
tIents should he Required to Live
In sanItariums and In the Open
Air of the Plains.
Governor n, o. Murphy of Arizona
is perhaps the FIRST executive of Ameri-
ca to take steps for legislation along
berculosis congress in London, says a
Washington dispatch to the st. Louis
Republic.
The principal recommendations, which
urged the separation of patients and
protested against public expectoration,
holding that the germs OF the disease
were thus conveyed by inhalation to
the unaffected, are TO be followed by
legislation in Arizona If the recon-
mendations of Governor Murphy to be
made at the ensuing session of the ter
ritorial legislature are made into n
law
Governor Murphy, who was formerly
delegate from Arizona to congress,
states that, while his recommendation
would be n radical measure In the mat
ter of controlling the actions and the
lives OF consumptives, he believes new
ertheless that the time is opportune to
raise the question in an official way, so
far as the territory of Arizona is con-
cerned, to the extent of passing re-
strictive measure regulating the habita-
tons and residence of consumptives
in an effort TO prevent the spread of
the disease by communication. No leg
islation is as yet in effect in the Unit
ed States which directs as to where a
consumptive may or may not reside.
There is considerable agitation in
Arizona" said Governor Murphy, ION
the question of the treatment of the
thousands of persons afflicted with
consumption who have come to live
with us because of the salubrity of our
climate and the wonderful effect the
dry air of the desert has upon the
lungs OF those who do not postpone
their attempts for relief until they are
in the helpless stages of the disease.
We do not desire to shut out con-
sumptives from the privilege OF COM
ing TO us I'm an effort To get well, but
my object is to prevent their promiscu-
Gus intermingling with the well. While
/ have as yet given no intimation of
my intention / Will now say that it is
my purpose to recommend the creation
under legislative authority of Il terri
torial board of health, investing it's
officers with full power TO quarantine
and segregate persons coming into the
precisely along the lines of the power
of the boards of health OF the various
states in quarantining against any dan
gerous contagious disease.
'Of course know that this law if
passed would be of the most vital i'm
portance TO the great army of those af-
ficted with consumption, and it is leg
islation which would arouse much dis
cussion as TO its merits and ultimate
effects. But there are two sides TO the
question. l think our people are en-
titled to some sort of protection from
contagiOn, at least on an equality with
the patient. who is in turn entitled TO
exhaust all reasonable efforts to get
well. 1t would be inhuman to deny
them this chance. but | shall recon-
mend that law be passed prohibiting
them from living in hotels and board
ing houses with well people and requir-
ing them to live upon the desert in such
places or sanitariums to be provided
and in localities where the possibility
OF contagion will be as greatly reduced
as the circumstances permit.
1.-THE recent declaration OF the tuber-
culosis congress I'm London as to the
means of contagion has affirmed the
need of isolation and control I'm COM
where there are n great many
The newly created board
would have power to examine the ar
rivals in the territory in the trains and
determine whether they are proper sub
jects for control. Persons coming to
us would be obliged to obey these di-
rections or pass out of the territory.
Persons afflicted with consumption. es-
pecially those in the last stages, who
flock to one center are a great menace
to the inhabitants and cannot be said
to be desirable companions for close
Governor Murphy further says that
1t is his intention to recommend that
law be passed prohibiting the issuing
Of a marriage license to persons affiict-
ed with fncurable diseases and that n
proper board of physicians be consti-
tuted TO determine upon the question
such persons would be per-
mitted a license to wed I'm his territory.
May Sell Tea With n Wink.